Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or which the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critic's fame, stature, and volume of reviews.

Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, and a classmate from the University of Southern California law school, Jason Dietz. Rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005. CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation.

Nick Wingfield of "The Wall Street Journal" wrote in September 2004: "Mr. Doyle, 36, is now a senior product manager at CNET but he also acts as games editor of Metacritic". Speaking of video games, Doyle said: "A site like ours helps people cut through...unobjective promotional language". "By giving consumers, and web users specifically, early information on the objective quality of a game, not only are they more educated about their choices, but it forces publishers to demand more from their developers, license owners to demand more from their licensees, and eventually, hopefully, the games get better". He added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation.
1. When did Metacritic begin?
2. What month?
3. How many people helped design it?
4. Who are they?
5. What is it?
6. What is it a collection of?
7. Of What?
8. What does it do with the reviews scores?
9. What kind of average?
10. What is the review changed into?
11. Who bought Metacritic?
12. When?
13. Who owns it now?
14. Do they also own CNET?
15. Who is the games editor?
16. What is his other duty?
17. How old is he?
18. Who works for The Wall Street Journal?
19. What does he do there?
20. When did he write about Metacritic?

Numbered answers:
1. 1999
2. July
3. Three
4. Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts
5. a website
6. reviews
7. media products
8. averages them?
9. weighted
10. a percentage
11. CNET
12. 2005
13. the CBS Corporation
14. yes
15. Mr. Doyle
16. senior product manager
17. 36
18. Nick Wingfield
19. writes
20. September 2004

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Dave and John were playing catch in the living room. Rose told them that was dumb, but she did not stop them. She kept writing in her notebook. If they wanted to get in trouble, then they could. It was not her responsibility.

Dave told John to go long. Dave did not have good aim and missed John's hands when he threw the ball. Instead he hit the lamp and knocked it over. He was glad he did not hit the dishes. Nor did he hit the cat. John was not glad that he hit the lamp, but was glad that the lamp was not broken.

When John's dad came home, he was very happy that John came clean about the lamp even when it was not broken. After telling them off for playing inside, John's dad made them all a cake. The cake had lemon frosting, which was Dave's favorite. Rose cannot eat lemon, so she let Dave have her slice. He chose to take Rose's cake home to his Bro. Dave thanked her a lot.
1. Who threw the ball?
2. Who to?
3. Where were they playing?
4. Did he catch it?
5. What happened?
6. Did anyone see them?
7. Who else was in the living room?
8. what was she doing?
9. Did they do anything after playing?
10. Who made it?
11. What flavor?
12. Was anything broken?
13. Did they all eat cake?
14. Why not?
15. Who ate hers?
16. Did anyone get into trouble?
17. Who?
18. Who got mad?
19. Why?
20. How did he find out?

Numbered answers:
1. Dave
2. John
3. the living room
4. no
5. he hit the lamp
6. unknown
7. Rose
8. writing
9. they ate cake
10. John's dad
11. lemon
12. no
13. no
14. Rose cannot eat lemon
15. Dave's bro
16. yes
17. John and Dave
18. John's dad
19. for playing inside
20. John came clean

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
One day John and Sally's mother made up her mind to bake a very special cake for her son and daughter, but she didn't have the ingredients. She told John and Sally to go to the grocer's to buy the things she would need.

"I'll need some popcorn, a pea, some melon balls, and a cup of yogurt. I'm going to make a very special cake today," she said.

"Wow, that sounds horrible," said John.

"Yeah, we'd rather watch TV and eat potato chips," said Sally.

"Don't talk back, kids. Do what I said and head into town. It's a beautiful day. Go the long way and follow the river until you get there. Don't take the short way through the forest. A lion has escaped from the zoo. He might be hiding in the forest."

So John and Sally started the walk into town, but because they were disobedient children, they didn't follow the river like their mother told them. Instead they took the short way through the forest.

"I'm not afraid of a lion in the forest," said John. "Besides, I think mom has been eating too many melon balls and is letting her imagination get away from her again. If there were a lion in the forest, we would know about it."

So they wandered along the forest path, jumping in mud puddles and throwing sticks at one another. But as soon as John and Sally were in the darkest part of the forest, they heard a terrible roar. It was the lion! Horrified, they ran for their lives out of the forest, all the way back home.

"We're sorry!" they both said to their mother. "We'll never be disobedient again!"

And from that day forward, whenever their mother told them to do something, they did it right away like they were told.
1. Who was baking a cake?
2. Who was it for?
3. WHo did she send to get what she needed?
4. Where did they go?
5. What did she need?
6. What did they say they would rather do than shop?
7. Did she listen to them and give in?
8. How did she tell them to go?
9. Was this the shortest way?
10. What animal had escaped?
11. and where from?
12. Did they do as they were told?
13. Did they come across the animal that had escaped?
Numbered answers:
1. John and Sally's mother
2. her son and daughter
3. John and Sally
4. the grocer's
5. groceries
6. watch TV and eat potato chips
7. no
8. follow the river
9. no
10. A lion
11. the zoo
12. no
13. yes