Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER LXIV.

"Questa montagna e tale, Che sempre al cominciar di sotto a grave. E quanto uom piu va su e men fa male." --DANTE: _Il Purgatorio_.

It was not many days after her mother's arrival that Gwendolen would consent to remain at Genoa. Her desire to get away from that gem of the sea, helped to rally her strength and courage. For what place, though it were the flowery vale of Enna, may not the inward sense turn into a circle of punishment where the flowers are no better than a crop of flame-tongues burning the soles of our feet?

"I shall never like to see the Mediterranean again," said Gwendolen, to her mother, who thought that she quite understood her child's feeling--even in her tacit prohibition of any express reference to her late husband.

Mrs. Davilow, indeed, though compelled formally to regard this time as one of severe calamity, was virtually enjoying her life more than she had ever done since her daughter's marriage. It seemed that her darling was brought back to her not merely with all the old affection, but with a conscious cherishing of her mother's nearness, such as we give to a possession that we have been on the brink of losing.

"Are you there, mamma?" cried Gwendolen, in the middle of the night (a bed had been made for her mother in the same room with hers), very much as she would have done in her early girlhood, if she had felt frightened in lying awake.

1. Who cries out?
2. When?
3. For whom?
4. Was there a bed for her?
5. Where?
6. What language is the quote that starts this?
7. Is there a translation?
8. What does Gwen never want to see again?
9. What did she consent to do?
10. How long had she done that after her mom came?
11. What's Genoa nicknamed?
12. Does Enna have many flowers?
13. Does her mom understand how Gwen feels?
14. Is her mom enjoying her life now that Gwen's married?
15. Was she forced to view this time as one of calamity?
16. What was one of the things that Gwens desire to get away helped her rally?
17. And the other?
18. Did it become punishing to remain there?

1. Gwendolen
2. in the middle of the night
3. her mother
4. yes
5. in the same room with hers
6. Italian
7. no
8. the Mediterranean
9. to remain at Genoa
10. not many days after
11. flowery vale of Enna
12. yes
13. no
14. yes
15. yes
16. strength
17. courage
18. yes


Last week when I was sitting in my office,I heard an elderly lady talking on the phone about her husband.Her husband's name was Ed.He dropped her off for her doctor's appointment and was going to park the car and wait for her.She was so upset that she started to cry.I knew I should take action. The lady told me her name was Helen and she called the restaurant she and her husband were going to have lunch at after her appointment to see if he was waiting for her there.She explained that she thought her husband parked the car in the parking lot and waited for her in the car but she didn't find him there so she returned to see if he entered the medical building,but Ed was not there either.She regretted making her husband park the car alone since some signs of Alzheimer's had happened in his behavior.I asked a few nurses to help look for Ed inside and outside the medical building according to Helen's description.Then I offered to drive Helen to the restaurant to see if Ed was waiting for her there. On arriving at the parking lot of the restaurant,Helen began to search for Ed's car but she failed,which suggested Ed wasn't there.We decided to have a talk with the manager before we returned to the hospital.On our way to the manager's office.I received a call from a nurse,who said they had found Ed.What a relief! But we still needed to go on searching since he forgot where he parked his car! Fortunately, we didn't have much difficulty finding it. As I waved good-bye to the couple, I thought "This is true love in life.The love is not romantic but it stays with us all the time."

Answer this series of questions:

1. What are the names of the couple?
2. Are they young?
3. Did Helen get to her appointment by taxi?
4. Who drove her?
5. Who did she have an appointment with?
6. What type of establishment did the couple plan on going to after the appointment?
7. For which meal?
8. Was Helen happy at the beginning of the story?
9. Who was making her worry?
10. Did he have a good memory?
11. What condition did she think he might have?
12. What was the job title of the person who called to say they found Ed?

1. Helen and Ed
2. no
3. no
4. Ed
5. doctor
6. restaurant
7. lunch
8. no
9. Ed
10. no
11. Alzheimer's
12. nurse


CHAPTER XXX.

THE MEETING FOR RAIN.

Meanwhile the Auld Lichts were in church, waiting for their minister, and it was a full meeting, because nearly every well in Thrums had been scooped dry by anxious palms. Yet not all were there to ask God's rain for themselves. Old Charles Yuill was in his pew, after dreaming thrice that he would break up with the drought; and Bell Christison had come, though her man lay dead at home, and she thought it could matter no more to her how things went in the world.

You, who do not love that little congregation, would have said that they were waiting placidly. But probably so simple a woman as Meggy Rattray could have deceived you into believing that because her eyes were downcast she did not notice who put the three-penny- bit in the plate. A few men were unaware that the bell was working overtime, most of them farmers with their eyes on the windows, but all the women at least were wondering. They knew better, however, than to bring their thoughts to their faces, and none sought to catch another's eye. The men-folk looked heavily at their hats in the seats in front. Even when Hendry Munn, instead of marching to the pulpit with the big Bible in his hands, came as far as the plate and signed to Peter Tosh, elder, that he was wanted in the vestry, you could not have guessed how every woman there, except Bell Christison, wished she was Peter Tosh. Peter was so taken aback that he merely gaped at Hendry, until suddenly he knew that his five daughters were furious with him, when he dived for his hat and staggered to the vestry with his mouth open. His boots cheeped all the way, but no one looked up.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Who gaped at Hendry?
2. How many daughters were there?
3. Whose man was dead at home?
4. Who were in church?
5. What were they waiting for?
6. Was everyone there to ask for rain?
7. Who was a simple woman?
8. What were all the women doing?
9. And what were most of the men?
10. What did Hendry Munn do?
11. Who dove for his hat?
12. Then where did he go?
13. Was the church full when they were waiting?
14. Where was Charles Yuill?
15. Did Bell Christison care how things went?

1. Peter
2. five daughters
3. Bell Christison's
4. the Auld Lichts
5. for their minister
6. no
7. Meggy Rattray
8. wondering
9. farmers
10. signed to Peter Tosh
11. Peter
12. the vestry
13. yes
14. in his pew
15. no


Windows 8 introduced major changes to the operating system's platform and user interface to improve its user experience on tablets, where Windows was now competing with mobile operating systems, including Android and iOS. In particular, these changes included a touch-optimized Windows shell based on Microsoft's "Metro" design language, the Start screen (which displays programs and dynamically updated content on a grid of tiles), a new platform for developing apps with an emphasis on touchscreen input, integration with online services (including the ability to sync apps and settings between devices), and Windows Store, an online store for downloading and purchasing new software. Windows 8 added support for USB 3.0, Advanced Format hard drives, near field communications, and cloud computing. Additional security features were introduced, such as built-in antivirus software, integration with Microsoft SmartScreen phishing filtering service and support for UEFI Secure Boot on supported devices with UEFI firmware, to prevent malware from infecting the boot process.

1. what prevents malware for infecting the boot process ?
2. Windows 8 introduced what ?
3. to what ?
4. why ?
5. was this also windows 10 ?
6. what does the smart screen do ?
7. what is the online store for ?
8. how many things did windows add support for ?
9. how many Additional security features were introduced ?
10. what harm would malware do ?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. UEFI firmware
2. major changes
3. operating system's platform
4. to improve its user experience on tablets
5. unknown
6. phishing filtering service
7. downloading and purchasing new software
8. four
9. three
10. infecting the boot process


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Robots are smart. With their computer brains, they help people work in dangerous places or do difficult jobs. Some robots do regular jobs. Bobby, the robot mail carrier, brings mail to a large office building in Washington, D.C. He is one of 250 robot mail carriers in the United States. Mr. Leachim, who weights two hundred pounds and is six feet tall, has some advantages as a teacher. One is that he does not forget details. He knows each child's name, their parents' names, and what each child knows and needs to know. In addition, he knows each child's pets and hobbies. Mr. Leachim does not make mistakes. Each child goes and tells him his or her name, then dials an identification number. His computer brain puts the child's voice and number together. He identifies the child with no mistakes.

Another advantage is that Mr. Leachim is flexible. If the children need more time to do their lessons they can move switches. In this way they can repeat Mr. Leachim's lesson over and over again. When the children do a good job, he tells them something interesting about their hobbies. At the end of the lesson the children switch Mr. Leachim off.

1. how tall is Mr. Leachim?
2. and how much does he weigh?
3. does he keep track of all the details about the children?
4. is he a robot?
5. what does he have for a brain?
6. are robots smart?
7. what does bobby do for work?
8. how many robots are in the story?
9. how many mail carrying robots are there?
10. where does bobby live?
11. where does he take the mail?
12. what does Mr. Leachim tell the kids when they do a good job?
13. does Mr. Leachim ever get powered down?
14. when?
15. how do robots help people for example?
16. do they help other ways?

1. Six feet.
2. 200 pounds.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. A computer.
6. Yes.
7. Mail carrier,
8. Two.
9. 250.
10. Washington, D.C.
11. Large office building.
12. Something interesting about their hobbies..
13. Yes.
14. At the end of the lesson.
15. Do difficult jobs.
16. Work in dangerous places.


Einstein's connection with the politics of the nuclear bomb is well known: He signed the letter to President Franklin Roosevelt that persuaded the United States to take the idea seriously, and he engaged in postwar efforts to prevent nuclear war. But these were not just the isolated actions of a scientist dragged into the world of politics. Einstein's life was, in fact, "divided between politics and equations ."

Sickened by what he saw as the waste of human lives during the First World War, he became involved in antiwar demonstrations. His support of civil disobedience did little to endear him to his colleagues. Then, following the war, he directed his efforts toward reconciliation and improving international relations. And soon his politics were making it difficult for him to visit the United States, even to give lectures.

Einstein's second great cause was Zionism . Although he was Jewish, Einstein rejected the idea of God. However, a growing awareness of anti-Semitism , both before and during the War, led him gradually to identify with the Jewish community, and later to become an outspoken supporter of Zionism.

His theories came under attack. One man was accused of motivating others to murder Einstein and fined a mere six dollars. When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, he retorted, "If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!" When Hitler came to power, Einstein then in America declared he would not return to Germany. While Nazi attacked his house and confiscated his bank account, a Berlin newspaper displayed the headline "Good News from Einstein--He's Not Coming Back."

Fearing that German scientists would build a nuclear bomb, Einstein proposed that the United States should develop its own. But he was publicly warning of the dangers of nuclear war and proposing international control of nuclear weaponry. Throughout his life, Einstein's efforts toward peace probably achieved little and won him few friends. His support of the Zionist cause, however, was recognized in 1952, when he was offered the presidency of Israel. He declined, saying he was too naive in politics. But perhaps his real reason was different:" Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. What religion was Einstein?
2. Was he very religious?
3. Why did he support Zionism then?
4. When did that start happening?
5. Were Einstein's theories widely accepted?
6. What was one man fined for conspiring to kill Einstein?
7. Where did he go when Hitler rose through the ranks?
8. Was he looking forward to going back to Germany?
9. Were the German reporters upset about this?
10. Did the Nazis take his money?
11. Why did he want the U.S. to build an atomic bomb?
12. Who did he try to talk into it?
13. What upset him about World War I?
14. Did he join protests?
15. Did this make him popular?
16. What did he put his energy towards after the first war?
17. What did Israel do for him after the second war?
18. Did he become President of Israel?
19. Why not?
20. What was more important to him?

1. Jewish
2. no
3. his growing awareness of anti-Semitism
4. before and during the War
5. no
6. six dollars
7. America
8. no
9. no
10. yes
11. he feared the Germans would
12. President Franklin Roosevelt
13. waste of human lives
14. yes
15. no
16. reconciliation and improving international relations
17. he was offered the presidency
18. no
19. he said he was too naive in politics
20. Equations


Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content. Multimedia contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.

Multimedia can be recorded and played, displayed, interacted with or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia devices are electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; for example, by including audio it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous with interactive multimedia.

The term "multimedia" was coined by singer and artist Bob Goldstein (later 'Bobb Goldsteinn') to promote the July 1966 opening of his "LightWorks at L'Oursin" show at Southampton, Long Island. Goldstein was perhaps aware of an American artist named Dick Higgins, who had two years previously discussed a new approach to art-making he called "intermedia".

On August 10, 1966, Richard Albarino of "Variety" borrowed the terminology, reporting: "Brainchild of songscribe-comic Bob ('Washington Square') Goldstein, the 'Lightworks' is the latest "multi-media" music-cum-visuals to debut as discothèque fare." Two years later, in 1968, the term "multimedia" was re-appropriated to describe the work of a political consultant, David Sawyer, the husband of Iris Sawyer—one of Goldstein's producers at L'Oursin.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Multimedia
2. interacted with
3. accessed by information content processing devices
4. Bob Goldstein
5. July 1966
6. a singer and artist
7. Southampton, Long Island
8. "LightWorks at L'Oursin"
9. content that uses a combination of different content forms
10. text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.
11. media that use only rudimentary computer displays
12. Multimedia devices
13. "rich media"
14. Dick Higgins
15. "intermedia".
16. yes
17. Richard Albarino
18. "Variety"
19. August 10, 1966,
20. Iris Sawyer

1. What can be recorded and played?
2. What else can it be
3. Anything else?
4. Who coined the term?
5. When?
6. Who is that?
7. Where was his show?
8. What was the show called?
9. What is Multimedia?
10. What kinds of forms?
11. What does it contrast with?
12. What is used to store multimedia?
13. What is synonymous with interactive multimedia?
14. Who was Goldstein aware of
15. What did he call his approach?
16. Was he American?
17. Who borrowed the term
18. What magazine did he write for?
19. When did he write an article about Bob
20. Who was one of Bob's producers?


The Achaemenid Empire, also called the First Persian Empire, was an empire based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Ranging at its greatest extent from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper in the west to the Indus Valley in the east, it was one of the largest empires in history, spanning 5.5 million square kilometers, and was larger than any previous empire in history. It is equally notable for its successful model of a centralised, bureaucratic administration (through satraps under the King of Kings), for building infrastructure such as road systems and a postal system, the use of an official language across its territories, and the development of civil services and a large professional army. The empire's successes inspired similar systems in later empires. It is noted in Western history as the antagonist of the Greek city-states during the Greco-Persian Wars and for the emancipation of the Jewish exiles in Babylon.

By the 7th century BC, the Persians had settled in the southwestern portion of the Iranian Plateau in the region of Persis, which came to be their . From this region, Cyrus the Great advanced to defeat the Medes, Lydia, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, establishing the Achaemenid Empire. Alexander the Great, an avid admirer of Cyrus the Great, conquered most of the empire by 330 BC. Upon his death, most of the empire's former territory came under the rule of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Seleucid Empire, in addition to other minor territories which gained independence at that time. The Iranian population of the central plateau reclaimed power by the second century BC under the Parthian Empire.

1. What's another name for the First Persian Empire?
2. Who founded it?
3. By when had Persians settled in the southwestern portion of the Iranian plateau?
4. Who did Cyrus the Great defeat from there?
5. Who did Alexander the Great admire?
6. By when did Alexander conquer most of the empire?
7. Was that empire one of the largest in history?
8. What did it extend to in the east?
9. And in the west?
10. How many kilometers was it?
11. What kind of administration is it notable for?
12. Through what?
13. Name one kind of infrastructure they built?
14. Can you name another?
15. And yet another?
16. And one more?
17. Who was it the antagonist for?
18. Is it known for emancipation?
19. Of whom?
20. Did its sucesses inspire later empires?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. The Achaemenid Empire
2. Cyrus the Great
3. the 7th century BC
4. the Medes, Lydia, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire
5. Cyrus the Great
6. by 330 BC
7. yes
8. the Indus Valley
9. the Balkans and Eastern Europe
10. 5.5 million square kilometers
11. centralised and bureaucratic
12. satraps under the King of Kings
13. road systems
14. a postal system
15. civil services
16. a large professional army
17. the Greek city-states
18. yes
19. the Jewish exiles in Babylon
20. yes


Make use of the article to answer the questions.

CHAPTER XXIX

Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it?--BEN JONSON

At the end of a week Mervyn made his appearance in a vehement hurry. Cecily's next sister, an officer's wife, was coming home with two little children, for a farewell visit before going to the Cape, and Maria and Bertha must make way for her. So he wanted to take Phoebe home that afternoon to get the Underwood ready for them.

'Mervyn, how can I go? I am not nearly ready.'

'What can you have been doing then?' he exclaimed, with something of his old temper.

'This house has been in such a state.'

'Well, you were not wanted to nurse the sick man, were you? I thought you were one that was to be trusted. What more is there to do?'

Phoebe looked at her list of commissions, and found herself convicted. Those patterns ought to have been sent back two days since. What had she been about? Listening to Mr. Randolf's explanations of the _Hiawatha_ scenery! Why had she not written a note about that hideous hearth-rug? Because Mr. Randolf was looking over Stowe's _Survey of London_. Methodical Phoebe felt herself in disgrace, and yet, somehow, she could not be sorry enough; she wanted a reprieve from exile at Hiltonbury, alone and away from all that was going on. At least she should hear whether _Macbeth_, at the Princess's Theatre, fulfilled Mr. Randolf's conceptions of it; and if Mr. Currie approved his grand map of the Newcastle district, with the little trees that she had taught him to draw.

1. What did Phoebe want a reprieve from?
2. From where?
3. What did she teach Mr. Currie to draw?
4. What did Mervyn do at week's end?
5. Who is Cecily's sister?
6. Does the officer's wife have children?
7. How many?
8. Are they grown up?
9. What was the purpose of the officer's wife's trip?
10. Where was she going next?
11. Who had to make way for her?

1. exile
2. at Hiltonbury
3. little trees
4. made his appearance
5. an officer's wife
6. Yes
7. two
8. No
9. farewell visit
10. the Cape
11. Maria and Bertha


The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is an international news organization that delivers global coverage via its website, weekly magazine, daily news briefing, email newsletters, Amazon Kindle subscription, and mobile site. It was started in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. , the print circulation was 75,052.

The "Monitor" is a newspaper that covers international and United States current events. The paper includes a daily religious feature on "The Home Forum" page, but states the publication is not a platform for evangelizing.

In 2008 the "Monitor" discontinued its daily print version to focus on web-based publishing, replacing its daily print edition with a weekly news magazine with an international focus. Mark Sappenfield became the editor in March of 2017.

Despite its name, the "Monitor" does not claim to be a religious-themed paper, and says it does not promote the doctrine of its patron church. However, at its founder Eddy's request, a daily religious article has appeared in every issue of the "Monitor". Eddy also required the inclusion of "Christian Science" in the paper's name, over initial opposition by some of her advisors who thought the religious reference might repel a secular audience.

The "Monitor"'s inception was, in part, a response by Eddy to the journalism of her day, which relentlessly covered the sensations and scandals surrounding her new religion with varying degrees of accuracy. In addition, Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" was consistently critical of Eddy, and this, along with a derogatory article in "McClure's", furthered Eddy's decision to found her own media outlet.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. What does CSM stand for?
2. what are they?
3. do they have a website?
4. who was the founder?
5. When did she start it?
6. What did she also start?
7. Did they offer daily print version?
8. Is it still offered or is it discontinued?
9. When did it stop?
10. Why did it stop?
11. Who's the editor?
12. When did he start?
13. Is the Monitor a religious themed paper?
14. Who is the Founder?
15. Who was critical of her?
16. Who owned that?
17. Did he influence Eddy to start the Monitor?
18. Where did another bad article appear?
19. How much circulation does CSM have?

1. Christian Science Monitor
2. an international news organization
3. Yes
4. Mary Baker Eddy
5. 1908
6. the Church of Christ, Scientist.
7. Yes
8. discontinued
9. In 2008
10. to focus on web-based publishing
11. Mark Sappenfield
12. 2017
13. No
14. Mary Baker Eddy
15. New York World
16. Joseph Pulitzer
17. Yes
18. McClure's
19. the print circulation was 75,052.


There is a large tree in a park where all the kids in the neighborhood can hang out and play. The tree was planted in 1896 and has grown to over fifty feet tall with branches that were another thirty feet wide. Next to the tree is a jungle gym. The jungle gym has two slides, a fireman pole, a rock climbing wall, and much more. One day the kids in the neighborhood came up with the idea of building a tree house so they could spend all of their time at the park, even when it was raining outside. The children all went to their parents begging them to help and get wood. The families of the neighborhood began building the master tree house. Upon completion the tree house was ten by twelve feet high, with two windows, and plenty of space for the children to have fun. Every day during the summer that year the children played in the park and went in the tree house from sunrise to sunset every day. Fifteen years have gone by and the children are now too old to use the tree house. The tree house still sits on the tree but instead has a new group of kids that get to enjoy the house. Now the first kids have become parents and get to watch their idea live on and make the children of the neighborhood happy.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Where is the tree?
2. What year was the tree planted?
3. Does the tree house still exist?
4. How many years have gone by since the children started to play at the park?
5. How tall is the tree?
6. What is thirty feet wide?
7. Where is the jungle gym located?
8. During what season did the kids play in the park on a daily basis?
9. Do the children still use the tree house?
10. Why not?
11. Why did the kids come up with the idea of building the tree house?
12. Could they still play at the park when it rained?
13. Does the tree house have three windows?
14. Is the tree house spacious?
15. What did the children beg their parents to do?
16. How do the current neighborhood kids feel about the tree house?

1. in a park
2. 1896
3. yes
4. Fifteen
5. over fifty feet
6. the branches
7. Next to the tree
8. summer
9. No
10. They're parents now
11. so they could spend all of their time at the park,
12. yes
13. no
14. It was ten by twelve feet high,
15. to get wood.
16. happy


Annie was helping her little brother Max pick flowers from the garden. They wanted to put the flowers in a jar to put on the kitchen table. Mother's Day was the next day and their mother loved fresh flowers.

After they picked flowers and put them in a jar, Max asked Annie if they could have a snack. Annie took Max into the kitchen and got out an apple to slice up. They sat down at the table looking at the flowers and ate their apple slices. There was a window in the kitchen that let in sunlight.

"Hey!" Max said, pointing at one of the roses in the jar. "There's something moving on that rose."

Annie looked more closely at the flowers. "It's a ladybug," she said. "We need to take it back outside."

Suddenly the ladybug began flying around the kitchen. Max jumped up and ran around trying to catch it. At last he clapped his hands around it. "Careful!" said Annie.

Max walked outside and let the ladybug go.

Answer this series of questions:

1. What holiday was coming up?
2. When?
3. Who was helping her brother?
4. What was her brother's name?
5. Was he an older brother?
6. What were they doing?
7. For who?
8. What did they do with them?
9. What did they do next?
10. What snack?
11. What room were they in?
12. What kind of flowers did they have?
13. What did they find on them?
14. Who noticed it first?
15. What did Annie want to do about it?
16. Did the ladybug cooperate?
17. What did it do?
18. What did Max do in response?

1. Mother's Day
2. the next day
3. Annie
4. Max
5. no
6. picking flowers
7. their mother
8. put them in a jar
9. snacked
10. apple slices
11. the kitchen
12. roses
13. a ladybug
14. Max
15. take it back outside
16. no
17. began flying around
18. jumped up and ran around trying to catch it


(CNN) -- An American man who was held in Aruba for nearly four months in connection with the disappearance of his traveling companion insisted Thursday he had nothing to do with her vanishing but said it will "weigh heavily on me for a very long time."

"I feel as if a person I cared about, a companion ... has disappeared on my watch," Gary Giordano said on ABC's "Good Morning America" in his first interview since being released from custody in Aruba earlier this week.

Giordano, 50, had been held in the disappearance of 35-year-old Robyn Gardner of Maryland. Giordano told authorities the two were snorkeling on August 2 when he signaled to Gardner to swim back. When he reached the beach, he told police, Gardner was nowhere to be found and has not been seen since.

"I only looked back when I hit a rock," he said, according to a transcript of a police interview obtained by CNN. "Before that, I did not look back. I was busy saving my life."

Aruban judges repeatedly granted requests to extend Giordano's detention, while the investigation continued. But last week, a judge rejected prosecutors' request to hold Giordano, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for an additional 30 days. He was released Tuesday.

A three-judge panel of Aruban judges held a hearing Wednesday to review the decision to release Giordano, but upheld it. ABC aired a clip of an emotional Giordano learning of the decision at the airport. "I'd accepted the fact that they were going to keep me from my kids forever," he told reporters in the video.

1. Who is the article about?
2. Where was he at for an extended period of time?
3. How long was he there?
4. Why?
5. What was their relationship?
6. What were they doing before she vanished?
7. When exactly did he notice she was gone?
8. How old is he?
9. Was it a group of 4 magistratesthat kept the decision to send him home?
10. How many?
11. Who did he believe he would never see again?
12. What was the date of the incident?
13. Why did he say that he didn't notice she was gone?
14. Was his confinement ever extended?
15. Why?

1. Gary Giordano
2. Aruba
3. four months
4. he held in the disappearance of 35-year-old Robyn Gardner
5. traveling companion
6. snorkeling
7. When he reached the beach
8. 50
9. no
10. three-judge panel
11. his kids
12. August 2
13. he was busy saving his life.
14. yes
15. so the investigation could continue


(CNN) -- President Barack Obama has nominated his top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to be the next director of the CIA.

If there is an emerging Obama doctrine to deal with the threat from al Qaeda and its allies, it is clearly a rejection of the use of conventional military forces and a growing reliance instead on the use of drones and U.S. Special Operations Forces -- and Brennan has been central to Obama's policy.

In an April 30 speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Brennan laid out the rationale for the drone policy in more detail than any administration official had done publicly hitherto. He asserted that the drone strikes are legal both under the Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by Congress after the September 11 attacks and because, "There is nothing in international law that bans the use of remotely piloted aircraft for this purpose or that prohibits us from using lethal force against our enemies outside of an active battlefield, at least when the country involved consents or is unable or unwilling to take action against the threat."

This does not appear to be the view of Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, who announced plans at Harvard Law School in October to launch an investigation into U.S. drone attacks and the extent to which they cause civilian casualties.

Politics: Compared to Hagel, reaction to Brennan nomination muted

One of Brennan's most significant legacies in the four years he has been the president's principal adviser on terrorism is the U.S. drone campaign against al Qaeda and its allies in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen -- one that has shifted focus significantly in the past year or so.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. John Brennan.
2. Next director of the CIA.
3. Yes.
4. His top counterterrorism adviser,
5. April 30
6. The Woodrow Wilson Center.
7. Washington.
8. The drone policy.
9. Legal.
10. Authorization for Use of Military Force.
11. The September 11 attacks.
12. No.
13. U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights.
14. Harvard Law School.
15. October.
16. Yes.
17. U.S. drone attacks.
18. And the extent to which they cause civilian casualties.

1. Who did Obama nominate?
2. To be what?
3. Was he Obama's adviser before that?
4. What kind?
5. On what day did Brennan give his speech?
6. At what facility?
7. In what location?
8. What did Brennan talk about in great detail?
9. Did he say it was legal or illegal?
10. What was passed by Congress?
11. After what event was it passed?
12. Does Ben Emmerson have the same opinion as Brennan?
13. What is Emmerson's job title?
14. Where did he announce his plans?
15. In what month?
16. Was he launching an investigation?
17. Into what?
18. And?


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Little Tommy woke one morning to the sun shining and the birds singing. He had a bird that would sit outside his window that he named Martha. He really liked Martha and he fed her some bread every morning. When he was done feeding Martha he would go and feed his best buddy ever, Sammy, a big hairy dog. Tommy really loved Sammy and hung out with him all day, every day. Today he thought they would go fishing and enjoy the sunshine. Tommy found his fishing pole, some worms, and a little lunch for the day. Off Tommy and Sammy went for the day. When they got to the fishing hole Sammy ran over to a rock and started barking with his hair standing up. Tommy ran to see what Sammy had found. Under the edge of the rock was a huge green toad. Tommy laughed and laughed at Sammy and calmed him down then picked up the toad. Sammy was very interested and licked the toad. Sammy found a new friend. Tommy took the toad home with them and named him Zoe the Toadie.

1. Who woke up?
2. What was happening?
3. Who sat outside?
4. What was it's name?
5. Did he give her anything?
6. What?
7. Who did he see next?
8. What was he?
9. Where did they go?
10. Where?
11. Did he bring anything?
12. What?
13. Did they find anything?
14. What?

1. Little Tommy
2. the sun shining and the birds singing
3. a bird
4. Martha
5. yes
6. some bread
7. Sammy
8. a big hairy dog
9. fishing
10. the fishing hole
11. yes
12. fishing pole, some worms, and a little lunch
13. yes
14. a huge green toad.


There once was a wolf that liked to scare the other forest animals. By daylight he pretended to be a kind, nice wolf. By night, he would circle the forest and hunt down his food. When he was very hungry, he would find humans and woof like a dog in hopes that someone would feed him. The wolf's favorite food was meat seasoned with lemon. The wolf liked to watch his food run in circles like a hamster until he felt like eating it. Sometimes the wolf would stay in the sand and lay in the sun until he would crawl back to his home and fall asleep with a full stomach. On other days, he goes home hungry. Sometimes there would be a knock on his door, and the wolf would be pleased because it meant his dinner had come to him and he would not have to hunt that day. Those days were the best for the wolf, by far.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Who liked to scare other animals?
2. What kind of animals were these?
3. Did the wolf pretend to be mean during the day?
4. What did he do at night?
5. Who would he find when he was very hungry?
6. What would he do at them to try and get food?
7. Did he like watching his food before he ate it?
8. What was his favorite food?
9. DOes he sometimes go home hungry?
10. Does he sometimes go home with a full stomach?
11. What did he stay in before going home full?
12. How would he get home when full?
13. What would it mean if there was a knock on his door?
14. How did that make him feel?
15. Would he have to hunt on those days?
16. Were those days the best?
17. Where did he live?

1. a wolf
2. humans
3. no
4. circle the forest and hunt down food
5. humans
6. woof like a dog
7. yes
8. meat seasoned with lemon
9. yes
10. yes
11. the sand
12. he would crawl
13. it meant his dinner had come to him
14. pleased
15. no
16. yes
17. the forest


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

A famous building in New York City is turning 100 years old. A year-long celebration is planned for Grand Central Terminal, which is usually called Grand Central station, the sixth most-visited place in the world. The huge building has not changed much since it opened in February, 1913. About 750,000 people pass through Grand Central every day. Some just come to look at it, others to visit the stores. But most are there to catch the trains that enter and leave from the station. It is the largest train station in the world. There are 67 train tracks, all of them underground. The main part of the building has large, arched windows, a jeweled four-sided clock and ticket windows. Grand Central has been seen in many movies through the years. Dan Brucker is with the New York Transit Authority, which operates the station. Dan Brucker has worked for the transit authority at Grand Central for 30 years. In all those years, he has not lost his interest in the building. Justin Ferate, a historian, has been giving tours of Grand Central Station for 30 years. He says the station was designed to make travel a pleasure. "Why people don't run into each other in Grand Central is simple: each block of stone in Grand Central is the length of your leg. Each block of stone in Grand Central is the length of your arm. Each block of stone is a different color, so it's a checkerboard, based on you." A ten-year-long fight against plans to build a huge office building over Grand Central in 1968 helped create the modern preservation movement. Now, no one would think of changing the beauty of the station.

1. When did Grand Central Terminal first open?
2. What is it often called?
3. What are some of the reasons people visit it?
4. any other reasons?
5. Is that why most people go there?
6. Why do most people go there?
7. Is it a large station?
8. Is it a famous station?
9. Has it been seen in many movies?
10. Who runs the station?
11. Can you take a tour of the station?
12. Who gives tours?
13. How long has he been doing this?
14. What does he say about the site?

1. February, 1913
2. Grand Central station
3. Some just come to look at it
4. to visit the stores
5. no
6. to catch the trains that enter and leave from the station
7. yes
8. yes
9. yes
10. New York Transit Authority
11. yes
12. Justin Ferate
13. 30 years
14. the station was designed to make travel a pleasure.


The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 16, 2006. The following census was the 2011 Census. Canada's total population enumerated by the 2006 census was 31,612,897. This count was lower than the official July 1, 2006 population estimate of 32,623,490 people.

Over 12.7 million households, 32.5 million people were expected to be counted. Canada Post delivered census forms by mail to 70% of the country, primarily residents in urban areas. Census enumerators delivered to the remaining 30% of households. Every fifth home received the long questionnaire (53 questions versus 8 questions on the short form). For the first time, Canadian residents were able to go online to fill in their forms. Statistics Canada expected approximately 20% of households to file their surveys electronically. Persistent census staff are contacting tardy households. The total estimated cost of the 2006 census is $567 million spread over seven years, employing more than 25,000 full and part-time census workers.

New in the 2006 Census Questionnaire:

Questions not asked in the 2006 Census:

Modified questions:

As the data were compiled, Statistics Canada released various census data products. The first set of data products was released on March 13, 2007, originally scheduled for release on February 13, 2007, covering population and dwelling counts by geographical unit. This was followed by other census data products.

1. Can Canadians now fill out the census online?
2. What day was the census in 2006?
3. What year was its next census?
4. What was the population in 2006?
5. Which homes received the long questionnaire?
6. What percentage of forms were mailed?
7. How many houses were expected to file electronically?
8. How much was the 2006 census (in dollars)?
9. How many workers were there?
10. When did the first set of data come out?
11. When was it supposed to come out?
12. How many questions were on the long census form?
13. And how many on the short?
14. Did workers go to houses that were late?
15. How many years was counting the 2006 census spread over?

Provide a numbered list of answers.


Fox was hungry. He was very hungry because he had not eaten in 3 days. Bird flew to Fox's home and talked to him. Bird asked Fox why he had not eaten in so long. Fox said it was too cold outside. Bird said "But you have such nice, thick fur!" \tabFox said, "Well I am really too lazy." Bird said he would bring Fox any food he saw when he was flying around and left. \tabBird flew to other side of the forest to visit Tiger, but he did not see any food on the way. Tiger was reading a book about cooking. "Hmm, there are so many delicious foods I have not tried yet." Bird arrived at Tiger's den and said "Hello Tiger, what are you doing?" Tiger said "I am trying to think of what to have for dinner." \tab"How can you choose?" asked Bird. \tab"Why don't we pick a color and eat something that is that color" said Tiger. \tab"How about red?" said Bird. \tab"Yes! Like a fox!" said Tiger. \tab"I know where a fox is!" said Bird, "I'll show you." So Tiger followed Bird all the way across the forest. Finally they arrived outside Fox's home. "Pretend you are asleep and wait right here", said Bird to Tiger. Bird then flew in to Fox's home very happy. "Fox, I have found a big yummy treat for you and you won't ever be hungry again! Follow me outside." Fox followed Bird outside and said "WOW! A whole tiger! Yum!" Then Tiger jumped up and gobbled up Fox in one bite. Fox was now inside Tiger's belly and he yelled out "Bird, you lied to me! Why?!" \tab"Because you ate my sister!" yelled Bird. \tab"That wasn't me, it was Snake!" cried Fox. \tab"Oh. Um, sorry Fox. Well at least you don't have to hunt for food now" said Bird. Tiger laughed so hard that he coughed up Fox. Then they all went and got ice cream.

1. How long had it been since Fox ate?
2. And who visited him?
3. What did Fox complain about?
4. What did Bird say he'd bring Fox?
5. Where did she go?
6. To visit whom?
7. And what was he doing?
8. About what?
9. Has Tiger tried many delicious foods?
10. How did they decide what food to eat?
11. And which one was chosen?

1. Three days.
2. Bird.
3. Said it was too cold outside.
4. Any food he saw when he was flying around.
5. To the other side of the forest.
6. Tiger.
7. Reading a book.
8. Cooking.
9. No.
10. They picked a color and ate something that color.
11. Red.


RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of SME's three flagship record labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. The company's name is derived from the initials of the label's former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records. RCA's Canadian unit (formerly Berliner Gramophone Canada) is Sony's oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression.

Artists currently signed to RCA Records include Britney Spears, Shakira, Christina Aguilera, Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Usher, Charlie Wilson, R. Kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Chris Brown, D'Angelo, Pink, Walk the Moon, Pitbull and Zayn.

In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs (including the famous "Victrola") and phonograph records (in British English, "gramophone records"). The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper "His Master's Voice" trademark; in Shanghai, China, RCA Victor was the main competitor with Baak Doi (EMI). Singer Carmen Miranda was signed to RCA Victor Brazilian branch, in 1929 to 1935, when she was still only known in Brazil.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Shakira, Christina Aguilera, and Pitbull
2. Sony Music
3. multiple genres
4. No
5. Columbia Records
6. Victor Talking Machine Company
7. manufacturer of phonographs
8. 1929
9. Radio Corporation of America
10. two
11. acquired New World rights to "His Master's Voice" trademark
12. Baak Doi

1. who are some artists currently working with RCA?
2. who owns RCA?
3. what genres do they work with?
4. is it the oldest recording company?
5. which is the oldest?
6. what was the company before it was RCA Victor?
7. what did the Victor company do?
8. when was Victor purchased by RCA?
9. what is RCA short for?
10. how many record companies survived the Great Depression in Canada?
11. What did RCA aquire along with Victor?
12. who is their main competitor in China?


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The Mongol Empire (Mongolian: "Mongolyn Ezent Güren" ; Mongolian Cyrillic: Монголын эзэнт гүрэн; ; also ("Horde") in Russian chronicles) existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land empire in history. Originating in the steppes of Central Asia, the Mongol Empire eventually stretched from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan, extending northwards into Siberia, eastwards and southwards into the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, and the Iranian plateau, and westwards as far as the Levant.

The Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of nomadic tribes in the Mongol homeland under the leadership of Genghis Khan, whom a council proclaimed ruler of all the Mongols in 1206. The empire grew rapidly under his rule and that of his descendants, who sent invasions in every direction. The vast transcontinental empire connected the east with the west with an enforced "Pax Mongolica", allowing the dissemination and exchange of trade, technologies, commodities, and ideologies across Eurasia.

The empire began to split due to wars over succession, as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from his son and initial heir Ögedei or from one of his other sons, such as Tolui, Chagatai, or Jochi. The Toluids prevailed after a bloody purge of Ögedeid and Chagataid factions, but disputes continued even among the descendants of Tolui. A key reason for the split was the dispute over whether the Mongol Empire would become a sedentary, cosmopolitan empire, or would stay true to their nomadic and steppe lifestyle. After Möngke Khan died (1259), rival kurultai councils simultaneously elected different successors, the brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai Khan, who then not only fought each other in the Toluid Civil War (1260–1264), but also dealt with challenges from descendants of other sons of Genghis. Kublai successfully took power, but civil war ensued as Kublai sought unsuccessfully to regain control of the Chagatayid and Ögedeid families.

1. When did Genghis Khan become ruler of Mongol?
2. Did his empire grow when he and his family ruled?
3. What allowed trade with the east and west?
4. How many sons did Khan have?
5. Who was his original heir?
6. What were the grandchildren arguing over?
7. What did their bickering cause to happen to the empire?
8. When was the Toluid Civil War?
9. Did it involve family versus family?
10. Who won?
11. Did it last, though?

1. 1206
2. Yes.
3. Pax Mongolica
4. at least 4
5. Ögedei
6. If royal line should follow from his son and initial heir Ögedei, or another.
7. civil war
8. 1260–1264
9. yes.
10. Kublai
11. no


Chapter 17: The Battle Of Moncontor.

When Pierre left him in order to look after the horses, Philip continued his meal. There could be no hurry, for Nevers was twelve miles away; and it would be four hours, at least, before a party could arrive.

The landlady herself brought in the next course. After placing the dish upon the table, she stood looking earnestly at him for a minute, and then said:

"You spoke of stopping here tonight, sir. The accommodation is very poor and, if you will take my advice, you will ride farther. There have been some men along here this afternoon, inquiring for a party like yours; and offering a reward to any who would carry the news to them, should you pass through. Methinks their intentions were not friendly."

"I thank you very much for your counsel," Philip said, "and will take it. I know that there are some who would gladly hinder me, in my journey; and if there is, as you say, a risk of their coming here for me, it were as well that I rode farther, although I would gladly have given my horses a night's rest. I thank you warmly for having warned me."

"Do not let my husband know that I have spoken to you," she said. "He is an honest man, but timid; and in these days 'tis safest not to meddle with what does not concern one."

Philip waited for two hours, and then told Pierre to saddle the horses, and tell the landlord that he wished to speak to him.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who was eating?
2. Did Pierre leave him?
3. Why?
4. How far is Nevers?
5. How long before someone would arrive?
6. Was Phillip in a hurry to finish his meal?
7. Who got the next item for him?
8. Did she talk to him?
9. Did he intend to stay there at night?
10. How was the condition of the place?
11. Did she suggest him to think otherwise?
12. Did she think some people were looking for them?
13. Did they offer any reward?
14. For what?
15. Were those folks friendly?
16. Did Philip change his mind?
17. Did she ask him not to tell her husband something?
18. About what?
19. How is the guy?
20. Who Philip wanted to talk at the end?

1. Philip
2. yes
3. to look after the horses,
4. twelve miles away
5. four hours, at least
6. no
7. the landlady
8. yes
9. yes
10. very poor
11. yes
12. .yes
13. yes
14. for carrying  the news to them
15. no
16. yes
17. yes
18. that she has spoken to him
19. honest but timid
20. the landlord


Make use of the article to answer the questions.

Weimar Republic was an unofficial, historical designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place. The official name of the state was "Deutsches Reich"; it had remained unchanged since 1871. In English the country was usually known simply as Germany. A national assembly was convened in Weimar, where a new constitution for the "Deutsches Reich" was written, and adopted on 11 August 1919. In its fourteen years, the Weimar Republic faced numerous problems, including hyperinflation, political extremism (with paramilitaries – both left- and right-wing), as well as contentious relationships with the victors of the First World War. The people of Germany blamed the Weimar Republic rather than their wartime leaders for the country's defeat and for the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Weimar Germany fulfilled most of the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles although it never completely met its disarmament requirements, and eventually paid only a small portion of the war reparations (by twice restructuring its debt through the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan). Under the Locarno Treaties, Germany accepted the western borders of the republic, but continued to dispute the Eastern border.

1. What was an unofficial designation
2. For what?
3. During what year?
4. Was Weimar a city?
5. What took place there?
6. What was the official name?
7. When did that begin?
8. What was adopted in 1919
9. What month?
10. What day?
11. What happened in the 14th year

1. the Weimar Republic
2. the German state
3. between 1919 and 1933
4. Yes
5. its constitutional assembly
6. Deutsches Reich
7. 1871
8. a new constitution
9. August
10. the 11th
11. unknown


Since the Protestant Reformation, the most prominent Christian denomination in Thuringia has been Lutheranism. During the GDR period, church membership was discouraged and has continued shrinking since the reunification in 1990. Today over two thirds of the population is non-religious. The Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany has had the largest number of members in the state, adhered to by 24.0% of the population in 2009. Members of the Catholic Church formed 7.8% of the population, while 68.2% of Thuringians were non-religious or adhere to other faiths. The highest Protestant concentrations are in the small villages of southern and western Thuringia, whereas the bigger cities are even more non-religious (up to 88% in Gera). Catholic regions are the Eichsfeld in the northwest and parts of the Rhön Mountains around Geisa in the southwest. Protestant church membership is shrinking rapidly, whereas the Catholic Church is somewhat more stable because of Catholic migration from Poland, Southern Europe and West Germany. Other religions play no significant role in Thuringia. There are only a few thousand Muslims (largely migrants) and about 750 Jews (mostly migrants from Russia) living in Thuringia. Furthermore, there are some Orthodox communities of Eastern European migrants and some traditional Protestant Free churches in Thuringia without any societal influence.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. The Protestant Evangelical Church
2. 24.0% of the population in 2009
3. the Catholic Church
4. no
5. Muslims, Jews
6. migrants from Russia
7. about 750 Jews
8. During the GDR period
9. church membership was discouraged
10. no
11. Catholic migration from Poland
12. Southern Europe and West Germany

1. what is the biggest church in Germany?
2. what percent of the local people are in that church?
3. what other group has a large percentage of people in it?
4. are most people a part of one of these groups?
5. what other ethnic groups are there in this area?
6. where are they originally from?
7. how many are there?
8. when did church-going really start decreasing in the area?
9. why did it decrease?
10. is catholicism decreasing as quickly?
11. why not?
12. and from what other areas?


(CNN) -- SeaWorld will resume killer whale shows while the company and two federal agencies investigate the death of a whale trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, company and federal officials announced Friday.

The shows, which were suspended at all SeaWorld locations after the death Wednesday at SeaWorld Orlando, will resume Saturday with new precautionary measures in place, said Jim Atchison, president of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment.

Earlier Friday, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced they were looking into the death of Dawn Brancheau, 40.

Brancheau was pulled underwater when a killer whale named Tilikum grabbed her ponytail. A source at SeaWorld said that after seizing her, the whale dove deep underwater. Trainers eventually had to wrangle the animal into a smaller pool before they could retrieve her body about 40 minutes later.

WESH: Watch tourist's video just before attack

A former head of animal training said Friday that Brancheau left herself vulnerable to attack and that she may have broken the park's training protocol.

"Dawn, if she was standing here right now, would tell you that that was her mistake in allowing that to happen," said former SeaWorld trainer Thad Lacinak, who had worked with Brancheau in the past, on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Lacinak called Brancheau "one the best killer whale trainers I ever worked with."

Still, he said, Brancheau should not have been lying in a slideout -- a platform covered by roughly 4 inches of water -- so close to a killer whale.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who will resume killer whale shows?
2. Is there going to be any new precautionary measures in place?
3. Who called Brancheai one of the best killer whale trainers they ever worked with?
4. Who is the President of Seaworld parks and Entertainment?
5. What city was the city The seaworld in that the event took place?
6. What did Lacinak say Brancheau shouldn't of been doing?
7. What is the name of the killer whale involved in the event?
8. What day of the week as of this article is Seaworld reopening?
9. What show in the past did Thad Lacinak work with Brancheau on?
10. What day were the shows suspended?

1. SeaWorld
2. yes
3. Thad Lacinak
4. Jim Atchison
5. Orlando
6. Brancheau should not have been lying in a slideout
7. Tilikum
8. Saturday
9. on ABC's "Good Morning America."
10. Wednesday


Strabo (; "Strabōn"; 64 or 63 BC) was a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey), a city that he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea. Pontus had recently fallen to the Roman Republic, and although politically he was a proponent of Roman imperialism, Strabo belonged on his mother's side to a prominent family whose members had held important positions under the previous resisting regime of King Mithridates VI of Pontus.

Strabo's life was characterized by extensive travels. He journeyed to Egypt and Kush, as far west as coastal Tuscany and as far south as Ethiopia in addition to his travels in Asia Minor and the time he spent in Rome. Travel throughout the Mediterranean and Near East, especially for scholarly purposes, was popular during this era and was facilitated by the relative peace enjoyed throughout the reign of Augustus (27 BC – AD 14). He moved to Rome in 44 BC, and stayed there, studying and writing, until at least 31 BC. In 29 BC, on his way to Corinth (where Augustus was at the time), he visited the island of Gyaros in the Aegean Sea. Around 25 BC, he sailed up the Nile until reaching Philae, after which point there is little record of his proceedings until AD 17.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Who was born to a rich family?
2. Where were they from?
3. How far from the Black Sea is it?
4. People from his mother's family had jobs with who?
5. Who took over Pontus?
6. Who did Strabo side with in politics?
7. What is Pontus known as today?
8. When did he go to Rome?
9. when did he leave?
10. What did he do there?
11. Anything else?
12. Where was he headed in 29
13. Did he stop anywhere?
14. Where?
15. Where is that?
16. When did he go out on the NIle?
17. Where did he stop?
18. When did Augustus rule?
19. Where was he in 29 BC?
20. Was there a lot of war during that time?

1. Strabo
2. Amaseia
3. about 75 km
4. King Mithridates VI of Pontus.
5. the Roman Republic
6. Roman imperialism
7. Amasya, Turkey
8. 44 BC
9. 31 BC
10. study
11. write
12. Corinth
13. Yes
14. the island of Gyaros
15. in the Aegean Sea
16. Around 25 BC
17. Philae
18. 27 BC – AD 14
19. on his way to Corinth
20. unknown


Make use of the article to answer the questions.

Marsha loves playing with her noodle friend. She had it for a long time so it is now a dark brown color. When her mom first made it, it was white. The night she met her noodle friend was spaghetti night. Marsha's favorite dinner was spaghetti, which happened to be every Tuesday night. On one Tuesday, a piece of spaghetti fell on the kitchen floor. To Marsha, it looked like a stick man so she kept him. She named her new noodle friend Joey and took him everywhere she went. Sometimes Joey gets a little dried out so Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days. There were a couple times that the family dog, Mika, has tried to take Joey from Marsha and eat him! So from now on, Marsha takes extra special care to make sure Joey is safe and sound at all times. During the day she keeps him in a plastic bag in her pocket. At night, she puts him under her pillow. She loves Joey and wants to always be friends with him.

1. Is Joey a male or female?
2. Who is he?
3. Who named him?
4. Who made him?
5. Why did she make him?
6. When was spaghetti night?
7. Where does he live?
8. Does he stay fresh?
9. How?
10. Does she carry him?

1. Male.
2. A piece of spaghetti.
3. Marsha
4. Her mom.
5. It was spaghetti night.
6. Tuesday night.
7. A plastic bag.
8. Yes.
9. Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days.
10. es


Sally had a very exciting summer vacation. She went to summer camp for the first time. She made friends with a girl named Tina. They shared a bunk bed in their cabin. Sally's favorite activity was walking in the woods because she enjoyed nature. Tina liked arts and crafts. Together, they made some art using leaves they found in the woods. Even after she fell in the water, Sally still enjoyed canoeing. She was sad when the camp was over, but promised to keep in touch with her new friend.

Sally went to the beach with her family in the summer as well. She loves the beach. Sally collected shells and mailed some to her friend, Tina, so she could make some arts and crafts with them. Sally liked fishing with her brothers, cooking on the grill with her dad, and swimming in the ocean with her mother.

The summer was fun, but Sally was very excited to go back to school. She missed her friends and teachers. She was excited to tell them about her summer vacation.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. summer camp
2. Yes
3. Tina
4. arts and crafts
5. walking in the woods
6. because she enjoyed nature
7. Yes
8. they made some art using leaves they found in the woods
9. No
10. Sad
11. Yes
12. Excited
13. because she missed her friends and teachers
14. Yes
15. She went to the beach
16. Yes
17. fishing, cooking and swimming
18. No
19. Her brothers and her dad
20. Yes
21. Yes

1. Where did Sally go in the summer?
2. Did she make any friends there?
3. With who?
4. What was Tina's favorite activity?
5. What was Sally's?
6. Why?
7. Did they find a way to combine their interests?
8. How?
9. Had Sally been to camp before?
10. How did she feel when it was time to leave?
11. Did she and Tina keep in touch?
12. How did Sally feel about going back to school?
13. Why?
14. Did she do anything else that summer?
15. What?
16. Does she like it?
17. Did she do anything interesting there?
18. Did she fish and cook alone?
19. Who did she fish and cook with?
20. Did she tell Tina about the beach?
21. Did she tell everyone at school about her summer?


The Arena Football League (AFL) is the highest level of professional indoor American football in the United States. It was founded in 1987 by Jim Foster, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America, after the Canadian Football League and the National Football League. It is played indoors on a 68-yard field (about half the distance of an NFL field), resulting in a faster-paced and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League.

For its 2015 season, the league consisted of 12 teams, all from the United States; however, upon the completion of the regular season, the league announced that the two teams it had assumed operation of during the season would cease all operations effective immediately; a regular season game slated between the two had previously been canceled and declared a tie. Subsequently, one of the remaining teams, the Spokane Shock, severed its ties with the league to join the competing IFL. The AFL is divided into two conferences – the American Conference and National Conference. Starting 2016, each conference will have only four teams as the champion San Jose SaberCats announced in November 2015 that they were ceasing activity for "reasons not associated with League operations."

1. What AFL stands for?
2. Is it played outside?
3. When was it founded?
4. By whom?
5. How is it ranked by longest-running?
6. How big is the field?
7. How it compares with NFL field?
8. Are there any other differences?
9. Any other?
10. In recent year how teams were there?
11. Which year?
12. Going back when the sports was invented?
13. How many conferences it has?
14. How many teams in each of them?
15. Are teams leaving them?
16. For example?
17. For what?
18. Did Spokane do the same?
19. Where did they go?
20. What is IFL?

1. Arena Football League
2. No
3. 1987
4. Jim Foster
5. third
6. 68-yards
7. about half the distance of an NFL field
8. faster-paced
9. higher-scoring
10. 12
11. 2015
12. early 1980s
13. two
14. four
15. yes
16. San Jose SaberCats announced in November 2015 that they were ceasing activity
17. reasons not associated with League operations.
18. yes
19. IFL
20. unknown


CHAPTER XVII: MACHINATIONS

"Baby born to woe."

F. T. PALGRAVE.

When Anne Woodford began to wake from the constant thought of the grief and horror she had left at Portchester, and to feel more alive to her surroundings and less as if they were a kind of dream, in which she only mechanically took her part, one thing impressed itself on her gradually, and that was disappointment. If the previous shock had not blunted all her hopes and aspirations, perhaps she would have felt it sooner and more keenly; but she could not help realising that she had put herself into an inferior position whence there did not seem to be the promotion she had once anticipated. Her companion rockers were of an inferior grade to herself. Jane Humphreys was a harmless but silly girl, not much wiser, though less spoilt, than poor little Madam, and full of Cockney vulgarities. Education was unfashionable just then, and though Hester Bridgeman was bettor born and bred, being the daughter of an attorney in the city, she was not much better instructed, and had no pursuits except that of her own advantage. Pauline Dunord was by far the best of the three, but she seemed to live a life apart, taking very little interest in her companions or anything around her except her devotions and the bringing them over to her Church. The nursery was quite a separate establishment; there was no mingling with the guests of royalty, who were only seen in excited peeps from the window, or when solemnly introduced to the presence chamber to pay their respects to the Prince. As to books, the only secular one that Anne saw while at Whitehall was an odd volume of Parthenissa. The late King's summary of the Roman controversy was to be had in plenty, and nothing was more evident than that the only road to favour or promotion was in being thereby convinced.

Answer this series of questions:

1. who was Anne's companion
2. what was the only secular book she saw while at whitehall?
3. what feeling impressed upon Anne?
4. what place had she left?
5. did she think her companion was superior?
6. what did she leave at Portchester?
7. was the nursery connected or separate?
8. what was Pauline devoted to?
9. who used a lot of Cockney vulgarities?
10. was she threatening?
11. was she serious or silly?
12. how many rockers were there in total?
13. was Heter Bridgeman one of them?
14. who was she the daughter of?
15. did she have any pursuits?
16. what is the name of chapter 17?

1. rockers
2. an odd volume of Parthenissa
3. she had put herself into an inferior position
4. t Portchester
5. no
6. the constant thought of the grief and horror
7. separate
8. her Church
9. Jane Humphreys
10. no
11. silly
12. four
13. .yes
14. an attorney in the city,
15. only ones that were to her advantage
16. MACHINATIONS


This is the story of a young girl and her dog. The young girl and her dog set out a trip into the woods one day. Upon entering the woods the girl and her dog found that the woods were dark and cold. The girl was a little scared and was thinking of turning back, but yet they went on. The girl's dog was acting very interested in what was in the bushes up ahead. To both the girl and the dog's surprise, there was a small brown bear resting in the bushes. The bear was not surprised and did not seem at all interested in the girl and her dog. The bear looked up at the girl and it was almost as if he was smiling at her. He then rested his head on his bear paws and went back to sleep. The girl and the dog kept walking and finally made it out of the woods. To this day the girl does not know why the bear was so friendly and to this day she has never told anyone about the meeting with the bear in the woods.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. A girl and a dog.
2. Set on on a trip
3. the woods
4. scared
5. He wasn't
6. He was interested
7. what was in the bushes
8. a bear
9. rested in the bushes
10. Not really
11. surprised
12. not surprised
13. Looked at the girl
14. He smiled
15. No
16. no one
17. No
18. dark and cold
19. yes
20. no

1. What is the story about?
2. What were they doing?
3. where?
4. How did the girl feel?
5. How about the dog?
6. HOw did he feel?
7. in what?
8. What was it?
9. What did it do?
10. Did it notice the two?
11. How did the girl and the dog feel?
12. How did the bear react?
13. What did he do?
14. Was he mean?
15. Does she know why?
16. Who did she tell?
17. Was the woods open and light?
18. What was it like?
19. Was she thinking of turning back?
20. did she?


Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces (, singular "provincia") and one autonomous city ("ciudad autónoma"), Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation () as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system.

During the War of Independence the main cities and their surrounding countrysides became provinces though the intervention of their "cabildos". The Anarchy of the Year XX completed this process, shaping the original thirteen provinces. Jujuy seceded from Salta in 1834, and the thirteen provinces became fourteen. After seceding for a decade, Buenos Aires Province accepted the 1853 Constitution of Argentina in 1861, and its capital city was made a federal territory in 1880.

A law from 1862 designated as national territories those under federal control but outside the frontiers of the provinces. In 1884 they served as bases for the establishment of the governorates of Misiones, Formosa, Chaco, La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego. The agreement about a frontier dispute with Chile in 1900 created the National Territory of Los Andes; its lands were incorporated into Jujuy, Salta and Catamarca in 1943. La Pampa and Chaco became provinces in 1951. Misiones did so in 1953, and Formosa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz, in 1955. The last national territory, Tierra del Fuego, became the Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province in 1990.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. what created the National Territory of Los Andes?
2. what year did that happen?
3. when did the last territory become a province?
4. what is the full name of that territory?
5. how many provinces are there in Argentina?
6. do they all have their own constitution?
7. how many autonomous cities are there?
8. which one?
9. is that the capital of the country?
10. in 1862 what were declared as territories?
11. what are a few examples?
12. what shaped the original 13 provinces?
13. who seceded from Salta?
14. what did it then become?
15. what year did that happen?
16. when did Buenos Aires accept the constitution of Argentina?
17. what happened in 1880?

1. The agreement about a frontier dispute with Chile
2. 1900
3. 1990
4. Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province
5. twenty-three
6. yes
7. one
8. Buenos Aires
9. yes
10. those under federal control but outside the frontiers of the provinces.
11. Misiones, Formosa, Chaco, La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego
12. The Anarchy of the Year XX
13. Jujuy
14. a province
15. 1834
16. 1861
17. it was made a federal territory in 1880


Deep into the night, the bus pulled in to a Howard Johnson's restaurant and everybody got off the bus except Vingo. The young people began to wonder about him , trying to imagine his life. One of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself. After a long time, slowly and painfully, he began to tell his story. He had been in prison in prefix = st1 /New Yorkfor the last four years, and now he was going home.

"Well, when I was in prison I wrote to my wife. I said, 'Martha, I understand if you can not stay married to me'. I said I was going to be away for a long time, and that if she couldn't stand it , if the kids kept asking questions, if it hurt her too much, well, she could just forget me . Get a new young man---she's a wonderful woman---and forget all about me. I told her she didn't have to write to me and she didn't. Not for the three and a half years."

"Last week, when I was sure freedom was coming through, I wrote to her. I told her that if she had a new young man, I would understand. But if she didn't, if she would take me back, she should let me know. We used to live in the town,Brunswick, and there's a great big oak tree just as you come into the town. I told her if she would take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and if she didn't want me, forgot me, no handkerchief and I'd keep going on through."

Soon all the others were in it. When they were 20 miles fromBrunswick, the young men took over window seats on the right side, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Vingo stopped looking, tightening his face into the ex-con's mask. Then it was 10 miles, and then 5, and the bus became very quiet.

Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances. All except Vingo.

1. What restaurant did the vehicle pull into?
2. What type of vehicle was it?
3. Was it easy for him to tell his tale?
4. Where was he headed?
5. What was he sure of last week?
6. How far from the city were they when they took window seats?
7. What city were they headed to?
8. Who on the bus didn't get up to celebrate?
9. Where had he been in prison?
10. How close were they when the bus became quiet?
11. Who was his wife?
12. What did he do to his wife?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. Howard Johnson's
2. a bus
3. no
4. home
5. freedom was coming through
6. 20 miles
7. Brunswick,
8. Vingo
9. New York
10. 5 miles
11. Martha
12. he wrote to her


(Entertainment Weekly) -- How are the elements of the charming, traditional romantic comedy "The Proposal" like the checklist of a charming, traditional bride? Let me count the ways ...

Ryan Reynolds wonders if marrying his boss, Sandra Bullock, is a good thing in "The Proposal."

Something old: The story of a haughty woman and an exasperated man who hate each other -- until they realize they love each other -- is proudly square, in the tradition of rom-coms from the 1940s and '50s. Or is it straight out of Shakespeare's 1590s?

Sandra Bullock is the shrew, Margaret, a pitiless, high-powered New York book editor first seen multitasking in the midst of her aerobic workout (thus you know she needs to get ... loved). Ryan Reynolds is Andrew, her put-upon foil of an executive assistant, a younger man who accepts abuse as a media-industry hazing ritual.

And there the two would remain, locked in mutual disdain, except for Margaret's fatal flaw -- she's Canadian. (So is "X-Men's" Wolverine; I thought our neighbors to the north were supposed to be nice.)

Margaret, with her visa expired, faces deportation and makes the snap executive decision to marry Andrew in a green-card wedding. It's an offer the underling can't refuse if he wants to keep his job. (A sexual-harassment lawsuit would ruin the movie's mood.)

OK, he says. But first comes a visit to the groom-to-be's family in Alaska. Amusing complications ensue.

Something new: The chemical energy between Bullock and Reynolds is fresh and irresistible. In her mid-40s, Bullock has finessed her dewy America's Sweetheart comedy skills to a mature, pearly texture; she's lovable both as an uptight careerist in a pencil skirt and stilettos, and as a lonely lady in a flapping plaid bathrobe.

1. What movie is the article referring to?
2. What type of film is it?
3. What comparison does the article attempt to make?
4. Who are the 2 main actors/actresses in the film?
5. Is he the supervisor?
6. Do the 2 start out liking each other?
7. What is the boss's name in the film?
8. Is her co-star's character named Daniel?
9. What is his occupation?
10. What is hers?
11. Are they from the same country?
12. Does this make the plot of the film interesting?
13. Why?
14. How do they plan to solve her problem?
15. What is she trying to gain from the plan?
16. Where must they make a trip to before this happens?
17. Are they seeing anyone in particular?
18. Who?
19. Do the 2 continue to dislike each other?
20. From what era does the author state this behavior comes from?

1. The Proposal
2. romantic comedy
3. How the elements of the comedy are like the checklist of a charming, traditional bride?
4. Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock
5. No
6. no
7. Margaret,
8. no
9. executive assistant
10. book editor
11. no
12. yes
13. Margaret, with her visa expired, faces deportation
14. marrying Andrew
15. a green-card
16. Alaska
17. Yes
18. the groom-to-be's family
19. No
20. Shakespeare's 1590s


A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police services of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing.

Law enforcement, however, constitutes only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order. In some societies, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, these developed within the context of maintaining the class system and the protection of private property. Many police forces suffer from police corruption to a greater or lesser degree. The police force is usually a public sector service, meaning they are paid through taxes.

1. Is enforcing the law the entire goal of police?
2. What is their main activity concerned with?
3. In the 17-1800s, what was one other thing they were focused on?
4. Anything else?
5. Is it true that there has been corruption in the police department?
6. Just a few instances?
7. Is the force paid for privately?
8. How is it funded then?
9. What do they call an entity like that?
10. Are all police forces paid that way?
11. Who gives them their power?
12. How many main tasks are they asked to do?
13. Do they go to war?
14. Do they protect people's personal property?

1. No
2. preservation of order
3. maintaining the class system
4. protection of private property
5. Yes
6. No
7. No
8. taxes
9. public sector service
10. No
11. the state
12. three
13. unknown
14. Yes


George Washington Carver showed that plant life was more than just food for animals and humans. Carver's first step was to analyze plant parts to find out what they were made of. He then combined these simpler isolated substances with other substances to create new products.

The branch of chemistry that studies and finds ways to use raw materials from farm products to make industrial products is called chemurgy. Carver was one of the first and greatest chemurgists of all time. Today the science of chemurgy is better known as the science of synthetics . Each day people depend on and use synthetics made from raw materials. All his life Carver battled against the disposal of waste materials, and warned of the growing need to develop substitutes for the natural substances being used up by humans.

Carver never cared about getting credit for the new products he created. He never tried to patent his discoveries or get wealthy from them. He turned down many offers to leave Tuskegee Institute to become a scientist in private industry. Thomas Edison, inventor of the electric light, offered him a laboratory in Detroit to carry out food research. When the United States government made him a collaborator in the Mycology and Plant Disease Survey of the Department of Agriculture, he accepted the position with the understanding that he wouldn't leave Tuskegee. An authority on plant disease--especially of the fungus variety--Carver sent hundreds of specimens to the United States Department of Agriculture. At the peak of his career, Carver's fame and influence were known on every continent.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. What branch of Chemistry seeks ways to use raw materials to make industrial products?
2. Where do these raw materials originate from?
3. What is chemurgy called today?
4. What was Carver's full name?
5. Was his initial step in his process to analyze parts of plants?
6. To determine what?
7. Did he combine substances to make new things?
8. What did he not care about in regards to the products he made?
9. Where was he a scientist?
10. Did he get offers to work elsewhere?
11. Where did the U.S. government make him a collaborator?
12. What was his condition for accepting this position?
13. On what kind of disease was he an expert?
14. Did he have superior knowledge on one type especially?
15. Which one?
16. Where did he send his specimens?
17. What was the last name of the man who invented the electric light?
18. And his first name?
19. What did he offer Carver?

1. chemurgy.
2. farm products
3. the science of synthetics
4. George Washington Carver
5. Yes
6. what they were made of.
7. Yes
8. getting credit
9. Tuskegee Institute
10. Yes
11. the Mycology and Plant Disease Survey of the Department of Agriculture
12. that he wouldn't leave Tuskegee
13. plant disease
14. Yes
15. the fungus variety
16. the United States Department of Agriculture.
17. Edison
18. Thomas
19. a laboratory in Detroit to carry out food research.


Los Angeles (CNN) -- A man convicted of stalking singer Madonna, and who once threatened to knife her, was arrested Friday, a week after he escaped from a Southern California mental hospital, police said.

Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, had walked away from Metropolitan State Hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk on February 3, police said.

He had served a 10-year prison sentence for stalking the "Material Girl," police said, and a court order requires him to be in a facility receiving mental health treatment until the end of August 2012.

Los Angeles Police Sgt. Mitzi Fierro told HLN's Nancy Grace that she hadn't been told whether any new charges will be filed against Hoskins.

"At this point they are returning him to the facility, and I believe that will be determined by the detectives who will investigate -- number one, his ability to walk away from the facility and, number two, if he violated anything from that point on," Fierro said.

The facility he was in is not secured, and it was unclear Friday whether Hoskins escaped or walked out on his own, investigators told CNN.

He was receiving treatment to get acclimated to society again and was supervised by a civilian staff and not officers, detectives said.

Because of the court order, Hoskins was deemed an "escapee," detectives said.

Investigators had been looking for him in the Long Beach area because some of his arrest records come from that community, detectives said.

Prior to his arrest Friday, Los Angeles police issued a warning to the public saying Hoskins "is highly psychotic when not taking his medication and has very violent tendencies."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was arrested?
2. Did he escape from anywhere?
3. When?
4. What was he charged with?
5. Who?
6. Who is the police sergeant in Los Angeles?
7. Was the mental health facility secured?
8. What was he getting help with?
9. Was he watched over by police?
10. Who then?
11. Where were police looking for him at?
12. Was he considered harmless?
13. How old is he?
14. How long was he in prison for?
15. Which tv anchor was Fierro speaking too?
16. Will new charges be filed?

1. Robert Dewey Hoskins,
2. A mental hospital
3. A week before Friday.
4. Stalking.
5. Madonna
6. Mitzi Fierro
7. No.
8. being acclimated to society again.
9. No.
10. Civilian staff.
11. the Long Beach area.
12. No
13. 54
14. 10 years
15. Nancy Grace
16. Did not indicate any.


Josie could hear the birds singing outside the classroom window. She could see some of them sitting on the branches of an apple tree. Mrs. Harper checked to see if everyone was present. Each child called out when they heard their name. She then asked for a volunteer to read a story about a family of grasshoppers. Many hands were raised but she picked Josie's friend, Mary. While Mary was reading the story, she got a tickle in her throat. She began to cough. Mrs. Harper told her to go get some water to drink and a boy named Henry finished the story. Next, Mrs. Harper showed the class a butterfly garden. Someone asked if butterflies ate other bugs. Mrs. Harper said that butterflies don't eat but only drink. Josie was chosen to pass out turkey sandwiches for lunch. Mrs. Harper went to the refrigerator. She got out some vanilla yoghurt for each of the boys and girls. All the students cheered.

Answer this series of questions:

1. what did josie hear?
2. what kind of tree did he have?
3. what was the story about?
4. who's hand was chosen?
5. was mary feeling well
6. what did she feel in her throat?
7. did she cough?
8. who finished the story?
9. what did mary do to help her throat?
10. do butterflies eat?
11. what did they have for lunch?
12. were the kids happy
13. why?

1. birds singing
2. apple tree
3. a family of grasshoppers
4. Mary
5. no
6. a tickle
7. yes
8. Henry
9. drank water
10. no
11. turkey sandwiches
12. yes
13. they were getting vanilla yoghurt


Read the text and answer the questions.

CHAPTER XXVI

THE JUDGMENT OF DOMITIAN

Two hours had gone by and Caleb, with fury in his heart, sat brooding in the office attached to the warehouse that he had hired. At that moment he had but one desire--to kill his successful rival, Marcus. Marcus had escaped and returned to Rome; of that there could be no doubt. He, one of the wealthiest of its patricians, had furnished the vast sum which enabled old Nehushta to buy the coveted Pearl-Maiden in the slave-ring. Then his newly acquired property had been taken to this house, where he awaited her. This then was the end of their long rivalry; for this he, Caleb, had fought, toiled, schemed and suffered. Oh! rather than such a thing should be, in that dark hour of his soul, he would have seen her cast to the foul Domitian, for Domitian, at least, she would have hated, whereas Marcus, he knew, she loved.

Now there remained nothing but revenge. Revenged he must be, but how? He might dog Marcus and murder him, only then his own life would be hazarded, since he knew well the fate that awaited the foreigner, and most of all the Jew, who dared to lift his hand against a Roman noble, and if he hired others to do the work they might bear evidence against him. Now Caleb did not wish to die; life seemed the only good that he had left. Also, while he lived he might still win Miriam--after his rival had ceased to live. Doubtless, then she would be sold with his other slaves, and he could buy her at the rate such tarnished goods command. No, he would do nothing to run himself into danger. He would wait, wait and watch his opportunity.

1. What was now left?
2. Against who?
3. What was in the angered man's heart?
4. What was one option to get back at the man?
5. What was a drawback to that plan?
6. What was the subject of their rivalry?
7. Where had Marcus gotten away from?
8. What was the maiden's occupation?
9. And her name?
10. What might he be able to do if his rival were dead?

1. revenge
2. Marcus
3. fury
4. dog and murder him
5. his own life would be hazarded
6. the coveted Pearl-Maiden
7. unknown
8. a slave
9. Miriam
10. win Miriam


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The best afternoon I ever had with my grandfather was when we went down to the river and fished. It was a hot July day, and I was bored. My grandfather was sitting in the backyard, reading. "Hey, you look like you need some fun," he said. "Want to go fishing?" I said sure, and he went to the garage. He came out with two poles, some hooks, and some fishing line. Everything was in pieces, but he showed me how to put it all together. I asked if we needed worms, and he said no. Then, we set off to the river.

It was only about ten blocks to the river, but walking along past the library and the store, he told me about how he used to go fishing with his friend Steve. They used to catch catfish, then take them home so that their mothers could cook them for dinner. When we got to the park at the river, my grandfather went right to the bank, then turned and walked up along the side of the river until we were off in the shade under the trees right at the edge of the park. There, he taught me how to throw my line in the water. Then we sat down to wait. While we were fishing, my grandfather told me lots of stories about what he and Steve did as kids. We didn't have any worms, so we never caught any fish, but sitting there as he told me stories made it a great afternoon.

1. how far was it to the river?
2. what month was it?
3. were you bored?
4. what did grandpa suggest?
5. did you think it was a good idea?
6. was the gear intact?
7. what did they used to catch at the river?
8. did you need bait?
9. what was on the way to the river?
10. where did grandpa go once you reached the park?

1. ten blocks
2. July
3. yes
4. fishing
5. yes
6. no
7. catfish
8. no
9. library and store
10. right to the bank


Read the text and answer the questions.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In 1989, the warnings were dire. The Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing," critics and columnists said, would provoke violence and disrupt race relations.

Spike Lee: "I wanted to do a film that would try to show what was happening at the time."

"This movie is dynamite under every seat," wrote Newsweek's Jack Kroll.

Other commentators believed the film would harm the candidacy of David Dinkins, an African-American who was running for mayor of New York. It might even spark riots at movie theaters, they thought.

Instead, what the film provoked was ... talk. There were no riots. Dinkins was elected. "Do the Right Thing" had a successful run at the box office -- if not as successful as Lee and his supporters hoped -- and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Twenty years later, the film still maintains a hold on the imagination. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked it as one of the 100 best American films. Roger Ebert, who has written he cried when he first saw the film at the Cannes Film Festival, still considers the film a wonder: "Spike Lee had done an almost impossible thing. He'd made a movie about race in America that empathized with all the participants," he wrote in 2001.

So what is the thing about "Do the Right Thing?" Watch Spike Lee describe things in his own words »

Part of its staying power is in its boldness, both in look and action. Lee's first two films, "She's Gotta Have It" (1986) and "School Daze" (1988), had marked him as a rising young filmmaker. But it was "Do the Right Thing," made when Lee was just 32, that showcased his confidence, from the deliberately striking color scheme (bright reds and oranges that make a hot day seem even hotter) to its heightened -- sometimes stagy -- atmosphere, to its grim, documentary-style riot climax.

1. Who created Do the Right Thing?
2. When?
3. Why were newspaper writers concerned?
4. Were they right?
5. Was the movie successful?
6. Was it nominated for any awards?
7. Which one?
8. Who called the film a wonder?
9. When did he see it first?
10. What over movies did Lee make?
11. How old was he when he made Do the Right Thing?
12. Who was campaigning for mayor?
13. Of what city?
14. What group ranked it as one of the best?
15. When?
16. Did Ebert laugh when he saw it?

1. Spike Lee
2. 1989
3. they said it would provoke violence and disrupt race relations
4. no
5. yes
6. yes
7. two Academy Awards.
8. Roger Ebert
9. at the Cannes Film Festival
10. "She's Gotta Have It" and "School Daze"
11. 32
12. David Dinkins
13. New York
14. the American Film Institute
15. In 2007
16. no


Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised, "Barbara, be enthusiastic ! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were!

"Nothing great was ever done without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the things get tough. It is the inner voice that tells you, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!" It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't stop working on her experiments.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is the childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing the cello . As the music flowed through his fingers, his shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As writer and poet Samuel Ullman once worte, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, not considering money or title or power. Patricia Mellratl, a retired director of the Missouri Rpertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, long ago, told me, 'I never made any money until I stopped working for it.'"

We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-been". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses finding pleasure in the sweet of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.

1. When did the woman win the award?
2. What award was it?
3. What was her job?
4. How long did it take her to get there?
5. What was her name?
6. Who was the musician?
7. Is he old?
8. What does he play?
9. Who works at the theater?
10. Is she still working?
11. Where did she work?
12. What was her position there?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. 1983
2. Nobel Prize in medicine
3. geneticist
4. years and years
5. Barbara McClintock
6. Pablo Casals
7. 90
8. cello
9. Patricia Mellratl
10. no
11. Missouri Rpertory Theater
12. director


Make use of the article to answer the questions.

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig. Its capital city is Kiel; other notable cities are Lübeck and Flensburg.

Also known in more dated English as Sleswick-Holsatia, the Danish name is "Slesvig-Holsten," the Low German name is "Sleswig-Holsteen," and the North Frisian name is "Slaswik-Holstiinj." Historically, the name can also refer to a larger region, containing both present-day Schleswig-Holstein and the former South Jutland County (Northern Schleswig) in Denmark.

The term "Holstein" derives from Old Saxon "Holseta Land," ("Holz" and "Holt" mean wood in modern Standardised German and in literary English, respectively). Originally, it referred to the central of the three Saxon tribes north of the River Elbe: "Tedmarsgoi" (Dithmarschen), Holstein and "Sturmarii" (Stormarn). The area of the tribe of the Holsts was between the Stör River and Hamburg, and after Christianization, their main church was in Schenefeld. Saxon Holstein became a part of the Holy Roman Empire after Charlemagne's Saxon campaigns in the late eighth century. Since 811, the northern frontier of Holstein (and thus the Empire) was marked by the River Eider.

The term Schleswig comes from the city of Schleswig. The name derives from the Schlei inlet in the east and "vik" meaning inlet in Old Norse or settlement in Old Saxon, and linguistically identical (cognate) with the "-wick" or "-wich" element in place-names in Britain.

1. What is the capital of Schleswig-Holstein?
2. Name another city in it?
3. Name one of the duchys it's comprised of?
4. And the other?
5. What's a Danish name for it?
6. And the Low German name for it?
7. And the North Frisian name?
8. Is the modern German word for wood mentioned in this article?
9. Name one of the three Saxon tribes north of the Elbe?
10. And another?
11. And yet another?
12. Was Holstein part of the Holy Roman Empire?
13. Who carried on Saxon campaigns?

1. Kiel
2. Lübeck
3. Holstein
4. Duchy of Schleswig
5. Slesvig-Holsten
6. Sleswig-Holsteen
7. Slaswik-Holstiinj
8. NO
9. Tedmarsgoi
10. Holstein
11. Sturmarii
12. YES
13. Charlemagne