Sudha Chandran, a famous dancer from India, had to have her right leg cut after a car accident. She was also cut off on her career road. Though the accident brought her bright career to a stop, she didn't give up. In the painful months that followed, Sudha met a doctor who developed a man-made leg for her. So strongly, she wanted to go back to dancing. Sudha believed in herself and she thought she could realize her dream. After every public recital , she would ask her dad about her performance. "You still have a long way to go" was the answer she used to get in return. In January 1984, Sudha made a historic comeback by giving a public recital in Bombay. She performed in such a great manner that it moved everyone to tears. That evening when she asked her dad the usual question, he didn't say anything. He just touched her feet as a praise. Sudha's comeback was so moving that a film producer decided to make the story into a hit film. When someone asked Sudha how she had managed to dance again, she said quite simply, "YOU DON'T NEED FEET TO DANCE." Nothing is impossible in this world. If you have the will to win, you can achieve anything. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What kind of activity does Sudha do?
2. What stopped her career?
3. Did she get hurt?
4. Who did she meet next?
5. What did he build for her?
6. What year did she start performing again?
7. Where was it?
8. Did they shoot a movie about it?
9. Why was it movie worthy?
10. Who watches her perform?
11. Did he talk much?
12. Does Sudah say she requires legs to perform?
13. What do you need?
14. Does her father think she has to work hard?
15. Were her performances private?
16. How did the people react?
17. Who chose to turn it into a movie?
Answer: 1. dancing
2. a car accident
3. yes
4. Sudha met a doctor
5. a man-made leg
6. 1984
7. Bombay
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. Her dad
11. No
12. No
13. The will to win
14. Yes
15. No
16. They were moved to tears
17. a film producer

Musa Kayairanga of Rwanda is a traditional healer. He uses natural medicines to treat his patients. He learned how to use computers at a rural telecommunications center in his country. Musa Kayairanga says he exchanges information with doctors as far away as Canada. He also says the computer has improved his knowledge of using plants to treat diseases. Many people in rural areas are now able to communicate with the rest of the world. This is one example of how technology is changing life in developing countries.

Andrew Burns is an economist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He led a recent study of technology in developing countries. The study found that technology has spread faster in such countries than in rich nations. It also found that technological progress has helped raise wages in developing countries. And it reduced the percentage of people living in extreme poverty from twenty-nine percent in 1990 to eighteen percent in 2004.

Progress in communications technology has aided the growth of call centers in developing countries. Call centers are offices where most telephone calls for a business can be answered. For example, a woman in the United States who calls her computer company about a problem might speak with someone in India or Pakistan.

Call centers serve businesses in local and international markets. And they have added to economic growth by providing well-paid jobs and new skills for workers who might not have had such employment. Ahsan Saeed is a young call center worker in Karachi, Pakistan. He says the job improves his language skills, his sales skills and his ability to deal with people.( from VOA Special English ) What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who works at the World Bank?
2. What is his position?
3. Where is it located?
4. What did his research conclude?
5. Anything else?
6. What?
7. That all?
8. Please tell me then
9. By how much?
10. Who is the first person mentioned?
11. Where is he from?
12. What does he do?
13. What treatments does he employ?
14. Like what?
15. What tools does he have?
Answer: 1. Andrew Burns
2. He is an economist
3. Washington, D.C
4. That technology has spread faster in developing countries than in rich nations.
5. Yes
6. That technological progress has helped raise wages in developing countries
7. No
8. Technologyt reduced the percentage of people living in extreme poverty
9. From twenty-nine percent in 1990 to eighteen percent in 2004
10. Musa Kayairanga
11. Rwanda
12. He is a traditional healer.
13. Natural medicines
14. unknown
15. The computer

CHAPTER XXI. BLACK STAR AND NIGHT

The time had come for Venters and Bess to leave their retreat. They were at great pains to choose the few things they would be able to carry with them on the journey out of Utah.

"Bern, whatever kind of a pack's this, anyhow?" questioned Bess, rising from her work with reddened face.

Venters, absorbed in his own task, did not look up at all, and in reply said he had brought so much from Cottonwoods that he did not recollect the half of it.

"A woman packed this!" Bess exclaimed.

He scarcely caught her meaning, but the peculiar tone of her voice caused him instantly to rise, and he saw Bess on her knees before an open pack which he recognized as the one given him by Jane.

"By George!" he ejaculated, guiltily, and then at sight of Bess's face he laughed outright.

"A woman packed this," she repeated, fixing woeful, tragic eyes on him.

"Well, is that a crime?'

"There--there is a woman, after all!"

"Now Bess--"

"You've lied to me!"

Then and there Venters found it imperative to postpone work for the present. All her life Bess had been isolated, but she had inherited certain elements of the eternal feminine.

"But there was a woman and you did lie to me," she kept repeating, after he had explained.

"What of that? Bess, I'll get angry at you in a moment. Remember you've been pent up all your life. I venture to say that if you'd been out in the world you d have had a dozen sweethearts and have told many a lie before this." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where were Venters and Bess going to leave?
2. Where was it?
3. Could they take everything with them?
4. Did Venters pack light?
5. Did a man pack the bag?
6. Is that a problem for Bess?
7. Why?
8. Does Venters defend himself?
9. What does he ask Bess to recall?
10. How does he say things could be different if that wasn't true?
11. Who was the woman who packed Venters' bag?
12. What was her name?
Answer:
1. their retreat
2. Utah.
3. No
4. Yes
5. No
6. Yes
7. He lied to her
8. Yes
9. She has been pent up her whole life
10. Yes
11. A sweetheart
12. Jane.