Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Frank was clever, but he never liked to work hard. He often said to his friends, "If you work hard, you will make a lot of money, but it is not so good. I want easy work and a lot of money. That's the most interesting thing in the world."So he could only be a thief. But he still thought it was too much work, so he only told his friends what to do and got money from them. One day, Frank sent one of his friends to a very large and beautiful house. He told him to get money from that rich family. It was evening, and a man and a girl were in the room. They were playing a duet on a piano. Then the thief came into the house. When he returned, Frank asked him what he had got. But he said, "I didn't take anything. That family can't have much money. You know, two people were playing on the same piano there. They did not have money to buy another piano."

1. What did Frank dislike doing?
2. What did he want a lot of?
3. Where did he send one of his friends?
4. From whom did he tell the friend to get money?
5. Was it day or evening?
6. How many people were in the room?
7. Was it a man and a boy?
8. Who then?
9. What were they playing on?
10. What were they playing on it?
11. Did the thief end up taking anything?
12. How many pianos did the family have?
13. Was Frank clever or dumb?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. to work hard
2. money
3. to a large and beautiful house
4. a rich family
5. evening
6. two
7. no
8. a man and a girl
9. a piano
10. a duet
11. no
12. one
13. clever

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER I.

_A YOUNG FAKIR._

"I'm going to try it. Deacon Jones says I can have the right to run both things for ten dollars, and Uncle Nathan is going to lend me money enough to get the stock."

"What scheme have you got in your head now, Teddy Hargreaves?" and Mrs. Fernald looked over her spectacles at the son of her widowed sister, who was literally breathless in his excitement.

"I'm going to run a cane an' knife board at the Peach Bottom fair, and try to make money enough to pay the debt mother owes on the place."

"You're crazy--mad as a March hare! The idea of a child like you setting yourself up to earn three or four hundred dollars, when your father worked all his life and couldn't get so much together."

Mrs. Fernald really appeared to be angry, and she really believed there was good cause why she should lose her temper. The thought that little Teddy--a "whiflet" she called him--should set up his opinion in such matters against his elders, and attempt to earn in one season an amount which Seth Hargreaves had never been able to repay during his thirty-six years of life, was so preposterous that the good lady looked upon the boy's assertion as positive proof that he was not only ready but willing to "fly in the face of Providence."

"I shall try it all the same," Teddy replied in a most provokingly matter-of-fact tone, "an' I'm going down to see Uncle Nathan this very minute."

1. How much money is a lot of money here?
2. Was Teddy's father able to ever make that much in his life?
3. How crazy is Teddy said to be?
4. Who is really angry?
5. What's her relation to Teddy?
6. What's Teddy's last name?
7. Who says he can have the right to run things?
8. How many things?
9. For how much money?
10. Who's going to lend him it?
11. When's he going to see him?
12. What's he going to buy with the $10?
13. Is his mom in debt?
14. Where does Teddy want to set up shop?
15. What does Mrs. Fernald dismissively call Teddy?
16. How old was Teddy's dad when he (the father) died?
17. What was Teddy's father's name?
18. How old is his father right now?
19. What's Teddy willing to fly in the face of?
20. Why was Teddy breathless?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. three or four hundred dollars
2. no
3. mad as a March hare
4. Mrs. Fernald
5. his aunt
6. Hargreaves
7. Deacon Jones
8. two
9. ten dollars
10. Uncle Nathan
11. this very minute."
12. the right to run both things
13. yes
14. the Peach Bottom fair
15. a "whiflet"
16. unknown
17. Seth Hargreaves
18. thirty-six
19. Providence
20. excitement

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.

Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."

Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics.

He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer--now just called Apple--in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute with the chief executive.

Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.

Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius ".

President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, _ .By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."

David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.

"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning .He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.

Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.

1. When Steve Jobs died?
2. How old was he?
3. What was the cause?
4. Did he ever graduate from college?
5. Was he adopted as a child?
6. By whom?
7. Were they supportive to him?
8. In what interest?
9. After Apple what company he started?
10. Did he rejoin Apple?
11. How was the company's shape then?
12. Did he improve the situation?
13. Going back when he started that company?
14. Who did he start Apple with?
15. How long he stayed there?
16. What his friend did then?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. last Wednesday
2. fifty-six
3. cancer
4. no
5. yes
6. a machinist and his wife, an accountant
7. yes
8. electronics
9. NeXT Computer
10. yes
11. bad shape
12. .He helped remake Apple
13. unknown
14. Steve Wozniak
15. until nineteen eighty-five
16. returned to college