question: On the bus, on the subway, every head is lowered to a cell phone, iPad, or other digital device. But does this mean more and more people are getting into reading the digital way? According to the National Reading Survey, before the 17thWorld Reading Day on April 23, only 1.2 percent of Chinese people said they read a lot. But 38.6 percent said they read on digital devices like cell phone and e-books. This is a 17.7 percent increase from 2010. Many experts are talking about a trend toward fragmented reading --reading many short messages or items on a digital device like a cell phone instead of one long text in a book. Zhao jianmin, a professor at Shanghai University, said fragmented reading was part of modern life. "The fast _ of life leaves many people no time to sit and read a whole book," he said. "So making use of fragmented time to read is sure to be a trend" Fragmented reading has its advantages. People can enjoy large amounts of information, knowledge and entertainment in a short time. Digital reading is faster than traditional deep reading. However, some experts fear the trend of digital reading will lead people to read in a simple way. Xu Guosheng, at a Chinese Academy of Press and Publication, says fragmented reading makes it harder for people to think more about what they read. He also warned fragmented reading could make people lazy about remembering facts because they know they can always just search for answers online. "Fragmented reading is sometimes good, but don't let it take all your time," suggested Tian Zhilng, an editor. He said it was important to read quality books in a deeper way, and we should read for knowledge, for practical use and for pleasure. He suggested people choose easy books first, then move onto more difficult ones.
1. Who was the editor?
2. What does he suggest reading first?
3. And then what?
4. How many Chinese people read a lot of books?
5. How many on digital devices?
6. How much did this percentage grow since 2010?
7. What is fragmented?
8. Who is the professor?
9. Where?
10. Where does Xu work?
11. What happened on April 23rd?
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answer: 1. Tian Zhilng
2. Easy books
3. More difficult ones.
4. 1.2 percent.
5. 38.6 percent
6. 17.7 percent
7. reading short messages or items on a digital device
8. Zhao jianmin
9. Shanghai University
10. at a Chinese Academy of Press and Publication,
11. the 17th World Reading Day

question: (CNN) -- Ohio State's former marching band director is speaking out for the first time since the university fired him over the band's overly sexual culture.

Jonathan Waters was fired in July after a university investigation concluded he "should have known about sexual harassment that created a hostile environment."

Waters told CNN affiliate WBNS on Tuesday that he was "absolutely shocked by the one-sidedness of the report," and called his firing a "rush to judgment."

He also said that despite the school's conclusion to the contrary, he was sanitizing the marching band's historically tawdry culture that he first experienced as a sousaphone player in the 1990s.

"That cultural change is also evident in the many, many letters from current and former band members, which attest to Jonathan's efforts and concrete success at moving the band's culture in a positive direction," his attorney, David Axelrod, said Tuesday.

The investigation's report, released July 23, told of bawdy band member nicknames and risque traditions such as the "midnight ramp," in which band members entered the stadium through a ramp wearing only their underwear.

Axelrod said Waters knew about some of the band's bad behavior, but he said he did "everything he possibly could to end it."

"You know he experienced inappropriate behavior as a rookie band member himself. He was deeply affected by it and that's why as band director he did everything he could to stop anything inappropriate," he said.

The attorney said Waters "left the band with a far improved culture from the one that he inherited," and slammed the report that ousted him.
1. Who was fired?
2. From where?
3. Why?
4. When was he fired?
5. When did he first experience the culture?
6. What was his job?
7. What did he play?
8. What did he tell the reporter?
9. Who was his lawyer?
10. When did the report come out?
11. What was he trying to do?
12. Was there any evidence?
13. Was there any proof that he was fixing the band?
14. What was a tradition?
15. Who said the report was wrong?
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answer: 1. Jonathan Waters
2. Ohio State
3. the band's overly sexual culture
4. in July
5. the 1990s
6. marching band director
7. sousaphone
8. he was shocked
9. David Axelrod
10. July 23,
11. end the bad behavior
12. just the report
13. yes
14. the midnight ramp
15. Waters

question: (CNN) -- "There is a sense that he is 'one of us,' a true fan of comics."

That's how John Mayo, co-host of the Comic Book Page podcast, describes Geoff Johns, the chief creative officer at DC Comics and one of the most influential figures in comics today.

All those trailers you've been seeing for the upcoming "Green Lantern" movie? A good chunk of the credit should go to Johns. He's a co-producer on the film, but he's also responsible for giving the character top billing recently in comics and, ultimately, in pop culture.

Johns brought Hal Jordan back to life in the "Green Lantern: Rebirth" series and went on to cast the emerald warrior's world as the focal point of the DC Universe in the popular "Blackest Night" comic event.

Now, he's taking on DC's newest large-scale series: "Flashpoint," a world in which everything you know will change in a Flash. The first issue hits shelves Wednesday.

"I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out," Johns said. "I wanted to take the major characters and show what they could be like if they were put on a different path."

The one constant is another fan favorite that owes his recent reincarnation to Johns: the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen.

Some Flash Facts about the scarlet speedster: Allen is a police scientist who, thanks to an accident, was imbued with the Speed Force, an energy that turned him into the fastest man alive. He sacrificed his life during one of DC's first mega events, "Crisis on Infinite Earths," back in the 1980s, but returned in recent years as a regular fixture in the DC world.
1. Can characters come back to life in comic books?
2. Do you have an example?
3. Who's he?
4. Anyone else?
5. And who is he?
6. What comic publisher are they both from?
7. Who there has had a major impact on these characters?
8. Who's he?
9. What has he worked on?
10. So does he just work on films?
11. WHat else?
12. How has he changed the Green Lantern's role?
13. What has he done to the characters' stories?
14. How so?
15. Do people like this?
16. When is the next round of story coming out?
17. What hero will play an important part in that one?
18. What is his power?
19. How did that happen?
20. What about it?
21. Is that a silly name for something?
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answer:
1. yes
2. Hal Jordan
3. Green Lantern
4. Barry Allen
5. The Flash
6. DC Comics
7. Geoff Johns
8. chief creative officer
9. Green Lantern movie
10. no
11. comics too.
12. made him the focal point
13. changed them
14. show what they could be like if they were put on a different path
15. yes
16. Wednesday.
17. The Flash.
18. He is the fastest man alive
19. an accident
20. He was imbued with the Speed Force
21. unknown