Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Recently, a young man saw a beggar at a street in Chongqing. "I know you. Let me take a picture of you." With the words, the young man took a picture and then gave him ten yuan. The beggar is named Xia Haibo, born in Hubei Province. Being 25 years old, he is quite a special beggar in some ways---he doesn't beg on his knees, as other beggars do when begging. Rather, he often stands in a crowded street , either reading a book or thinking over something. As a beggar, he has opened his blog on the Internet and his blog has been clicked more than 500,000 times now. He likes reading---he has read a lot of poems written by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. He has also read many old Chinese poems. He has kept writing and recently, he planned to publicize his writings. As a beggar, he is so special that many people call him "the greatest beggar in history". In 1998,Xia was enrolled  by Tianmen Middle School as the best student in town. However , a year before he took the national college entrance exam ,he was diagnosed  as having rheumatoid arthritis . In order to cure his disease, his father borrowed 60,000 yuan. However, with this money , he didn't recover from the disease. He did not want to become a burden for his family any more. So he went to Wuhan , making a living by begging.  So far Haibo has been to Beijing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Fuzhou, Xiamen ,Changsha and Kunming. "Begging has become a job. I earn about 2,000 yuan every month," Xia said. However, he doesn't plan to go on living like this . "By July 24 in 2009, when I have been begging for two years, I will stop my begging life. I promise ,"he said. Question: From the passage we can infer Xia Haibo   _  . Answer:

Answer: has made a living by begging since July in 2007


Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Today, I'm going to talk about the invention of the camera and photography. The camera is often thought to be a modern invention. But as early as 1727, a German physicist discovered that light darkened silver salt, a chemical compound. Using as a camera, a big box with a small hole to let the light in, he made temporary images on the salt. Silver salt is still the base of film today. Then a French scientist made the first permanent picture by using a special piece of metal sensitized(...)with silver salt. A photograph he made in 1826 still exists. The painter Daguerre improved on the process by placing common salt, the kind we eat, on the metal. This was in 1839, the official date of the beginning of photography. But the problem was the printing of the photographs. And it was not until other scientists developed the kind of paper we now use that good printing was possible and photography became truly common. In the 1860s, Mathew Brady was able to take his famous pictures of the American Civil War, thus making portrait poses very popular. In the 20thcentury, George Eastmen of theprefix = st1 /United Statessimplified film-developing film, and Dr. Edwin Land invented the so-called instant camera with self-developing film. If we say that the photography came into existence in 1839, it follows that it has taken more than one hundred years for the camera to reach the present condition of technical refinement . Question: According to the writer, why is Mathew Brady remembered today? Answer:

Answer: Because of the photos he took during the American Civil War.


Read the following article and answer the question. Article: One of Vancouver's nicknames is Hollywood North. This name comes from the fact that Vancouver is  the third most filmed city in North America behind Los Angeles and New York City. Vancouver became known as a filming destination because it is a perfect stand-in  for other  cities. Shot from the right angles, the downtown core could look like New York, Seattle, Boston or a variety of other places. Also, the architectural smorgasbord  that is Vancouver, the low Canadian  dollar, and generous tax subsidies  attracted film production companies to the city. Many would accuse Vancouver of simply being a stand-in city, and not really being of any  significance to the overall culture of film production. However, this has proven not to be the case. The  creative establishment in the film sector has realized that Vancouver is more than just a stand-in; it is a city that is filled with talent. Earlier this year Pixar Studios opened an animation studio in Vancouver. The animators made famous  by such hits as Toy Story, Monsters Inc, and Wall-E, demonstrated that Vancouver is now a major player  in the film industry by opening up shops in the city. Amir Nasrabadi, the General Manager for Pixar Canada said the company decided to open an office in  the city because of the "very mature , high-quality talent pool, driven primary by the strength of  the industry and great local universities and schools"  For now the studio will work as a satellite branch of Pixar's California studios, but future plans  include the Vancouver studio taking on its own feature films. The British Columbia Film Commissioner,  Susan Croome, told CTV News in an interview that "Pixar's announcement is  ly fantastic". When  asked if this expansion of Vancouver's film industry was the result of favorable exchange rates, she  responded that it wasn't, and the company was making plans for the long term. Question: What is a factor that makes Vancouver an attractive city for film production? Answer:

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