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379j5ii41og9t86ivkfh8zzahkglew | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXII
THE REAL THING AND NO MISTAKE
'With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president, He caught their manners, looks, and airs-- An ass in everything but ears.' GAY.
The master of the house was unable to contribute much more than his name to the propriety of the arrival of the suitors, and this made Wilmet the more determined that Geraldine should precede them. Nor, since the half-crown must be disbursed on an escort for her, did the housewifely conscience object to the expedition, for Wilmet could not but long to thank the Superior and Sister Constance, and to obtain Dr. Lee's advice as to future management. Her coming was great joy to Cherry, who had dreaded the meeting almost with a sense of guilt, though still hoping Felix had been silent on her motive; and Wilmet did not betray him, but only treated her sister with a mixture of almost shy tenderness and reverence. Nor did Cherry dare to ask a question as to Wilmet's own affairs, nor even about Ferdinand Travis, lest she should seem to be leading in that direction. However, Wilmet, in a persuasive tone, communicated that Ferdinand had been long without writing, and though Cherry tried to be sorry for Alda, her spirit quailed at the state of temper her sister evidently meant to prepare her for.
But fate was more kind than she expected. That very Saturday brought both gentlemen, and by the same train. They made each other out as they were leaving their bags at the Fortinbras Arms, and arrived together in marked contrast--the tall, dark, regular-featured, soft- eyed Life-guardsman, and the little sandy, freckled, sun-dried engineer; and thus two courtships had to be carried on in the two rooms, only supplemented by the narrow parallelogram of a garden! For Ferdinand Travis was back again, rather amused at the family astonishment at the rapidity of his journey to America, which to his Transatlantic notions of travel was as nothing, and indeed had been chiefly performed in a big steamer, where he could smoke to his heart's content. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was newly arrived?
2. Who had just gotten to the house?
3. Whose arrival had just occured?
Q2:
1. When did the suitors arrive?
2. What day did the suitors come in on?
3. On what day of the week did the suitors arrive?
Q3:
1. How did the suitors arrive?
2. What was the suitors means of transportation?
3. How did the suitors get to their destination?
Q4:
1. Where did the suitors stay?
2. Where were the suitors lodged?
3. In what location were the suitors being housed?
Q5:
1. What were the names of the suitors?
2. Who were the suitors?
3. What were the suitors called?
Q6:
1. Who was Ferdinand Travis coming to see?
2. Who did Ferdinand Travis want to see?
3. Who did Ferdinand Travis desire to meet with?
Q7:
1. Who resides in America?
2. Who lives in the United States?
3. For whom is the United States their place of residence?
Q8:
1. Where did the courting take place?
2. What was the location of the courting?
3.
Q9:
1. What was the garden like?
2. How was the garden's ambiance?
3. What did the garden resemble?
Q10:
1. Who is wont to get mad?
2. Who has a tendency to get angry?
3. Who can become angry?
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3m0nz3jdp1yt2eutzkdnck4vkehz5d | gutenberg | CHAPTER FOUR
Babalatchi saw Abdulla pass through the low and narrow entrance into the darkness of Omar's hut; heard them exchange the usual greetings and the distinguished visitor's grave voice asking: "There is no misfortune--please God--but the sight?" and then, becoming aware of the disapproving looks of the two Arabs who had accompanied Abdulla, he followed their example and fell back out of earshot. He did it unwillingly, although he did not ignore that what was going to happen in there was now absolutely beyond his control. He roamed irresolutely about for awhile, and at last wandered with careless steps towards the fire, which had been moved, from under the tree, close to the hut and a little to windward of its entrance. He squatted on his heels and began playing pensively with live embers, as was his habit when engrossed in thought, withdrawing his hand sharply and shaking it above his head when he burnt his fingers in a fit of deeper abstraction. Sitting there he could hear the murmur of the talk inside the hut, and he could distinguish the voices but not the words. Abdulla spoke in deep tones, and now and then this flowing monotone was interrupted by a querulous exclamation, a weak moan or a plaintive quaver of the old man. Yes. It was annoying not to be able to make out what they were saying, thought Babalatchi, as he sat gazing fixedly at the unsteady glow of the fire. But it will be right. All will be right. Abdulla inspired him with confidence. He came up fully to his expectation. From the very first moment when he set his eye on him he felt sure that this man--whom he had known by reputation only--was very resolute. Perhaps too resolute. Perhaps he would want to grasp too much later on. A shadow flitted over Babalatchi's face. On the eve of the accomplishment of his desires he felt the bitter taste of that drop of doubt which is mixed with the sweetness of every success. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did misfortune exist?
2. Was there misfortune to be found?
3. Was there an air of unluckiness?
Q2:
1. Who entered?
2. Who walked through the entrance?
3. Whose entrance was made?
Q3:
1. What did Abdulla enter into?
2. What did Abdulla go into?
3. What did Abdulla make his entrance into?
Q4:
1. Who did the hut belong to?
2. Who was the owner of the hut?
3. Whose hut did Abdulla walk into?
Q5:
1. Did the hut have a narrow entrance?
2. Was the entrance to the hut rather skinny?
3. Did the hut's entrance lack width?
Q6:
1. Who saw Abdulla?
2. Who was Abdulla spotted by?
3. Who noticed Abdulla?
Q7:
1. Who was Abdulla accompanied by?
2. Who was with Abdulla?
3. Who did Abdulla have in his company?
Q8:
1. What was the number of Arabs accopmanying Abdulla?
2. How many Arabs accompanied Abdulla?
3. HOw many Arabs did Abdulla have with him?
Q9:
1. Where did Abdulla roam towards?
2. What did Abdulla go towards?
3. What was Abdulla meandering in the direction of?
Q10:
1. Had the fire been moved?
2. Had the location of the fire been changed?
3. Did the fire move locations?
Q11:
1. Where was the fire moved from?
2. What was the original location of the fire?
3. What was the fire's location before it was moved?
Q12:
1. Where was the fire moved to?
2. What location was the fire taken to?
3. What was the fire's new location after being moved?
Q13:
1. What body part did Abdulla burn?
2. Where on Abdulla's body was he burned?
3. What part of Abdulla's body did the fire burn?
Q14:
1. What interrupted Abdulla?
2. What made Abdulla pause?
3. What was Abdulla cut off by?
Q15:
1. Who moaned in a feeble manner?
2. Who gave out a feeble noise?
3. Who rattled out a weak noise?
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36zn444ytrytfyb14vl0lv1w4gwoip | cnn | (CNN) -- Inter Milan spurned the chance to close the gap on Italian league leaders Juventus after they had to rely on a late own goal to salvage a point at home to Cagliari.
Andrea Stramaccioni's side could have pulled to within three points of the Serie A champions had they beaten Cagliari but despite taking the lead they were thankful to Davide Astori for putting through his own net with eight minutes remaining.
Rodrigo Palacio had given Inter the lead after just ten minutes when he nodded home a cross from Antonio Cassano.
But just before halftime Italian striker Marco Sau grabbed the first of his two goals when he fired Andrea Cossu's cross into the bottom corner.
Inter's Argentinean forward Diego Miltio squandered a glorious chance to restore Inter's lead when he hit Yuto Nagatomo's pass over the bar from six yards with the goal gaping.
It was to prove a costly miss as Sau got his second on 66 minutes, turning home the loose ball after Mauricio Pinilla's overhead kick cannoned back off the upright.
But Cagliari couldn't hold on for their first league win at the San Siro since 1995 as Astori fired into his own net when attempting to clear a cross.
Stramaccioni was sent to the stands for his complaints after the referee turned down a penalty appeal as Andrea Ranocchia was fouled but despite intense pressure in the closing minutes Inter couldn't find a winner.
Elsewhere, two goals from Alberto Aquilani helped Fiorentina to a 4-1 victory over Atalanta as they moved into third while Udinese and Parma drew 2-2. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. When did Marco Sau's first of two goals occur?
2. At what point in the game did Marco Sau score the first goal?
3. When did Marco Sau score the first goal out of two?
Q2:
1. Whose cross did Marco Sau hit into the bottom corner?
2. Who had their cross struck into the bottom corner by Marco Sau?
3.
Q3:
1. At what minute marker did Marco Sau get his second goal?
2. What minute marker did Marco Sau score his second goal at?
3. At which minute marker did Marco Sau's second goal come?
Q4:
1. Who wasn't able to close the gap on the Italian league leaders?
2. Who failed to catch up to the Italian league leaders?
3. Who was ultimately unsuccessful in catching up to the Italian league leaders?
Q5:
1. Who led the Italian lead?
2. Which team was ahead in the Italian league at the time of the match?
3. Which team was at the top of the Italian leagues when the match occured?
Q6:
1. Who fired into his own net with eight minutes left?
2. Which player fired into his own net with eight minutes to go?
3. With 8 minutes remaining in the game, what player fired into his own net?
Q7:
1. What is Astori's first name?
2. What other name is attributed to Astori?
3. What is the first name of the player that fired into his own net?
Q8:
1. Whose overhead kick cannoned back off?
2. Who had an overhead kick that bounced back off?
3. What was the name of the player with the overhead kick that cannoned back off?
Q9:
1. Who got ejected for complaining?
2. Who was made to go to the stands because he was complaining?
3. Which player got sent to the stands for whining?
Q10:
1. Did a referee reject a penalty appeal before Stramaccioni was sent to the stands?
2. Did a referee reject a penalty appeal prior to Stramaccioni's ejection?
3. Before Stramaccioni complained, had a referee refused a penalty appeal?
Q11:
1. Which player was fouled amid pressures in the game?
2. Despite intense pressure, which player was fouled?
3. What player was fouled in the midst of all the tension?
Q12:
1. Did Inter Milan find a winner?
2. Was a winner located by Inter Milan?
3. Did a champion show up for Inter Milan?
Q13:
1. What is the family name of the player whose two goals led to a Fiorentina victory?
2. The player who scored two goals so that Fiorentina could win - what's his last name?
3. What is the last name of the athlete whose goals secured a win for Fiorentina?
Q14:
1. Who lost to Fiorentina?
2. Which team did Fiorentina defeat?
3. Who was bested by Fiorentina?
Q15:
1. What was the final score of the Fiorentina-Atalanta game?
2. What score did each team have at the end of the Fiorentina-Atalanta match?
3. How many points did each team get when Fiorentina faced Atalanta?
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3qilpralq5vi87zcuu9wth7dchrn8l | race | Ask any student to say one thing they know about Charles Dickens, and it is very likely they will say Oliver Twist. His classic tale of a poor orphan boy strikes at the heart of all those who have ever wanted "more", as Oliver did.
And now, Dickens' classic scenes of the lives of the Victorian British poor will appear in a big screen movie, "Oliver Twist," an adaptation of his classic tale directed by Roman Polanski.
The new film is not meant for younger viewers, and is meant for children over 13. For those old enough to enjoy it, however, the film shows just how long people have been enjoying Dickens' remarkable literature. His short stories and essays began appearing in magazines in 1833. "Oliver Twist" was published in 1837 - more than 165 years ago.
"Oliver Twist" tells the story of an orphan forced to live in a workhouse headed by the awful Mr Bumble, who cheats the boys who work there out of their already low pay. Oliver decides to escape to the streets of London, where he meets a thief called Fagin, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, who leads him into a world of crime. Several of Dickens' books have been made into films and television series, including 2002's "Nicholas Nickleby" and 2000's "David Copperfield." And several versions of "A Christmas Carol" have entertained audiences for years.
In his novels, Dickens wrote about several important issues. He talked about the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1824 in "Oliver Twist"; the French Revolution in "A Tale of Two Cities"; and helping the poor in "Hard Times." One of Dickens' best-known books is the first Christmas book he wrote - "A Christmas Carol" (1843), about a mean man.
We thought this would be a good time to take a look at the man behind the words and see what kind of experiences helped shape and affect one of the best -- known writers of all time. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did Charles Dickens write about important things?
2. Did Charles Dickens' work cover serious subjects?
3. Did important subjects appear in Charles Dickens' novels?
Q2:
1. How many works by Charles Dickens are mentioned?
2. How many of Charles Dickens' novels does the article bring up?
3. What is the number of Charles Dickens novels discussed?
Q3:
1. What is the first Charles Dickens novel mentioned?
2. Which Charles Dickens book gets mentioned first?
3. Which is the first Dickens novel that the article brings up?
Q4:
1. Is Oliver Twist being re adapted?
2. Is a new version of Oliver Twist coming out?
3. Is a remake of Oliver Twist going to be made available?
Q5:
1. What is Oliver Twist being adapted into?
2. What kind of remake of Oliver Twist is being made?
3. What medium is Oliver Twist being remade as?
Q6:
1. Who directs the movie version of Oliver Twist?
2. Who is directing Oliver Twist the film?
3. What is the name of the film Oliver Twist's director?
Q7:
1. Is Polanski's Oliver Twist suitable for a five year old?
2. Should one take their five year old to the movie Oliver Twist?
3. Is the movie version of Oliver Twist appropriate for a five year old?
Q8:
1. What is the youngest age that should see Oliver Twist?
2. What is the lowest age that Polanski's Oliver Twist is appropirate for?
3. What is the youngest age that could be a suitable audience for Oliver Twist?
Q9:
1. What is Oliver Twist about?
2. What is the subject of Oliver Twist?
3. Describe the plot of Oliver Twist.
Q10:
1. Is Oliver Twist made to do something?
2. Is there something that Oliver Twist is compelled to do?
3. Does Oliver Twist get forced to do something?
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32n49tqg3gi9z010tjf1zp7ln13va9 | race | Jean is a bright young woman from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has almost everything that money can buy. But the people in Jean's family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely. So Jean spends a lot of her time on QQ. She likes being anonymous talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and made a lot of friends. Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and he lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had the same interests in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them many hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot the time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself: he was a tall, good-looking young man with big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other. When Jean's father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him, so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of the rock singer they liked most. But when Jean knocked in David's door in San Francisco, she found that the special friend she had written to was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim! QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Which girl is quite intelligent?
2. Who is a bright girl?
3. Who is a smart young woman?
Q2:
1. What does Jean go by on QQ?
2. What is Jean's pseudonym on QQ?
3. What is Jean's name that she uses for QQ?
Q3:
1. Who is Jean's special friend?
2. What friend does Jean meet on QQ?
3. What is the name of Jean's close friend?
Q4:
1. Where is David from?
2. What is David's place of residence?
3. Where does David reside?
Q5:
1. How many friends did Jean make?
2. How many people did Jean become friends with?
3. What's the number of friends that Jean made on QQ?
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3eicbyg644wo1ky4w8x92wmftkvcjs | wikipedia | Throughout its prehistory and early history, the region and its vicinity in the Yangtze region was the cradle of unique local civilizations which can be dated back to at least the 15th century BC and coinciding with the later years of the Shang and Zhou dynasties in North China. Sichuan was referred to in ancient Chinese sources as Ba-Shu (巴蜀), an abbreviation of the kingdoms of Ba and Shu which existed within the Sichuan Basin. Ba included Chongqing and the land in eastern Sichuan along the Yangtze and some tributary streams, while Shu included today's Chengdu, its surrounding plain and adjacent territories in western Sichuan.
The existence of the early state of Shu was poorly recorded in the main historical records of China. It was, however, referred to in the Book of Documents as an ally of the Zhou. Accounts of Shu exist mainly as a mixture of mythological stories and historical legends recorded in local annals such as the Chronicles of Huayang compiled in the Jin dynasty (265–420), with folk stories such as that of Emperor Duyu (杜宇) who taught the people agriculture and transformed himself into a cuckoo after his death. The existence of a highly developed civilization with an independent bronze industry in Sichuan eventually came to light with an archaeological discovery in 1986 at a small village named Sanxingdui in Guanghan, Sichuan. This site, believed to be an ancient city of Shu, was initially discovered by a local farmer in 1929 who found jade and stone artefacts. Excavations by archaeologists in the area yielded few significant finds until 1986 when two major sacrificial pits were found with spectacular bronze items as well as artefacts in jade, gold, earthenware, and stone. This and other discoveries in Sichuan contest the conventional historiography that the local culture and technology of Sichuan were undeveloped in comparison to the technologically and culturally "advanced" Yellow River valley of north-central China. The name Shu continues to be used to refer to Sichuan in subsequent periods in Chinese history up to the present day. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did not receive sufficient documentation?
2. What was there little information about?
3. What wasn't documented in the proper fashion?
Q2:
1. Does anywhere refer to Shu?
2. Does Shu appear in any documents?
3. Are there any texts that discuss the early state of Shu?
Q3:
1. What text discusses the early state of Shu?
2. In what book does the early state of Shu appear?
3. Where can one find information about the early state of Shu?
Q4:
1. How is the early state of Shu seen?
2. What can Shu be described as?
3. What does the book of Documents call Shu?
Q5:
1. Which region was the cradle of unique civilization?
2. What location served as a cradle for unique civilization?
3. What was the home of unique civilizations?
Q6:
1. When did people settle in the Yangtze region?
2. When did the Yangtze region become a cradle for civilizations?
3. In what year did settlements appear in the Yangtze region?
Q7:
1. Who ruled over the Yangtze region?
2. Who was in charge of the peoples of the Yangtze region?
3. Who were the people in the Yangtze region ruled by?
Q8:
1. Where were the Shang and Zhou dynasties?
2. What was the location of the Shang and Zhou dynasties?
3. Where could the Shang and Zhou dynasties be found?
Q9:
1. What is discussed in ancient texts?
2. What do ancient documents talk about?
3. What subject is brought up in extremely old texts?
Q10:
1. What is one source for accounts of Shu?
2. What's one place that accounts of Shu can be found?
3. Where do accounts of Shu appear for example?
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35l9rvqfcoiow8keuzfokps6mrahub | wikipedia | The ultimate substantive legacy of Principia Mathematica is mixed. It is generally accepted that Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem of 1931 definitively demonstrated that for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them, and hence that Principia Mathematica could never achieve its aims. However, Gödel could not have come to this conclusion without Whitehead and Russell's book. In this way, Principia Mathematica's legacy might be described as its key role in disproving the possibility of achieving its own stated goals. But beyond this somewhat ironic legacy, the book popularized modern mathematical logic and drew important connections between logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Whitehead's most complete work on education is the 1929 book The Aims of Education and Other Essays, which collected numerous essays and addresses by Whitehead on the subject published between 1912 and 1927. The essay from which Aims of Education derived its name was delivered as an address in 1916 when Whitehead was president of the London Branch of the Mathematical Association. In it, he cautioned against the teaching of what he called "inert ideas" – ideas that are disconnected scraps of information, with no application to real life or culture. He opined that "education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who came up with a theory?
2. What was the name of the person that established a theorum?
3. Who thought up the incompleteness theorum?
Q2:
1. What was Kurt Gödel's called?
2. Which theorum was thought up by Kurt Gödel?
3. What was the name of Kurt Gödel's theorum?
Q3:
1. When did Kurt Gödel come up with the incompleteness theorum?
2. In what year was Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorum established?
3. What was the year when Kurt Gödel came up with his incompleteness theorum?
Q4:
1. Who was in charge of something?
2. What was the name of something's leader?
3. Who was the head honcho somewhere?
Q5:
1. What was Whitehead president of?
2. What body did Whitehead preside over?
3. What Organization was Whitehead the leader of?
Q6:
1. Is Whitehead known as anything other than President of the London Branch of the Mathematical Association?
2. Did Whitehead do anything notable besides lead the London Branch of the Mathematical Association?
3. Is there anything notable about Whitehead besides leading the London Branch of the Mathematical Association?
Q7:
1. What is Whitehead known as other than President of the London Branch of the Mathematical Association?
2. What did Whitehead do that was notable besides lead the London Branch of the Mathematical Association?
3. What was notable about Whitehead besides leading the London Branch of the Mathematical Association?
Q8:
1. What did Whitehead write?
2. What was Whitehead the author of?
3. What sort of text did Whitehead create?
Q9:
1. What was Whitehead's book?
2. What was the name of Whitehead's text?
3. What was the book that Whitehead wrote called?
Q10:
1. When was Whitehead's book released?
2. When did The Aims of Education and Other Essays come out?
3. What was the year of publication of The Aims of Education and Other Essays?
Q11:
1. Was The Aims of Education and Other Essays a novel?
2. Did The Aims of Education and Other Essays write a novel?
3. Could The Aims of Education and Other Essays be categorized as a novel?
Q12:
1. What was The Aims of Education and Other Essays?
2. What genre was The Aims of Education and Other Essays?
3. What sort of book was The Aims of Education and Other Essays?
Q13:
1. Did Whitehead warn about something in The Aims of Education and Other Essays?
2. Did Whitehead give caution about something in his book?
3. Did Whitehead's book contain a warning?
Q14:
1. What did Whitehead caution against in The Aims of Education and Other Essays?
2. What was Whitehead's warning in his book?
3. What did Whitehead advise against in The Aims of Education and Other Essays?
Q15:
1. What are "inert ideas"?
2. What does "inert ideas" mean?
3. What does it mean to say that an idea is inert?
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3r2pkq87nw85fvqprf6ntrcravaims | wikipedia | Norfolk () is a county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the west and north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea and, to the north-west, The Wash. The county town is Norwich. With an area of and a population of 859,400, Norfolk is a largely rural county with a population density of 401 per square mile (155 per km²). Of the county's population, 40% live in four major built up areas: Norwich (213,000), Great Yarmouth (63,000), King's Lynn (46,000) and Thetford (25,000).
The Broads is a network of rivers and lakes in the east of the county, extending south into Suffolk. The area is not a National Park although it is marketed as such. It has similar status to a national park, and is protected by the Broads Authority.
Norfolk was settled in pre-Roman times, with camps along the higher land in the west, where flints could be quarried. A Brythonic tribe, the Iceni, inhabited the county from the 1st century BC to the end of the 1st century AD. The Iceni revolted against the Roman invasion in AD 47, and again in 60 led by Boudica. The crushing of the second rebellion opened the county to the Romans. During the Roman era roads and ports were constructed throughout the county and farming was widespread. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Since when has Norfolk been inhabited?
2. How far back do settlements in Norfolk date?
3. When can the habitation of Norfolk be traced back to?
Q2:
1. What was mined in Norfolk?
2. What raw material came from Norfolk?
3. What did Norfolk have mines of?
Q3:
1. Where were Norfolk's settlements?
2. What was the location of the settlements in Norfolk?
3. Where could habitations in Norfolk be found?
Q4:
1. What famous historical figure came from the Norfolk area?
2. What famous people from history was from around Norfolk?
3. What important historical players lived around Norfolk?
Q5:
1. Who were combattants of the Romans?
2. What group did the Romans go to battle with?
3. Who was in conflict with the Romans?
Q6:
1. Did the Romans attempt to set up permanent control of Norfolk?
2. Did the Romans try to get permanent control over Norfolk?
3. Did the Romans make attempts to be the ones to permanently control Norfolk?
Q7:
1. What country is Norfolk currently located in?
2. What nation serves as the present day location of Norfolk?
3. Where can Norfolk be found in the current age?
Q8:
1. Is Norfolk mostly urban?
2. Is the majority of Norfolk urban?
3. Could most of Norfolk be described as urban?
Q9:
1. Where do most people in Norfolk live?
2. Where is Norfolk's greatest concentration of people?
3. What part of Norfolk has the largest concentration of residents?
Q10:
1. What protects Norfolk's network of rivers?
2. Who takes care of the network of rivers in Norfolk?
3. From whom do Norfolk's rivers receive protection?
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3wleiwsyhohfcwbcbf5ie6xe3yvh2t | race | I'm 14, a year younger than most of my classmates. A week ago one of my classmates, Nitin, asked me for help with math homework. We ended up talking about computers and file-sharing . As we talked I found that he was more experienced and could teach me about file-sharing and networking. We went to his room and watched a movie about robots that he'd downloaded. The math homework was forgotten. The next day he came again for homework help "What do you do on weekends?" he asked. The truth is, when I have work to do, I do it. I have no special time to with friends. I was embarrassed about this. I expected him to think I was boring and said, "Get a life!" He said, "OK. You're having trouble getting along with people I can show you. I'm old than you." Later, he checked my computer. He even connected me to an Internet chess server .He was becoming like a big brother. But when I thought about it, I didn't really want Nitin's help" His big-brother idea began to bore me. "I'll get you some cool computer programs ". "I'll teach you how to talk to girls." He meant what he was saying, but I don't know why it didn't make me feel good. Since then he's hardly talked to me; we seem to have forgotten each other. I don't think he can "teach" me much, and I don't think much of him. But I could be wrong* QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Were the 14 year old's classmates older than him?
2. Was the 14 year old one of the younger people in his class?
3. Was the 14 year old less advanced in age than most of his peers?
Q2:
1. When the boy had work to do, did he have time for friends?
2. Was there time for the boy to socialize when he had work to do?
3. When there was work to be done, did the boy find time for friends?
Q3:
1. Who asked the 14 year old for help with math homework?
2. What was the name of the classmate that wanted help with math homework?
3. Which of the boy's classmates wanted him to help with their math homework?
Q4:
1. What did the boy end up discussing with Nitin?
2. What did Nitin and his classmate talk about?
3. What ended up being the subject of the boy and Nitin's discussions?
Q5:
1. What kind of server did Nitin connect the boy to?
2. What sort of server did Nitin hook the boy up to?
3. Which genre of internet server did Nitin give his classmate access to?
Q6:
1. Did the boy feel bad about what Nitin offered to help him with?
2. Did some of Nitin's suggestions to help hurt the boys feelings?
3. Did the boy feel uneasy regarding some things that Nitin wanted to help him with?
Q7:
1. What sort of movie did the boys watch?
2. What kind of movie did the boys put on?
3. What was the movie that Nitin and his classmate put on about?
Q8:
1. Did the boy think Nitin could teach him much at all?
2. Did the 14 year old think Nitin had a lot to teach him?
3. Did the boy figure that he had a lot to learn from Nitin?
Q9:
1. What did Nitin think his classmate was struggling with?
2. What did Nitin think was hard for the 14 year old?
3. To Nitin, what appeared to be his classmate's issue?
Q10:
1. Did the boy really want Nitin's help?
2. Did the 14 year old truly want Nitin to help him?
3. Was help from Nitin actually what the boy was looking for?
Q11:
1. How was the boy starting to feel about the big brother idea?
2. What did the big brother situation start to feel like for the boy?
3. What opinion did the 14 year old begin to have of the big brother scenario?
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33l7pjkhcgyg3k4wrqv82gd50t48tl | cnn | (CNN) -- Nico Rosberg dominated the final, vital qualifying session of the 2014 F1 season in Abu Dhabi, putting the German in the box seat for the World Championship title.
The Mercedes driver, who has endured a fine but torrid season alongside his rival Lewis Hamilton, led the session from the start as Hamilton put in an error strewn performance to finish second, 0.386 seconds behind Rosberg, and set up a mouthwatering race in the Middle East on Sunday.
Neck and neck
Rosberg and Hamilton have clashed on and off the track during a season dominated by Mercedes. The two drivers have gone neck and neck for most of the season before a late spurt of form from Hamilton put him ahead for the last race.
But a controversial rule change that awards double points for the last race of the season means that Hamilton's 17 point championship lead is far more precarious than it should have been.
"It's only one step, a very small step," Rosberg said after securing his 11th pole of the season. His performance meant that Mercedes managed to secure every single pole this season, a feat that hasn't been seen by an engine manufacturer since Ford achieved the same in 1969.
Hamilton still favorite
Hamilton, meanwhile, is still the favorite to walk away with the title. As long as he finishes second, Rosberg's performance is immaterial.
"I generally didn't have the best of laps but I enjoyed the qualifying session," said Hamilton. "Tomorrow is going to be a special day ... This weekend is about the championship, not about pole position." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the total number of points that one could score in the last race?
2. How many points was the last race out of?
3. How many points in the last race?
Q2:
1. Was it normal to change the points to 17?
2. Was everyone on board with the change to 17 points?
3. Was it a smooth transition to a race out of 17 points?
Q3:
1. Who was in the running to be champion?
2. Who had a chance to win?
3. Who was someone that could possibly win?
Q4:
1. Where was Lewis Hamilton competing?
2. What was the location of Lewis Hamilton's race?
3. What part of the world was Lewis Hamilton a competitor in?
Q5:
1. Who was Lewis Hamilton competing against?
2. Who was Lewis Hamilton's opponent?
3. Who was going up against Lewis Hamilton?
Q6:
1. What did Nico Rosberg drive?
2. What was Nico Rosberg's vehicle?
3. What car was Nico Rosberg competing in?
Q7:
1. Was it obvious who would win between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton?
2. Was it a blow out between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton?
3. Was the race between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg quickly decided?
Q8:
1. Are Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton friends when they're not racing?
2. Do Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton get along when they're not racing?
3. When Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton aren't in competition, do they have a friendly rapport?
Q9:
1.
2.
3.
Q10:
1. What is Nico Rosberg's pole position?
2. What pole position is Nico Rosberg in?
3. Where does Nico Rosberg stand in the pole?
Q11:
1. What did Nico Rosberg's pole position do for Mercedes?
2. How was Mercedes impacted by Nico Rosberg's pole position?
3. What was Mercedes able to do thanks to Nico Rosberg's pole position?
Q12:
1. Is it common what is happening to Mercedes?
2. Is what Mercedes has accomplished common?
3. Has Mercedes done something that's pretty every day?
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32svav9l3f9pnrzh999vguf2wgb3aj | race | One of the most famous scientists to study adaptations was Charles Darwin . He was born in England in 1809. He wasn't the best student in his school, but when he was 16, his father sent him to a medical school. Charles liked spending time outdoors observing nature more than having medical classes. He dropped out without graduating. Next, Charles' father sent him to school to become a minister . This time he made it to graduation, but he didn't want to do the work of a minister. His friends encouraged him to follow his interest in science. Luckily, Charles was invited to sail on the Beagle as an unpaid scientist after graduation. The Beagle was to travel to South America and then around the world. Their task was to make maps of the places they visited. On December 27th, 1831. Charles Darwin sailed from England on the Beagle. The trip was planned to last two years. In fact, it lasted five. During this time, he saw many amazing things. He collected lots of plants and animals and took them back to England to begin his scientific study. Twenty-three years later, Darwin published a scientific paper with another man named Wallace. Darwin described how some animals have adaptations that help them survive. _ are passed on to offspring . Darwin's ideas about adaptations are still very important to the study of living things. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Describe the Beagle.
2. What is the purpose of the Beagle?
3. What sort of entity is the Beagle?
Q2:
1. When did the Beagle set sail?
2. When did the Beagle go out to sea?
3. What was the date when the Beagle set sail?
Q3:
1. How long was the Beagle's trip?
2. How long did the Beagle spend at sea?
3. What was the length of the Beagle's journey?
Q4:
1. How old was Charles Darwin when the Beagle set sail?
2. What was Charles Darwin's age when the Beagle went out to sea?
3. At what age did Charles Darwin leave England with the Beagle?
Q5:
1. Why did Charles Darwin drop out of school?
2. What was Charles Darwin's reason for dropping out of school?
3. Why didn't Charles Darwin finish school?
Q6:
1. What happened after Charles Darwin dropped out of school?
2. When Charles Darwin left medical school what happened next?
3. What followed Charles Darwin dropping out of medical school?
Q7:
1. Did Charles Darwin manage to finish his minister studies?
2. Did Charles Darwin graduate from minister school?
3. Did Charles Darwin succeed in getting a diploma as a minister?
Q8:
1. Did Charles Darwin like ministering?
2. Was being a minister pleasing to Charles Darwin?
3. Did Charles Darwin enjoy the work of a minister?
Q9:
1. Did sailing bring Charles Darwin lots of wealth?
2. Did Charles Darwin make a lot of money sailing?
3. Did Charles Darwin become rich as a result of his sailing?
Q10:
1. Where did the Beagle go first?
2. What was the Beagle's first stop?
3. What continent did the Beagle go to first?
Q11:
1. What was Charles Darwin making on the Beagle?
2. What was Charles Darwin tasked with creating on the ship?
3. What did Charles Darwin have to sketch out while on board the Beagle?
Q12:
1. What year was Charles Darwin's paper published?
2. What was the year of publication of Charles Darwin's scientific paper?
3. What year did Charles Darwin come out with a scientific paper?
Q13:
1. Who was Charles Darwin's co author?
2. Who co authored the scientific paper with Charles Darwin?
3. Who wrote a scientific paper with Charles Darwin?
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33c7ualjvlyfu0snp7bywaua8hc81p | mctest | One Thursday morning, John's dad was making him breakfast. John came downstairs in his favorite blue shirt and fed his dog Bentley. After washing his hands, John sat down to a hot plate of pancakes, eggs, and bacon. John's baby sister Emily began to cry in her high chair. John gave Emily her pink pacifier to calm her down. After breakfast, John took Bentley out to the backyard to play fetch in the green grass. John only threw the ball a few times before it started to rain and they had to come back inside. Bentley shook himself to get the water off him and splashed John. John's dad asked John, "Do you want to play a game?" John said that he did and ran to get his favorite board game, Trouble. When they sat on the living room floor to play, Emily crawled over to sit in John's lap. Bentley lay next to John's dad with his head on his paws. John thought this rainy day was perfect. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was cooking the first meal of the day?
2. Who was making breakfast?
3. Who whipped up some breakfast?
Q2:
1. Was John's dad making breakfast on the weekend?
2. Was it the weekend when John's dad was making breakfast?
3. Was it either Saturday or Sunday?
Q3:
1. What day of the week was John's dad making breakfast?
2. On what day was John's dad making breakfast?
3. Which day of the week did the events take place on?
Q4:
1. Who gave the dog food?
2. Who fed Bentley?
3. Who gave the dog its meal?
Q5:
1. Who is the dog in the story?
2. Who is John's dog?
3. What is the name of the pup
Q6:
1. How was the weather?
2. What was it like outside?
3. What kind of weather was John having?
Q7:
1. Who made a fuss during breakfast?
2. Who got fussy at breakfast?
3. Who began to cry at breakfast time?
Q8:
1. Who is John's sister?
2. What is the name of John's sister?
3. What's the name of John's female sibling?
Q9:
1. Who calmed Emily down?
2. Who was Emily soothed by?
3. Who got Emily to stop crying?
Q10:
1. How did John soothe Emily?
2. How was John able to calm his sister down?
3. What did John do to get Emily to stop crying?
Q11:
1. Who went outside after breakfast?
2. Who left the house after breakfast?
3. Who went to the backyard after the meal?
Q12:
1. What did John do once he returned into the home?
2. What was John's plan of action upon returning inside?
3. When John got back inside from the backyard, what did he do?
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34fnn24dcm9txoko3yb4ydvtede5yf | cnn | (CNN) -- Gov. David Paterson had no intention of appointing Caroline Kennedy to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, a source close to the New York governor told CNN Thursday.
Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from consideration for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat.
The source told CNN that Paterson did not think Kennedy was "ready for prime time," citing her efforts, at times awkward, to try to win the appointment.
"She clearly has no policy experience and couldn't handle the pressure," said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. "Why would he pick her given how badly she handled herself in recent weeks?"
Kennedy, 51, cited personal reasons for her decision not to continue pursuing the Senate seat. She informed the media at midnight, as Wednesday turned to Thursday.
Paterson is charged with naming a replacement for Clinton, who resigned her seat to become the secretary of state in President Obama's administration. Paterson will appoint someone to hold the seat until a new election is held in 2010.
A Kennedy ally, though, denied Kennedy had any indication Paterson was leaning against choosing her to fill out Clinton's term.
And another Kennedy confidante said Kennedy allies are getting frustrated about what they perceive as the governor's insiders slighting her.
Paterson, who is expected to name his choice Friday, has been coy about who he will pick to replace Clinton. Kennedy had been very public in expressing her interest in the seat by meeting with state and community leaders throughout the state. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the governor's name?
2. Who serves as governor of new york?
3. Who has the title of Governor?
Q2:
1. What state does David Paterson govern?
2. Which state has David Paterson as its governor?
3. David Paterson is the governor of which US state?
Q3:
1. Why did Hillary Clinton leave her position?
2. Why did Hillary Clinton step down as a senator?
3. What made Hillary Clinton leave her position in the senate?
Q4:
1. What administration is Hillary Clinton Secretary of State of?
2. What administartion is Hillary Clinton going to work for?
3. Which presidential administration is HIllary Clinton joining?
Q5:
1. What made Caroline Kennedy withdraw her candidacy?
2. Why did Caroline Kennedy take her name out of the running to replace Hillary Clinton?
3. For what reason did Caroline Kennedy take herself out of the ring to become senator?
Q6:
1. Why wouldn't David Paterson choose Caroline Kennedy?
2. What reason would David Paterson have for not choosing David Paterson?
3. Why would David Paterson over look Caroline Kennedy's candidacy?
Q7:
1. When will David Paterson announce his choice?
2. When will the new senator for New York be announced?
3. When will Hillary Clinton's replacement be announced?
Q8:
1. How old is Caroline Kennedy?
2. What is Caroline Kennedy's age?
3. State the age of Caroline Kennedy.
Q9:
1. When did Caroline Kennedy announce her withdraw?
2. When did Caroline Kennedy tell everyone she was taking herself out of the running?
3. When did Caroline Kennedy speak publicly about withdrawing her candidacy?
Q10:
1. Could Caroline Kennedy withstand the pressure of being a senator?
2. Was Caroline Kennedy capable of taking on the pressure of being a US senator?
3. Would Caroline Kennedy be up to the task of being a senator?
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3gs6s824sqxty8vusxp27xazuklwns | wikipedia | Madonna Louise Ciccone (/tʃɪˈkoʊni/; Italian: [tʃikˈkoːne]; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She achieved popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Madonna is known for reinventing both her music and image, and for maintaining her autonomy within the recording industry. Music critics have acclaimed her musical productions, which have generated some controversy. Often referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she is often cited as an influence by other artists.
Born in Bay City, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she signed with Sire Records (an auxiliary label of Warner Bros. Records) in 1982 and released her self-titled debut album the following year. She followed it with a series of commercially and critcally successful albums, including the Grammy Award winners Ray of Light (1998) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). Throughout her career, Madonna has written and produced most of her songs, with many of them reaching number one on the record charts, including "Like a Virgin", "Into the Groove", "Papa Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue", "Frozen", "Music", "Hung Up", and "4 Minutes". QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What role does Madonna have?
2. What is Madonna famous for?
3. What do people know Madonna for?
Q2:
1. Does Madonna have different careers?
2. Does Madonna wear different hats?
3. Does Madonna play a number of different roles career wise?
Q3:
1. What all does Madonna do?
2. What all is Madonna known for?
3. What hats does Madonna wear career wise?
Q4:
1. What is Madonna often referred to as?
2. What is Madonna's nickname?
3. What title have people given to Madonna?
Q5:
1. What lyrics has Madonna written?
2. What songs has Madonna written the lyrics of?
3. Which of Madonna's songs have been written by the singer herself?
Q6:
1. Was Madonna a producer?
2. Did Madonna produce music?
3. Has any music been produced by Madonna?
Q7:
1. What happened in Madonna's life in 1982?
2. What did Madonna do in 1982?
3. What action did Madonna take in 1982?
Q8:
1. What Madonna song went to the top of the charts?
2. What Madonna track was a chart topper?
3. Which top song do people tend to recognize Madonna for?
Q9:
1. Where did Madonna come from?
2. What was Madonna's home town?
3. Where was Madonna born?
Q10:
1. When did Madonna release her first song?
2. In what year did Madonna release her first track?
3. When did Madonna come out with her first track?
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3jjvg1ybebxxkgrdt6xkq2xstyfb5d | wikipedia | Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 in) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F), though the average for the third quarter (the coldest part of the year) is −63 °C (−81 °F). There are no permanent human residents, but anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside throughout the year at the research stations scattered across the continent. Organisms native to Antarctica include many types of algae, bacteria, fungi, plants, protista, and certain animals, such as mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades. Vegetation, where it occurs, is tundra.
Geologically, West Antarctica closely resembles the Andes mountain range of South America. The Antarctic Peninsula was formed by uplift and metamorphism of sea bed sediments during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic eras. This sediment uplift was accompanied by igneous intrusions and volcanism. The most common rocks in West Antarctica are andesite and rhyolite volcanics formed during the Jurassic period. There is also evidence of volcanic activity, even after the ice sheet had formed, in Marie Byrd Land and Alexander Island. The only anomalous area of West Antarctica is the Ellsworth Mountains region, where the stratigraphy is more similar to East Antarctica. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the coldest continent?
2. Which continent has the lowest temperatures?
3. What is the continent whose temperatures are lower than all others?
Q2:
1. What is the driest continent with the most wind?
2. Which continent is the driest and windiest?
3. State the driest and windiest continent.
Q3:
1. What continent is mostly more above sea level than is Antarctica?
2. Name the continent that tends to be higher above sea level than Antarctica.
3. Which continent has a greater land mass above sea level than that of Antarctica?
Q4:
1. Does it snow a lot in Antarctica?
2. Is there much snowfall in Antarctica?
3. Does snow fall much in Antarctica?
Q5:
1. Is Antarctica's coat or inland wetter?
2. Is there more water/precipitation in Antarctica's coast or inland?
3. What is wetter - Antarctica's inland or the coast?
Q6:
1. Does Antarctica have native polar bears?
2. Do polar bears naturally inhabit Antarctica?
3. Is one of the native species of Antarctica the polar bear?
Q7:
1. What animals are native to Antarctica?
2. What are Antarctica's native species?
3. Which animals naturally inhabit Antarctica?
Q8:
1. Are there other native species on Antarctica, besides mites?
2. In addition to mites, does Antarctica have other native species?
3. Do animals other than mites naturally live on Antarctica?
Q9:
1. What three animals are native to Antarctica besides mites?
2. What are three of Antarctica's native species, not counting mites?
3. Which are three animals that naturally inhabit Antarctica, apart from mites?
Q10:
1. How many people live in Antarctica?
2. What is the human population of Antarctica?
3. How many humans reside on Antarctica?
Q11:
1. Where do the people that live on Antarctica live?
2. Where does Antarctica's human population reside?
3. Where is the place of residence of the people inhabiting Antarctica?
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36h9ulyp62uv4wienanaa27iq30jfz | cnn | Hong Kong (CNN) -- The world watched, as the London 2012 Olympic Games opened with director Danny Boyle's elaborate ode to England, and furiously tapped their reaction on social media.
But one comment on Twitter has sparked a political fracas on the home soil of the games, as a British member of Parliament lamented the "multi-cultural crap" of the £27 million ($42.4 million) ceremony.
Entitled "Isle of Wonder," Boyle -- the Oscar-winning director best known for hit movies "Trainspotting" and "Slumdog Millionaire" -- put together a star-studded on-field dramatization that drew on Shakespeare and Brit Pop to chart Britain from its pastoral roots through the Industrial Revolution to James Bond, Harry Potter and the Beatles.
"The most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen -- more than Beijing, the capital of a communist state! Welfare tribute next?" wrote Aidan Burley, a Conservative Party MP who was fired as a ministerial aide in David Cameron's government after revelations he attended a Nazi-themed stag party in France last year.
"Thank God the athletes have arrived! Now we can move on from leftie multi-cultural crap. Bring back red arrows, Shakespeare and the Stones!" he added minutes later.
Burley backpedaled after the strong online backlash against his comments, posting: "Seems my tweet has been misunderstood. I was talking about the way it was handled in the show, not multiculturalism itself."
Queen opens the London 2012 Olympics
There was a great deal of comparison being drawn between the London ceremony and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. @legallyblondekf wrote: "Ha! London sees your zillion drummers drumming in unison and raises you a deaf drummer. Your move China," referring to deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie leading drummers during the London ceremony. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What social network hosted a controversial comment?
2. What social media site had a comment on it that created problems?
3. Which social media application hosted a problematic remark?
Q2:
1. What did Aidan Burley call the Olympic opening ceremony?
2. What comment did Aidan Burley make regarding the ceremony?
3. What was Aidan Burley's remark about the London opening ceremony?
Q3:
1. Who directed the opening ceremony?
2. Who was the director of the London Olympics opening ceremony?
3. What director was in charge of opening the London Olympics?
Q4:
1. What films is Danny Boyle famous for?
2. What Danny Boyle movies are well known?
3. Which of Danny Boyle's films have put him in the public eye?
Q5:
1. What is the London opening ceremony called?
2. What is the Olympic opening ceremony in London titled?
3. What name is given to the opening spectacle of the London Olympics?
Q6:
1. Was the opening ceremony influenced by Shakespeare?
2. Was there any Shakespearean influence on the London opening ceremony?
3. Was the opening ceremony of the London Olympics influenced by Shakespeare?
Q7:
1. Was the opening ceremony influenced by Brit Pop?
2. Was there any Brit Pop influence on the London opening ceremony?
3. Was the opening ceremony of the Brit Pop influenced by Shakespeare?
Q8:
1. What other famous influences, besides Brit Pop and Shakespeare, did the opening ceremony have?
2. What influenced the London opening ceremony, in addition to Shakespeare and Brit Pop?
3. What appeared in the opening ceremony, in addition to references to Shakespeare and Brit Pop?
Q9:
1. Who made a Twitter comment about the opening ceremony?
2. Who commented on Twitter about the London opening ceremony?
3. Who had something to say on Twitter regarding the opening ceremony of the London Olympics?
Q10:
1. Did Aidan Burley find the opening ceremony right wing?
2. In Aidan Burley's opinion, was the opening ceremony of the London Olympics a conservative affair?
3. Did Aidan Burley note that the London Olymmpics had a right wing opening ceremony?
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358010rm5etlvd9t4t7fjxijp2wxvw | gutenberg | CHAPTER VI
THE RAT MORT
I
The guide had stepped out of the house into the street, Yvonne following closely on his heels. The night was very dark and the narrow little Carrefour de la Poissonnerie very sparsely lighted. Somewhere overhead on the right, something groaned and creaked persistently in the wind. A little further on a street lanthorn was swinging aloft, throwing a small circle of dim, yellowish light on the unpaved street below. By its fitful glimmer Yvonne could vaguely perceive the tall figure of her guide as he stepped out with noiseless yet firm tread, his shoulder brushing against the side of the nearest house as he kept closely within the shadow of its high wall. The sight of his broad back thrilled her. She had fallen to imagining whether this was not perchance that gallant and all-powerful Scarlet Pimpernel himself: the mysterious friend of whom her dear milor so often spoke with an admiration that was akin to worship. He too was probably tall and broad--for English gentlemen were usually built that way; and Yvonne's over-excited mind went galloping on the wings of fancy, and in her heart she felt that she was glad that she had suffered so much, and then lived through such a glorious moment as this.
Now from the narrow unpaved yard in front of the house the guide turned sharply to the right. Yvonne could only distinguish outlines. The streets of Nantes were familiar to her, and she knew pretty well where she was. The lanthorn inside the clock tower of Le Bouffay guided her--it was now on her right--the house wherein she had been kept a prisoner these past three days was built against the walls of the great prison house. She knew that she was in the Carrefour de la Poissonnerie. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who stepped out of the house?
2. Who exited the home?
3. Which person went out of the house?
Q2:
1. Who came after the guide?
2. Who left the house after the guide?
3. Who followed the guide out of the house?
Q3:
1. What area were Yvonne and the guide in?
2. What was the area where Yvonne and the guide were called?
3. Where were Yvonne and the guide located?
Q4:
1. Was it during the day?
2. Was it before 5pm?
3. Was the sun out?
Q5:
1. Did light shine from any source?
2. Was there anything shining light?
3. Did anything cast light on the streets?
Q6:
1. What lit up the streets?
2. What was the light source?
3. What provided light for the street?
Q7:
1. Was the guide someone who was not very tall?
2. Did the guide have a short stature?
3. Was the guide a tiny man?
Q8:
1. Who did Yvonne imagine the guide to be?
2. Who did Yvonne suspect that the guide was?
3. What was Yvonne's suspicion regarding who the guide may be?
Q9:
1. Who talked a lot about Scarlet Pimpernel?
2. Who spoke often of Scarlet Pimpernel?
3. Who made frequent allusions to Scarlet Pimpernel?
Q10:
1. Was Yvonne happy?
2. Was Yvonne in a good mood?
3. Did Yvonne feel joyful?
Q11:
1. In what direction were Yvonne and the guide headed?
2. What were Yvonne and the guide going towards?
3. What was being approached by Yvonne and the guide?
Q12:
1. What city were Yvonne and the guide in?
2. What city was Yvonne located in with the guide?
3. Which city was the present location of Yvonne and the guide?
Q13:
1. What landmark was a point of reference for Yvonne?
2. What landmark did Yvonne use to guide herself?
3. Which landmark did Yvonne employ to find her way?
Q14:
1. Had Yvonne been held captive?
2. Had someone taken Yvonne hostage?
3. Did Yvonne get taken kidnapped?
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3dh6gaktyypr424damiknh2ofiszyy | cnn | (CNN) -- As Easter comes into view, the thoughts of billions of Christians turn to Jerusalem, to a sacred weekend that includes the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Of course, people regard these events with various degrees of literalness. But Easter retains its power.
It is, in fact, the essential Christian celebration, as the Gospels focus hugely on this part of the Jesus story. They describe in slow motion his entry into Jerusalem and the final week leading up to the crucifixion on Good Friday, the uncertain stillness of Holy Saturday, when the world seems to have slipped into total darkness, then the joy of the Resurrection itself, with a sense that boundaries have been broken -- most aggressively, the membrane between life and death.
Questions arise, of course. Did Jesus really rise from the dead? What would that look like? Many Christians imagine some literal wakening from the dead and refuse to accept the slightest hint that the Resurrection might be regarded as symbolic without denigrating it.
Indeed, if you read the Gospel narratives closely, it's not easy to say what actually happened. All four of them skip the actual Resurrection. That is, we never see Jesus waken. The first inkling of change comes when a few women close to him visit the tomb. Accounts differ on who turned up at the tomb that morning: Mary Magdalene, a close friend of Jesus, alone or with Mary, his mother, and with Salome (who is either Mary's sister or the mother of apostles James and John). QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Which holiday appears in the passage?
2. What celebration does the paragraph discuss?
3. What holiday is the paragraph centered on?
Q2:
1. What do Christians think of at Easter?
2. As Easter arrives, where do Christians turn their thoughts?
3. What is on the minds of Christians when its Eastertime?
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3dy4fpooa1o1yhnhvu1nufwvn7hvrb | wikipedia | South Slavic dialects historically formed a continuum. The turbulent history of the area, particularly due to expansion of the Ottoman Empire, resulted in a patchwork of dialectal and religious differences. Due to population migrations, Shtokavian became the most widespread in the western Balkans, intruding westwards into the area previously occupied by Chakavian and Kajkavian (which further blend into Slovenian in the northwest). Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs differ in religion and were historically often part of different cultural circles, although a large part of the nations have lived side by side under foreign overlords. During that period, the language was referred to under a variety of names, such as "Slavic", "Illyrian", or according to region, "Bosnian", "Serbian" and "Croatian", the latter often in combination with "Slavonian" or "Dalmatian".
Serbo-Croatian was standardized in the mid-19th-century Vienna Literary Agreement by Croatian and Serbian writers and philologists, decades before a Yugoslav state was established. From the very beginning, there were slightly different literary Serbian and Croatian standards, although both were based on the same Shtokavian subdialect, Eastern Herzegovinian. In the 20th century, Serbo-Croatian served as the official language of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (when it was called "Serbo-Croato-Slovenian"), and later as one of the official languages of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The breakup of Yugoslavia affected language attitudes, so that social conceptions of the language separated on ethnic and political lines. Since the breakup of Yugoslavia, Bosnian has likewise been established as an official standard in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and there is an ongoing movement to codify a separate Montenegrin standard. Serbo-Croatian thus generally goes by the ethnic names Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and sometimes Montenegrin and Bunjevac. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What led to the continuum of South Slavic dialects?
2. For what reason do South Slavic dialects exist on a continuum?
3. Why is there a wide range of south Slavic dialects?
Q2:
1. What was the most widespread south Slavic dialect?
2. Which south Slavic dialect was the more common?
3. What South Slavic dialect was spoken by the most people?
Q3:
1. Were there other differences between slavic poeple besides dialectical ones?
2. Did differences other than that of dialect exist between Slavs?
3. Did Slavic population differ in ways apart from their dialects?
Q4:
1. What was the most common dialect in the Balkans?
2. What dialect dominated the Balkans?
3. Which dialect spread throughout the largest part of the Balkans?
Q5:
1. What three ethnic groups have differences in religion?
2. What three groups follow different faiths?
3. What are the three ethnic groups with differeing religious beliefs?
Q6:
1. What is one Slavic dialect?
2. Name one of the Slavic dialects.
3. What is one example of a slavic dialect?
Q7:
1. Did language sometimes get named as a function of their region?
2. Did a language's region sometimes impact its name?
3. Did a language's name sometimes refer to its region?
Q8:
1. What's a language whose name refers to its region?
2. What's an example of a language named as a function of its region?
3. What is one language whose name comes from its region?
Q9:
1. What's a language whose name refers to its region, other than Bosnian?
2. What's an example of a language named as a function of its region, that isn't Bosnian?
3. What is one language whose name comes from its region, apart from Bosnian?
Q10:
1. What's a language whose name refers to its region, other than Bosnian and Serbian?
2. What's an example of a language named as a function of its region, that isn't Bosnian or Serbian?
3. What is one language whose name comes from its region, apart from Bosnian and Serbian?
Q11:
1. What is combined to make Croatian?
2. What's Croatian a mixture of?
3. What elements are combined to make Croatian?
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369j354ofdapu1z2ebz3jj2p4bhg6n | mctest | It was a beautiful Friday morning in Los Angeles. The sun was shining and the birds were singing their song. Angela woke up and got dressed. She had plans to go to the beach and look out on the ocean today. Angela had some chores to do first. She needed to clean and organize. Angela started by cleaning the bathroom. She then cleaned the living room, dining room, kitchen and her bedroom. After cleaning the bedroom, she organized her books on her desk. She then organized her spices in the kitchen. Angela started to make lunch. Angela had a choice between pizza, sandwiches and salad. She wanted to have pizza today. She chose to make a salad for lunch tomorrow and Sunday. Angela went to the store to buy lettuce. She went home after buying lettuce and ate pizza. After that, she took a walk and enjoyed the clear blue sky and breeze. She ended up walking to the beach. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What city was having a beautiful day?
2. Where was the day gorgeous?
3. Which city was having amazing weather?
Q2:
1. What was Angela's first activity?
2. What did Angela do first?
3. Which activity did Angela do before all the others?
Q3:
1. What were Angela's options for lunch?
2. What did Angela have to choose between for lunch?
3. What were things Angela could potentially eat for lunch?
Q4:
1. What did Angela ultimately decide to have for lunch?
2. Which lunch option did Angela ultimately choose?
3. What did Angela decide on for lunch?
Q5:
1. Why did Angela go to the store?
2. What reason did Angela have for going to the store?
3. What brought Angela to the store?
Q6:
1. What was Angela going to do with the lettuce?
2. What did Angela need lettuce for?
3. Why was Angela buying lettuce?
Q7:
1. What did Angela do after lunch?
2. What was Angela's post lunch activity?
3. What was Angela up to once lunch was over?
Q8:
1. Where did Angela go on her walk?
2. Where did Angela's walk take her?
3. Where did Angela go for a stroll?
Q9:
1. What did Angela need to do for today?
2. What was on Angela's to do list today?
3. What was it necessary for Angela to get done today?
Q10:
1. Where did Angela start?
2. What room did Angela begin with?
3. What was the first room Angela started cleaning?
Q11:
1. What did Angela organize?
2. What did Angela put together?
3. What did Angela arrange neatly?
Q12:
1. Did Angela tidy up the kitchen?
2. Did Angela clean and organize the kitchen?
3. Was the kitchen a room that Angela worked on?
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35gcefq6i5oqoz7pl1puxn6b6gh3ze | wikipedia | A shire is a traditional term for a division of land, found in the United Kingdom and some other English speaking countries. It was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century. In some rural parts of Australia, a shire is a local government area; however, in Australia it is not synonymous with a "county", which is a lands administrative division.
The word derives from the Old English "scir", itself a derivative of the Proto-Germanic "skizo" (cf. Old High German "scira"), meaning care or official charge. In the UK, "shire" is the original term for what is usually known now as a "county"; the word "county" having been introduced at the Norman Conquest of England. The two are nearly synonymous. Although in modern British usage counties are referred to as "shires" mainly in poetic contexts, terms such as Shire Hall remain common. Shire also remains a common part of many county names.
In regions with so-called rhotic pronunciation such as Scotland, the word "shire" is pronounced or . In non-rhotic areas the final R is silent unless the next word begins in a vowel. When "shire" is a suffix as part of a placename in England, the vowel is unstressed and thus usually shortened and/or monophthongised: pronunciations include , or sometimes , with the pronunciation of the final R again depending on rhoticity. In many words, the vowel is normally reduced all the way to a single schwa, as in for instance "Leicestershire" or "Berkshire" . Outside England, and especially in Scotland and the US, it is more common for "shire" as part of a placename to be pronounced identically to the full word, as a result of spelling pronunciation. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What kind of word is a shire?
2. What does shire function as linguistically?
3. What is the linguistic function of shire?
Q2:
1. What is shire a term for?
2. What is meant by the term shire?
3. How can a shire be defined?
Q3:
1. Where is the word shire found?
2. Where does the word shire come from?
3. What country uses the word shire?
Q4:
1. Where was the first use of the word shire?
2. Where was the word shire coined?
3. What was the location of the word shire's creation?
Q5:
1. When was the first use of the word shire?
2. When did the word shire get used for the first time?
3. At what point was the term shire created?
Q6:
1. Is the term shire used outside of England?
2. Does anyone outside the United Kingdom use shire?
3. Are there people that say shire outside of the United Kingdom?
Q7:
1. Where is the word shire found outside the United Kingdom?
2. Where does the word shire appear outside the United Kingdom?
3. What country uses the word shire, apart from the United Kingdom?
Q8:
1. Is the term shire used outside of England and Australia?
2. Does anyone outside the United Kingdom and Australia use shire?
3. Are there people that say shire outside of the United Kingdom and Australia?
Q9:
1. What is the origin of the word shire?
2. What term does the word shire come from?
3. What is the source of the term shire?
Q10:
1. What language does the original word for shire come from?
2. What language is "scir"?
3. Which tongue is the word "scir" in?
Q11:
1. What does "scir" mean?
2. What is the definition of "scir"?
3. How can "scir" be translated into Modern English?
Q12:
1. Is shire a synonym for county?
2. Does shire mean the same thing as county?
3. Are the words shire and county synonymous?
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3wr9xg3t63bsmlkn2k2ug85iadu74l | wikipedia | The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica, Amazonía or usually Amazonia; French: Forêt amazonienne; Dutch: Amazoneregenwoud), also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 square kilometres (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations contain "Amazonas" in their names. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How many countries does the Amazon rainforest belong to?
2. What is the number of countries with territory in the Amazon forest?
3. How many countries have territory in the Amazon?
Q2:
1. What do the Portuguese and Brazilians call the Amazon rainforest?
2. What is the Portuguese term for the Amazon rainforest?
3. How do you say Amazon forest in Portuguese?
Q3:
1. What do the Spanish call the Amazon rainforest?
2. What is the Spanish term for the Amazon rainforest?
3. How do you say Amazon forest in Spanish?
Q4:
1. What do the French call the Amazon rainforest?
2. What is the French term for the Amazon rainforest?
3. How do you say Amazon forest in French?
Q5:
1. What do the Dutch call the Amazon rainforest?
2. What is the Dutch term for the Amazon rainforest?
3. How do you say Amazon forest in Dutch?
Q6:
1. What kind of forest is the Amazon?
2. What sort of forest is the Amazon classified as?
3. Which type of forest is the Amazon designated as?
Q7:
1. What country is most of the Amazon forest in?
2. Where is the majority of the amazon forest?
3. Which nation houses the majority of the Amazonian forest?
Q8:
1. What country has 13% of the Amazon forest?
2. Where is 13% of the Amazon forest?
3. Which nation houses thirteen percent of the Amazon forest?
Q9:
1. What country has 10% of the Amazon forest?
2. Where is 10% of the Amazon forest?
3. Which nation houses ten percent of the Amazon forest?
Q10:
1. Does Ecuador count among countries with a minor stake in the Amazon forest?
2. Is Ecuador a country with a little bit of the Amazon forest in it?
3. Does a small part of the Amazon lie inside of Ecuador?
Q11:
1. What is the size in square kilometers of the Amazonian basin?
2. How many square kilometers does the Amazonian basin cover?
3. How many square km are encompassed the Amazonian basin?
Q12:
1. How many square kilometers of the Amazonian basin are covered by rainforest?
2. What is the area in square km of the Amazonian basin taht is covered by rainforest?
3. The rainforest of the Amazonian basin goes over how many of its square kilometers?
Q13:
1. What ratio of the planet's rainforests are in the Amazon?
2. The Amazon makes up how much of the planet's total rainforest?
3. How much of the world's rainforests can be found within the Amazon?
Q14:
1. How many separate trees are there in the Amazon?
2. What is the quantity of separate trees inside the Amazon?
3. What's the total number of individual trees in the Amazon?
Q15:
1. How many species of trees are there in the Amazon?
2. What is the quantity of species of trees inside the Amazon?
3. What's the total number of species of trees in the Amazon?
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3mmn5bl1wz4qps866cz0pla2q6cm3g | mctest | Mrs. Smith liked to deliver her pies with her big hot air balloon.
Mrs. Smith like baking pies of all shapes and sizes. She baked for her neighbors of all ages.
She would bake them up all on Sunday and pile them high in her balloon. Then she would take off into the sky!
Mr. Jones down the street loved strawberry pie. He would stand on his roof and catch the pie as the balloon flew by.
Mrs. Kenner liked apple pie. She would run after the balloon and catch her pie in a big basket.
Bobby and Sue were brother and sister. They loved chocolate pie. They would ride their bicycles to the top of a hill. Mrs. Smith would hand them their pies as she floated by.
Mrs. Smith would throw peach pies down Mr. Tevo's chimney, where they would all land in a big box.
Josh had his dog Rex chase after the pies for him. Rex would jump high in the air and catch the pie like frisbee!
Everyone would clap as Mrs. Smith rode by and delivered her pies. Then they would eat and be happy. Mrs. Smith loved riding her balloon and making her neighbors so happy! QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Mrs. Smith whip up?
2. What treat could one get from Mrs. Smith?
3. What dessert did Mrs. Smith make?
Q2:
1. Did Mrs. Smith deliver her pies?
2. Did Mrs. Smith bring pies to others?
3. Were Mrs. Smith's pies available for delivery?
Q3:
1. Who enjoyed strawberry pie?
2. Who was a fan of strawberry pie?
3. Who had a preference for strawberry pie?
Q4:
1. What was Mrs. Kenner's favorite pie?
2. Which pie did Mrs. Kenner prefer?
3. What flavor of pie did Mrs. Kenner like?
Q5:
1. What was Bobby and Sue's favorite pie?
2. Which pie did Bobby and Sue prefer?
3. What flavor of pie did Bobby and Sue like?
Q6:
1. What was Mr. Tevo's favorite pie?
2. Which pie did Mr. Tevo prefer?
3. What flavor of pie did Mr. Tevo like?
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3hvvdcpgtesviqve4ut21t17ujutyu | cnn | Stephenville, Texas (CNN)A former deputy testified last week that he overheard the defendant in the "American Sniper" murder trial explain why he killed two men.
Gene Cole, who worked for the Erath County Sheriff's Office at the time, testified Friday that on June 22, 2013, he "heard Mr. [Eddie Ray] Routh say, 'I shot them because they wouldn't talk to me. I was just riding in the back seat of the truck and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn't talk to me. I'm sure they've forgiven me.'"
Testimony resumes Monday in Routh's trial. He is charged with murder in the February 2, 2013, shooting deaths of Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was the subject of "American Sniper," and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield, at a firing range.
Routh's lawyer admits his client killed the men but contends he was insane at the time.
In other testimony, Texas Ranger David Armstrong said investigators searched Routh's residence and found drug paraphernalia, including a pipe commonly used for methamphetamine as well as "a ceramic pipe, what's believed to be a bong, a grinder used to grind different substances and a loose leafy green substance" which lab tests confirmed was marijuana.
Armstrong also noticed a nearly empty bottle of whiskey in Routh's kitchen.
Routh's uncle, James Watson, testified that on the day of the slayings he was rousted out of bed by a call from Routh's girlfriend, asking him to come over because she and Routh had been arguing. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who is the first man the article mentions by name?
2. Who is the first person named in the article?
3. Which person's name does the article give first?
Q2:
1. Where does Gene Cole work?
2. What place employs Gene Cole?
3. What is Gene Cole's place of work?
Q3:
1. What did Gene Cole hear?
2. What was in earshot of Gene Cole?
3. What was Gene Cole told?
Q4:
1. Did Gene Cole testify?
2. Was Gene Cole a witness in the trial?
3. Did Gene Cole give testimony?
Q5:
1. When did Gene Cole give his testimony?
2. When did Gene Cole testify?
3. What day of the week did Gene Cole give testimony on?
Q6:
1. What is the killer's name?
2. Who is the murderer?
3. Who took the lives of two people?
Q7:
1. What defense is Eddie Ray Routh's team using?
2. How is Eddie Ray Routh's team defending him?
3. What defense strategy is being used for Eddie Ray Routh?
Q8:
1. Who carried out a search on Eddie Ray Routh's home?
2. Who was Eddie Ray Routh's residence searched by?
3. Who conducted a search of Eddie Ray Routh's place of residence?
Q9:
1. What did investigators find in Eddie Ray Routh's home?
2. What was located at Eddie Ray Routh's house?
3. What was uncovered by investigators in the home of Eddie Ray Routh?
Q10:
1. What kind of drug paraphernalia was found in Eddie Ray Routh's home?
2. What was the drug paraphernalia that Eddie Ray Routh had in his house?
3. What sort of drug related objects did investigators come across in Eddie Ray Routh's home?
Q11:
1. Did investigators find alcohol in Eddie Ray Routh's home?
2. Was alcohol detected in Eddie Ray Routh's house?
3. Did Eddie Ray Routh's home have alcohol in it?
Q12:
1. Where was a bottle of whisky found?
2. Where did investigators find alcohol in Eddie Ray Routh's home?
3. What part of Eddie Ray Routh's house did investigators find alcohol in?
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3hya4d452rjvy0k6gphibll1njsf23 | race | On the first day of school, Jack found a little old lady with a warm smile."Hi, handsome. My name is Rose. I'm 87 years old."she said. "Why are you in university at such a YOUNG age?" Jack asked. "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of kids, and then retired and travel." she answered. Jack knew she's joking but he was surprised what encouraged her to be here at her age. "I always dreamed of having a university education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. We became friends. Every day they would talk after class. Jack always enjoyed listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with him. And Rose easily made friends wherever she went. At the end of the term, Rose was invited to make a little speech. She said, "We don't stop playing because we're old. We grow old because we stop playing. Being happy and achieving success may keep you staying young. If you have a dream, hold on. When you lose your dreams, you die." "Anybody can grow older. _ doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the chance in change..." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Whose dream was it to get a college education?
2. Who aspired to have a college education?
3. Who dreamed of going to college?
Q2:
1. Did Rose get a college education?
2. Did Rose end up going to college?
3. Was Rose able to live out her dream?
Q3:
1. Who did Jack find on the first day of college?
2. Who did Jack meet on his first day of school?
3. What was the name of the person that Jack met?
Q4:
1. How old is Rose?
2. What is Rose's age?
3. How old is Jack's new classmate?
Q5:
1. Is Rose younger than Jack?
2. Is Jack older than Rose?
3. Is Rose Jack's junior?
Q6:
1. Is Rose younger than Jack?
2. Is Jack older than Rose?
3. Is Rose Jack's junior?
Q7:
1. What did Rose want to do at school?
2. What did Rose aspire to do during her studies?
3. What did Rose dream of doing at university?
Q8:
1.
2.
3.
Q9:
1. What did Rose think about the aging process?
2. How did Rose feel about growing old?
3. What was Rose's opinion of getting old?
Q10:
1. Did Jack go to college in his youth?
2. Was Jack young when he attended college?
3. Did Jack attend college at a youthful age?
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3x0h8uuit1oqelnz0t6o6rk5hmkswx | race | Blameless
I was a freshman in college when I met the Whites. They were completely different from my own family, yet I felt at home with them immediately. Jane White and I became friends at school, and her family welcomed me like a long-lost cousin.
In my family, it was always important to place blame when anything bad happened.
"Who did this? "my mother would scream about a dirty kitchen.
"This is all your fault, Katharine, "my father would insist when the cat got out or the dishwasher broke.
From the time we were little, my sister, brothers and I told on each other. We set a place for blame at the dinner table.
But the Whites didn't worry about who had done what. They picked up the pieces and moved on with their lives. The beauty of this was driven home to me the summer Jane died.
In July, the White sisters and I decided to take a car trip from their home in Florida to New York. The two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, were college students, and the youngest, Amy, had recently turned sixteen. Proud of having a new driver's license ,Amy was excited about practicing her driving on the trip. She showed off her license to everyone she met.
The big sisters shared the driving of Sarah's new car during the first part of the trip, but when they reached less crowded areas, they let Amy take over. Somewhere in South Carolina, we pulled off the highway to eat. After lunch, Amy got behind the wheel. She came to a crossroads with a stop sign. Whether she was nervous or just didn't see the sign no one would ever know, but Amy continued into the crossroads without stopping. The driver of a large truck, unable to stop in time, ran into our car.
Jane was killed immediately.
I was slightly injured. The most difficult thing that I've ever done was to call the Whites to tell them about the accident and that Jane had died. Painful as it was for me to lose a good friend, I knew that it was far worse for them to lose a child.
When Mr. and Mrs. White arrived at the hospital, they found their two daughters sharing a room. Sarah had a few cuts on the head; Amy's leg was broken. They hugged us all and cried tears of sadness and of joy at seeing their daughters. They wiped away the girls' tears and made a few jokes at Amy as she learned to use her crutches .
To both of their daughters, and especially to Amy, over and over they simply said, "We're so glad that you're alive. "
I was astonished. No blame. No accusations.
Later, I asked the Whites why they never talked about the fact that Amy was driving and had run a stop sign.
Mrs. White said, "Jane's gone, and we miss her terribly. Nothing we say or do will ever bring her back. But Amy has her whole life ahead of her. How can she lead a full and happy life if she feels we blame her for her sister's death? "
They were right. Amy graduated from the University of California and got married several years ago. She works as a teacher of learning-disabled students. She's also a mother of two little girls of her own, the oldest named Jane. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What family was different from the narrator's?
2. Which family didn't resemble the narrator's at all?
3. What was the name of the family that wasn't like the narrator's?
Q2:
1. How did the Whites treat the narrator?
2. How did Katherine's friends act towards her?
3. What was Katherine treated like by the Whites?
Q3:
1. Did Katherine's family often blame her for things?
2. Was Katherine always shouldering the blame at home?
3. Did Katherine's family always say she was at fault for things?
Q4:
1. Where did Katherine's family place blame?
2. Where did Katherine's family make room for blame?
3. Where did Katherine's family metaphorically set a place for blame?
Q5:
1. Did the White family blame each other?
2. Did blame get placed around often in the White family?
3. Was the White family quick to scold each other?
Q6:
1. How did Katherine realize that the Whites were forgiving?
2. What demonstrated the White family's lack of blame to Katherine?
3. What event helped Katherine see how little the Whites cared about blame?
Q7:
1. Who were the two older of the White sisters?
2. What were the names of the two elder White sisters?
3. Who were Amy White's two older sisters?
Q8:
1. Who was the youngest White sister?
2. Which White sister was the youngest?
3. Who was the baby of the White family?
Q9:
1. What had Amy excited?
2. What was Amy looking forward to?
3. What was Amy pumped about?
Q10:
1. What did Amy do while driving?
2. What error did Amy make while driving?
3. How did Amy mess up while driving?
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3ql2ofsm96ikkappb6p1v33w24lncs | wikipedia | Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈla] or [kataˈla]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and Valencia (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What does the term Catalan refer to?
2. What sort of thing is Catalan?
3. What's the definition of Catalan?
Q2:
1. What is the location of Catalonia?
2. Where can Catalonia be found?
3. In what region is Catalonia located?
Q3:
1. Is Catalan tough to learn?
2. Is it hard to learn Catalan?
3. Does learning Catalan take a lot of time?
Q4:
1. Is Catalan a common language?
2. Are there a lot of people who speak Catalan?
3. Is Catalan a pretty every day language?
Q5:
1. Where did Catalan start?
2. Where did people start speaking Catalan?
3. Where are the origins of Catalan?
Q6:
1. Does Catalan resemble other languages?
2. Are there other languages like Catalan?
3. Is Catalan similar to other languages?
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32scwg5hih4v7es1hupqdsgh6x76pb | wikipedia | The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of Central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching Crimea by 1343. From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30–60% of Europe's total population. In total, the plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century. The world population as a whole did not recover to pre-plague levels until the 17th century. The plague recurred occasionally in Europe until the 19th century.
The plague disease, caused by Yersinia pestis, is enzootic (commonly present) in populations of fleas carried by ground rodents, including marmots, in various areas including Central Asia, Kurdistan, Western Asia, Northern India and Uganda. Nestorian graves dating to 1338–39 near Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to China and India. In October 2010, medical geneticists suggested that all three of the great waves of the plague originated in China. In China, the 13th century Mongol conquest caused a decline in farming and trading. However, economic recovery had been observed at the beginning of the 14th century. In the 1330s a large number of natural disasters and plagues led to widespread famine, starting in 1331, with a deadly plague arriving soon after. Epidemics that may have included plague killed an estimated 25 million Chinese and other Asians during the 15 years before it reached Constantinople in 1347. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What percentage of Europe's population was killed off by the Black Death?
2. What percentage of the European population died due to the Black Death?
3. The Black Plague caused the deaths of how much of Europe's population?
Q2:
1. What bacteria caused the Black Death?
2. Which bacteria was the source of the Black Death?
3. What was the bacteria that lead to the Black Death?
Q3:
1. Where is Yersinia pestis often found?
2. What is a common carrier of Yersinia pestis?
3. What often is infected with Yersinia pestis?
Q4:
1. Where do fleas with Yersinia pestis come from?
2. What is the home of fleas carrying Yersinia pestis?
3. Where do Yersinia pestis infested fleas originate from?
Q5:
1. How did the Black Death get to Europe?
2. How was the Black Death able to make its way to Europe?
3. By what path did the Black Death travel to Europe?
Q6:
1. What do many scientists believe to be the start of the Black Death?
2. How do scientistss think the Black Plague started?
3. What do scientists believe to be the origins of the Black Death?
Q7:
1. How many people died before the Black Death came to Turkey?
2. How many people had the Black Death killed by the time it got to Turkey?
3. Before the Black Death arrived in Turkey, how many lives had it cost?
Q8:
1. When did the world population rebound from the Black Plague?
2. At what point did the world population recover from the Black Death?
3. When did the world population reach normal levels again after the Black Death?
Q9:
1. Were there subsequent outbreaks of plague after the Black Death?
2. Did the plague reoccur after the medieval period?
3. Were there reoccurances of the Black Plague after the Middle Ages?
Q10:
1. When did the plague stop coming back?
2. When did reoccurances of the plague cease?
3. When did the Black plague cease to reappear?
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384pi804xs1x6vme7md3zwb1fiys0p | mctest | A tiger named Timmy and Bear named Buster were going for a walk in the park by the river and were going to go swim later. As Timmy was running through a field in the park he came upon a small hamster with a broken leg. The hamster looked like it had somewhere to go but couldn't make it because of its leg. Timmy called Buster over to come talk to the hamster and see if there was anything they could do to help. As they talked, Timmy and Buster started to become good friends with the hamster. They found out his name was Henry. Henry was on his way to the river for a drink of water when a mean horse ran by and without looking at where he was going stepped on his leg and broke it. Luckily for Henry Busters mom was a nurse and after watching her work for many years Buster knew how to set a broken bone and fix it. After Buster fixed Henry's leg he picked him up and put him on Timmy's back and they all went to the river to get some water. They all were best friends for the rest of their lives and played together. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What took place in the park?
2. What was an event in the park?
3. What scene could be witnessed in the park?
Q2:
1. What kind of animal was Buster?
2. What could Buster be described as?
3. What sort of being was Buster?
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3ps7w85z8z2ghpn6wi1m2c8gl49t9t | race | "Norton," Sheppard said, "I saw Rufus Johnson yesterday. Do you know what he was doing?" The child looked at him with a kind of half attention, his eyes forward but not yet engaged. They were a paler blue than his father's as if they might have faded like the shirt; one of them listed, almost imperceptibly , toward the outer rim. "He was in a path," Sheppard said, "and he had his hand in a garbage can. He was trying to get something to eat out of it." He paused to let this soak in. "He was hungry," he finished, and tried to pierce the child's conscience with his gaze. The boy picked up the piece of chocolate cake and began to bite it from one corner. "Norton," Sheppard said, "do you have any idea what it means to share?" A flicker of attention. "Some of it is yours," Norton said. "Some of it is his," Sheppard said heavily. It was hopeless. Almost any fault would have been preferable to selfishness--a violent temper, even a tendency to lie. The child turned the bottle of tomato sauce upside-down and began thumping sauce onto the cake. Sheppard's look of pain increased. "You are ten and Rufus Johnson is fourteen," he said. "Yet, I'm sure your shirts would fit Rufus." Rufus Johnson was a boy whom he had been trying to help at the reformatory for the past year. He had been released two months ago. "When he was in the reformatory, he looked pretty good, but when I saw him yesterday, he was skin and bones. He hasn't been eating cake with peanut butter on it for breakfast." The child paused. "It's not fresh," he said. "That's why I have to put stuff on it." Sheppard turned his face to the window at the end of the bar. The side lawn, green and even, sloped fifty feet or so down to a small suburban wood. When his wife was living, they had often eaten outside, even breakfast on the grass. He had never noticed then that the child was selfish. ks5u "Listen to me," he said, turning back to him, "look at me and listen." The boy looked at him. At least his eyes were forward. "I gave Rufus a key to the house when he left the reformatory---to show my confidence in him and so he would have a place he could come to and feel welcome any time. He didn't use it, but I think he'll use it now because he's seen me and he's hungry. And if he doesn't use it, I'm going out and find him and bring him here. I can't see a child eating out of garbage cans." The boy frowned. It was dawning upon him that something of his was threatened. Sheppard's mouth stretched in disgust. "Rufus's father died before he was born," he said. "His mother is in the state penitentiary . He was raised by his grandfather in a shack without water or electricity and the old man beat him every day. How would you like to belong to a family like that?" "I don't know" the child said lamely. "Well, you might think about it sometime," Sheppard said. Sheppard was City Recreational Director. On Saturday he worked at the reformatory as a counselor, receiving nothing for it but the satisfaction of knowing he was helping boys no one else cared about. Johnson was the most intelligent boy he had worked with. Norton turned what was left of the cake over as if he no longer wanted it. "You started that, now finish it," Sheppard said. "Maybe he won't come," the child said and his eyes brightened slightly. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who did Sheppard notice?
2. Who did Sheppard come across?
3. Who did Sheppard take note of?
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3wyp994k17rpgsk28hl9qj9t97qy6m | mctest | Jim rode his bike quickly. It was Friday and he wanted to get to the lake. The path to the lake was long and winding. It was wetter on Tuesday. Jim had to wash his boot. His boot had once been frozen. It was frozen because he left it outside on Sunday. He had to leave his boot outside for a long time. The lake was facing the tree. Jim had to go home. He wanted food very badly. Jim went home. He got inside and looked up at the ceiling. He walked to the refrigerator. Jim took the yogurt out of the refrigerator. Some milk was on the table and he grabbed a cup so he could pour himself some of the milk. Jim also had a candy bar. Jim sat down and rested. He was tired from the long bike ride. He finished his yogurt and began planning his next trip to the lake. It would not be long before he returned. He and his boots were ready for more fun outdoors Monday. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who went for a bike ride?
2. What was the name of the boy riding his bike?
3. What boy took his bike for a ride?
Q2:
1. What was the day of the week?
2. When did Jim ride his bike?
3. What day was Jim riding his bike on?
Q3:
1. Where did JIm want to go?
2. What destination was Jim trying to reach?
3. Where was Jim trying to get to?
Q4:
1. Did Jim ride on a long and winding path?
2. Was the path Jim took lengthy with twists and turns?
3. Was Jim's bike ride on a long and winding path?
Q5:
1. What did Jim need to wash?
2. What did Jim need to clean?
3. What was it necessary for Jim to scrub down?
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3itxp059pwj481n0tun9h1qxelcjsj | cnn | (CNN) -- Niki Gianni was 11 or 12 when she found a video on YouTube called "Meet Your Meat." Saddened and disgusted by the footage from a slaughterhouse, the Chicago girl announced she was no longer going to eat meat. Her parents were less than thrilled.
"When she first said she wanted to be a vegetarian, we were just looking at each other and we said, 'We can't be switching meals for you. You are not going to get your protein.' We were not educated in the health benefits," said Gianni's mother, Julie Gianni.
While many parents worry whether their vegetarian or vegan children will receive adequate nutrition for their growing bodies, the American Dietetic Association says such diets, as long as they are well-planned, are appropriate for all phases of life, including childhood and adolescence. "Appropriately planned" vegetarian or vegan diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases, the dietetic association says.
"You can really feel the difference when you are eating something from the ground and something from a factory," said Niki Gianni, an animal activist who became a vegan shortly after embracing the vegetarian lifestyle.
10-year-old: Why I became vegetarian in first grade
Now an 18-year-old college freshman, Niki Gianni said her eating habits expanded her palate and turned her away from processed foods. Her food choices also influenced her family: Her mother is now a vegan and her father and sister are vegetarians.
The number of vegetarians in the United States is expected to increase over the next decade, according to the dietetic association. A vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease, and vegetarians also appear to have lower overall cancer rates, lower blood pressure and lower rates of hypertension than nonvegetarians. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What video made Niki decide not to eat meat?
2. What video got Niki to stop eating meat?
3. Niki quit eating meat due to which video?
Q2:
1. Will the number of vegetarians likely go up or down in the next decade?
2. Will the next decade probably see the number of vegetarians go up or down?
3. Will there probably be an up or down tick in people who don't eat meat in the next ten years?
Q3:
1. Who predicts an upcoming uptick in vegetarians?
2. Who thinks the number of people who don't eat meat will increase?
3. Who imagines that more and more people are going to stop eating meat?
Q4:
1. How many health issues are vegetarians at a lower risk of death for?
2. What's the number of health problems that being vegetarian decreases the risk of death for?
3. How many health problems are vegetarians less likely to die from?
Q5:
1. What is one health issue that vegetarians are at a lower risk for?
2. What's a health problem vegetarians are less likely to die from?
3. Name a health problem less likely to kill a vegetarian than a meat eater.
Q6:
1. Did Niki's parents understand how healthy being a vegetarian is?
2. Were Niki's parents aware of the health benefits of vegetarianism?
3. Were Niki's parents educated with respect to the health boost vegetarians have?
Q7:
1. Is being vegetarian okay for any age group?
2. Is it alright for people of all ages to be vegetarian?
3. Is a vegetarian diet suitable for all ages?
Q8:
1. Can children be vegetarian if planned carefully?
2. Is a carefully planned vegetarian diet suitable for children?
3. Is it okay for kids to go veggie if their diet is well planned?
Q9:
1. Is animal rights a cause that Niki supports?
2. Does Niki think animal rights are important?
3. Does Niki believe in the rights of animals?
Q10:
1. What is Niki's current age?
2. How old is Niki right now?
3. What is Niki's age at present?
Q11:
1. Is Niki a student?
2. Is Niki in school?
3. Does Niki go to school?
Q12:
1. Does Niki eat McDonalds?
2. Is McDonalds a part of Niki's diet?
3. Does Niki ever consume food from McDonalds?
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39k0fnd3ahfq9d7rfreacto8xevamo | race | On a Saturday morning earlier this September, the world got its first look at the Strati. This electric vehicle is unlike any other currently on the road. It rolls on four wheels, but its body and chassis weren't built in a factory. Instead, Strati's designers used a technology called 3-D printing. It created those parts of the car in one piece, from the ground up. "Compared to a typical vehicle on the road, the Strati definitely looks different," says Greg Schroeder, a senior research engineer at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. He did not work on the new car. His organization studies trends and changes in the auto industry. It took 44 hours to print the new car at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago. Over the next few days, the car's designers installed additional parts. These included the car's engine, brakes and tires. Then, early on September 13, Jay Rogers climbed into the car, started its engine and drove the vehicle onto the street. Rogers helped found Local Motors. It's the Arizona-based company behind the Strati. Two weeks later, his team printed a second Strati, and just as fast, at a fair in New York City. Justin Fishkin, a local Motors official, sees the Strati as a window into the future. Today, car buyers are limited in their choice of a vehicle. They can order only what car companies have already designed. But in the future, he says, you may be able to design your own car online and then get it printed to order. Manufacturing experts say 3-D printing has begun to revolutionize how they make things. The technology has been around for decades. But these machines used to be so expensive that only large companies could afford them. In the last few years, though, that has changed. Many of the machines are now inexpensive enough for small companies--or even individuals --to own. Some local libraries make them available to the public. High Schools are beginning to use them in classrooms. Wide access to these printers means people can now design and print a wide variety of new things. The car's printer is a one-of-a-kind device. The technology behind the 3-D printer used in Chicago is an example of additive manufacturing. This process builds solid objects, slice by slice, from the bottom up. ("Strati" means layers, in Italian.) A mechanical arm moves a _ from one side to another, back and forth. As it moves, the nozzle deposits a liquid--often melted plastic or metal (but it could be food, concrete or even cells) --that quickly hardens or bonds to become solid or semi-solid. This creates a single, thin layer. Once a layer is complete, the printer starts depositing the next one. "There's a lot of interest in 3-D printing in the auto industry," says Schroeder. Right now, the technology is particularly useful for building models of cars or car parts. To compete with current auto manufacturers, the 3-D printer would have to increase in a hurry, Schroeder says. By contrast, he notes, a Ford F-150 pickup truck rolls off an assembly line at a rate of roughly one per minute. To print as many Stratis would require many more printers. Schroeder says he doesn't see 3-D printing soon taking over for such high-volume manufacturing. But, he adds, "Who knows what will happen in the long term?" Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee designed the 3-D printer used in Chicago. Lonnie Love, a research scientist at the lab, led the effort. Additive manufacturing often is slow and expensive. It also may produce materials that are unreliable, Love says. So for two years, his team searched for ways to make 3-D printing better. They built new machines and tested them over and over. All of that work paid off: their new machine is fast and uses less expensive material than earlier printers. In addition, it prints a plastic embedded with fibers of carbon to produce a stronger material. This helps ensure the material won't crack or break under pressure. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did the world get to preview on Saturday?
2. What was shown off to the world on Saturday?
3. What were people given a taste of on Saturday?
Q2:
1. What does the Strati roll on?
2. How does the Strati get around?
3. What does the Strati move with?
Q3:
1. What parts of the Strati weren't factory built?
2. What parts of the Strati didn't come from a factory?
3. Which of the Strati's elements were built outside of a factory setting?
Q4:
1. What does Greg Schroede think about the Strati?
2. What is Greg Schroede's opinion of the Strati?
3. How does Greg Schroede think about the Strati?
Q5:
1. How is Greg Schroede employed?
2. What does Greg Schroede do for a living?
3. What's Greg Schroede's occupation?
Q6:
1. Where does Greg Schroede work?
2. Who employs Greg Schroede as an engineer?
3. Where is Greg Schroede employed as an engineer?
Q7:
1. What took place on September 13th?
2. What event occured on September 13th?
3. What did someone do on September 13th?
Q8:
1. What did Jay Rogers help create?
2. What was Jay Rogers instrumental in creating?
3. Whose founding was Jay Rogers a part of?
Q9:
1. Where is Local Motors based?
2. Where are the headquarters of Local Motors?
3. What state is Local Motors based out of?
Q10:
1. Where will it be possible to design a car in the future?
2. Where will cars be available for designing in the future?
3. In future years, where might one think up a design for their own car?
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3olqqlkknsp3yiiisz34skmid1bejz | mctest | Once upon a time there was a fish that lived in a bowl. The fish wanted to give a kid a party. But the fish was sad. The fish had no present to give to the kid. The fish would give the kid a spoon. But the fish had no spoon. The fish was a cutie. The fish had an idea. The fish had a stone in the bowl. The fish could give the kid the stone! The fish took the stone from the bowl. The fish put the stone in a bag. The fish gave the kid a party and gave the kid the stone as a gift. The kid told his granddaddy and his mommy that the fish was a cutie. The kid gave the fish a banana. The fish ate the banana and was very happy. The fish and the kid are friends and they love each other. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Where did the fish reside?
2. What was the fish's place of residence?
3. Where was the fish's home?
Q2:
1. What was the fish hoping to do?
2. What was the fish interested in doing?
3. What would it make the fish happy to do?
Q3:
1. How did the fish feel?
2. What were the fish's emotions?
3. What sort of mood was the fish in?
Q4:
1. Why was the fish sad?
2. What had the fish feeling down?
3. Why wasn't the fish in a happy mood?
Q5:
1. What did the fish come up with?
2. What came to the fish?
3. What did the fish have?
Q6:
1. What idea did the fish have?
2. What was the fish's idea?
3. What did the fish think up?
Q7:
1. Did the fish put the stone in a bucket?
2. Was a bucket the place where the fish put the stone?
3. Was the stone placed into a bucket by the fish?
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3rkntxvs3mya5nil9neeqz78aj34a7 | gutenberg | CHAPTER V.
HARRY IS RESCUED.
"I can stay on deck, can't I?" asked Dora, as she turned the tiller over to the homeless youth.
"If you wish. But be very careful when the sloop swings around," replied Jerry. "You did very well," he added.
Dora smiled at this. Then she went forward and settled down, in spite of the rain, to help look for Harry Parker, whose folks she knew fairly well.
The Cutwater was put on a different track, and they began to move across the lake, it being Jerry's idea to cross and recross at a distance of every six or seven hundred feet.
Twice did they come close to each shore without seeing anything of Harry.
"Gone down, suah's you're born!" said Blumpo, and the tears started out of his big, honest eyes.
"I am afraid so," returned Jerry, "and yet--hark!"
He put up his hand and all were instantly on the alert. The wind had gone down somewhat, and from a distance came a low cry. "It's Harry's!" said Jerry. "Hullo, Harry!" he yelled, with all the power of his lungs.
He waited, and an answering cry came back from toward the center of the lake. It was very weak, showing that Harry was almost exhausted.
The course of the sloop was instantly changed, and they strove to reach the spot before the boy should go down.
Jerry was the first to see the form floating about amid the whitecaps.
"Keep up, Harry!" he called encouragingly. "We will soon have you on board." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Was there rain out?
2. Did it rain?
3. Was rain falling?
Q2:
1. What did Dora had to the homeless youth?
2. What did the homeless youth receive from Dora?
3. What was transferred from Dora to the homeless youth?
Q3:
1. Who was Dora trying to find?
2. Who was Dora attempting to locate?
3. Whose location was Dora trying to discern?
Q4:
1. Who was helping Dora look for Harry Parker?
2. Who aided Dora in her quest for Harry Parker?
3. Who did Dora receive help from in trying to find Harry Parker?
Q5:
1. How many times did Dora and Jerry come near the shore?
2. What was the number of times that Dora and Jerry got close to the shore?
3. How many times was the shore approached by Dora and Jerry?
Q6:
1. Did Dora and Jerry see Harry Parker when they approached the shore?
2. When Dora and Jerry got near the shore, did they spot Harry Parker?
3. Did Harry Parker come into Dora and Jerry's sights when they got near the shore?
Q7:
1. How often did Dora and Jerry cross and recross the lake?
2. At what frequency did Dora and Jerry go across the lake?
3. How often did Dora and Jerry go to each side of the lake?
Q8:
1. Who had Harry Parker in their purview?
2. Who was Harry Parker spotted by?
3. Who got their eyes on Harry Parker?
Q9:
1. Did Blumpo have tears in his eyes?
2. Were Blumpo's eyes filled with tears?
3. Was Blumpo crying?
Q10:
1. How forcefully did Jerry cry out?
2. How powerful was Jerry's shout?
3. What was the intensity of Jerry's yell?
Q11:
1. Was Harry Parker's cry forceful?
2. Did Harry Parker shout with power?
3. Did Harry Parker have an intense yell?
Q12:
1. Where was Harry Parker floating?
2. Where in the water was Harry Parker?
3. What was Harry Parker's location?
Q13:
1. What is the chapter called?
2. What is the name of the chapter?
3. What title does the chapter have?
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3rxpczqmqpbunfy585nmonb8wtg1gb | cnn | The Fed Express rolls out of Shanghai with no signs of slowing down yet.
Roger Federer beat Frenchman Gilles Simon to win his first Shanghai Masters crown Sunday and his fourth title of the season.
The victory will move him above Rafael Nadal, who has been laid low with appendicitis, and up to second in the world rankings.
"Usually everything slows down at the end of the season," Federer told reporters in China. "Not for me this time.
"This year everything is going really well. I have so many highlights to look forward to for the end of the season, which is nice."
With just a handful of events to go until next month's season finale in London, Federer could still mathematically challenge Novak Djokovic to end the year as the world No.1.
The 33-year-old Swiss ace beat Djokovic - who arguably inflicted more pain by defeating Federer in the summer's Wimbledon final -- in the semifinals in Shanghai.
"I'm not even going to change my schedule because of it," Federer reflected on the possibility of regaining the number one spot.
"I haven't thought about it, to be quite honest. I mean, it's in Novak's racquet. He dictates.
"But nevertheless, I'm still going to be playing and hopefully playing well again."
Federer did not have it easy against Simon, who took the Swiss to a tiebreak in the opening set and had set point at 6-5 up.
But the 17-time grand slam champion snuffed out the threat to take the first set breaker 8-6. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who did Gilles Simon lose to?
2. Who bested Gilles Simon?
3. Who claimed victory over Gilles Simon?
Q2:
1. What nationality is Gilles Simon?
2. What is Gilles Simon's home country?
3. What are Gilles Simon's origins?
Q3:
1. Is this the third time Roger Federer has a title this season?
2. Is this the third title that's gone to Roger Federer this season?
3. Does Roger Federer now have three titles this season?
Q4:
1. How many titles have gone to Roger Federer this season?
2. How many times this season has Roger Federer won a title?
3. What's the number of titles under Roger Federer's belt for the season?
Q5:
1. Is something making Rafael Nadal sick?
2. Does Rafael Nadal have an illness?
3. Is something ailing Rafael Nadal?
Q6:
1. What illness is Rafael Nadal suffering from?
2. What is Rafael Nadal sick with?
3. Why isn't Rafael Nadal feeling well?
Q7:
1. Do thinks usually speed up at this point according to Roger Federer?
2. Does Roger Federer say that this is usually the time when things start going faster?
3. Is now the time that the pace gets picked up normally according to Roger Federer?
Q8:
1. Who did Roger Federer talk to about things slowing down?
2. With whom did Roger Federer discuss things going slower?
3. Who did Roger Federer address regarding things becoming calmer?
Q9:
1. What was the reporters' location?
2. Where could the reporters be found?
3. What country were the reporters in?
Q10:
1. What is the swiss player's age?
2. How old is Roger Federer?
3. What is Roger Federer's age?
Q11:
1. In what competition did Roger Federer beat Gilles Simon?
2. What did Roger Federer claim victory over Gilles Simon in?
3. What game did Gilles Simon lose to Roger Federer?
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3k772s5np8b77cns4z0jg76301chem | cnn | (CNN) -- Every dog has his day, but Sir Lancelot -- or at least his carbon copy -- has a second one.
Edgar and Nina Otto show off 10-week-old Lancey, a clone of "the most human of any dog we've ever had."
A Boca Raton, Florida, couple paid a California firm $155,000 to clone their beloved Labrador retriever, who died from cancer a year ago. The clone, a 10-week-old puppy dubbed Lancey, was hand-delivered to them earlier this week by Lou Hawthorne, chairman of BioArts International, a biotechnology company.
"One minute with Lancey and you know he's special. He's both extremely aware and very sweet," Hawthorne said in a BioArts statement.
Edgar and Nina Otto said they began thinking about cloning Sir Lancelot about five years ago.
"I said 'Well, you know, it wouldn't hurt to have his DNA frozen,' and that's what we did," Nina Otto told CNN affiliate WPBF.
The Ottos were one of five families to bid and win a BioArts auction for a chance to clone their family dog, according to a BioArts statement. Lancey is the world's first commercially cloned dog, the company said; the Ottos are the first of six current clients to receive their clone.
Sir Lancelot's DNA sample was sent to the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul, South Korea, which provides cloning services to BioArts. Researchers there put the DNA into an egg, and Lancey was born November 18, according to BioArts.
The Ottos said they have had many beloved dogs over the years -- and have nine others currently -- but maintain Sir Lancelot was special. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What kind of being is Lancey?
2. How can Lancey be described?
3. What sort of thing is Lancey?
Q2:
1. What is Lancey a clone of?
2. Who is Lancey cloned from?
3. Whose DNA provided the basis for cloning Lancey?
Q3:
1. What kind of animal is Lancey?
2. What species is Lancey?
3. What sort of being is Lancey the clone?
Q4:
1. What was Sir Lancelot's temperament like?
2. How did Sir Lancelot act?
3. What could Sir Lancelot's behavior have been described as?
Q5:
1. What happened to Sir Lancelot?
2. What became of Sir Lancelot?
3. What was Sir Lancelot's fate?
Q6:
1. Was Sir Lancelot sick?
2. Did Sir Lancelot have an illness?
3. Was Sir Lancelot suffering from an illness?
Q7:
1. What was Sir Lancelot sick with?
2. What was ailing Sir Lancelot?
3. What was Sir Lancelot afflicted with?
Q8:
1. What is Lancey's age?
2. How old is Sir Lancelot's clone?
3. What is the age of Sir Lancelot's clone?
Q9:
1. Who owns Lancey?
2. Who does Lancey belong to?
3. What are the names of Lancey's owners?
Q10:
1. How do the Ottos feel about Lancey?
2. What is the Ottos' opinion of Lancey?
3. How do Edgar and Nina Otto feel about their cloned dog?
Q11:
1. What did Edgar and Nina Otto win?
2. What prize were Edgar and Nina Otto the recipients of?
3. What did the Ottos beat everyone at?
Q12:
1. What was the auction for?
2. What was the purpose of the auction?
3. What was the prize at the auction?
Q13:
1. What was the sum of the Ottos' bid?
2. How much did the Ottos bid?
3. How much money did Edgar and Nina Otto bid at the auction?
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3amywka6ybmdmeg02ucbosbrw3so6f | gutenberg | CHAPTER XVII.
NEAR TO DEATH.
The Irishwoman had come up behind Hal so softly--she wore rubbers--that the youth did not hear her, and he was, therefore, thoroughly startled when she made the exclamation quoted at the end of the preceding chapter.
Ferris and Macklin jumped to their feet and both rushed out in the hall.
"What's the row, Mary?" cried the latter.
"Sure an' that's phot Oi want to know," replied the woman. "Oi found this fellow pakin' in the kay-hole of your dure, so Oi did."
"It's Hal Carson!" exclaimed Ferris. "So this is the way you followed me, eh?" he continued.
"Who is Hal Carson?" asked Macklin, grasping the youth by the arm.
"Old Sumner's new clerk and office boy," replied Ferris. "Don't let him get away."
Macklin gave a whistle.
"Dat's kinder serious, if he follered yer here. Wot have yer got ter say fer yerself?" he demanded, turning to Hal.
"Let go of my arm," returned Hal. "Are you the only one who lives in this building?"
"No."
"Then I presume I have a right to enter the hall-way, haven't I?"
"That won't wash, Carson!" exclaimed Ferris. "You are doing nothing but following me, and you know it."
"Just you step inside, do you hear?" commanded Macklin. "That's all right, Mary, I'll take care o' him," he added to the woman.
"Oi wondher if he was up in me apartment," she said, suspiciously. "Oi'll go up an' see if there is anything missing."
The woman departed, and Macklin tried to shove Hal into the room. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who did Mary approach from behind?
2. Who was approached by Mary from behind?
3. Who did Mary come towards from behind them?
Q2:
1. Did Mary surprise Hal?
2. Was Hal startled by Mary?
3. Was Hal not expecting Mary to approach him as she did?
Q3:
1. How did Mary startle Hal?
2. What did Mary do to frighten Hal?
3. What did Mary do that came as a surprise to Hal?
Q4:
1. What was Hal doing?
2. What was Hal up to?
3. What was Hal's present activity?
Q5:
1. Whose door was Hal poking around?
2. Whose door was Hal looking through?
3. Whose door was being messed with by Hal?
Q6:
1. Who was familiar with Hal?
2. Who was Hal known to?
3. Who was an acquaintance of Hal's?
Q7:
1. What did Ferris think Hal was doing?
2. What did Ferris believe Hal to be up to?
3. What business did Ferris think Hal had?
Q8:
1. Where did Mary leave for?
2. What location did Mary travel to?
3. What place did Mary go off to?
Q9:
1. Why did Mary go to her apartment?
2. What was Mary doing in her apartment?
3. Why did Mary leave for her apartment?
Q10:
1. What happened after Mary left?
2. What occured after Mary's departure?
3. What took place once Mary was gone?
Q11:
1. What did Macklin try to shove Hal into?
2. Where did Macklin attempt to push Hal?
3. Where did Macklin try and throw Hal?
Q12:
1. What was Hal known as?
2. What did Hal do in life?
3. What description was given of Hal?
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3wq3b2kge8gywyqusjv8nckbgnv1bf | mctest | Once there was a girl named Ruth, who loved to play outside whenever she could. One day, she was running around outside with a friend, but she tripped and scraped her knee very badly. She doubled over in pain, screaming for her father "DADDY!!!" she yelled, until he ran outside to help. "Thank goodness that only the skin on your knee was hurt!" he said, as he picked her up to bring her inside. "We need to cover your cut, and it looks like it was about to start raining anyway," he said. He brought her into the restroom, so he could wash the cut, then put on medicine and a large bandage. "That medicine hurt..." Ruth said, but her cut was feeling better than it did before. "Well, at least now you don't have to worry about it getting worse," her father said. "Hopefully it won't take long for your cut to get better, then you can go back to playing outside again - be careful from now on!" QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who enjoyed playing outside every chance she got?
2. Who loved to be able to play in the outdoors?
3. Who took pleasure in going outside to play whenever possible?
Q2:
1. Who was Ruth running around with?
2. Who did Ruth frolick with?
3. With whom was Ruth bouncing around?
Q3:
1. Did Ruth have an accident?
2. Did Ruth slip up?
3. Did Ruth get hurt?
Q4:
1. What happened to Ruth?
2. What kind of accident was Ruth in?
3. What happened when Ruth got into her accident?
Q5:
1. Who did Ruth scream for?
2. Who did Ruth cry out for?
3. Who did want when she yelled out?
Q6:
1. What did Ruth's dad put on her cut?
2. What did Ruth's father place on her scrape?
3. What did Ruth's father place over her cut?
Q7:
1. Did Ruth's dad pick her up to bring her inside?
2. Was Ruth picked up by her father in order to go inside?
3. Did Ruth's dad scoop her up into his arms and take her inside?
Q8:
1. What was the weather about to do?
2. What kind of weather was on the horizon?
3. What weather was on its way?
Q9:
1. Did the medicine help Ruth feel better?
2. Did Ruth feel better thanks to the medicine?
3. Did the medicine put Ruth in a better state?
Q10:
1. How did Ruth get her father's attention aftter tripping?
2. When Ruth hurt herself, how was she able to get her dad to come over?
3. What was Ruth's method for attracting her father's attention when she fell?
Q11:
1. What did Ruth's father tell her to do from now on?
2. What advice did Ruth's dad give her going forward?
3. What did Ruth's father advise her to do in the future?
Q12:
1. After Ruth healed, did her dad let her go outside and play again?
2. Was Ruth permitted to go outside to play again once she was healed?
3. After Ruth's wound was mended, did her father allow her to go outside and play again?
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3s96kq6i9m4skf0n8y6oo8r6ctddtr | cnn | More "Breaking Bad" yo?
The series star Bryan Cranston seemed to drop a major hint in an interview with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield Thursday. Asked by Banfield if his character, Walter White, died or not, Cranston said, "Hey, you never saw bags zip up or anything. Or say ... you know." He left the rest up to viewers' imaginations.
In response to questions about whether the character could show up in a movie or anywhere else ever again, Cranston said: "Never say never."
Whoa.
He may have been teasing, but that remark revived hopes for countless fans who still are mourning the loss of the character and the acclaimed series. The show literally went out with a bang in September 2013 and there was even a mock funeral held for the character in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the series was set and filmed.
Cranston has remained busy since the series ended, most recently starring in the summer film "Godzilla." And AMC has announced that "Breaking Bad" fans can look forward to a new series, "Better Call Saul," which will be a spinoff featuring criminal lawyer Saul Goodman.
What say you diehard fans? Do you think Cranston was kidding or not?
QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who hinted at something huge?
2. Who made a large insinuation?
3. Who insinuated something major?
Q2:
1. Where did Bryan Cranston drop a major hint?
2. Where did Bryan Cranston release potential interesting information?
3. Where did Bryan Cranston leave a clue?
Q3:
1. Who did Bryan Cranston drop a hint to?
2. To whom did Bryan Cranston hint at something?
3. Who was Bryan Cranston talking to?
Q4:
1. What did Ashleigh Banfield ask?
2. What was Ashleigh Banfield's question?
3. What did Ashleigh Banfield want to know from Bryan Cranston?
Q5:
1. What did Bryan Cranston say to Ashleigh Banfield?
2. What was Bryan Cranston's response to Ashleigh Banfield's inquiry?
3. How did Bryan Cranston respond to Ashleigh Banfield's question?
Q6:
1. Did Ashleigh Banfield ask additional questions?
2. Did Ashleigh Banfield ask anything other than if Bryan Cranston's character died?
3. Did Ashleigh Banfield have other inquiries for Bryan Cranston besides if his character died?
Q7:
1. When did Breaking Bad go off air?
2. When did Breaking Bad stop airing?
3. What year did Breaking Bad go off the air?
Q8:
1. Where was Breaking Bad filmed?
2. What was the filming location of breaking bad?
3. In what location did Breaking Bad film?
Q9:
1. Has Bryan Cranston worked since Breaking Bad?
2. Has Bryan Cranston had work since his role on breaking bad?
3. Has Bryan Cranston been employed as an actor since being featured on Breaking Bad?
Q10:
1. What roles has Bruan Cranston had since Breaking Bad?
2. What's Bryan Cranston done for work since Breaking Bad?
3. What has Bryan Cranston starred in post Breaking Bad?
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33c7ualjvlyfu0snp7bywaua9n918s | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXI
A WILDCAT AMONG THE HORSES
The bringing down of the grouse filled the boys with satisfaction, and they inspected the game with much interest.
"They'll make fine eating," declared Roger.
"Let us see if we can't get some more," pleaded Phil. The "fever" of hunting had taken possession of him.
"We'll not find much in this neighborhood," said Dave. "But I am willing to go a little further," he added, seeing how disappointed the shipowner's son looked.
Placing the game over their shoulders, they reloaded their weapons and continued on through the forest, taking a trail that seemed to have been made by wild animals. Twice they had to cross a winding brook, and at the second fording-place Dave, who was in the rear, called a halt.
"What do you want?" questioned Roger, as he and Phil turned back.
"I want you to look at these hoofmarks," answered Dave, and he pointed up the stream a short distance.
All passed to the locality indicated, and each youth looked at the hoofmarks with interest. They were made by a number of horses, probably six or eight, and though the marks were washed a little, as if by rain, they could still be plainly seen.
"Do you think they were made by the horses that were stolen, Dave?" questioned Phil.
"I don't know what to think."
"The horse-thieves might easily have come this way," said the senator's son. "They would be more apt to go away from the ranch than towards it." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the group up to?
2. What are the boys doing?
3. What are the boys up to?
Q2:
1. Who was pleased with what had been caught?
2. Who was satisfied with what the group had caught hunting?
3. Who felt satisfaction at the hunting bounty?
Q3:
1. Who desired to keep hunting?
2. Who was keen on continuing to hunt?
3. Who thought it best to hunt some more?
Q4:
1. What prevented the boys from continuing the hunt in their current location?
2. Why couldn't the boys continue to hunt where they were?
3. What made it impossible for the boys to keep hunting where they were?
Q5:
1. How did Phil react to having to move?
2. What did Phil think of not being able to hunt in their current area anymore?
3. What was Phil's reaction to being told they had to move?
Q6:
1. Who was upset that the group needed to change locations to hunt?
2. Who was disappointed at the news of having to change hunting locations?
3. Who was not happy that the group would have to move to keep hunting?
Q7:
1. What did the group decide to do?
2. What decision was made by the group?
3. What did the boys resolve to do?
Q8:
1. Who instructed the group to halt?
2. Who called for a stop?
3. Who told everyone to halt?
Q9:
1. What had Dave found?
2. What had Dave come across?
3. What did Dave Porter locate?
Q10:
1. What was Phil unsure of?
2. What did Phil want to know?
3. What was Phil's inquiry?
Q11:
1. Did the senator's son think the prints were from the stolen horses?
2. Did the senator's son believe the hoofprints to have been made by the stolen horses?
3. In the opinion of the senator's son, were the stolen horses the ones who made the prints?
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3wz36bjev3gz5i23u2fiti3695ptbi | race | The crowd cheered and cheered. The man with the horn waved and smiled his great, happy smile."More! More!"cried the crowd. And Louis Satchmo Armstrong took his horn and began to play again. Here he was inprefix = st1 /England. Now a famous man, he was rich. He knew many important people. Wherever he went, people knew his name. They wanted to hear his music. As Louis played the sad, slow songs, he thought of his home inNew Orleans. He lived there as a boy. How many years ago it was? It was a busy, exciting city. But Louis' family was very poor. He went to work to help his mother. He also went to school. One of Louis' teachers asked him to be in the school band"This horn is yours until you leave our school,"his teacher said. Louis' music was jazz and he loved it. He remembered all the music he heard. He didn't learn to read music until he was a man.
When he left school, he played in many bands. He loved his work and people loved him. They knew he had a wonderful talent. Louis played on the boats that sailed up and down the river. He played in little towns and in big cities. Satchmo's horn had as many sounds as ten horns-sometimes slow and sweet; sometimes fast and hot, high and low. His music was always strong and exciting."He does make wonderful music,"said the man who listened happily."Yes,"said another man,"he makes that horn speak."Then the music jazz as I can play. I thought jazz was my music, but now I understand it is ours. Isn't it beautiful how music brings us together!" QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did Louis Armstrong play in a lot of bands after leaving school?
2. Once Louis Armstrong was finished with school, did he play in many bands?
3. Did Louis Armstrong participate in many musical groups once he finished his studies?
Q2:
1. Did Louis Armstrong enjoy playing music?
2. Did playing music bring Louis Armstrong pleasure?
3. Was Louis Armstrong a fan of music making?
Q3:
1. Did people enjoy listening to Louis Armstrong play?
2. Did listening to Louis Armstrong playing bring people pleasure?
3. Did hearing Louis Armstrong make music bring happiness to people?
Q4:
1. What kind of talent did the public know Louis Armstrong to have?
2. What sort of talent did people know that Louis Armstrong have?
3. It was clear to the public that Louis Armstrong had what sort of talent?
Q5:
1. Did Louis Armstrong play on airplanes?
2. Were airplanes a place that Louis Armstrong played?
3. Did Louis Armstrong make music aboard airplanes?
Q6:
1. What did Louis Armstrong play on?
2. Where would Louis Armstrong make music?
3. What sort of vehicle would Louis Armstrong play on?
Q7:
1. Did Louis Armstrong make music on ocean boats?
2. Were the boats that Louis Armstrong played on in the ocean?
3. Did Louis Armstrong play on ocean liners?
Q8:
1. Did Louis Armstrong play in little towns?
2. Did Louis Armstrong make music in small towns?
3. Were small towns one of Louis Armstrong's music venues?
Q9:
1. Did Louis Armstrong play in big cities?
2. Did Louis Armstrong make music in large cities?
3. Were big cities one of Louis Armstrong's music venues?
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3mhw492ww0da11apqm568g2liuovme | wikipedia | Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement, rather than confinement "after" having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities.
Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps. In certain contexts, these may also be known either officially or pejoratively, as concentration camps.
Internment also refers to a neutral country's practice of detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment on its territory during times of war under the Hague Convention of 1907.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights restricts the use of internment. Article 9 states that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."
The "American Heritage Dictionary" defines the term "concentration camp" as: "A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect."
The United States set up concentration camps for Cherokee and other Native Americans in the 1830s. In 1864, the U.S. government forced 8,000 Navajos to walk more than 300 miles at gunpoint from their ancestral homelands in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico to an internment camp in Bosque Redondo, a desolate tract on the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico. From 1863 to 1868, the U.S. Military persecuted and imprisoned 9,500 Navajo and 500 Mescalero Apache. Living under armed guards, more than 3,500 Navajo and Mescalero Apache men, women, and children died from starvation and disease. Adolf Hitler admired the U.S. actions toward Native Americans, and in a 1928 speech he praised Americans for having "gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What does internment mean?
2. What is the definition of internment?
3. How can internment be defined?
Q2:
1. What is the term internment especially used for?
2. What is a pertinent aspect of the definition of internment?
3. What context is the word internment often reserved for?
Q3:
1. What is stated in Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
2. What does the 9th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights demand?
3. What is guaranteed by Article nine of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Q4:
1. What does internment refer to in neutral countries?
2. In countries that are neutral, what does internment mean?
3. How is internment defined in countries that are neutral?
Q5:
1. Where are people often interned?
2. What is the name of the place where people are often interned?
3. What is the standard place for confining people?
Q6:
1. What is a concentration camp, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary?
2. What definition does the American Heritage Dictionary give of concentration camps?
3. How does the American Heritage Dictionary describe what a concentration camp is?
Q7:
1. Does internment usually refer to preventative confinement rather than that of someone convicted of something?
2. Do we usually use internment to mean preventative confinement as opposed to confinement after conviction of something?
3. Is internment a word that more refers to preventative confinement as opposed to confining someone convicted of something?
Q8:
1. Can the term internment be polemical?
2. Are there any cultural and political controversies surrounding the use of the term internent?
3. Can calling something an internment be subject to debate and political sensibilities?
Q9:
1. What nation set up concentration camps in the 1830s?
2. Where were concentration camps used in the 1830s?
3. What country had concentration camps during the 1830s?
Q10:
1. Was anyone persecuted by the US Military from 1863 to 1868?
2. Did the US Military act unjustly towards anyone between 1863 and 1868?
3. From 1863-1868, did the United States Military treat any populations unjustly?
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3c2nj6jbkah7msxned0vjquapion28 | mctest | I'd had the piggy bank for a long time. So long, in fact, that I don't really remember getting it. My aunt once told me a whole story about it, in which it was passed down through the family for many, many years, only to come to me. I was pretty little at the time, so I believed her with no question. It made me think that the bank was important. It became some sort of sign of family and togetherness. I would imagine my mom and my grandmother and even my great grandmother before that, putting coins in the little white pig and waiting for them to fill it up, to be spent on some sort of treasure. And then, when I was fifteen, I broke it.
I didn't mean to. I was cleaning my room in a hurry, so I could finish quickly and go to a friend's house. I swung the vacuum hose around too quickly, knocking the pig's shelf, and down it went. About a thousand pieces, and way fewer coins than I would have believed, flew everywhere. I started to cry.
My mother came in at the sound of the crash. "I'm so, so sorry!" I cried. "I broke the bank! I broke the family bank!" "What, Sarah?" my mother asked, kneeling next to me on the floor. "The what?" "The bank! Aunt Tracy said it was in the family for years!" "What, this? We got it for you at a garage sale when you were two. It was fifty cents." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How long was the piggy bank in the author's possession?
2. How much time did the piggy bank spend in the author's possession?
3. How long had the narrator been in possession of the piggy bank?
Q2:
1. What color was the piggy bank?
2. What was the color of the piggy bank?
3. What shade did the piggy bank come in?
Q3:
1. Who told the narrator a story about the piggy bank?
2. Who did the narrator learn of the piggy bank from?
3. Who was the source of the story about the piggy bank?
Q4:
1. What was the name of the author's aunt?
2. Who was the author's aunt?
3. What was the narrator's aunt called?
Q5:
1. What was the author's name?
2. Who narrated this story?
3. What was the narrator called?
Q6:
1. Who were the narrator's parents?
2. What were the names of Sarah's parents?
3. What were the author's parents called?
Q7:
1. What broke the piggy bank?
2. How did Sarah break the piggy bank?
3. What dealt the blow that broke the piggy bank?
Q8:
1. Why did Sarah break the piggy bank?
2. What was Sarah's reason for breaking the piggy bank?
3. What made Sarah shatter the piggy bank?
Q9:
1. What did the piggy bank symbolize to Sarah?
2. What was the piggy bank a symbol for to Sarah?
3. What did Sarah see the piggy bank as symbolic of?
Q10:
1. Why did Sarah believe her aunt's story?
2. What made Aunt Tracy's story credible to Sarah?
3. Why did Sarah think that Tracy's story was truthful?
Q11:
1. How much was the piggy bank worth?
2. How much did the piggy bank cost?
3. What was the value of the piggy bank?
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317hq483i7sbxdbp3gln661rfjjnis | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
Black Star and Night, answering to spur, swept swiftly westward along the white, slow-rising, sage-bordered trail. Venters heard a mournful howl from Ring, but Whitie was silent. The blacks settled into their fleet, long-striding gallop. The wind sweetly fanned Venters's hot face. From the summit of the first low-swelling ridge he looked back. Lassiter waved his hand; Jane waved her scarf. Venters replied by standing in his stirrups and holding high his sombrero. Then the dip of the ridge hid them. From the height of the next he turned once more. Lassiter, Jane, and the burros had disappeared. They had gone down into the Pass. Venters felt a sensation of irreparable loss.
"Bern--look!" called Bess, pointing up the long slope.
A small, dark, moving dot split the line where purple sage met blue sky. That dot was a band of riders.
"Pull the black, Bess."
They slowed from gallop to canter, then to trot. The fresh and eager horses did not like the check.
"Bern, Black Star has great eyesight."
"I wonder if they're Tull's riders. They might be rustlers. But it's all the same to us."
The black dot grew to a dark patch moving under low dust clouds. It grew all the time, though very slowly. There were long periods when it was in plain sight, and intervals when it dropped behind the sage. The blacks trotted for half an hour, for another half-hour, and still the moving patch appeared to stay on the horizon line. Gradually, however, as time passed, it began to enlarge, to creep down the slope, to encroach upon the intervening distance. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who waved at each other?
2. Who were trying to get each other's attention?
3. Who gestured towards one another?
Q2:
1. What was Jane waving with?
2. What object did Jane wave?
3. What did Jane use to gesture to Lassiter?
Q3:
1. What was Lassiter waving with?
2. What body part did Lassiter wave with?
3. What did Lassiter use to gesture to Jane?
Q4:
1. What was Venters up to?
2. How was Venters acting?
3. What could Venters be found doing?
Q5:
1. What did Venters hold up?
2. What was in Venters' hand?
3. What did Venters have in his hand?
Q6:
1. Who was in Venters' company?
2. Who did Venters have with him?
3. Who was Venters accompanied by?
Q7:
1. What were the horses called?
2. How were the horses referred to generally?
3. What term was used to refer to the horses?
Q8:
1. What are the specific names of the horses?
2. What are the horses each called?
3. What name does each horse have?
Q9:
1. Who saw something far away?
2. Who spotted a thing in the distance?
3. Who noticed an object in the distance?
Q10:
1. What did Bess see?
2. What was noted by Bess?
3. What had Bess spotted?
Q11:
1. What was the dot in reality?
2. What did it turn out that the small black dot was?
3. What did the black dot transform into as it approached?
Q12:
1. Could the group still see Jane?
2. Did Jane remain in the group's purview as the riders approached?
3. As the riders got closer, could everyone still spot Jane?
Q13:
1. Where had the group gone?
2. Where had the group left for?
3. What was the group's current location?
Q14:
1. How did Venters feel about going into the pass?
2. What were Venters' feelings about going into the pass?
3. How did going into the pass make Venters feel?
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3igi0vl647kltzms1bysq3xdqgtno9 | gutenberg | CHAPTER III
THE DOINGS OF A NIGHT
As luck would have it, William Philander Tubbs just then occupied a tent alone, his two tent-mates being on guard duty for two hours as was the custom during encampment.
The aristocratic cadet lay flat on his back, with his face and throat well exposed.
"Now, be careful, Sam, or you'll wake him up," whispered Tom.
One cadet held a candle, while Sam and Tom blackened the face of the sleeping victim of the joke. The burnt cork was in excellent condition and soon William Philander looked for all the world like a coal-black darkey.
"Py chimanatics, he could go on der stage py a nigger minstrel company," was Hans Mueller's comment.
"Makes almost a better nigger than he does a white man," said Tom, dryly.
"Wait a minute till I fix up his coat for him," said Fred Garrison, and turned the garment inside out.
A moment later all of the cadets withdrew, leaving the tent in total darkness. Then one stuck his head in through the flap.
"Hi, there, Private Tubbs!" he called out. "Wake up!"
"What--ah--what's the mattah?" drawled the aristocratic cadet, sleepily.
"Captain Putnam wants you to report to him or to Mr. Strong at once," went on the cadet outside, in a heavy, assumed voice.
"Wants me to report?" questioned Tubbs, sitting up in astonishment.
"Yes, and at once. Hurry up, for it's very important."
"Well, this is assuredly strange," murmured William Philander to himself. "Wonder what is up?" QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Tom say in a low voice to Sam?
2. What was Tom's soft message for Sam?
3. What words did Tom have for Sam?
Q2:
1. How did William shield his face?
2. What did William use as a face covering?
3. What was William's face hidden with?
Q3:
1. Was the tent dark when everyone departed?
2. At the time of everyone's departure, was the tent dark?
3. Was there no more light in the tent by the time everyone left?
Q4:
1. What method was used to wake up William?
2. How was William awoken?
3. HOw was William rattled from his slumber?
Q5:
1. Did the cadet use a heavy voice?
2. Did the cadet yell out in a heavy voice?
3. Was the cadet's shout in a heavy tone?
Q6:
1. What was the shade of Tubbs' face?
2. What was the color of Tubbs' mug?
3. What hue adorned Tubbs' face?
Q7:
1. Where were Tubbs' tent mates?
2. What was the location of Tubbs' tent mates?
3. Where could Tubbs be found?
Q8:
1. Was Tubbs a member of the aristocracy?
2. Could Tubbs be described as aristocratic?
3. Did Tubbs belong to the aristocracy?
Q9:
1. What did the others do to Tubbs' coat?
2. What did Fred do with Tubbs' coat?
3. What happened to Tubbs' coat?
Q10:
1. Did William understand why he was awake?
2. Was it clear to William why he was awoken?
3. Was the reason for waking William up immediately obvious to him?
Q11:
1. How was William laying at first?
2. What position was William laying in at the beginning?
3. At first, what was William's sleeping position?
Q12:
1. Did William have something covering his face?
2. Did William have a face covering?
3. Was William's face covered?
Q13:
1. Was William's throat covered?
2. Did William have a throat covering?
3. Did William have something over his throat?
Q14:
1. What is the length of guard duty?
2. How long does one stand guard?
3. How long were the tent mates on guard duty?
Q15:
1. Is it normal to stand guard for two hours?
2. Is two hours a normal length of time for guard duty?
3. Is two hours the standard amount of time to stand guard?
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3i2pta7r3tun65e5jbygngb9ctakqs | race | For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
As Amy Paul choked on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help.
No one could explain their timely heroics.
Both pets were rescued by their owners in _ -----Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.
As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple's 14-year-old son was already unconscious. "Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound," Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.
Amy Paul's husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. "Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that's what caused me to choke," she recalled. "I couldn't breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life."
Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What's the dog called?
2. Who is the dog?
3. What name does the dog have?
Q2:
1. What was the cat called?
2. Who was the cat?
3. What name did the cute cat have?
Q3:
1. What was Winnie's age when her owners found her?
2. When Winnie's owners found her, how old was she?
3. How old was Winnie when her owners discovered her?
Q4:
1. Where was Winnie?
2. Where did Winnie's owners find her?
3. What was Winnie's location at the time of her discovery?
Q5:
1. Who fed Winnie?
2. Who gave Winnie food?
3. Who provided Winnie with nourishment?
Q6:
1. What did Eric feed Winnie?
2. What did Eric give Winnie to eat?
3. What nourishment did Eric provide Winnie with?
Q7:
1. What did Winnie save her family from?
2. What would have killed Winnie's owners had she not intervened?
3. What did Winnie rescue her owners from?
Q8:
1. How did Winnie save her owners?
2. What did Winnie do to save her owners?
3. How did Winnie alert her owners to the danger?
Q9:
1. What broke and thus caused the leak of carbon monoxide?
2. The gas leak was caused by the breakdown of what?
3. What malfunctioned, leading to the carbon monoxide leak?
Q10:
1. Who was already unconscious?
2. Who had already lost consciousness?
3. Who had already been knocked out of consciousness?
Q11:
1. How old was Cathy's son?
2. What was the age of Cathy and Eric's son?
3. How old was Cathy and Eric's son?
Q12:
1. How close was the Keesling family to death?
2. How close did the Keeslings come to dying?
3. In how much time could the Keeslings have perished?
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31uv0mxwnqc77o5jzgp1cp15orai5a | race | One day Marilla said, "Anne, your new teacher, Miss Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for Queen's College in two years' time. Then if you do well, you can study at Queen's in Charlottetown for a year, and after that you'll be a teacher!" "That doesn't matter, Anne. When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago, we decided to look after you as well as we could. Of course we'll pay for you to study."So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school, and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work. Diana didn't want to go to Queen's, so she went home early, but Gilbert stayed. He and Anne still never spoke and everybody knew that they were enemies, because they both wanted to be first in the examination. Secretly, Anne was sorry that she and Gilbert weren't friends, but it was too late now. For two years, Anne studied hard at school. She enjoyed learning, and Miss Stacy was pleased with her. But she didn't study all the time. In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends, or walked through the fields with Diana, or sat talking to Matthew. "Your Anne is a big girl now. She's taller than you," Rachel Lynde told Marilla one day. "You're right, Rachel!" said Marilla in surprise. "And she's a very good girl now, isn't she? She doesn't get into trouble these days. I'm sure she helps you a lot with the housework, Marilla." "Yes, I don't know what I'd do without her," said Marilla, smiling. "And look at her! Those beautiful grey eyes, and that red-brown hair! You know, Marilla, I thought you and Matthew made a mistake when you adopted her. But now I see I was wrong. You've looked after her very well." "Well, thank you, Rachel," replied Marilla, pleased. That evening, when Matthew came into the kitchen, he saw that his sister was crying. "What's the matter?" he asked, surprised. "You haven't cried since... well, I can't remember when." "It's just... well, I was thinking about Anne," said Marilla. "I'll...I'll miss her when she goes away." "When she goes to Queen's, you mean? Yes, but she can come home at weekends, on the train." "I'll still miss her," said Marilla sadly." In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to take their examinations. "Oh, I do hope that I've done well," Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables. "The examinations were very difficult. And I've got to wait for three weeks before I know! Three weeks! I'll die!" Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert. But she also wanted to do well for Matthew and Marilla. That was very important to her. Diana was the first to hear the news, she ran into the kitchen at Green Gables and shouted, "Look, Anne! It's in Father's newspaper! You're first... with Gilbert... out of all the students on the island! Oh, how wonderful!" Anne took the paper with shaking hands, and saw her name, at the top of the list of two hundred. She could not speak. "Well, now, I knew it," said Matthew with a warm smile. "You've done well, I must say, Anne," said Marilla, who was secretly very pleased. For the next three weeks Anne and Marilla were very busy. Anne needs new dresses to take to Charlottetown. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Where did Anne reside?
2. What was Anne's home?
3. What was Anne's place of residence?
Q2:
1. Who taught Anne?
2. Who was Anne's instructor?
3. What was the name of Anne's teacher?
Q3:
1. What was Anne studying for?
2. What was Anne preparing for with her studies?
3. What were Anne's studies in preparation for?
Q4:
1. Where would Anne's examinations take her?
2. Where was Anne taking an exam to go?
3. Where would Anne get into according to her exam results?
Q5:
1. Were Anne and Gilbert friends?
2. Was Gilbert a friend of Anne's?
3. Did Anne have an amicable relationship with Gilbert?
Q6:
1. Who adopted Anne?
2. Who brought Anne into their family?
3. Whose family had Anne become a member of?
Q7:
1. How long ago did Anne join Marilla and Matthew's family?
2. How long had it been since Marilla and Matthew adopted Anne?
3. How long ago did Marilla and Matthew adopt Anne?
Q8:
1. Did Anne stay after school by herself to study?
2. Was Anne alone in staying after school to study?
3. Did Anne study at school after hours on her own?
Q9:
1. Were the exams difficult?
2. Were the exams tough ones?
3. Did Anne have to take a hard exam?
Q10:
1. Where was Anne with Gilbert?
2. Where did Anne place alongside Gilbert?
3. Where did Anne rank with Gilbert?
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3pmby0ye273zv8lvaw6wd28cxsnc9r | gutenberg | CHAPTER X.
"Yes, friends may be kind, and vales may be green, And brooks, may sparkle along between; But it is not friendship's kindest look, Nor loveliest vale, nor clearest brook, That can tell the tale which is written for me On each old face and well known tree."
R. H. FROUDE.
It was a happy day for both Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel when they again entered Devonshire. Agnes seemed to feel her four weeks as serious an absence as Marian did her four years, and was even more rapturous in her exclamations at each object that showed her she was near home.
They walked up the last and steepest hill, or rather bounded along the well known side path, catching at the long trailing wreaths of the dogrose, peeping over the gates which broke the high hedge, where Marian, as she saw the moors, could only relieve her heart by pronouncing to herself those words of Manzoni's Lucia, "_Vedo i miei monti._" ("I see my own mountains.") She beheld the woods and the chimneys of the Manor House, but she shrank from looking at it, and gazed, as if she feared it was but a moment's vision, at the rough cottages, the smoke curling among the trees, the red limestone quarry, and the hills far away in the summer garb of golden furze. It was home, her heart was full, and Agnes respected her silence.
Down the hill, along the well-known paling, past the cottages, the dear old faces smiling welcome; the Church, always the same, the green rail of the Vicarage garden, the paint was the only thing new; the porch, with roses hanging thicker over it than ever; Ranger, David Chapple, Jane, the housemaid, all in ecstasy in their different ways. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Whose day was going well?
2. Who was having a splendid time?
3. Who was the day happy for?
Q2:
1. Where were Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel?
2. Where could Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel be found?
3. What was the location of Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel?
Q3:
1. Where did Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel enter?
2. Where did Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel go into?
3. What was approached by Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel?
Q4:
1. How much time had Agnes Wortley spent away?
2. How long had Agnes Wortley been gone for?
3. For what amount of time had Agnes Wortley been away?
Q5:
1. How much time had Marian Arundel spent away?
2. How long had Marian Arundel been gone for?
3. For what amount of time had Marian Arundel been away?
Q6:
1. What did Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel walk up?
2. What did Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel ascend?
3. What was climbed by Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel?
Q7:
1. What did Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel grab at while walking up the hill?
2. As Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel climbed the hill, what did they grab at?
3. What did Agnes Wortley and Marian Arundel catch during their hill climbing?
Q8:
1. What did Marian Arundel spot?
2. What was noticed by Marian Arundel?
3. What did Marian Arundel take note of?
Q9:
1. What structure did Marian Arundel spot?
2. What building was noticed by Marian Arundel?
3. What structure did Marian Arundel take note of?
Q10:
1. What did Marian Arundel say to herself?
2. What did Marian Arundel whisper?
3. What were Marian Arundel's words to her own self?
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3v0z7ywsiy0kux6wg4mmt7onbfs2vu | gutenberg | CHAPTER LXXIX
The Wharton Wedding
It was at last settled that the Wharton marriage should take place during the second week in June. There were various reasons for the postponement. In the first place Mary Wharton, after a few preliminary inquiries, found herself forced to declare that Messrs. Muddocks and Cramble could not send her forth equipped as she ought to be equipped for such a husband in so short a time. "Perhaps they do it quicker in London," she said to Everett with a soft regret, remembering the metropolitan glories of her sister's wedding. And then Arthur Fletcher could be present during the Whitsuntide holidays; and the presence of Arthur Fletcher was essential. And it was not only his presence at the altar that was needed;--Parliament was not so exacting but that he might have given that;--but it was considered by the united families to be highly desirable that he should on this occasion remain some days in the country. Emily had promised to attend the wedding, and would of course be at Wharton for at least a week. As soon as Everett had succeeded in wresting a promise from his sister, the tidings were conveyed to Fletcher. It was a great step gained. When in London she was her own mistress; but surrounded as she would be down in Herefordshire by Fletchers and Whartons, she must be stubborn indeed if she should still refuse to be taken back into the flock, and be made once more happy by marrying the man whom she confessed that she loved with her whole heart. The letter to Arthur Fletcher containing the news was from his brother John, and was written in a very business-like fashion. "We have put off Mary's marriage a few days, so that you and she should be down here together. If you mean to go on with it, now is your time." Arthur, in answer to this, merely said he would spend the Whitsuntide holidays at Longbarns. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What will be the month of the wedding?
2. In what month is the wedding set to take place?
3. What month are the Whartons set to marry in?
Q2:
1. Is the wedding in the third week of June?
2. Will the Whartons be wed in the third week of June?
3. Is the marriage scheduled fo the third week in June?
Q3:
1. Is the wedding happening on schedule?
2. Is the wedding occuring on time?
3. Is the marriage happening without any delays?
Q4:
1. Why isn't the marriage happening on schedule?
2. What is preventing the wedding from happening on schedule?
3. For what reason won't the wedding be occuring on time?
Q5:
1. Who would be able to attend the wedding due to the delay?
2. Since the wedding isn't happening on schedule, who can now attend?
3. Who is now able to come to the marriage?
Q6:
1. Who got married before Mary Wharton?
2. Who was wed before Mary Wharton was?
3. Whose wedding occured prior to that of Mary Wharton?
Q7:
1. Who was Mary's sister?
2. What woman promised to attend the wedding?
3. What was the name of Mary Wharton's sister?
Q8:
1. Who had a note penned to them?
2. Who did someone try to communicate with?
3. Who did someone write a message to?
Q9:
1. Was the note to John casually worded?
2. Was the note to John written in a friendly manner?
3. Did John receive a casually worded note?
Q10:
1. What was John's response?
2. How did John respond?
3. What did John have to say in response?
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3vben272mkzuhzxzlo26koyhn7usgg | wikipedia | Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent. There is no consensus on the precise area it covers, partly because the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. There are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region". A related United Nations paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct".
One definition describes Eastern Europe as a cultural entity: the region lying in Europe with the main characteristics consisting of Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, Russian , and some Ottoman culture influences. Another definition was created during the Cold War and used more or less synonymously with the term "Eastern Bloc". A similar definition names the formerly communist European states outside the Soviet Union as Eastern Europe. Some historians and social scientists view such definitions as outdated or relegated, but they are still sometimes used for statistical purposes.
Several other definitions of Eastern Europe exist today, but they often lack precision, are too general or outdated. These definitions vary both across cultures and among experts, even political scientists, as the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. When did the name "Eastern Bloc" come about?
2. When did the term "Eastern Bloc" appear?
3. At what point in time did people start using the term "Eastern Bloc"?
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3copxfw7xbc26tdqjyjrnblz7vhpkv | race | Going on a road trip? The St. Louis Arch, Statue of Liberty, and Golden Gate Bridge are common great tourist sites. If you prefer offbeat places, check out the following roadside attractions.
World's Largest Ball of Paint
Alexandria, Ind.
In 1977, Michael Carmichael set out to create the biggest ball of paint anywhere. Starting with a baseball as centre, he painted layer by layer of paint day after day, year after year. The ball weighs more than 1,300 pounds, with more than 20,000 coats of paint, which is recognized by Guinness World Record. Visitors can paint the wall themselves and become part of the history.
The Museum of Dirt
Boston, Mass.
The museum is the idea of Glenn Johnson. Labeled glass bottles contain such treasures as dirt from the Great Wall of China, as well as sand from a desert in Saudi Arabia and Omaha Beach in France. Best of all, the cost of seeing this museum is dirt cheap: It's free.
Mount Horeb Mustard Museum
Mount Horeb, Wis.
It's heaven for hotdog lovers! This museum says it has to have the world's largest collection for prepared mustard . Its more than 4,100 bottles of spices come from 60 nations, including Turkey and China. Visitors learn the history of mustard, from how it's made to how it's advertised and sold. The museum's creator, Barry Levenson, loves mustard so much that he even puts it on ice-cream!
Paper House
Rockport, Mass.
Swedish immigrant Ellis Stenman was much ahead of his time in 1922, when he started to build a two-room house almost entirely out of newspaper. At the time, people didn't give much---if any---thought to recycling paper. In fact, "recycling" wasn't even a word yet. The house is framed with wood, but the walls are made of 210 layers of newspaper. In all, he used about 100,000 newspapers. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Do lots of tourists go to the Golden Gate Bridge?
2. Is the Golden Gate Bridge a popular tourists attraction?
3. Do tourists flock to the Golden Gate Bridge en masse?
Q2:
1. Where can one find the largest ball of paint?
2. Where is the world's biggest ball of paint?
3. What is the location of the biggest ball of paint in the world?
Q3:
1. Who created the world's largest ball of paint?
2. Who made the biggest ball of paint in the world?
3. Who was the creator of the largest ball of paint in the world?
Q4:
1. In what year did Michael Carmichael create the biggest ball of paint in the world?
2. When did Michael Carmichael make the world's biggest ball of paint?
3. When was the world's largest paint ball created by Michael Carmichael?
Q5:
1. What was at the center of Michael Carmichael's creation?
2. What was at the center of the world's largest ball of paint?
3. What did the biggest ball of paint have in the middle of it?
Q6:
1. What was the final weight of Michael Carmichael's creation?
2. What was the final weight of the world's largest ball of paint?
3. How much did the world's biggest ball of paint weigh in the end?
Q7:
1. How many coats of paint did Michael Carmichael used?
2. How many coats of paint is the world's biggest ball of paint covered in?
3. How many coats of paint did Michael Carmichael cover his creation in?
Q8:
1. Did Michael Carmichael get any recognition for his creation?
2. Was Michael Carmichael's creation recognized?
3. Did Michael Carmichael get any acclamations for his paint ball?
Q9:
1. What recognition has Michael Carmichael received?
2. Where has Michael Carmichael's creation been recorded?
3. What has recognized Michael Carmichael's creation?
Q10:
1. Can visitors interact with Michael Carmichael's creation?
2. Is the world's largest ball of paint an interactive exhibit?
3. Can visitors do anything interactive at the world's biggest paint ball?
Q11:
1. What's a good attraction for hotdog lovers?
2. If I want to eat a hotdog what should I seek out?
3. Where should I go if I'm a fan of hotdogs?
Q12:
1. Where is the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum?
2. What is the location of the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum?
3. Where can the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum be found?
Q13:
1. What does the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum have?
2. What's in the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum?
3. What are the attractions at the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum?
Q14:
1. How many bottles of mustard does the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum have?
2. What's the number of mustard bottles in the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum?
3. How many mustard bottles are located in the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum?
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3i3wadaz9q4h3agmxb26wmxrzveo55 | cnn | (CNN) -- A former security guard told CNN on Monday that he was unjustly fired after he took pictures of President Barack Obama's motorcade during a visit to Atlanta in September.
Kenneth Tate worked for a private security firm when President Obama visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on September 16.
He told CNN's Brooke Baldwin in an exclusive television interview that he stuck to his assigned duties and tried to take photos after he was done escorting President Obama.
Members of Congress were upset when the media reported last month that Tate had a .40-caliber handgun while in an elevator with the President. That report, coupled with news of an incident in which a man jumped a fence and made it into the White House, led to the resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.
Tate said he was issued a weapon by his security firm on the morning of the President's visit, but no one told him it was a violation of Secret Service protocol for him to carry a gun, he said.
Tate's lawyer, Christopher Chestnut, said his client was fired unjustly for leaving his post.
"He should never have lost his job for doing what he was supposed to do," Chestnut said. He added that Tate is not a felon, contrary to prior media reports.
Tate said he was supposed to take the President to two different floors of one of the CDC buildings.
"Those tasks I carried out," he told CNN. He said he also was asked to escort some Secret Service agents to the roof and other locations QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Kenneth Tate used to do for a living?
2. How was Kenneth Tate formerly employed?
3. What used to be Kenneth Tate's job?
Q2:
1. Why does Kenneth Tate think he was fired?
2. What does Kenneth Tate believe to be the reason for his firing?
3. Why does Kenneth Tate believe he was let go from his position?
Q3:
1. What city was Kenneth Tate working in?
2. What city was the location of Kenneth Tate's job?
3. Where did Kenneth Tate take pictures of Barack Obama?
Q4:
1. Who did Kenneth Tate give an interview to?
2. What TV channel interviewed Kenneth Tate?
3. What media outlet got an interview with Kenneth Tate?
Q5:
1. What claim did the media make about Kenneth Tate besides that he photographed Barack Obama?
2. What did the media say that Kenneth Tate did in addition to taking a picture of Barack Obama?
3. What did Kenneth Tate allegedly do in addition to photographing the president?
Q6:
1. Who is Kenneth Tate's lawyer?
2. What is the name of Kenneth Tate's attorney?
3. Who is Kenneth Tate's legal representation
Q7:
1. Was Kenneth Tate registered as a felon?
2. Was it true that Kenneth Tate was a felon?
3. Had Kenneth Tate formerly been convicted of a crime?
Q8:
1. What building was the president visiting?
2. What was the site of Barack Obama's visit?
3. What building did Barack Obama pay a visit to?
Q9:
1. How many floors of the CDC did Barack Obama visit?
2. What was the number of floors of the CDC that Obama was on?
3. How many floors of the CDC were visited by Barack Obama?
Q10:
1. Did Kenneth Tate escort Barack Obama to the floors of the CDC?
2. Did Barack Obama go to two floors of the CDC with Kenneth Tate?
3. Did Kenneth Tate accompany Barack Obama throughout the CDC?
Q11:
1. Did Kenneth Tate escort secret service agents to the basement?
2. Was the basement the place that Kenneth Tate took secret service agents?
3. Were secret service agents accompanied to the basement of the CDC by Kenneth Tate?
Q12:
1. What was the name of the director that resigned from the Secret Service?
2. Who resigned from their position as director of the Secret Service?
3. Who agreed to leave their job as director of the secret service?
Q13:
1. What action led to Julia Pierson resigning as director of the secret service?
2. What did a man do that led to Julia Pierson resigning as director of the secret service?
3. What action of a man made Julia Pierson agree to leave her position as director of the Secret Service?
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3z7ishfuh0vcpwdvxikqo4emm2dz86 | wikipedia | The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia. Austronesian languages are spoken by about 386 million people, making it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers, behind only the Indo-European languages, the Sino-Tibetan languages, the Niger-Congo languages, and the Afroasiatic languages. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger–Congo, and Afroasiatic as one of the best-established language families. Major Austronesian languages with the highest number of speakers are Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, and Filipino (Tagalog). The family contains 1,257 languages, which is the second most of any language family.
Similarities between the languages spoken in the Malay Archipelago and the Pacific Ocean were first observed in 1706 by the Dutch scholar Adriaan Reland. In the 19th century, researchers (e.g. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Herman van der Tuuk) started to apply the comparative method to the Austronesian languages, but the first comprehensive and extensive study on the phonological history of the Austronesian language family including a reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian lexicon was made by the German linguist Otto Dempwolff. The term Austronesian itself was coined by Wilhelm Schmidt (German "austronesisch") which comes from Latin "auster" "south wind" plus Greek "nêsos" "island". The family is aptly named, as the vast majority of Austronesian languages are spoken on islands: only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamic languages, are indigenous to mainland Asia. Many Austronesian languages have very few speakers, but the major Austronesian languages are spoken by tens of millions of people and one Austronesian language, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), is spoken by 250 million people, making it the 8th most spoken language in the world. Approximately twenty Austronesian languages are official in their respective countries (see the list of major and official Austronesian languages). QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. When were similarities between Austronesian languages first noticed?
2. When did people first start to take note of similarities between Austronesian languages?
3. In what year were similarities between Austronesian languages first noticed?
Q2:
1. Who discovered the similarities between Austronesian languages?
2. Who first took note of the similarities between Austronesian languages?
3. Who was the first person to see points of similarity between Austronesian languages?
Q3:
1. Where are Austronesian languages spoken?
2. Where do people speak Austronesian languages?
3. In what areas are Austronesian languages active?
Q4:
1. does anyone speak Austronesian languages in Asia?
2. Are there speakers of Austronesian languages in Asia?
3. Are Austronesian languages active in Asia?
Q5:
1. How many Austronesian languages are native to Asia?
2. How many Austronesian languages are spoken on the Asian continent?
3. What is the number of Austronesian languages active in Asia?
Q6:
1. How many speakers of Austronesian languages are there?
2. How many people speak an Austronesian language?
3. What is the amount of people who speak Austronesian languages?
Q7:
1. Are Austronesian languages the largest spoken languages?
2. Do Austronesian languages have the largest amount of speakers?
3. Aer Austronesian languages the most widely spoken in the world?
Q8:
1. What are the four largest language families?
2. What are the four biggest families of languages?
3. Which language families are the four largest?
Q9:
1. How many languages does the Austronesian language family contain?
2. How many languages are in the Austronesian language family?
3. What is the number of languages contained with in the Austronesian language family?
Q10:
1. Does the Austronesian language family have the third most languages in it?
2. Does the Austronesian language family have the third highest amount of languages in it?
3. Is there the third highest amount of languages in the Austronesian language family?
Q11:
1. Where does the Austronesian language family stand in ranks of number of languages?
2. What is the ranking of the Austronesian language family in terms of number of languages in it?
3.
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3aapld8ucch9wv5puupeft643dhtha | gutenberg | Chapter 22: Oudenarde.
The trumpet call which summoned Rupert and his friends to horse was, as he suspected, an indication that there was a general movement of the troops in front.
Vendome had declined to attack the allies in the position they had taken up, but had moved by his right to Braine le Leude, a village close to the ground on which, more than a hundred years later, Waterloo was fought, and whence he threatened alike Louvain and Brussels. Marlborough moved his army on a parallel line to Anderleet. No sooner had he arrived there, than he found that Vendome was still moving towards his right--a proof that Louvain was really the object of the attack. Again the allied troops were set in motion, and all night, through torrents of rain, they tramped wearily along, until at daybreak they were in position at Parc, covering the fortress of Louvain. Vendome, finding himself anticipated, fell back to Braine le Leude without firing a shot.
But though Marlborough had so far foiled the enemy, it was clear that he was not in a condition to take the offensive before the arrival of Prince Eugene, who would, he trusted, be able to come to his assistance; and for weeks the armies watched each other without movement.
On the 4th of July, Vendome suddenly marched from Braine le Leude, intending to capture the fortress of Oudenarde. Small bodies of troops were sent off at the same time to Ghent and Bruges, whose inhabitants rose and admitted the French. Marlborough, seeing the danger which threatened the very important fortress of Oudenarde, sent orders to Lord Chandos who commanded at Ath, to collect all the small garrisons in the neighbourhood, and to throw himself into Oudenarde. This was done before Vendome could reach the place, which was thus secured against a coup de main. Vendome invested the fortress, brought up his siege train from Tournay, and moved towards Lessines with his main army, to cover the siege. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was summoned?
2. Who was told to come over?
3. Who was instructed to come?
Q2:
1. What summoned Rupert and his friends?
2. What told Rupert and his friends they needed to move?
3. What were Rupert and his friends called by?
Q3:
1. Where were Rupert and his friends called to?
2. What were Rupert and his friends instructed to do?
3. What did Rupert and his friends receive instructions to do?
Q4:
1. What town appears first?
2. What is the town that is talked about first?
3. What village is the first to be mentioned?
Q5:
1. Is there discussion of a famous battle?
2. Is there mention of a well known battle?
3. Does discussion of a famous battle appear?
Q6:
1. What famous battle is mentioned?
2. What well known battle is talked about?
3. What famous battle is discussed?
Q7:
1. Is there discussion of the month after June?
2. Does the group discuss July?
3. Does July get talked about?
Q8:
1. Is a specific day in July mentioned?
2. Is there mention of a specific date in July?
3. Does the group discuss a specific date in the month after June?
Q9:
1. What date in July is discussed?
2. What date in July does the group talk about?
3. What is the date in July that appears in conversation?
Q10:
1. Did someone do something on the fourth of July?
2. Did anything occur on July 4th?
3. Did someone take action on July 4th?
Q11:
1. Who did something on July 4th?
2. Who took action on July 4th?
3. Who mobilized on the fourth of July?
Q12:
1. What did Vendome do on July 4th?
2. What were Vendome's actions on the fourth of July?
3. What action did Vendome take on July 4th?
Q13:
1. Why did Vendome march on July 4th?
2. What was Vendome's reason for marching on the fourth of July?
3. What pushed Vendome to march on July 4th?
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3kopy89hm820ok2l3fm89tilmca3jm | mctest | There once was a beautiful princess named Lizzie who lived in a castle in the woods. One day she went for a walk to see if any of the spring flowers had started to bloom. Her mother's birthday was the next day. If there were flowers blooming she would pick some for her mother. Her mother's name was Queen Alice. As she got deeper into the woods she came to a place that had a lot of flowers. There were beautiful lilies growing around the edge of a pond. There were some deer drinking water from the pond. She picked some lilies for her mother, the queen. The lilies were white and yellow and red. She picked 12 lilies for her mother. Lizzie also saw mushrooms growing in the woods. There were birds building a nest in the bushes. Under the bush she saw a paper cup that someone had left. There were beautiful butterflies on the bush, too. The sun was warm so she lay down to rest under the shade of a tree. She fell asleep and as she was sleeping she had a bad dream. She dreamed that as she was walking through the woods. In her dream she tripped over a log and hurt her ankle. She started to cry because she was afraid that nobody would miss her and she would have to sleep in the woods. She heard someone calling her name and was very happy to see her father standing near her. When she opened her eyes she also could see her brother Henry standing near her. She could hear their dog, Daisy, rushing to meet them, too. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the Queen's name?
2. Who served as Queen?
3. Who ruled as Queen?
Q2:
1. What was the name of the princess?
2. What was the name of Queen Alice's daughter?
3. Who was Queen Alice's daughter?
Q3:
1. Who was Lizzie's brother?
2. Who was the princess's brother?
3. What was the name of Lizzie's brother?
Q4:
1. Does Lizzie's family have any pets?
2. Do Lizzie and her brother have any pets?
3. Are there any pets in Lizzie's family?
Q5:
1. What kind of pet does Lizzie have?
2. What does Lizzie's family have for a pet?
3. What sort of animal is Lizzie's pet?
Q6:
1. What is the name of Lizzie's pet?
2. Who is Lizzie's dog?
3. What's the name of Lizzie and her brother's dog?
Q7:
1. What did Lizzie dream?
2. What were the contents of Lizzie's dream?
3. What happened in Lizzie's dream?
Q8:
1. Who was calling Lizzie?
2. Who did Lizzie get a call from?
3. Who was attempting to contact Lizzie?
Q9:
1. Who was calling Lizzie besides her father?
2. Who did Lizzie get called by in addition to her father?
3. Who was attempting to contact Lizzie other than her father?
Q10:
1. Who is Henry's mom?
2. What woman is Henry the son of?
3. What is the name of Henry's mother?
Q11:
1. What was the shade of the lilies?
2. What color of lilies were there?
3. The lilies were in what hue?
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3qemnnsb2xz5mh3gvv3njczontq7d7 | race | Counterfeit goods, or false versions of products, may cost the government of Kenya as much as $1 billion each year. The fake goods also hurt business owners who find it hard to keep customers. But information technology is being used to try to stop the problem. Jemima Mwafigu is a 34-year-old businesswoman who sells products like perfume. But in the first year of running her business, she found it hard to keep customers because of counterfeit goods.
Ms. Mwafigu says her business has improved since she began using a smart phone application called Barcode Scanner. The app is used to authenticate products. It checks to make sure the products are not counterfeit.
"With this application I'm able to scan the bar codes of each perfume and instantly I get the production date, the _ and I'm able to know the safety," she says. "That way, I have confidence in selling to my customers."
In 2010, Kenya created the Anti-Counterfeit Agency, or ACA, to fight against illegal trade. The ACA has successfully asked government officials for stronger punishments for counterfeiters.
Agnes Karingu is the agency's acting director for research and awareness. She says the ACA is trying to stay one step ahead of those making fake goods.
"We are also looking into IT solutions where we can be able to use SMS programs, bar codes and information sharing," she says. "The end users of the products will actually be able to get the authentication information, and this information comes back to ACA and intellectual property rights holders."
The agency is testing another program called Allvirtuous. The application is another way to find out if a product is real or not by scanning its barcode. The barcode information is sent to a database. Then a result is sent back to the app.
The International Chamber of Commerce is a global business organization. It says the value of counterfeit goods produced around the world is expected to be more than $1.7 trillion this year. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is meant by the term counterfeit goods?
2. How can counterfeit goods be defined?
3. What does it mean if a product is counterfeit?
Q2:
1. Do counterfeit goods hurt business owners?
2. Are counterfeit goods harmful to those with businesses?
3. Does it hurt those who own businesses when goods are counterfeited?
Q3:
1. What has Kenya done to prevent counterfeiting goods?
2. What action has Kenya taken to combat counterfeited goods?
3. What is Kenya doing to stop goods from being counterfeited?
Q4:
1. What has the ACA done to prevent counterfeiting goods?
2. What action has the ACA taken to combat counterfeited goods?
3. What is the ACA doing to stop goods from being counterfeited?
Q5:
1. Has counterfeiting lost the Kenyan government a lot of money?
2. Has the Kenyan government lost a large chunk of change due to counterfeiting?
3. Have counterfeit goods cost the Kenyan government a large sum?
Q6:
1. How much per year does the Kenyan government lose due to counterfeiting?
2. How much money does counterfeiting cost the Kenyan government per year?
3. What is the amount of money lost be the Kenyan government each year due to counterfeiting?
Q7:
1. Can business owners use tools to prevent counterfeiting?
2. Are there tools that help business owners combat counterfeiting?
3. Can business owners prevent counterfeiting of goods with a tool?
Q8:
1. What application helps business owners combat counterfeit goods?
2. How can business owners fight against counterfeiting?
3. What tools allows a business owner to fight against counterfeiting?
Q9:
1. What does a Barcode scanner application show?
2. What is displayed by a barcode scanner application?
3. What can one learn by using a barcode scanner application?
Q10:
1. What is the name of the ACAS director?
2. Who is in charge of the ACAS?
3. What is the name of the person that heads the ACAS?
Q11:
1. What does the ACA try and accomplish besides combatting counterfeiting?
2. What is the ACA's job apart from stopping counterfeiters?
3. What else does the ACA do in addition to its counterfeit work?
Q12:
1. What is the role of the International Chamber of Commerce?
2. What does the International Chamber of Commerce do?
3. What purpose does the International Chamber of Commerce serve?
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31qnsg6a5rtt5m7pens7xklnc11787 | race | Characters in novels don't always do what the writer wants them to do. Sometimes they cause trouble, take on lives of their own, or even work against the writer. It's not just a problem for inexperienced authors: famed children's novelist Roald Dahl said he got the main character in his bookMatildaso "wrong"that when he'd finished his first version, he threw it away and started again. Of course it's not the characters' fault. The problem lies with the author. Take Stephen King, who admitted that writing working-class characters is more difficult nowadays because his own circumstances have changed. "It is definitely harder,"King said."When I wroteCarriemany years ago, I was one step away from physical labour." This is also true for characters' ages, added King."When you have small children, it is easy to write young characters because you observe them and you have them in your life all the time. But your kids grow up, it's been harder for me to write about this little 12-year-old girl in my new book because my models are gone." For other authors, such as Karen Fowler, there's one quality that can stop a character in its tracks: boredom."I had particular problems with the main character in my historical novelSister Noon,"she says."She had attitudes about race and religion that seemed appropriate to me for her time and class, but they were not attitudes I liked. Eventually I grew quite bored with her. You can write a book about a character you dislike or a character you disagree with, but I don't think you can write a book about a character who bores you." According to Neel Mukherjee, it was Adinath, a character inThe Lives of Others, who made him work the hardest."I think I struggled because it's difficult to write a character whose most prominent personal feature is weakness, as Adinath's is, without making that feature define him,"Mukherjee says. But a troublesome character is far from an unwelcome guest, he continues, arguing that "when characters work against the author they come alive and become unpredictable". "That is a fantastic thing to happen,"Mukherjee says."I celebrate it. It is one of the great, lucky gifts given to a writer." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What can act as a large obstacle for writers?
2. What can pose a large problem for writers?
3. What can majorly get in a writer's way?
Q2:
1. Do just inexperienced writers have problems with their characters?
2. Do a writer's characters cause trouble only when the writer is inexperienced?
3. Do just writers without much experience struggle with their characters?
Q3:
1. How many writers discuss problems with their characters?
2. How many writers talk about struggling with their characters?
3. How many authors admit to problems with writing their characters?
Q4:
1. What authors discuss problems with their own characters?
2. Who are the writers that discuss their struggles with their characters?
3. What writers appear in the article?
Q5:
1. Is it easier for an author to relate to their characters when their own fortune changes?
2. When a writer's financial situation changes, does that make it easier for them to relate to their characters?
3. Does writing a character become easier when an author's fortune changes?
Q6:
1. What novel was it easiest for Steven King to write because he related to the characters?
2. Which of his own novel's characters did Steven King relate to the most?
3. Which novel was most simple for Steven King to pen because he understood its characters?
Q7:
1. Why did Steven King relate to the characters in Carrie?
2. What made Carrie's characters personally relatable to Steven King?
3. What helped Steven King find personal points of similarity with the cast of Carrie?
Q8:
1. What besides class can make it hard for an author to relate to their characters?
2. What apart from economic class can create writing difficulties for an author?
3. Why might an author have trouble writing a character other than the issue of economic class?
Q9:
1. Who spoke about the issue of boredom with a character?
2. Who talked about being bored with their owne characters?
3. Who had difficulty writing because they were bored with a character?
Q10:
1. Who posed the biggest difficulty for Mukerjee?
2. Who was the toughest character for Mukerjee to write?
3. Which of Mukerjee's characters worked the author the hardest?
Q11:
1. What novel did Adinath appear in?
2. Where was Adinath from?
3. What book featured the character Adinath?
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39gaf6dqwr0d5co0x0m8ooeikge1vr | cnn | (CNN) -- The defense and prosecution were hammering out a plea deal Tuesday in the court-martial of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, but no matter what the negotiations hold, the defense says three things are off the table.
First, Sinclair won't plead guilty to sexual assault, said Josh Zeitz, a spokesman for the general's defense team. Nor will he plead guilty to any charge that will land him on a sex-offender registry. And lastly, Zeitz said, Sinclair will not plead guilty to threatening his accuser or her family.
No developments are expected Tuesday or Wednesday, and Zeitz said the negotiations could last for weeks.
Col. James Pohl, the judge in the case, dismissed the jury "for the time being" Tuesday morning to return to their duty stations, a spokeswoman for Fort Bragg in North Carolina said.
On Monday, a day when Sinclair's accuser was slated to continue her testimony from Friday, Pohl dismissed the jury because of 22 pages of e-mails that emerged over the weekend.
The e-mails include a January communication in which a senior military lawyer wrote Fort Bragg's chief of military justice casting doubt on the credibility of Sinclair's accuser and a February correspondence in which a lieutenant colonel with the Judge Advocate General's Corps asked for a colonel's "thoughts/opinion" on Sinclair's offer to enter a plea.
Pohl indicated there may have been "undue command influence" by Pentagon officials. While Pohl would not grant the defense's request to drop charges against Sinclair, he ordered that the general be provided a possible plea deal, in addition to several other options. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did jurors get dismissed?
2. Were any jurors let go?
3. Did some jurors have to leave?
Q2:
1. Who dismissed the jury?
2. By whom were jurors dismissed?
3. Who let jurors go?
Q3:
1. What was Col. James Pohl's reason for dismissing the jury?
2. Why were jurors dismissed by Col. James Pohl?
3. Why did Col. James Pohl let the jury go?
Q4:
1. What is not in play?
2. What is no longer negotiable?
3. What is absolutely impossible?
Q5:
1. Will Jeffrey Sinclair admit his guilt?
2. Will Jeffrey Sinclair say he is guilty?
3. Will Jeffrey Sinclair be forthcoming about his guilt?
Q6:
1. Who is there a case against?
2. What is the name of the accused?
3. Who has been accused of something?
Q7:
1. How long could negotiations last?
2. How long might it take to negotiate the case?
3. What is the possible duration of the talks?
Q8:
1. What did Col. James Pohl order?
2. What order did Col. James Pohl give?
3. What was commanded by Col. James Pohl?
Q9:
1. What would Col. James Pohl not allow?
2. What wouldn't the judge allow to happen?
3. What would Col. James Pohl not let happen?
Q10:
1. What did the judge indicate?
2. What did Col. James Pohl indicate?
3. What was pointed out by the judge?
Q11:
1. Did anything happen on Tuesday?
2. Were there any negotiations on Tuesday?
3. Did Tuesday bring any deals?
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3fprzhyepy79ff2fk40rchtfht43vi | gutenberg | Chapter II.--Off For Zaruth.
"To Siberia--Cedar Island!"
"Yes, mother. From what I can make out, father is there, a prisoner of some people called the Svlachkys, and all on account of a wonderful stone chest, said to be filled with gold and silver."
"It cannot be true, Bob."
"I think it is. This dead sailor's name was Ruel Gross----"
"Ruel Gross!" Mrs. Cromwell started. "I heard of him before. Your father said he possessed a wonderful secret."
"He did--about the stone chest. The whole truth is, so far as I can understand, he got father to go up there in search of it. After it was found they got into some trouble with the natives, and Ruel Gross abandoned father to his fate. Here is a handmade map of the locality."
"Pray Heaven your father still lives," murmured Mrs. Cromwell. "But you say you are going up there. How?"
"I don't know. But I'll find a way, even if I have to go up on a whaler."
Mrs. Cromwell shook her head.
On the following morning the dead body of the sailor was turned over to the village authorities.
Between them mother and son decided for the present to say nothing to the simple fisher-folks concerning Ruel Gross' revelation.
"They'll sneer at us--that's all," said Bob.
But Bob confided in his chum, Jack Larmore, an orphan boy of his own age. Jack was tremendously interested.
"Say, Bob, I'll go along, if you say the word," he said. "I'm sick of Sea Cove and the mean folks living around here." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What location is Bob headed to?
2. Where is Bob traveling to?
3. Where is Bob headed off to?
Q2:
1. Who is Bob trying to locate?
2. Who is Bob searching for?
3. Whose location is Bob trying to figure out?
Q3:
1. Who is Bob's father in the custody of?
2. Who has custody of Bob's dad?
3. Who's got Bob's dad?
Q4:
1. How might Bob get to Siberia?
2. How is Bob potentially going to reach Siberia?
3. How will Bob perhaps be able to get to Siberia?
Q5:
1. Who is Bob discussing his trip to Siberia with?
2. With whom is Bob talking about his trip to Siberia?
3. Who is Bob talking to about going to Siberia?
Q6:
1. Did Bob and his mother decide not to tell anyone about his trip?
2. Did Bob and his mom decide to keep his trip a secret?
3. Did Bob and his mother resolve not to reveal his trip to others?
Q7:
1. Whose body was handed over to authorities?
2. Whose body did the authorities receive?
3. Whose body was turned over to the people in charge in the village?
Q8:
1. What was the name of the dead sailor?
2. Who was the dead sailor?
3. What was the deceased sailor's name?
Q9:
1. Who did Bob confide in?
2. What was the name of Bob's confidant?
3. Who did Bob talk to about his secret?
Q10:
1. Who was Jack Larmore?
2. What was Jack Larmore's relationship to Bob?
3. How did Jack Larmore know Bob?
Q11:
1. Did Jack Larmore want to go on Bob's trip?
2. Did Jack Larmore wish to accompany Bob on his journey?
3. Was Jack Larmore keen on going with Bob?
Q12:
1. Why did Jack Larmore want to accompany Bob?
2. Why did Jack Larmore want to go with Bob?
3. What was Jack Larmore's reason for wanting to go along with Bob?
Q13:
1. Were the residents unpleasant?
2. Were the residents mean people?
3. Were the people in Sea Cove not very nice?
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36w0ob37hwe5i7eo0mew1h7lpelzhp | race | The child of today owes much of its pleasant school life to the work of Maria Montessori and others who felt as she did.
Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern prefix = st1 /Italy. Both her parents were well educated.
While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature of the child's mind. It came to her that small children should have freedom to learn.
Maria became a doctor and a professor at RomeUniversity. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the Children's House. The rooms were bright and color1ful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.
Maria Montessori was one of the world's great teachers. She traveled in Europe, Americaand Far East. She thought that true education, providing for the real needs of the child, would produce wise and happy grown-ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea of what childhood is.
Maria Montessori died in Hollandat the age of eighty-two. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. In what year was Maria Montessori born?
2. What year did Maria Montessori come into the world?
3. What was the year of Maria Montessori's birth?
Q2:
1. Where was Maria Montessori born?
2. What was Maria Montessori's home country?
3. What was Maria Montessori's birthplace?
Q3:
1. Were Maria Montessori's parents educated?
2. Did Maria Montessori come from an educated family?
3. Did Maria Montessori's parents have a lot of education themselves?
Q4:
1. What did Maria Montessori take interest in as a student?
2. What interested Maria Montessori during her time as a student?
3. What was Maria Montessori fascinated by during her time as a student?
Q5:
1. What was Maria Montessoris profession?
2. What did Maria Montessori work as?
3. How was Maria Montessori employed?
Q6:
1. Where was Maria Montessori a professor at?
2. What school employed Maria Montessori as a professor?
3. What was Maria Montessori's workplace?
Q7:
1. How many kids did Maria Montessori work with in 1907?
2. How many children did Maria Montessori oversee in 1907?
3. In the year 1907, what was the number of children that Maria Montessori worked with?
Q8:
1. How old were the kids that Maria Montessori worked with?
2. What was the age of the children Maria Montessori worked with?
3. What age of children did Maria Montessori work with?
Q9:
1. Did Maria Montessori give children time limits for learning?
2. Did Maria Montessori put time limits on her classes' learning?
3. Did Maria Montessori have a set amount of time in which children in her classes could learn?
Q10:
1. Where did Maria Montessori travel to?
2. What locations did Maria Montessori visit?
3. Where did Maria Montessori's travels take her?
Q11:
1. How old was Maria Montessori when she died?
2. At what age did Maria Montessori pass away?
3. What was Maria Montessori's age at the time of her death?
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3f0bg9b9mpn8ksy7rrq1wx9p5jf7y2 | cnn | When SpongeBob SquarePants skips onto shelves in boxes of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese next year, he may be a little less, well, yellow than your kids are used to.
Kraft has revamped its character-shaped product line for 2014, according to company spokeswoman Lynne Galia. The new versions will have six additional grams of whole grains, be lower in sodium and saturated fat, and will use spices instead of artificial food dyes to recreate the pasta's famous yellow-orange color.
"Parents have told us that they would like fun Mac & Cheese varieties with the same great taste, but with improved nutrition," Galia said in an e-mail.
The company will remove Yellow No. 5 and Yellow No. 6 from boxes containing pasta shaped like SpongeBob SquarePants and those with Halloween and winter shapes. Two new shapes of the popular pasta -- Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and "How to Train Your Dragon 2" from Dreamworks -- will also be free of food coloring, Galia said.
Check out Eatocracy's recipe for homemade Mac & Cheese
The Center for Science in the Public Interest hailed Kraft's decision on Friday. Michael Jacobson, the center's executive director, said he is pleased with the announcement but is "puzzled" as to why Kraft would not change its iconic elbow-shaped macaroni product as well.
"As Kraft has today shown, it is clearly possible to make macaroni and cheese without these harmful chemicals," Jacobson said in a statement.
The company tries to offer a wide variety of choices to consumers, Galia responded. "Making ingredient changes isn't as simple as it would seem," she said. "All of the ingredients must work together to deliver the distinctive taste, appearance and texture consumers expect and love from Original KRAFT Mac & Cheese. Our fans have made it clear they won't settle for anything less." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was taken out of Kraft products?
2. What did Kraft remove?
3. What is Kraft discontinuing hte use of?
Q2:
1. What new shapes of pasta are there?
2. What are the new shapes of macaroni?
3. What shapes of macaroni are being introduced?
Q3:
1. Will the new macaroni shapes be free of food coloring?
2. Will there be zero food coloring in the new macaroni shapes?
3. Will Kraft's macaroni shapes feature no food coloring?
Q4:
1. What does Michael Jacobson do?
2. What is Michael Jacobson's job?
3. How is Michael Jacobson employed?
Q5:
1. How many grams of whole grains are in the new macaroni?
2. How many grams of whole grains does Kraft feature in its new products?
3. What amount of whole grains does Kraft put into its new macaroni?
Q6:
1. What is giving Kraft products their yellow color instead of food dyes?
2. What has Kraft replaced food dyes with in order to achieve the yellow color of their macaroni?
3. How is Kraft making its macaroni yellow now that it's not using food dyes?
Q7:
1. What action did Kraft take in 2014?
2. What change did Kraft make in 2014?
3. What happened at Kraft in 2014?
Q8:
1. Who said that Kraft tried to offer variety?
2. Who commented on Kraft's attempt to offer variet?
3. Who said that Kraft was trying to be more diverse with its products?
Q9:
1. What puzzled Michael Jacobson?
2. What was odd to Michael Jacobson?
3. What did Michael Jacobson have trouble understanding?
Q10:
1. Who employs Michael Jacobson?
2. Who is Michael Jacobson's employer?
3. Where does Michael Jacobson work?
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35gmh2sv3ehhzt9f8cv90g34d19oet | wikipedia | Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province accounting for nearly 40 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto.
Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States follows inland waterways: from the west at Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River drainage system. These are the Rainy River, the Pigeon River, Lake Superior, the St. Marys River, Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario and along the St. Lawrence River from Kingston, Ontario, to the Quebec boundary just east of Cornwall, Ontario. There is only about of land border made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Are there 16 provinces and territories in Canada?
2. Is 16 the correct number of provinces and territories in Canada?
3. Does Canada contain sixteen territories and provinces?
Q2:
1. What is the correct number of provinces and territories in Canada?
2. How many provinces and territories are there in Canada?
3. What's the quantity of provinces and territories within the country of Canada?
Q3:
1. Which Canadian province or territory is the article about?
2. What province or territory in Canada does the article discuss?
3. Which province or territory in Canada does the article talk about?
Q4:
1. Is Ontario a province or a territory?
2. Does Ontario get classified as a province or a territory?
3. Is province or territory the world that accurately describes Ontario?
Q5:
1. Is Ontario Canada's biggest province?
2. Is Ontario the largest province in Canada?
3. Are all of Canada's other provinces smaller than Ontario?
Q6:
1. What borders Ontario?
2. What does Ontario share a border with?
3. What can be found on Ontario's border?
Q7:
1. Can Manitoba be found to the east of Ontario?
2. Is Manitoba on the Eastern border of Ontario?
3. Is Manitoba on Ontario's east border?
Q8:
1. Where can Manitoba be found with respect to Ontario?
2. Where is Manitoba in relation to Ontario?
3. Where in relation to Ontario is Manitoba located?
Q9:
1. Does Ontario house the capital of Canada?
2. Can Canada's capital be found in Ontario?
3. Is the capital of Canada located in Ontario?
Q10:
1. What is the capital of Canada?
2. Which city serves as Canada's capital?
3. What is the name of Canada's capital city?
Q11:
1. Does Ontario house Canada's most populous city?
2. Is the most populous Canadian city located in Ontario?
3. Does Ontario have the Canadian city with the most people in it?
Q12:
1. What is Canada's most populous city?
2. Which Canadian city has the most people in it?
3. What is the name of the Canadian city with the largest population?
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3rwe2m8qwha0qiu9zqwh021vtgin0v | wikipedia | The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on 18 September 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U.S. military to be formed, and is the largest and one of the world's most technologically advanced air forces. The USAF articulates its core functions as Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Special Operations, Air Superiority, Global Integrated ISR, Space Superiority, Command and Control, Cyberspace Superiority, Personnel Recovery, Global Precision Attack, Building Partnerships, Rapid Global Mobility and Agile Combat Support.
The U.S. Air Force is a military service organized within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The Air Force is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force, who reports to the Secretary of Defense, and is appointed by the President with Senate confirmation. The highest-ranking military officer in the Department of the Air Force is the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, who exercises supervision over Air Force units, and serves as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Air Force combat and mobility forces are assigned, as directed by the Secretary of Defense, to the Combatant Commanders, and neither the Secretary of the Air Force nor the Chief of Staff have operational command authority over them. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the namne of the air force branch of the armed forces?
2. What branch of the armed forced controls the air?
3. What branch is the air force?
Q2:
1. What is the The United States Air Force a branch of?
2. What larger organization is the The United States Air Force a part of?
3. What is the The United States Air Force a member of?
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31ibvunm9sz4vri84z1tdqicls1vfu | wikipedia | In Christianity, an archbishop (, via Latin "archiepiscopus", from Greek , from -, "chief", and , "bishop") is a bishop of higher rank or office. In some cases, like the Lutheran Church of Sweden, it is the denomination leader title. Like popes, patriarchs, metropolitans, cardinal bishops, diocesan bishops, and suffragan bishops, archbishops are in the highest of the three traditional orders of bishops, priests, also called presbyters, and deacons. An archbishop may be granted the title, or ordained as chief pastor of a metropolitan see or another episcopal see to which the title of archbishop is attached.
Episcopal sees are generally arranged in groups in which the bishop who is the ordinary of one of them has certain powers and duties of oversight over the other sees. He is known as the metropolitan archbishop of that see. In the Roman Catholic Church, canon 436 of the Code of Canon Law indicates what these powers and duties are for a Latin Rite metropolitan archbishop, while those of the head of an autonomous ("sui iuris") Eastern Catholic Church are indicated in canon 157 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
As well as the much more numerous metropolitan sees, there are 77 Roman Catholic sees that have archiepiscopal rank. In some cases, such a see is the only one in a country, such as Luxembourg or Monaco, too small to be divided into several dioceses so as to form an ecclesiastical province. In others, the title of archdiocese is for historical reasons attributed to a see that was once of greater importance. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the highest rank a bishop can have?
2. Which level of bishop is highest ranked?
3. What is the most prestigious level of bishop?
Q2:
1. In what religion are there sees?
2. What religious tradition involves the see?
3. Which religion incorporates the figure of the see?
Q3:
1. How many sees have archiepiscopical rank?
2. What is the number of sees with an archiepiscopical rank?
3. Name the quantity of sees with an archiepiscopical rank.
Q4:
1. What's a country that only has one see?
2. Which nation has a single see?
3. What is one of the nations with just one see?
Q5:
1. What's a country that only has one see besides Luxembourg?
2. Which nation has a single see, in addition to Luxembourg?
3. What is one of the nations with just one see, other than Luxembourg?
Q6:
1. Why does Luxembourg have only one see?
2. Why is there just one see in Luxembourg?
3. What is the reason that Luxembourg has a single see?
Q7:
1. Who normally oversees the see?
2. Whose duty is it generally speaking to oversee a see?
3. Which title of person is charged with oversight of a see normally?
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3txmy6ucaeo5n72hryhizxy17rccqw | wikipedia | In chemistry, pH () (potential of hydrogen) is a numeric scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution. It is approximately the negative of the base 10 logarithm of the molar concentration, measured in units of moles per liter, of hydrogen ions. More precisely it is the negative of the logarithm to base 10 of the activity of the hydrogen ion. Solutions with a pH less than 7 are acidic and solutions with a pH greater than 7 are basic. Pure water is neutral, at pH 7 (25°C), being neither an acid nor a base. Contrary to popular belief, the pH value can be less than 0 or greater than 14 for very strong acids and bases respectively.
pH measurements are important in agronomy, medicine, biology, chemistry, agriculture, forestry, food science, environmental science, oceanography, civil engineering, chemical engineering, nutrition, water treatment and water purification, as well as many other applications.
The pH scale is traceable to a set of standard solutions whose pH is established by international agreement. Primary pH standard values are determined using a concentration cell with transference, by measuring the potential difference between a hydrogen electrode and a standard electrode such as the silver chloride electrode. The pH of aqueous solutions can be measured with a glass electrode and a pH meter, or an indicator. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What does pH stand for?
2. What is meant by the acronym pH?
3. How can pH be defined?
Q2:
1. What kind of scale is used for pH?
2. What scale does pH employ?
3. On what kind of scale is pH measured?
Q3:
1. What does pH specify?
2. What is measured by pH?
3. What does a pH value determine?
Q4:
1. What is pH the negative of?
2. pH value is the negative of what?
3. State what pH is the negative of.
Q5:
1. What is pH measured in?
2. What unit is used to measure pH?
3. How is pH value determined?
Q6:
1. What are things with pH less than 7 called?
2. What is the word to describe something with a pH lower than 7?
3. How can something with a pH lower than 7 be described?
Q7:
1. What is something with a pH above 7?
2. What is the word to describe something with a pH higher than 7?
3. How can something with a pH higher than 7 be described?
Q8:
1. What is the pH of water?
2. What word describes the pH of water?
3. What pH value is given to water?
Q9:
1. What degree of water is used to measure its pH?
2. What degree of water measures is pH?
3. Which degree of water is used to determine its pH?
Q10:
1.
2.
3.
Q11:
1. Is it possible for pH to be less than 10?
2. Do pH values below 10 exist?
3. Can something have a pH of less than 10?
Q12:
1. Is it possible for pH to be less than 0?
2. Do pH values below 0 exist?
3. Can something have a pH of less than 0?
Q13:
1. Is it possible for pH to be more than 14?
2. Do pH values over 14 exist?
3. Can something have a pH of more than 14?
Q14:
1. How is the pH of aqueous solutions measured?
2. What measures the pH of acqeous solutions?
3. How is the pH of an aqueous solution determined?
Q15:
1. How is the pH of aqueous solutions measured other than with a pH meter?
2. What measures the pH of acqeous solutions, besides a pH meter?
3. How is the pH of an aqueous solution determined, apart from by a pH meter?
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3bqu611vfpkxxaesycw5bc74r5j992 | gutenberg | CHAPTER LXI
After throwing George Caresfoot into the bramble-bush, Arthur walked steadily back to the inn, where he arrived, quite composed in manner, at about half-past seven. Old Sam, the ostler, was in the yard, washing a trap. He went up to him, and asked when the next train started for London.
"There is one as leaves Roxham at nine o'clock, sir, and an uncommon fast one, I'm told. But you bean't a-going yet, be you, sir?"
"Yes, have the gig ready in time to catch the train."
"Very good, sir. Been to the fire, I suppose sir?" he went on, dimly perceiving that Arthur's clothes were torn. "It were a fine place, it wore, and it did blaze right beautiful."
"No; what fire?"
"Bless me, sir, didn't you see it last night?--why, Isleworth Hall, to be sure. It wore burnt right out, and all as was in it."
"Oh! How did it come to get burnt?"
"Can't say, sir, but I did hear say how as Lady Bellamy was a-dining there last night along with the squire; the squire he went out somewhere, my lady she goes home, and the footman he goes to put out the lamp and finds the drawing-room a roaring fiery furnace, like as parson tells us on. But I don't know how that can be, for I heard how as the squire was a-dying, so 'taint likely that he was a-going out. But, lord, sir, folk in these parts do lie that uncommon, 'taint as it be when I was a boy. As like as no, he's no more dying than you are. Anyhow, sir, it all burned like tinder, and the only thing, so I'm told, as was saved was a naked stone statty of a girl with a chain round her wrists, as Jim Blakes, our constable, being in liquor, brought out in his arms, thinking how as it was alive, and tried to rewive it with cold water." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the site of last night's fire?
2. Where was there a blaze last night?
3. In what location did a fire burn last night?
Q2:
1. Did the fire burn everything?
2. Was everything consumed by the fire?
3. Did the fire take everything?
Q3:
1. Who was eating at Isleworth Hall last night?
2. Who dined at Isleworth Hall last night?
3. Who had dinner at Isleworth Hall the evening last?
Q4:
1. Who was Lady Bellamy's dinner companion?
2. Who did Lady Bellamy dine with?
3. With whom did Lady Bellamy have dinner?
Q5:
1. Who went to extinguish a lamp?
2. Who went to turn off a lamp?
3. Who was going to make the gesture of putting out a lamp?
Q6:
1. What did the footman find in the drawing room?
2. What did the footman come across when he entered the drawing room?
3. What was the footman met with when he went into the drawing room?
Q7:
1. Who told the story to Old Sam?
2. Who did Old Sam learn of the tale from?
3. Who recounted the events to Old Sam?
Q8:
1. Did any single thing get saved from the fire?
2. Did any items make it out of the fire?
3. Were any objects rescued from the blaze?
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3zppdn2slvwes6596ncr3q8fi01e9f | wikipedia | The University of British Columbia, commonly referred to as UBC, is a public research university with campuses and facilities in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia, the university became independent and adopted its current name in 1915. It is British Columbia's oldest institution of higher learning and has over 60,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley campuses. Most students are enrolled in five larger faculties: Arts, Science, Applied Science, UBC Faculty of Medicine and the Sauder School of Business. UBC's Vancouver campus is within the University Endowment Lands, about west of Downtown Vancouver. The Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is in Kelowna.
According to the annual rankings compiled by "Maclean's" and "U.S. News and World Report", the university consistently ranks among the top three research universities nationwide. In 2015, "U.S. News and World Report" and "Times Higher Education" ranked UBC among the 20 best public universities worldwide. With an annual research budget valued at $600 million, UBC funds 8,442 projects as of 2014. Faculty, alumni and researchers have received seven Nobel Prizes, 69 Rhodes Scholarships, 65 Olympic medals, 8 memberships in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and 208 fellowships to the Royal Society of Canada. The university has also educated three Canadian prime ministers, most recently Justin Trudeau, the current prime minister. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is UBC short for?
2. What's meant by UBC?
3. What is UBC an acronym for?
Q2:
1. When was UBC founded?
2. In what year was the University of British Columbia founded?
3. What was the year of the University of British Columbia's founding?
Q3:
1. What city was the University of British Columbia founded in?
2. Where can the University of British Columbia be found?
3. Which city is home to UBC?
Q4:
1. What was UBC originally called?
2. What was the original name of the University of British Columbia?
3. What name was first given to the University of British Columbia?
Q5:
1. How many students attend the University of British Columbia?
2. How many students does the University of British Columbia have?
3. What is the number of people who study at UBC?
Q6:
1. What are the five important faculties at the University of British Columbia?
2. What are UBC five important faculties?
3. Which 5 schools are the University of British Columbia's most important?
Q7:
1. How can the University of British Columbia be described as a university?
2. What is University of British Columbia like as a university?
3. What type of university is the University of British Columbia?
Q8:
1. Is UBC in the top three universities?
2. Is the University of British Columbia ranked as a top three university?
3. Does UBC rank in the top three of universities?
Q9:
1. Who is one political figure who attended the University of British Columbia?
2. What's one political figure that went to the University of British Columbia?
3. What politician is an alumni of UBC?
Q10:
1. Who is Justin Trudeau?
2. What does Justin Trudeau do?
3. What is Justin Trudeau's title?
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3300dtyqt2hkk5mvnpndply4rvzqew | mctest | One sunny morning, Stewart chose to go to the beach. He knew that a rainstorm was going to arrive on Saturday and wanted to enjoy some sun before it arrived.
Stewart laid on his belly and began reading his newspaper. As he was enjoying the sun and the newspaper, he saw a bug crawl across his blanket. At first Stewart thought it was an ant, but the bug was moving too slowly to be an ant. As Stewart leaned in for a closer look, the bug cried out, "Excuse me, sir! Can you help me?" Stewart was surprised and jumped to his feet. "You can talk!" he shouted. "Yes," said the bug. "Please help me! As you might know, there is a rainstorm coming into town. Unfortunately, I do not have a place to call home. I need to find somewhere to sleep before the rain washes me away!" Stewart felt sad. "Gee," he cried. "That sounds terrible!"
Stewart thought about the problem. "Perhaps you can stay at my house," he said. The bug jumped for joy and said, "Oh, that would be wonderful!" The two traveled back to Stewart's house and the bug found a soft spot to sleep.
The next day, the sky had darkened and rain clouds appeared all over town. Just as the news had said, a rainstorm had arrived. When Stewart woke up, he looked for the bug but could not find him. Then, he saw something flying around his house. "Thank you for letting me sleep here last night," said the butterfly. It was the bug! "I knew I could not change into a butterfly if I was out in the rain. I won't forget your kindness." After speaking, the butterfly flew away. Stewart stood in his doorway and shouted, "Goodbye!" QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Where did Stewart travel to?
2. What location was visited by Stewart?
3. Where did Stewart head off to?
Q2:
1. What would be in Stewart's location by Saturday?
2. What was scheduled to come on Saturday?
3. What was set to arrive at the end of the week?
Q3:
1. What did Stewart want to take advantage of before the storm?
2. What did Stewart want to enjoy before the arrival of the rain?
3. Before the rain got there, what did Stewart want to take plasure in?
Q4:
1. What was Stewart laid on?
2. What was Stewart resting on?
3. What was Stewart laying down on top of?
Q5:
1. What did Stewart read?
2. What was Stewart's reading material?
3. What did Stewart persue?
Q6:
1. What crawled across Stewart's blanket?
2. What appeared on Stewart's blanket as he was reading?
3. While Stewart was reading, what crawled onto his blanket?
Q7:
1. What did Stewart think the bug was at first?
2. What kind of bug did Stewart first think he saw?
3. What type of bug did Stewart first think he had come across?
Q8:
1. Was the bug moving at a glacial pace?
2. Did the bug take its time moving?
3. Was the insect traveling at a slow pace?
Q9:
1. Did the bug speak to Stewart?
2. Did the insect converse with Stewart?
3. Did the bug have something to say to Stewart?
Q10:
1. What did the bug tell Stewart?
2. What did the bug have to say to Stewart?
3. What was the bug's message for Stewart?
Q11:
1. According to the insect, what was coming to town?
2. What did the bug say would soon be in town?
3. What was on its way according to the insect?
Q12:
1. What did the insect need to do prior to the rainstorm?
2. Before the rain hit, what was on the bug's agenda?
3. Before the storm, what did the insect need to do?
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354p56de9k3bo6myslycebloowqs7c | race | The Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei is one of the most creative architects of our times. He has incorporated both eastern and western ideas into his designs.
Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou, China on April 26, 1917. His father was a famous banker. In 1935, at the age of 17, he came to the United States to study architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1942, he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy selected Pei to design the Kennedy library. After that he became well-known all over the world. People named it one of the Ten Best Buildings in the United States. In 1968, Pei started work on the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C. Over one million people visited the building during its first 50 days in existence.
Following the East Wing project Pei's fame has continued to grow widely. In 1983, French President commissioned Pei to help make the Louvre more modern. Ten years later, the completion of Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre created a new historic landmark for Paris. Pei described it as, "the greatest challenge and greatest accomplishment of my career." At Fragrant Hill, a 300-room hotel in the Chinese capital, Pei has attempted to bring to his native China his often-quoted "third way of making buildings." Avoiding both a complete copying of traditional Chinese motifs as well as the modernism of the West, Pei has managed, at Fragrant Hill, to make one of his most eloquent statements.
Pei has designed nearly 50 projects in the United States and abroad. About half of these projects have won major awards. Pei has been awarded the highest honors from nations over the world. In 1990, Pei was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President George Bush for his contributions to world peace and service to the US government. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who is at the center of the story?
2. Who is the article about?
3. What person's life does the article describe?
Q2:
1. What appears in Ieoh Ming Pei's designs?
2. What does Ieoh Ming Pei put in his designs?
3. What can be found in Ieoh Ming Pei's designs?
Q3:
1. What was Ieoh Ming Pei's birthplace?
2. Where was Ieoh Ming Pei born?
3. Where did Ieoh Ming Pei come into the world?
Q4:
1. On what day was Ieoh Ming Pei born?
2. What was the date of Ieoh Ming Pei's birth?
3. State the birth date of Ieoh Ming Pei.
Q5:
1. What did Ieoh Ming Pei's dad do?
2. How was Ieoh Ming Pei's father employed?
3. What did Ieoh Ming Pei's dad do for a living?
Q6:
1. In what year did Ieoh Ming Pei come to the US?
2. What was the year of Ieoh Ming Pei's arrival in the United States?
3. When did Ieoh Ming Pei get to the United States?
Q7:
1. Why did Ieoh Ming Pei come to the US?
2. What was Ieoh Ming Pei's reason for traveling to the US?
3. What made Ieoh Ming Pei decide to come to the United States?
Q8:
1. Where did Ieoh Ming Pei study architecture?
2. In what university did Ieoh Ming Pei study architecture?
3. What university did Ieoh Ming Pei attend to study architecture?
Q9:
1. What year did Ieoh Ming Pei go to Harvard?
2. In what year did Ieoh Ming Pei attend Harvard?
3. In what year did Ieoh Ming Pei start studying at Harvard?
Q10:
1. Who chose Ieoh Ming Pei to design a library?
2. Who opted to have Ieoh Ming Pei design a library?
3. Whose choice was it to have Ieoh Ming Pei design a library?
Q11:
1. What has the Kennedy library been called?
2. What has the Kennedy Library been referred to as?
3. What have people had to say regarding the Kennedy Library?
Q12:
1. What was Ieoh Ming Pei's next project, after the Kennedy Library?
2. What did Ieoh Ming Pei work on after finishing the Kennedy Library?
3. Once Ieoh Ming Pei was done with the Kennedy Library, what project did he move on to?
Q13:
1. What size crowds did the National Gallery of Art draw at first?
2. How many people went to the National Gallery of Art in the beginning?
3. What were the initial crowd sizes at the National Gallery of Art?
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3owepkl089ce8tutkphqfhbi0rmn7m | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXXI
GOOD NEWS--CONCLUSION
To get to his own place, Chet had to pass the cabin belonging to Andy, and so the chums left the village together, in a carriage they hired with some of the money Barwell Dawson had given them.
The thoughts of each youth were busy, so but little was said by them during the journey. As they came in sight of Andy's home, they saw smoke curling from the chimney.
"Uncle Si must have gotten back from work," said Andy. "Most likely he's cooking supper. Chet, will you stop?"
"Well, I'd rather see my father first," was the answer.
"I don't blame you. Well, come over tomorrow, unless----Hello, there is a stranger!"
Andy pointed to a man who had come to the cabin door, he having heard the sound of the carriage wheels. Chet stared hard at the individual. Then he took a flying leap to the ground and ran forward.
"Father!"
The man started, and then flung out his hands.
"If it isn't Chet--my own son Chet!" he burst out, joyfully. "I was just wishing with all my heart that I knew where you were." And he shook hands over and over again.
"And I've been hurrying to you as fast as I could for weeks," answered Chet, with a glad look in his eyes. "I heard you were at our cabin, and was going there."
"I was there, and came here to ask Mr. Graham about you," answered Tolney Greene.
Josiah Graham had come to the door, holding in his hand a frying pan containing bacon. He gave one look at the newcomers. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the number of the chapter?
2. Which chapter appears?
3. Where in the chapter sequence are we?
Q2:
1. What person's cabin did Chet go by?
2. Whose cabin did Chet go by?
3. Who had a cabin that Chet passed by?
Q3:
1. Did Andy and Chet leave together?
2. Were Andy and Chet together when they left?
3. Did Andy and Chet depart in each other's company?
Q4:
1. What did Andy and Chet leave in?
2. In what sort of vehicle did Andy and Chet depart?
3. What did Andy and Chet head off in?
Q5:
1. Who gave Andy and Chet money?
2. Who was the source of Andy and Chet's funds?
3. Who sprang some cash for Andy and Chet?
Q6:
1. What did the chimney expel?
2. The chimney was the source of what?
3. What was being produced by the chimney?
Q7:
1. Was the smoke curling?
2. Did the chimney produce smoke that curled?
3. Did the chimney smoke come out in spirals?
Q8:
1. Who returned from work?
2. Who came back from their job?
3. Who had been working and came bacK?
Q9:
1. What was Uncle Si doing?
2. What was Uncle Si up to?
3. What was Uncle Si in the middle of?
Q10:
1. Who was the first person that Chet wanted to see?
2. Who did Chet want to meet up with first?
3. Who did Chet wish to see before anyone else?
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3vzlgyjeyla24xe35qwi43vfcxfzxe | race | Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here: Education School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or exercise books even though they don't have to pay for school. For those lucky enough to go to school , they have a lot to learn. Some take two language classes: English or French, and their first language. There is also math, science, history, social studies and geography. _ take up much of children's time after school. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day. Also there's cleaning , washing and helping Mum with the meal. Daily fun It's not all work and no play. Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs ( )and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string ( ). They play in the country and the streets of old towns. There're many football teams for teenagers in Africa. Internet It's really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600yuan. This is more than the average monthly pay per person. Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet. Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Is it cheap to get an education?
2. Does education cost little money?
3. Is just a small amount of funds needed to go to school?
Q2:
1. Does everyone have the opportunity to go to school?
2. Is going to school something that is available to all?
3. Is everyone provided with the opportunity to get an education?
Q3:
1. Are sports a common activity?
2. Do lots of people practice sports?
3. Is playing a sport something that is popular to do?
Q4:
1. What is the price of 20 hours of internet?
2. How much money does 20 hours of internet cost?
3. How much does one owe for using twenty hours of internet?
Q5:
1. Do Africans make more than 600 yuan per month?
2. Is 600 yuan less than the average monthly pay of people in Africa?
3. Is 600 yuan an inferior sum to the average pay per month of someone in Africa?
Q6:
1. Which countries are the top two internet users in Africa?
2. Which two African countries use the most internet?
3. What two African nations are the top users of the Internet?
Q7:
1. Is there football in Africa?
2. Does the sport football exist in Africa?
3. Do people play football in Africa?
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3u5jl4wy5k9m10qekx6sa7i6cbrx4y | cnn | (CNN) -- Right-wing U.S. Republicans are up in arms over Cuba again. Their ostensible cause for concern is last week's visit to the island by Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who were photographed in Havana, apparently celebrating their wedding anniversary.
Read more: Lawmakers ask why Beyoncé and Jay-Z went to Cuba
These blinkered conservatives need to get over themselves. The 60-year stand-off between the U.S. and Cuba is absurd. It is counterproductive and harmful to both countries. It is time to end this Cold War anachronism, kiss and make up.
Anger over Beyoncé's supposed breach of the U.S. embargo rules restricting American citizens' travel to Cuba is symbolic of a deeper fear among right-wingers. Two key factors have changed since the days -- not so long ago -- when Washington seemed to be regularly threatening the Castro government with Iraq-style overthrow.
One is that George W. Bush has been replaced by a Democrat. As Barack Obama enters his second and final term, immune to electoral imperatives, conservatives worry he may use his freedom of action to effect an historic rapprochement with Cuba. American liberals certainly believe he should do so.
The second change is in Cuba itself, where the government, now led by Fidel Castro's brother, Raoul, has embarked on a cautious program of reform. The government -- dubbed the world's longest-running dictatorship by the American right -- has even set a date for its own dissolution.
Doing what "dictators" rarely do, Raoul Castro announced in February that in 2018, he would hand over power and that any successor would be subject to term limits. The Castro brothers have reportedly chosen a career communist, first vice president Miguel Diaz-Canel, to succeed them. But in reality, once their grip on power is relaxed, anything may happen. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What term is Barack Obama in?
2. Which presidential term is Barack Obama currently in?
3. Barack Obama is in which term of his presidency?
Q2:
1. What are Republicans worried that Barack Obama might do?
2. What do some Republicans fear that Barack Obama could do?
3. What potential action by Barack Obama is feared by some conservatives?
Q3:
1. What is something that Barack Obama could do with his freedom of action?
2. What might Barack Obama do with his freedom of action?
3. How could Barack Obama potentially use his freedom of action?
Q4:
1. Who thinks Barack Obama should cozy up a bit to Cuba?
2. Who believes it would be best for Barack Obama to effect an historic rapprochement with Cuba?
3. Who thinks that effecting an historic rapprochement with Cuba would be in Barack Obama's favor?
Q5:
1. Who appeared in Cuba?
2. Who traveled to Cuba?
3. Who went on a trip to Cuba?
Q6:
1. Is there evidence that Beyonce and Jay Z were in Cuba?
2. Does proof of Beyonce and Jay Z's trip to Cuba exist?
3. Is there proof that Jay Z and Beyonce traveled to Cuba?
Q7:
1. What were Beyonce and Jay Z doing in Cuba?
2. Why did Beyonce and Jay Z travel to Cuba?
3. What was Beyonce and Jay Z's reason for visiting Cuba?
Q8:
1. How long have things been tense between the United States and Cuba?
2. For how many years has the relationship between the United States and Cuba been frosty?
3. How long have there been tensions between the US and Cuba?
Q9:
1. Who is the leader of Cuba?
2. What is the name of Cuba's leader?
3. Who is the head of state of Cuba?
Q10:
1. Who is Raoul Castro's brother?
2. What is the name of Raoul Castro's brother?
3. Who is Raoul Castro's male sibling?
Q11:
1. What kind of program is Raoul Castro launching?
2. What sort of program is Raoul Castro starting?
3. What program is coming about thanks to Raoul Castro?
Q12:
1. Is Raoul Castro diving head first into reforms?
2. Is Raoul Castro quickly bringing about reforms?
3. Will reform come quickly in Cuba?
Q13:
1. What is Cuba's government known as?
2. What does the American right call the Cuban government?
3. How do American conservatives talk about the government of Cuba?
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3u5nzhp4lr2b43ciddguaj57fhcphw | cnn | (CNN)If you want him to stay, you're going to have to pay Sly Stone.
That's the $5 million message from jurors in California regarding the soul-funk music icon, known for classic Sly and the Family Stone hits such as "Everyday People, " "If You Want Me to Stay," "Dance to the Music" and "Family Affair."
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles Superior Court civil jury found for Stone in his breach-of-contract lawsuit against Even St. Productions, manager Jerry Goldstein and attorney Glenn Stone, awarding him $5 million in royalties and damages.
"This is one for the good guys," Los Angles trial lawyer Nicholas Hornberger said. "These people cheated him and took all his money."
In his lawsuit, Stone (whose legal name is Sylvester Stewart) alleged that Goldstein and Glenn Stone "without the permission of Sly Stone, have received, borrowed, and continue to receive millions of dollars in royalties or derived from royalties," according to the Los Angeles Times.
"They would give him a little money so he would sign stuff," Hornberger said. "They had him sign all sorts of complicated contracts he would never understand, and he just wanted to make music. They just wanted his royalties."
By 2011, Stone was reportedly homeless, living out of a van. He had sued Goldstein in 2010, accusing him of stealing his royalties.
Attorney Gregory Bodell, who represents Goldstein and Glenn Stone, said his clients plan to appeal.
"We are disappointed with the verdict, and we believe the jury didn't understand" all of the evidence, Bodell said. "It's plain to me from the jury award, evidence and other information I've received subsequently" that the jury miscalculated the verdict, he said. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did the jury communicate?
2. What was the jury's message?
3. What was communicated by jurors?
Q2:
1. What was happening legally?
2. Why was a jury called?
3. What were jurors determining?
Q3:
1. What was the amount of royalties and damages?
2. How much in royalties and damages was owed to Sly Stone?
3. What amount was Sly Stone getting in royalties and damages?
Q4:
1. What does Jerry Goldstein do?
2. What is Jerrry Goldstein's role?
3. How is Jerry Goldstein employed?
Q5:
1. Where did the lawsuit appear?
2. In what building was the lawsuit filed?
3. Where did Sly Stone's team file a lawsuit?
Q6:
1. Who represented Jerry Goldstein and Glenn Stone?
2. Who was the attorney of Jerry Goldstein and Glenn stone?
3. What was the name of the lawyer of Jerry Goldstein and Glenn Stone?
Q7:
1. In what year did Sly Stone sue Jerry Goldstein?
2. When did Sly Stone bring a lawsuit against Jerry Goldstein?
3. What was the year when Sly Stone filed suit against his former manager?
Q8:
1. What did Sly Stone accuse his manager of?
2. What accusation did Sly Stone launch against his manager?
3. What does Sly Stone allege that Jerry Goldstein has done?
Q9:
1. What is Sly Stone's legal name?
2. What is the real name of Sly Stone?
3. What does Sly Stone legally go by?
Q10:
1. What is the name of the Los Angeles Trial lawyer?
2. Who is a trial lawyer in Los Angeles?
3. Who is a lawyer that tries cases in Los Angeles?
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3s06ph7ksr4rbvoe6fmei28bkdzd11 | gutenberg | CHAPTER THREE.
RELATES HOW BIG BEN BECAME A TRAVELLING COMPANION, AND HOW A BIG BEAR WAS CAPTURED--DISCUSSIONS AND MISFORTUNES.
To the great satisfaction of Will Osten and his friends, it was discovered that Benjamin Hicks was a wandering trapper, whose avocations led him to whatever part of the wilderness was most likely to produce furs, and who had no particular objection to take a trip across the mountains with our adventurers. Indeed Big Ben thought no more of a ride of several hundreds of miles than most men do of an afternoon walk, and, if particular business did not prevent him, he was always ready to undertake a "venture" so long as it was, in his opinion, justifiable and likely to pay.
"You see, sir," he said, as he and Will cantered together along the base of a low hill one evening, "it's not that I'm of an unsettled natur', but I've bin born to this sort o' life, an' it would be no manner o' use in me tryin' to change it. Once upon a time I used to think o' settlin' in one of the back settlements--that was when my poor old mother was alive. I used to live with her and take care of her after my father's death. Then I married and thought I was fairly fixed down for life, but one night when I chanced to be out looking after my traps, a war-party o' Injuns attacked the village and killed every soul in it. At least so it was said at the time, but afterwards I met a lad who had escaped, an' he told me that he had seen my mother and wife killed, but that a few of the men escaped as well as him." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What information came to light regarding Benjamin Hicks?
2. What about Benjamin Hicks ended up being revealed?
3. What was found out regarding Benjamin Hicks?
Q2:
1. What did a ride of several hundred miles feel like to Big Ben?
2. What was Big Ben's opinion of a ride of many hundreds of iles?
3. How did Big Ben feel towards riding several hundred miles?
Q3:
1. Who was formerly under Ben's care?
2. Who was Ben formerly in charge of taking care of?
3. Who did it used to be Ben's job to care for?
Q4:
1. Who discovered Benjamin Hicks' identity as a wandering trapper?
2. Who found out that Benjamin Hicks was a wandering trapper?
3. Who learned of Benjamin Hicks' job as a wandering trapper?
Q5:
1. Where did the group huddle to talk?
2. Where did the group get together to discuss?
3. What was the location of the group's huddled discussion?
Q6:
1. Did settling down ever cross Benjamin Hicks mind?
2. Did Benjamin Hicks ever consider settling down?
3. Was settling down ever a possibility for Benjamin Hicks?
Q7:
1. What did Benjamin Hicks require in order to undertake an adventure?
2. What did Benjamin Hicks need if he was to go on a venture?
3. What was a required element of Benjamin Hicks taking a "venture"?
Q8:
1. Where did Benjamin Hicks' avocations lead him?
2. Where was Benjamin Hicks taken by his avocations?
3. Where would Benjamin Hicks find himself as a result of his avocations?
Q9:
1. Was there any use in trying to change Benjamin Hicks wandering fur trapping ways?
2. Was there any hope of Benjamin Hicks changing his wandering fur trapping ways?
3. Was there any possibility that Benjamin Hicks would cease being a wandering fur trapper?
Q10:
1. What was Benjamin Hicks checking when a war party attacked?
2. What was Benjamin Hicks looking for at the time of the war party's attack?
3. What was Benjamin Hicks checking on when Indians attacked the village?
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33m4ia01qg1t26scv925i0tg3guxrh | race | Would you like to go to Beijing, our capital? It's far away from Guangdong. It's 2313 kilometers from Beijing to Guangdong. The city of Kunming is 2216 kilometers away from Guangdong. It's always very warm there. But it's very hot in summer in Wuhan. It's 1084 kilometers from Guangdong to Wuhan. Changsha is near Guangdong. It's 726 kilometers from Changsha to Guangdong. Do you know which city is the biggest in China? It's Shanghai. It's 1811 kilometers from Guangdong to Shanghai. If you travel by air, you'll find it very interesting and fast enough to fly from Guangdong to Beijing. It only takes you about four hours and you'll get there easily, safely and unhurriedly .But traveling by train is quite different. You have to stay on the train for over thirty hours to arrive in Beijing. More and more people like to travel by air. You can see why, can't you? QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Can Beijing be described as a capital?
2. Is Beijing the capital of something?
3. Does anywhere have Beijing as its capital city?
Q2:
1. Is Beijing or Kunming further from Guangdong?
2. Which is at the most distance from Guangdong - Beijing or Kunming?
3. Would it take one longer to get to Beijing or Kunming from Guangdong?
Q3:
1. What is the average temperature in Kunming?
2. What is the weather like usually in Kunming?
3. What temperature is it normally in Kunming?
Q4:
1. Is Wuhan or Changsha closer to Guangdong?
2. Which is the closest distance to Guangdong - Wuhan or Changsha?
3. Would it take you less time to get to Guangdong from Wuhan or Changsha?
Q5:
1. Is Beijing, Kunming or Shanghai closer to Guangdong?
2. Which is the closest distance to Guangdong - Beijing, Kunming or Shanghai?
3. Would it take you less time to get to Guangdong from Beijing, Kunming or Shanghai?
Q6:
1. What is the most efficient method for going between Guangdong and Beijing?
2. What's the quickest way to get between Guangdong and Beijing?
3. What means of transportation is the most efficient for getting in between Beijing and Guangdong?
Q7:
1. Does a train ride between Guangdong and Beijing take more or less than a day?
2. Is a train trip between Guangdong and Beijing more or less than a day long?
3. Does it take more or less than 24 hrs to get between Guangdong and Beijing by train?
Q8:
1. Does a plane ride between Guangdong and Beijing take more or less than a day?
2. Is a plane trip between Guangdong and Beijing more or less than a day long?
3. Does it take more or less than 24 hrs to get between Guangdong and Beijing by plane?
Q9:
1. Which nation is Shanghai located in?
2. What country is home to Shanghai?
3. Where is Shanghai?
Q10:
1. Is there increasing or decreasing air travel in the nation of China?
2. Does China have an increasing or decreasing amount of air traffic?
3. Is travel by plane in China increasing or decreasing?
Q11:
1. Is Guangdong hot or cold on average?
2. Is it generally cool or warm in Guangdong?
3. Does Guangdong tend to see cool or warm weather?
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3rxpczqmqpbunfy585nmonb8x5lg1k | gutenberg | CHAPTER VII
FACE TO FACE
"If you catch Porton, Dave, what will you do--turn him over to the authorities?"
"Yes, Roger."
"Is Bixter much of a place?"
"Oh, no. There are but two stores and two churches and not over thirty or forty houses."
"Then you may have some trouble in finding an officer. Probably the village doesn't boast of anything more than a constable and a Justice of the Peace."
"I am not worrying about that yet, Roger," returned our hero, grimly. "We have got to catch Porton first."
"Oh, I know that. But if he started for Bixter on foot we ought to be able to locate him. A stranger can't go through such a small place without somebody's noticing it."
On and on trotted the horse, past many well-kept farms, and then through a small patch of timber land. Beyond the woods they crossed a frozen creek, and then made a turn to the northward. A short distance beyond they came in sight of the first houses that went to make up the village of Bixter.
"Well, we've not seen anything of him yet," remarked the senator's son, as they slowed up and looked ahead and to both sides of the village street.
"No, and I don't understand it," returned Dave. "From what that carpenter's helper said, I thought we should overtake him before we got to Bixter. Either he must have left this road, or else he must be some walker."
"I don't see where he could have gone if he left the road, Dave. All we passed were lanes leading to the farms, and a path through that wood. It isn't likely he would take to the woods in this cold weather--not unless he was going hunting, and that chap back in Clayton didn't say anything about his carrying a gun." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who attempted to catch somebody?
2. Who was making an attempt to catch someone?
3. Who was making an effort to get someone?
Q2:
1. Who was Dave Porter trying to catch?
2. Who was Dave Porter attempting to wrangle?
3. Who was Dave Porter making an effort to get?
Q3:
1. Where was Porton going?
2. Where was Porton headed?
3. What was Porton's destination?
Q4:
1. Is Bixter a large city?
2. Is Bixter a sizeable metrpolis?
3. Is Bixter quite big?
Q5:
1. How big is Bixter?
2. What is Bixter's size?
3. What size is the city of Bixter?
Q6:
1. Is there any commerce in Bixter?
2. Are there commercial endeavors in Bixter?
3. Has Bixter got any businesses?
Q7:
1. What commerce does Bixter have?
2. What businesses are there in Bixter?
3. Which businesses can be found in Bixter?
Q8:
1. Are there police in Bixter?
2. Will police be encountered in Bixter?
3. Are Bixter's police going to be involved in the search?
Q9:
1. What animal is discussed in the passage?
2. What animal does the group talk about in the passage?
3. Which animal appears in the passage?
Q10:
1. Did someone ride the horse?
2. Did the horse have a rider?
3. Was there anyone that was trotting on the horse?
Q11:
1. Whose father is in politics?
2. Who has the politician dad?
3. Whose dad works in politics?
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31t4r4obosgvhpx2vz8cz6h62vlc7n | cnn | Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- It was the middle of the night in southern Afghanistan's Panjwai district when Haji Naim says he was awakened by the sound of barking dogs and gunshots.
Moments later, a man clothed in U.S. military fatigues and a T-shirt burst through the door of Naim's home and opened fire, hitting him in the neck, Naim testified early Saturday at a hearing for an Army soldier accused in a mass killing of Afghan civilians.
"I said 'What are you doing? What are you doing?' Naim told the court at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Washington, during a live satellite uplink from a base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
"He didn't say anything ...He just started shooting."
Afghan anger kept U.S. agents from killing scene
Naim and his two sons were among the survivors of the March 11, 2012, rampage that military prosecutors allege was carried out by Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
Naim's testimony came amid the fifth day of an evidentiary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to support the military's case against Bales, who faces 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder in the predawn attack.
The outcome of the Article 32 hearing will determine whether Bales, 39, is court-martialed, and whether he will face the death penalty.
Bales has not entered a plea in the case, though his attorneys have said Bales suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered a traumatic brain injury during a prior deployment to Iraq. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How many counts does Robert Bales face?
2. What is the number of counts against Robert Bales?
3. How many things has Robert Bales been charged with?
Q2:
1. What will happen to Robert Bales if he is found guilty?
2. Should Robert Bales be found guilty, what will be his fate?
3. What will become of Robert Bales if he receives a guilty verdict?
Q3:
1. What district was Haji Naim in?
2. In what district could Haji Naim be found?
3. What was Haji Naim's location?
Q4:
1. What woke Haji Naim?
2. What was Haji Naim awoken by?
3. What caused Haji Naim to wake up?
Q5:
1. When did Haji Naim hear gunshots?
2. When was Haji Naim awoken by gunshots?
3. At what point did gunshots make Haji Naim wake up?
Q6:
1. Is there anything that Robert Bales suffers from?
2. Does Robert Bales have any conditions?
3. Is Robert Bales afflicted with anything?
Q7:
1. Has Robert Bales been tried yet?
2. Has the trial of Robert Bales already taken place?
3. Has a trial already been held for Robert Bales?
Q8:
1. Was Robert Bales found guilty?
2. Did Robert Bales receive a guilty verdict?
3. Was Robert Bales convicted of the charges against him?
Q9:
1. Who survived Robert Bales' attack?
2. Who came out of the attack alive?
3. Who managed to come out of the attack alive?
Q10:
1. Who did Robert Bales attack wake up?
2. Who was awoken by gunshots?
3. Who did gunshots cause to wake up?
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3nxnz5rs1axtjrqzjfylxggyv2u97y | cnn | LONDON, England (CNN) -- Troubled pop star Amy Winehouse spent the night in a London hospital after suffering a reaction to a medication she was taking at home Monday night, according to her spokeswoman.
Amy Winehouse's husband was recently jailed for 27 months.
Tracey Miller said she could not say what medication was involved.
A statement from University College Hospital said Winehouse had been kept in overnight for observation.
She had a comfortable night and was released Tuesday morning, the statement said.
London Ambulance Service said it transported the singer after being notified of "an adult female taken unwell."
Winehouse's spokesman in London, Chris Goodman, told the British Press Association that he had not been told what was wrong with the 24-year-old singer, who is well known for her song "Rehab," describing the singer's reluctance to enter a clinic.
The pop singer was investigated this year after a London tabloid made public a leaked home video that showed her smoking something in a glass pipe minutes after she was heard saying she had just taken six tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium. Police declined to file charges.
The singer has battled drug addiction and spent about two weeks in a rehabilitation clinic in January.
Winehouse won five Grammy awards this year -- three for "Rehab" as well as Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
Winehouse's Grammy winning album, "Back to Black," is still a big seller, recently charting at No. 12 in the UK more than 19 months after its release. Madame Toussaud's London wax museum recently unveiled a wax statue of Winehouse alongside Madonna, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and other musicians in the museum's "Music Zone" exhibit. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who does the article discuss?
2. Who is at the center of the article?
3. Who does the article focus on?
Q2:
1. Where did Amy Winhouse spend Monday night?
2. Where was Amy Winehouse on Monday night?
3. Where could one have found Amy Winehouse on Monday night?
Q3:
1. What brought Amy Winehouse to the hospital?
2. Why was Amy Winehouse hospitalized?
3. Why did Amy Winehouse have to spend the night in the hospital?
Q4:
1. What medicine did Amy Winehouse take?
2. What medication did Amy Winehouse have a reaction to?
3. Amy Winehouse was hospitalized after taking what medication?
Q5:
1. When was Amy Winehouse discharged from the hospital?
2. When was Amy Winehouse able to leave the hospital?
3. At what point did it become possible for Amy Winehouse to leave the hospital?
Q6:
1. What is the title of Amy Winehouse's popular song?
2. Which Amy Winehouse track is a hit?
3. What's the name of Amy Winehouse's hit song?
Q7:
1. What does Amy Winehouse talk about in the song Rehab?
2. What is Amy Winehouse's track Rehab about?
3. What does the song Rehab describe?
Q8:
1. What did the public see this year?
2. What was unveiled to the public this year?
3. What did people get the chance to view this year?
Q9:
1. What does Amy Winehouse battle?
2. What does Amy Winehouse struggle with?
3. What is hard for Amy Winehouse?
Q10:
1. Where did Amy Winehouse spend the beginning of the year?
2. Where was Amy Winehouse at the start of the year?
3. What was Amy Winehouse's location at the beginning of the year?
Q11:
1. How long did Amy Winehouse spend in rehab?
2. What was the length of Amy Winehouse's rehab stay?
3. How much time did Amy Winehouse spend in a rehab clinic?
Q12:
1. What is a chart topper?
2. What record tops the charts?
3. What album is beating all others on the charts?
Q13:
1. What was Back to Black's rank?
2. Where was Back to Black on the charts?
3. What was Back to Black's chart position?
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3zppdn2slvwes6596ncr3q8fiyae9k | cnn | (CNN) -- If you can believe it, it's been 25 years since Edward James Olmos portrayed real-life math teacher Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver." Escalante, a Bolivian immigrant, taught in a tough East L.A. high school and pushed his lowest-achieving students to learn calculus. The inspirational role won Olmos a Golden Globe and garnered him an Academy Award nomination for best actor, a first for an American-born Latino.
Since then, he's played memorable roles, such as Lt. Martin Castillo in "Miami Vice," Abraham Quintanilla in the film "Selena" and William Adama in "Battlestar Galactica."
Now, in his newest role as executive producer and actor in "Filly Brown," he plays lawyer named Leandro who tries to help Mexican-American hip-hop artist Maria Jose 'Majo' Tonorio, aka Filly Brown, and her family get her mom out of jail. The late Jenni Rivera plays the part of Majo's mother MarÃa and Lou Diamond Philips plays the father who takes care of Majo and her younger sister.
Olmos took some time to talk to CNN about the genuine portrayal of Jaime Escalante, what Latinos can do to make it in Hollywood and why Filly Brown's story needs to be told.
It's been 25 years since "Stand and Deliver" premiered in theaters. Did you ever imagine that the movie would be so successful and influential as it's been?
I don't think anyone could've predicted that. Teachers use (it) as part of their curriculum. Millions of kids see it every year. That's why the movie is so well seen. It's amazing what that movie has done with the youth. I don't think anyone could have guessed that it would be used the way it's being used. It continues to be inspirational. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How many years has it been since Edward James Olmos was in Stand and Deliver?
2. How many years ago did Edward James Olmos appear in Stand and Deliver?
3. How many years have passed since Edward James Olmos' role in Stand and Deliver?
Q2:
1. What was Edward James Olmos' character in Stand and Deliver?
2. Who did Edward James Olmos portray in Stand and Deliver?
3. What character was portrayed by Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver?
Q3:
1. What other roles is Edward James Olmos known for besides Stand and Deliver?
2. Which of Edward James Olmos' roles is he known for apart from Stand and Deliver?
3. What other movies has Edward James Olmos appeared in besides Stand and Deliver?
Q4:
1. What was the profession of Edward James Olmos' Stand and Deliver character?
2. What type of person did Edward James Olmos portray in Stand and Deliver?
3. What was the profession of the character Jaime Escalante?
Q5:
1. What was Jaime Escalante's goal?
2. What did Jaime Escalante wish to achieve?
3. What was the goal of Edward James Olmos' character in Stand and Deliver?
Q6:
1. What accolades did Edward James Olmos receive for his performance in Stand and Deliver?
2. What did Edward James Olmos's Stand and Deliver performance garner him?
3. What recognition did Edward James Olmos receive for playing in Stand and Deliver?
Q7:
1. What was Edward James Olmos nominated for besides a Golden Globe?
2. What nomination did Edward James Olmos receive in addition to the Golden Globe?
3. What other than the Golden Globe was Edward James Olmos nominated for?
Q8:
1. What made Edward James Olmos' Academy Award nomination noteworthy?
2. Why was it of note that Edward James Olmos was nominated for an Oscar?
3. What was notable about Edward James Olmos' Oscar nominatino?
Q9:
1. What is Edward James Olmos' newest movie?
2. What of Edward James Olmos's films just came out?
3. What movie was just released featuring Edward James Olmos?
Q10:
1. Who does Edward James Olmos portray in Filly Brown?
2. What's the name of Edward James Olmos' character in Filly Brown?
3. What character does Edward James Olmos play in Filly Brown?
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3180jw2ot4c32zpphya1oqg51czj5z | cnn | (CNN) -- No team has ever retained the Champions League title since the competition was revamped in 1992 -- but perhaps, finally, this will be the year.
Karim Benzema ensured Real Madrid's place in the last-16 by firing his side to a 1-0 win over Liverpool to make it four wins from four.
The France international netted a 27th minute winner after Real was made to work hard against a much-changed visiting side.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who wasted a number of opportunities, was left frustrated after failing to overturn Raul's Champions League goals record.
Ronaldo remains on 70, one behind Raul, while his chief rival, Barcelona's Lionel Messi, plays tomorrow.
Messi, who has 69, faces Ajax in Amsterdam on Wednesday and could leapfrog the Portugal star.
Real's 12th successive victory was more labored than most would have expected given the side's previous encounter.
A fortnight ago, Real rolled into Anfield, a venue where it had never managed a victory, and blew LIverpool away within first 41 minutes of the contest.
Led by Ronaldo, Real scored three times in the first half before playing out the remainder of the contest in second gear.
Since then, Real has continued its fine form, defeating Barcelona in the Clasico and extending its winning streak to 11 games in succession.
Its fortunes could scarcely be any more different to those of Liverpool, a club whose season is already in danger of unraveling.
Since the departure of Luis Suarez to Barcelona, Liverpool, which finished second in the Premier League last season, has endured a dismal period in which the success of last year appears nothing but a distant memory. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What player is the story's hero?
2. Who is the story's champion?
3. Who is laudable in this article?
Q2:
1. What did Karim Benzema do?
2. What happened regarding Karim Benzema?
3. What did Karim Benzema accomplish?
Q3:
1. What team does Karim Benzema play for?
2. Which team has secured Karim Benzema as a player?
3. What is Karim Benzema's team?
Q4:
1. What minute did Karim Benzema score his goal in?
2. At what specific moment did Karim Benzema score a goal?
3. What minute did Karim Benzema's goal occur in?
Q5:
1. What player got upset during the game?
2. Who was overcome with frustration during the game?
3. Who got discouraged during the game?
Q6:
1. Why was Cristiano Ronaldo frustrated?
2. What was the source of Cristiano Ronaldo's frustration?
3. What had Cristiano Ronaldo in a bad mood?
Q7:
1. How far is Cristiano Ronaldo behind the record holder?
2. What is Cristiano Ronaldo's position behind the record holder?
3. Where does Cristiano Ronaldo stand behind the record holder?
Q8:
1. Who is Cristiano Ronaldo's chief rival?
2. Who is the biggest rival of Cristiano Ronaldo?
3. What player poses the most threat to Cristiano Ronaldo?
Q9:
1. What is Lionel Messi's number?
2. What number does Lionel Messi have?
3.
Q10:
1. What team does Lionel Messi face this Wednesday?
2. Who is Lionel Messi playing on Wednesday?
3. This Wednesday, what team is Lionel Messi going against?
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3oxv7eaxleqo0pnejwsj0pdg1ck63q | wikipedia | Edinburgh ( or ; ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. It is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.
Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is home to the Scottish Parliament and the seat of the monarchy in Scotland. Historically part of Midlothian, the city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, the sciences and engineering. It is the third largest financial centre in the UK after London and more recently Glasgow. The city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most popular tourist destination after London, attracting over one million overseas visitors each year.
Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The 2016 official population estimates are 464,990 for the city of Edinburgh, 507,170 for the local authority area, and 1,339,380 for the city region as of 2014 (Edinburgh lies at the heart of the proposed Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region).
The city is the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. It is home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, was placed 17th in the QS World University Rankings in 2013 and 2014. The city is also famous for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town, built in the 18th century. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the capital city of Scotland?
2. Which city serves as Scotland's capital?
3. What is Scotland's capital city called?
Q2:
1. How long has Edinburgh been recognized as the capital of Scotland?
2. How long has Edinburgh served as the recognized capital of Scotland?
3. Since when has Edinburgh served as the recognized capital of Scotland?
Q3:
1. What is the population of Edinburgh in 2016?
2. How many people are living in Edinburgh in 2016?
3. What is the number of residents in Scotland as of 2016?
Q4:
1. What does Edinburgh rank at as a tourist destination in the United Kingdom?
2. What is Edinburgh's rank among UK tourist destinations?
3. Where does Edinburgh rank amongst the United Kingdom's tourist attractions?
Q5:
1. What is the population of Edinburgh's local authority area?
2. How many people live in Edinburgh's local authority area?
3. What is the number of residents in Edinburgh's local authority area?
Q6:
1. What are some national institutions in Edinburgh?
2. What's a national institutions located in Edinburgh?
3. What Scottist Institutions can be found in Edinburgh?
Q7:
1. Are there any famous festivals from Edinburgh?
2. Does Edinburgh have any famous festivals?
3. Is Edinburgh known for any of its festivals?
Q8:
1. What's a famous festival from Edinburgh?
2. What is one festival that Edinburgh is known for?
3. Give the name of one of the popular festivals in Edinburgh.
Q9:
1. When did the University of Edinburgh come about?
2. In what year was the University of Edinburgh founded?
3. What was the year of the University of Edinburgh's founding?
Q10:
1. Where is Edinburgh?
2. What is the location of Edinburgh?
3. Where can Edinburgh be found?
Q11:
1. What shore is Edinburgh on?
2. Upon what shore may Edinburgh be found?
3. Which shore can Edinburgh be found upon?
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3zazr5xv01ie1z38eu0vqqa5crbzcl | wikipedia | The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never previously existed as an Order, in the sense of a body of knights who were governed by a set of statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred.
The Order consists of the Sovereign (currently Queen Elizabeth II), the (currently The Prince of Wales), and three Classes of members: Members belong to either the Civil or the Military Division. Prior to 1815, the order had only a single class, Knight Companion (KB), which no longer exists. Recipients of the Order are now usually senior military officers or senior civil servants. Commonwealth citizens who are not subjects of the Queen and foreign nationals may be made Honorary Members. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What does Most Honourable Order of the Bath refer to?
2. What kind of distinction is the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
3. What can the Most Honourable Order of the Bath be described as?
Q2:
1. How many classes of members are there in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
2. What number of member classes does the Most Honourable Order of the Bath have?
3. How many classes of members does the Most Honourable Order of the Bath have?
Q3:
1. Who are the present day British sovereigns?
2. What are the names of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath's sovereigns today?
3. Who currently serve as sovereigns of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q4:
1. Who founded the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
2. Who created the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
3. What was the name of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath's founder?
Q5:
1. What was the date of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath's creation?
2. On what day did George I create the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
3. What was the date when George I decreed the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q6:
1. Prior to 1815, how many classes were there in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
2. How many classes did the Most Honourable Order of the Bath have before 1815?
3. Prior to 1815, what was the number of classes in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q7:
1. What was the single original class of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
2. What was the first class of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
3. What was the original class in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q8:
1. Does Knight Companion still exist?
2. Does the Most Honourable Order of the Bath still have the class of Knight Companion?
3. Can one still be a Knight Companion in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q9:
1. What was the name for the created class of knights?
2. How was the class of knights that was made referred to?
3. What was the name for the created class of knights?
Q10:
1. Did George I revive the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
2. Was the Most Honourable Order of the Bath brought back to life by George I?
3. Was George I responsible for reviving the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q11:
1. Who are admitted into the Most Honourable Order of the Bath now?
2. Who can gain access to the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in the present day?
3. Who can currently join the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q12:
1. Can you be in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath if you're not a subject of the queen?
2. Is it possible to join the Most Honourable Order of the Bath if one isn't a subject of the queen?
3. Can non-subjects of the British monarchy be members of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath?
Q13:
1. What kind of members of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath are those who are not subjects of the Queen?
2. What member status is given to people who join the Most Honourable Order of the Bath without being a subject of the queen?
3. If one is not a subject of the queen and becomes a Most Honourable Order of the Bath member, what is their status?
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3wqq9fus6aug7yafr44n2m7julh8b6 | race | At East China University of Science and Technology, students who finish their food in the dining hall can get a coupon when they return their tray . They can exchange coupons for small gifts, such as books, magazines, mobile phone covers and hand warmers. "It's been a big surprise," said Liang Zhaoyun, 19, a student in the university of Shanghai. "It makes us try our best to finish the food!" But some food in the dining hall is so poorly prepared that students are _ to finish it all. Some schools have paid some attention to it. "The dishes in our canteen are all right, generally speaking. We've tried our best to make it tasty. But of course it's difficult to make all the students love it." said Wang. Other universities also pay attention to the size of food. At Nanjing University, rice is divided into three different-sized bowls that students can choose from. "I like to try different dishes at each meal. So I had to throw away a lot of food because the bowls were too big. But now the dining hall offers small sizes. It's great because I can try different dishes at half price and don't waste so much food," said Fan Peng, a student from Nanjing University. But what if you really can't finish all your food? Some universities also provide a take-away service. If you can't finish all your food, you can get a box to take the leftovers home. Even if you feed the cat, it's not wasted. So you see, if we call on students not to waste food, schools should also improve the service and meal quality. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who is getting a reward?
2. Whose good deeds are being recognized?
3. Who is receiving recognition for their behavior?
Q2:
1. What are students getting rewards for?
2. What are students doing to get their rewards?
3. How are students able to win rewards?
Q3:
1. Where are students being rewarded for returning their trays?
2. What place is giving its students rewards if they return their trays?
3. Where can a student receive a reward if they hand in their tray?
Q4:
1. What is a student's reward for finishing their food?
2. How are students being rewarded for finishing their food?
3. What may a student receive in exchange for eating all their food?
Q5:
1. What are the coupons for?
2. What do students do with a coupon?
3. What do the coupons allow students to do?
Q6:
1. What are schools outside of East China University doing?
2. What action is being taken by schools other than East China University?
3. What are some examples of school programs besides that of East China University?
Q7:
1. Why are schools paying attention to meal size?
2. What has gotten some schools to look at the size of meals?
3. Why are some schools looking into how big the meals they serve are?
Q8:
1. Is it possible to take your food home with you?
2. Are you allowed to take your food to go?
3. Is taking food to go an option?
Q9:
1. Where do you put your leftovers?
2. What container is given for leftover food?
3. Where do you place the food you want to take home wiht you?
Q10:
1. How many different sized bowls exist for students at Nanjing University?
2. How many sizes of bowls does Nanjing University offer its students?
3. What's the number of options of bowl sizes for Nanjing students to choose from?
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3qavnhz3em463vp6ffdvcg9jw3nla2 | cnn | (CNN) -- His name is Abdullah X. His slogan: "Mind of a Scholar, Heart of a Warrior." But the star of this new animated show isn't a caped crusader battling bad guys in the streets of Gotham -- he's fighting for the hearts and minds of young Muslims everywhere.
"Abdullah X," the new Web-only cartoon series, is the tale of a young Muslim man in London who is struggling with his identity and his faith. It is a story that its creator, a former extremist who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, knows all too well.
"I was struggling with my own identity and sense of belonging when I was growing up -- issues around self-esteem and confidence, and where you fit in with regards to your Britishness or your Muslimness," Ahmed, as he asked to be called for this story, told CNN.
Ahmed said he spent years helping to spread and vocalize "extreme and harsh" worldviews in Britain. He saw efforts by governments and organizations to understand what was fueling anti-Western extremism as often "piecemeal and simplistic."
"Young people -- the most vulnerable groups in society -- were caught between government policy perspectives on how you combat terrorism and extremism, and this wall of shame and denial from within communities. I felt that we needed something that was going to be innovative and engaging."
So he created Abdullah X, the eponymous star of the series and an animated alter-ego that mirrors Ahmed's own journey from former extremist to someone who now hopes to steer young Muslims away from violence and extreme views. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who is the star of the show?
2. What is the character's name?
3. Who is the article about?
Q2:
1. What is Abdullah X's slogan?
2. What slogan is associated with Abdullah X?
3. What phrase goes along with the character Abdullah X?
Q3:
1. What audience is primarily interested in Abdullah X?
2. Who is the target audience for Abdullah X?
3. Who mostly watches the Abdullah X show?
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3mmn5bl1wz4qps866cz0pla2qzb3mi | cnn | (CNN) -- Veronica Campbell-Brown knows a thing or two about upsetting the odds.
The 29-year-old Jamaican sprinter has had to overcome grinding poverty to become one of the greatest Olympians her country has ever produced.
After being spotted running barefoot at a school sports day, Campbell-Brown burst on to the track and field scene when she won silver as part of Jamaica's 4x100 meters sprint team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
That was just the start.
She went on to win gold in the 200 meters at both the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics. Now she faces her toughest test at her fourth Games.
CNN Photos: On the fringe of an Olympic dream
If she emerges triumphant at London's Olympic Stadium in August, she will be the first person in history to win three consecutive gold medals in the distance. She is in good form too. Last year she ran the 100 meters in 10.76 seconds, the second quickest time in history.
CNN's Human to Hero caught up with the Trelawny-born sprinter -- who hails from the same Jamaican parish that has given the world champion men's sprinter Usain Bolt -- to talk about London 2012, her rivals and why a third gold would be the icing on the cake.
Growing up in poverty
"I have five brothers, four sisters, so you can just imagine the competition in the house. It helped me be very competitive, strong and independent," Campbell-Brown said.
"I used to race the boys and win. So I knew I had a special gift and should work on improving it. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1.
2.
3.
Q2:
1. What is Veronica Campbell-Brown's nationality?
2. What is the sprinter's nationality?
3. Where is Veronica Campbell-Brown from?
Q3:
1. Did Veronica Campbell-Brown come from a small family?
2. Was Veronica Campbell-Brown raised in a small family?
3. Was xVeronica Campbell-Brown raised without many siblings?
Q4:
1. How many sisters did Veronica Campbell-Brown have?
2. How many female siblings did Veronica Campbell-Brown have?
3. How many of Veronica Campbell-Brown's siblings were girls?
Q5:
1. How many male siblings did Veronica Campbell-Brown have?
2. How many brothers did Veronica Campbell-Brown have?
3. How many of Veronica Campbell-Brown's siblings were boys?
Q6:
1. Did Veronica Campbell-Brown come from a wealthy family?
2. Did Veronica Campbell-Brown come from a rich family?
3. Was Veronica Campbell-Brown raised wealthy?
Q7:
1. Has Veronica Campbell-Brown won any medals?
2. Has Veronica Campbell-Brown received any accolades?
3. Have any awards gone to Veronica Campbell-Brown?
Q8:
1. Was 2000 a year when Veronica Campbell-Brown won medals?
2. Did Veronica Campbell-Brown win any medals in 2000?
3. Was 2000 a medal winning year for Veronica Campbell-Brown?
Q9:
1. What did Veronica Campbell-Brown win in 2000?
2. What medal went to Veronica Campbell-Brown in 2000?
3. In 2000, which medal did Veronica Campbell-Brown receive?
Q10:
1. What race won Veronica Campbell-Brown her silver medal?
2. What race did Veronica Campbell-Brown place silver in?
3. For what race was Veronica Campbell-Brown awarded the silver medal?
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3gs6s824sqxty8vusxp27xazukwwn3 | wikipedia | Mali (i/ˈmɑːli/; French: [maˈli]), officially the Republic of Mali (French: République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi). The population of Mali is 14.5 million. Its capital is Bamako. Mali consists of eight regions and its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara Desert, while the country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, features the Niger and Senegal rivers. The country's economy centers on agriculture and fishing. Some of Mali's prominent natural resources include gold, being the third largest producer of gold in the African continent, and salt. About half the population lives below the international poverty line of $1.25 (U.S.) a day. A majority of the population (55%) are non-denominational Muslims.
Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. During its golden age, there was a flourishing of mathematics, astronomy, literature, and art. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire covered an area about twice the size of modern-day France and stretched to the west coast of Africa. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan. French Sudan (then known as the Sudanese Republic) joined with Senegal in 1959, achieving independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. Shortly thereafter, following Senegal's withdrawal from the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itself the independent Republic of Mali. After a long period of one-party rule, a coup in 1991 led to the writing of a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi-party state. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What country appears in the article?
2. Which nation does the article discuss?
3. What country is at the center of the article?
Q2:
1. When was Mali's new constitution written?
2. When did Mali adopt a new constitution?
3. What year was Mali's new constitution written in?
Q3:
1. What countries were merged in 1959?
2. 1959 saw the merger of what countries?
3. What nations were joined up in 1959?
Q4:
1. Does Mali have only one political party?
2. Is there a total of one political party in Mali?
3. Does Mali have just a single political party?
Q5:
1. How many of Mali's natural resources appear in the article?
2. How many natural resources in Mali does the article talk about?
3. What is the quantity of Malian natural resources that the article brings up?
Q6:
1. What are the religious beliefs of most people in Mali?
2. What religion are most people in Mali?
3. What faith do the majority of Malians follow?
Q7:
1. What percent of people in Mali are non denominational Muslims?
2. What percentage of Mali's population identifies as non-denominational Muslims?
3. What percentage of Malian list non-denominational Muslim as their faith?
Q8:
1. What is Mali officially called?
2. How is Mali officially referred to?
3. State the official name of Mali.
Q9:
1. What is the location of Mali?
2. Where can Mali be found?
3. What part of Africa is Mali in?
Q10:
1. What is the population of Mali?
2. How many people live in Mali?
3. How many residents does Mali have?
Q11:
1. Is there poverty in Mali?
2. Do any Malians live in poverty?
3. Is poverty a problem in Mali?
Q12:
1. Is there fishing in Mali?
2. Can one go fishing in Mali?
3. Is fishing a potential activity while in Mali?
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33sa9f9trxup42ihzymjhagqgyjeww | cnn | (CNN)John Isner could not keep the United States in the Davis Cup on Sunday, so it was likely small consolation that his incredible tennis milestone remained unbeaten.
While the American lost to Andy Murray in Scotland, putting Great Britain into the quarterfinals of the prestigious teams event, halfway across the world an absorbing battle was playing out between two of South America's most bitter rivals.
In the end it didn't come close to matching Isner's 11-hour marathon against Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010, but the fourth rubber in the clash between Argentina and Brazil made its own piece of history.
For six hour and 43 minutes, Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza contested the second-longest singles match in tennis history -- and third longest of any format after a seven-hour doubles clash between Switzerland and the Czech Republic in 2013.
Mayer eventually triumphed, after his 11th match point, winning 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) 5-7 5-7 15-13 in front of a delirious home crowd in Buenos Aires to send the tie to a deciding rubber.
It set the scene for Federico Delbonis to take on Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci in the decider -- with the winner to earn a clash with Novak Djokovic's Serbia, a 5-0 victor over Balkan rival Croatia.
Delbonis had won the first set 6-3 when play was halted for the day due to bad light. The match will resume on Monday.
Meanwhile, back in Glasgow, the British team celebrated after earning a home quarterfinal clash with France on July 17-19, the weekend after the completion of Wimbledon. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was not able to retain hold of the David Cup when the report came out on Sunday??
2. Who didn't succeed in keeping the Davis Cup as of Sunday?
3.
Q2:
1. Who did John Isner lose to?
2. Who was John Isner bested by?
3. What player defeated John Isner?
Q3:
1. Where did John Isner play Andy Murray?
2. Where did the John Isner-Andy Murray match take place?
3. Where did Andy Murray face off against John Isner?
Q4:
1. What nation is represented by Andy Murray?
2. What country does Andy Murray play for?
3. Which nation does Andy Murray play on behalf of?
Q5:
1. Who participated in the second longest singles match ever?
2. Which players were in the second longest singles match in history?
3. Who faced who in the world's second longest singles match?
Q6:
1. How long was the match between Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza?
2. How long did Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza play against each other?
3. What was the length of time of the Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza match?
Q7:
1. What countries did Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza represent?
2. Which nations were respectively represented by Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza?
3. What countries did Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza play on behalf on?
Q8:
1. Whose 2010 Wimbledon match lasted 11 hours?
2. Who played for 11 hours at the 2010 Wimbledon?
3. During Wimbledon in 2010, who played a match that lasted 11 hours?
Q9:
1. What did the British team have to celebrate while in Glasgow?
2. What was the subject of celebrations for the British team while in Glasgow?
3. What made the British team break out in festivities at Glasgow?
Q10:
1. Which player won their first set 6-3, that is going to resume?
2. Whose 6-3 match is going to resume, which he did win?
3.
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3p1l2b7ad1pv5zj7pyiddbtomqsoli | race | Martin was returning to work in his London office after spending two weeks with his brother in New York.He was coming back with a heavy heart.It was not just that it was the end of a wonderful holiday; it was not just that he invariably suffered badly from jet lag ; it was that Monday mornings always began with a team meeting and,over the months,he had grown to hate them.
Martin was aware that colleagues approached these meetings with hidden agenda ; they indulged in game playing; and he knew that people were not being honest and open.The meetings themselves were bad enough-there was all the moaning afterwards at the meeting like"I could have improved on that idea,but I wasn't going to say".
As this morning's meeting began,Martin prepared himself for the usual dullness and boredom.But,as the meeting progressed,he became aware of a strange background noise.At first,he thought that he was still hearing the engine noise from the aircraft that had brought him back to London.But,as he concentrated on the noise,it became a little clearer.
He realized,to his amazement,that he could actually hear what they were thinking at the same time as they were speaking.What surprised him,even more than the acquisition of this strange power,was that he discovered that what people were saying was not really what they were thinking.They were not making clear their reservations.They were not supporting views which they thought might be popular.They were not contributing their new insights.They were not volunteering their new ideas.
Martin found it impossible not to respond to his new knowledge.So he started to make gentle interventions,based more on what he could hear his colleagues thinking than on what he could hear them saying."So,John,are you really saying...""Susan,do you really think that?""Tom,have you got an idea on how we could take this forward?"They looked at him,puzzled.In truth,he felt rather proud of his newly-acquired talent.
As the meeting progressed,it was clear to him that each member of the meeting was learning how to hear the thoughts of the others.The game playing started to fall away; people started to speak more directly; views became better understood; the atmosphere became more open and trusting.
The meeting ended.As people left the room,Martin found that he could still hear what they were thinking."That was the best meeting we've ever had.""All meetings should be like that.""In future,I'm going to say what I think". QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the source of Martin's dislike for Mondays?
2. What made Mondays distasteful for Martin?
3. Why did Martin abhor Mondays?
Q2:
1. Did Martin have a boring day this Monday?
2. Was it dull this Monday for Martin?
3. Was everything just same old same old this Monday?
Q3:
1. What became clear to Martin Monday morning?
2. What did Martin notice on Monday morning?
3. What realization did Martin come to on Monday morning?
Q4:
1. Did Martin realize right away that he was able to hear others' thoughts?
2. Was Martin immediately able to recognize that he was hearing others thoughts?
3. Was it clear to Martin right away that he was hearing what other people were thinking?
Q5:
1. What was Martin's initial thought?
2. What did Martin think at first?
3. How did Martin first react to his newfound ability?
Q6:
1. Were people being true to how they felt at first?
2. Were people forthcoming about how they really felt at first?
3. At first, did people say what they really felt?
Q7:
1. Were the meetings generally an enjoyable experience for everyone?
2. Did Martin's office mates tend to take pleasure in their meetings?
3. Was everyone a big fan of the meetings?
Q8:
1. What happened once Martin began asking questions?
2. What was the consequence of Martin beginning to ask questions?
3. Once Martin began with his inquiries, what was the result?
Q9:
1. Did people enjoy the meeting in the end?
2. Was everyone happy with the meeting once it was done?
3. Was the meeting considered a success once it was done?
Q10:
1. What did everyone resolve to do for future meetings?
2. What was the plan for meetings in the future?
3. How did everyone decide to conduct meetings going forward?
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3nd9uoo81k23a8s9gk9nu56apvowl5 | cnn | Rome (CNN) -- The captain of the Costa Concordia did not "fall" into a lifeboat after the ship hit rocks, as he contends, a crew member testified. Instead, Francesco Schettino "jumped into the lifeboat," Stefano Iannelli said.
Schettino is on trial in Grosseto on charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship after 32 people died in the shipwreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio on January 13, 2012.
Iannelli, who was on the bridge when the ship hit the outcropping, testified that Schettino's reaction was, "What have I done?!"
As part of his defense for the abandoning ship charge, Schettino has maintained that by the time he left the crippled vessel, the inclination made it impossible to stay on the ship. He told the court at a hearing in October that the ship was literally falling on top of him and he fell into the lifeboat. The ship ended up lying on its side.
INTERACTIVE: How ill-fated cruise liner was raised from Italian seabed
Iannelli, who followed Schettino off the ship, testified Monday that he did not see passengers when they left the vessel, even though more than 1,000 people were later rescued from the ship. In a taped conversation between the captain and the port authority in Livorno, the port authority ordered Schettino to "get back on board" while passengers were still being rescued from the other side of the ship.
Schettino, who admits that he was in command when the ship veered off course and hit the rocks, also blames a malfunction of the ship's watertight doors for making the situation worse. His defense lawyers say that created a new emergency after the initial accident. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who went off the ship following Francesco Schettino?
2. Who exited the ship behind Francesco Schettino?
3. Who followed Francesco Schettino in getting off the ship?
Q2:
1. What was the name of the captain of the ship?
2. Who was the Costa Concordia's captain?
3. Who manned the Costa Concordia?
Q3:
1. When did the Costa Concordia sink?
2. What was the date of the Costa Concordia's sinking?
3. What was the date when the ship sank?
Q4:
1. Where did the Costa Concordia sink?
2. What was the location of the Costa Concordia's wreck?
3. Where did the Costa Concordia go down?
Q5:
1. How many deaths did the Costa Concordia wreck cause?
2. How many people died in the wreck of the Costa Concordia?
3. When the Costa Concordia went down, how many died?
Q6:
1. Did Francesco Schettino tumble into a lifeboat?
2. Was it by falling that Francesco Schettino got into the lifeboat?
3. Was Francesco Schettino transported into the lifeboat after falling?
Q7:
1. How did Francesco Schettino get into the lifeboat?
2. How was Francesco Schettino transferred into the lifeboat?
3. What got Francesco Schettino into the lifeboat?
Q8:
1. Did Stefano Iannelli spot anyone as he got off the ship?
2. When Stefano Iannelli was getting of the Costa Concordia, did he spot anyone?
3. Did anybody come into Stefano Iannelli's purview as he exited the Costa Concordia?
Q9:
1. What did the Costa Concordia make contact with?
2. What did the Costa Concordia hit?
3. What did the Costa Concordia bump up into?
Q10:
1. What outcropping did the Costa Concordia come into contact with?
2. What did the Costa Concordia bump into an outcropping of?
3. What was the outcropping that the Costa Concordia came into contact with?
Q11:
1. Did the ship hit an outcropping of bananas?
2. Did the Costa Concordia make contact with an outcropping of bananas?
3. Did an outcropping of bananas bring the Costa Concordia down?
Q12:
1. Who was supposed to be commanding the Costa Concordia?
2. Who was meant to be in charge of the Costa Concordia?
3. Who was meant to be steering the Costa Concordia?
Q13:
1. Did the Costa Concordia come into contact with soft sand after veering off course?
2. Did the Costa Concordia hit plush sand after it got off track?
3. Once the Costa Concordia had gotten off track, did it hit soft sand?
Q14:
1. What did the Costa Concordia make contact with?
2. What did the Costa Concordia hit?
3. What did the Costa Concordia bump up into?
Q15:
1. What may have gone wrong with the Costa Concordia?
2. What on the Costa Concordia may have malfunctioned?
3. What might have been the problem with the Costa Concordia?
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32m8bpygatm5nlu3gc8sgmsue34ige | cnn | Beijing (CNN) -- Anyone interested in world affairs, Chinese diplomacy and China's future should know more about Xi Jinping.
Xi (pronounced "shee"), China's vice president, will be visiting the United States this month for meetings at the White House in Washington and will travel to other cities.
"The visit is important to boost his stature at home -- here is the man the U.S. takes seriously, and he can deal with them on our behalf," says Anthony Saich, a China expert at the Harvard Kennedy School. "For the U.S., it provides an opportunity to introduce him to key U.S. politicians and the American public. The same approach was taken with Hu Jintao before he took over."
Xi, 58, is in line to be China's next paramount leader. He is expected to succeed Hu when his second term ends in autumn this year and could rule China for 10 years.
But who is Xi? Some key information about him:
• He comes from a clique known as "princelings," sons and daughters of revolutionary veterans. His father, Xi Zhongxun, was a revolutionary hero who was banished during the Cultural Revolution.
• When his father was in limbo, Xi spent time as a teenager doing manual labor in China's countryside and went on to become a local party chief.
• He holds chemical engineering and law degrees from the prestigious Tsinghua University, the alma mater of Hu and other senior leaders.
• He served in the People's Liberation Army as an officer in the General Office Department and assistant to the chief of the policy-making Central Military Commission. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the name of China's vice president?
2. Who serves as vice president of China?
3. Who has the title of vice president of China?
Q2:
1. What will Xi Jinping be doing?
2. What is Xi Jinping going to do?
3. What's on Xi Jinping's schedule?
Q3:
1. Who will Xi Jinping visit?
2. Who is Xi Jinping going to pay a visit to?
3. Who is going to welcome Xi Jinping?
Q4:
1. Why is Xi Jinping visiting the US?
2. What is the reason for Xi Jinping's US visit?
3. Why is Xi Jinping going to the United States?
Q5:
1. Where is Xi Jinping going to meet people in the US?
2. Where in the US does Xi Jinping have meetings?
3. Where is Xi Jinping going to meetings in the United States?
Q6:
1. Where is the White House?
2. What is the location of the White House?
3. Where can the White House be found?
Q7:
1. Is Xi Jinping going anywhere besides the White House?
2. Is Xi Jinping visiting anywhere in addition to the White House?
3. Is there anywhere besides the White House that Xi Jinping will pay a visit to?
Q8:
1. Where is Xi Jinping going to meet people in the US besides the White house?
2. Where in the US does Xi Jinping visit besides the White House?
3. Where is Xi Jinping going to in the United States in addition to the White House??
Q9:
1. Why is Xi Jinping traveling around the US?
2. What is Xi Jinping's reason for traveling across the US?
3. What is the purpose of Xi Jinping's visits to multiple US cities?
Q10:
1. How will Xi Jinping's visit boost his stature at home?
2. How is visiting the US going to help Xi Jinping's image in China?
3. For what reason is Xi Jinping's tour of the US beneficial to his image at home?
Q11:
1. Who is Xi Jinping's family?
2. Who is Xi Jinping's family member?
3. Who is in the family of Xi Jinping?
Q12:
1. Who is Xi Jinping's father?
2. What is Xi Jinping's father called?
3. What is the name of Xi Jinping's dad?
Q13:
1. What did Xi Jinping's father do?
2. What was Xi Zhongxun known for?
3. What did Xi Zhongxun do?
Q14:
1. Did Xi Jinping's father participate in a revolution?
2. Did Xi Zhongxun have a revolutionary role?
3. Did Xi Zhongxun participate in a revolution?
Q15:
1. What revolution was Xi Zhongxun a part of?
2. Which revolution did Xi Zhongxun participate in?
3. What revolution was Xi Zhongxun an active member of?
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39gaf6dqwr0d5co0x0m8ooeikep1vy | race | What's On?
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7.30pm-1.00am Free at the Cyclops Theatre
Do you know who's playing in your area? We're bringing you an evening of live rock and pop music from the best local bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract ? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. He's going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce you music.
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8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope
Come and see Gee Whizz perform. He's the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks .
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5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage
This is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years' experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.
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8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World
Fine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta . Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the Cyclops Theatre featuring?
2. What performance will be held at the Cyclops Theatre?
3. Who has something going on at the Cyclops Theatre?
Q2:
1. Is Jules Skye an artist?
2. Is being an artist the profession of Jules Skye?
3. Does Jules Skye work as an artist?
Q3:
1. When is the comedian's performance?
2. When does the comedian go on?
3. What time is the comedian's performance?
Q4:
1. Is there a bar at the Kaleidoscope?
2. Does the Kaleidoscope have a bar?
3. Can one go to the bar at the Kaleidoscope?
Q5:
1. Are there only beverages at the Kaleidoscope bar?
2. Does the Kaleidoscope bar only serve drinks?
3. Is there only beverage service at the Kaleidoscope bar?
Q6:
1. What can one get at the Kaleidoscope bar besides drinks?
2. What else is there at the Kaleidoscope bar besides drinks?
3. What is available at the bar of the Kaleidoscope in addition to beverages?
Q7:
1. Who is performing at Pizza World?
2. Whose performance is Pizza World featuring?
3. Who is taking the stage at Pizza World?
Q8:
1. What kind of music does Charlotte Stone play?
2. What genre of music does Charlotte Stone perform?
3. What music is associated with Charlotte Stone?
Q9:
1. What cuisine is Pizza World's menu?
2. What kind of food does Pizza World serve?
3. What sort of cuisine does Pizza World feature?
Q10:
1. Does a comedian have a performance on Wednesday?
2. Will Wednesday's show feature a comedian?
3. Is a comedian taking the stage on Wednesday?
Q11:
1. What comedian is performing on Wednesday?
2. Who is the comedian with a performance on Wednesday?
3. Which comedian will take the stage on Wednesday?
Q12:
1. How many years has Simon been teaching comedy for?
2. How long has Simon been giving lesson in comedy?
3. How long has Simon been a teacher of the art of comedy?
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3cfvk00fwll5gtd3p2wjwb7x1n5l6r | wikipedia | Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action." They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons). It may be used to protect naval, ground, and air forces in any location. However, for most countries the main effort has tended to be 'homeland defence'. NATO refers to airborne air defence as counter-air and naval air defence as anti-aircraft warfare. Missile defence is an extension of air defence as are initiatives to adapt air defence to the task of intercepting any projectile in flight.
Non-English terms for air defence include the German Flak (Fliegerabwehrkanone, "aircraft defence cannon", also cited as Flugabwehrkanone), whence English flak, and the Russian term Protivovozdushnaya oborona (Cyrillic: Противовозду́шная оборо́на), a literal translation of "anti-air defence", abbreviated as PVO. In Russian the AA systems are called zenitnye (i.e. "pointing to zenith") systems (guns, missiles etc.). In French, air defence is called DCA (Défense contre les aéronefs, "aéronef" being the generic term for all kind of airborne device (airplane, airship, balloon, missile, rocket, etc.)). QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What's the definition of anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
2. What do the terms anti-aircraft or counter-air defence mean?
3. What is meant by anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
Q2:
1. Who defined anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
2. Who gave a definition of anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
3. Who stated what anti-aircraft or counter-air defence mean?
Q3:
1. How many elements of anti-aircraft or counter-air defence are there?
2. How many things are included in anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
3. What is the number of aspects of anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
Q4:
1. What's one element of anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
2. What is an aspect of anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
3. What's one thing that is included in anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
Q5:
1. What do most countries focus their efforts on?
2. What is the most prominent effort in the majority of countries?
3. Which effort are most countries concerned with?
Q6:
1. What do they call anti-aircraft or counter-air defence in France?
2. What is the French term for anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
3. What do the French use for anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
Q7:
1. What do they call anti-aircraft or counter-air defence in Germany?
2. What German force does anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
3. What do the Germans use for anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
Q8:
1. What does Flak do?
2. What is the task of Flak?
3. What task does the German Flak force have?
Q9:
1. What do they call anti-aircraft or counter-air defence in Russia?
2. What Russian force does anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
3. What do the Russians use for anti-aircraft or counter-air defence?
Q10:
1. How many examples of non-English terms for air defense are given?
2. How many terms for air defense not in English appear?
3. What is the number of terms for air defense that appear in a non-English language?
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3mrnmeiqw56412sizp4x2hhphfadl4 | mctest | Jim and Linda are our neighbors. Jim and Linda have an old dog named Reggie. We love our neighbors. They are like the perfect grandparents. We watch Reggie for them when they go out of town to see their children and grandchildren. Reggie is so fun to have around. He is 14 years old. We have 3 other dogs and Reggie is older than all of them. They all listen to what Reggie tells them to do. It is fun to see them respect him.
We are watching Reggie now. He is staying with us for 3 weeks. He likes to go for rides in the car. He likes to go for walks.
This time, when Jim and Linda dropped Reggie off, Jim picked up mom's guitar and played us a song. He was really good! Then Jim and Linda sang a song for us.
I can see why Reggie misses them when they are gone. They are so nice! We give Reggie lots of love so that he is happy at our house when they are on vacation.
He likes our dogs and cats. We have a big black dog named Able. We have a little dog named Mudpuppy and we have a puppy named Goldberry. We have two cats. One of our cats is named Glitch. She has lots of colors. We also have a white kitten named Vex.
One of the best things about watching Reggie is that we know when Jim and Linda come home, Linda bakes us a cherry pie for taking care of Reggie. She makes delicious pie. We are very lucky to have such nice neighbors! QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What can Linda be described as?
2. What is Linda's relationship to the narrator?
3. How does the narrator know Linda?
Q2:
1. What can Jim be described as?
2. What is Jim's relationship to the narrator?
3. How does the narrator know Jim?
Q3:
1. What is Jim's relationship to Linda?
2. How does Jim know Linda?
3. What family member is Jim to Linda?
Q4:
1. What can Reggie be described as?
2. What does the narrator say Reggie is?
3. How does the narrator know Reggie?
Q5:
1. How old is Reggie?
2. What is Reggie's age?
3. How old is Jim and Linda's old dog?
Q6:
1. How many dogs does the narrator have?
2. What is the number of dogs in our household?
3. How many pups belong to us?
Q7:
1. What is the narrator doing right now?
2. What is the narrator currently up to?
3. What are we involved in now?
Q8:
1. How long are we taking care of the neighbor's dog?
2. How many weeks is Reggie spending with us?
3. How long will Reggie be staying with us?
Q9:
1. What does Reggie like to do?
2. What is Reggie's preferred activity?
3. What makes Reggie happy?
Q10:
1. What did Jim do once he'd brought Reggie over?
2. After dropping Reggie off, what did Jim do next?
3. What was Jim's next plan of action after he dropped off Reggie?
Q11:
1. What did Jim do after picking up the guitar?
2. Once he had the guitar what did Jim do next?
3. What happened after Jim had picked up the guitar?
Q12:
1. Is Reggie friendly towards other animals?
2. Is Reggie okay with being around other animals?
3. Does it please Reggie to be by other animals?
Q13:
1. What sorts of animals are in our home?
2. What other animals are in our house with Reggie?
3. What kinds of animals are in our brood?
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37z929rlg98ym4j55o1dj7d6d1dst0 | cnn | New York (CNN) -- A New York man arrested in connection with the stabbing of two children in Brooklyn may be linked to another stabbing in a Manhattan subway, a law enforcement official told CNN Thursday.
Police believe Daniel St. Hubert, 27, was out on parole when he stabbed two young children inside an elevator -- killing one of them.
St. Hubert was arrested by detectives around 8 p.m. Wednesday.
He was arrested around the same time that Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce identified St. Hubert by name for the first time as the suspect in the attack.
Detectives were obtaining evidence Thursday that could link him to a fatal stabbing on the subway in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the official said.
Investigators were executing search warrants to see if he is linked to additional stabbings since his release from prison on May 23, a law enforcement official said.
Law enforcement has been involved with St. Hubert plenty in the past, including nine arrests, though police did not specify all the outcomes.
The most recent instance was May 23, when, Boyce said. St. Hubert was released on parole in connection to a domestic assault case.
Nine days later, police believe he encountered 6-year-old Prince Joshua "PJ" Avitto and 7-year-old Mikayla Capers inside an elevator at a public housing complex in Brooklyn. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the two children were "on their way to get ice cream" at the time.
For reasons authorities haven't yet explained, the two children were stabbed -- both in the torso. PJ Avitto was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the name of the person who got arrested?
2. Who was detained?
3. Who got taken into custody?
Q2:
1. When was Daniel St. Hubert arrested?
2. When did Daniel St. Hubert get taken into custody?
3. At what point was Daniel St. Hubert detained by police?
Q3:
1. Had Daniel St. Hubert been in prison earlier?
2. Had Daniel St. Hubert already spent time in prison?
3. Prior to his arrest, had Daniel St. Hubert been in prison before?
Q4:
1. Before when had Daniel St. Hubert been in prison?
2. When had Daniel St. Hubert been released from his previous stay of prison?
3. When did Daniel St. Hubert get out of prison prior to his arrest?
Q5:
1. How many times had Daniel St. Hubert been arrested?
2. How many arrests did Daniel St. Hubert have under his belt?
3. What was the number of times that Daniel St. Hubert had been detained?
Q6:
1. What is Robert Boyce's job?
2. How is Robert Boyce employed?
3. What does Robert Boyce do for a living?
Q7:
1. What did Robert Boyce identify?
2. Whose identity did Robert Boyce confirm?
3. What did Roberty Boyce perform identificaiton of?
Q8:
1. What did Robert Boyce identify Daniel St. Hubert for?
2. What was Daniel St. Hubert's identity given for?
3.
Q9:
1. Why did Robert Boyce identify Daniel St. Hubert?
2. What was Robert Boyce identifying Daniel St. Hubert for?
3. For what reason did Robert Boyce confirm Daniel St. Hubert's identity?
Q10:
1. What was Daniel St. Hubert suspected of doing?
2. What crime was Daniel St. Hubert believed to have committed?
3. What criminal activity was Daniel St. Hubert suspected of being involved in?
Q11:
1. What are the names of Daniel St. Hubert's victims?
2. Who did Daniel St. Hubert stab?
3. Who were the victims of Daniel St. Hubert's attack?
Q12:
1. What was Prince's age?
2. How old was Daniel St. Hubert's male victim?
3. How old was the boy that Daniel St. Hubert stabbed?
Q13:
1. What was Mikayla's age?
2. How old was Mikayla?
3. What was the age of Daniel St. Hubert's female victime?
Q14:
1. Where were Prince Joshua and Mikayla Capers stabbed?
2. What was the location of Prince Joshua and Mikayla Capers's stabbing?
3. Where were Prince Joshua and Mikayla Capers killed?
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35gmh2sv3ehhzt9f8cv90g34dtheob | race | Tuesday
October 23 11:00 am
World Tree Day; World Tree Cuisine
For World Tree Day, Snook gives out badges to everyone who is nice to the tree, but Bob can't think of what to do -until he comes up with a song.Also: Madge and Snook plan a party to celebrate the World Tree's birthday.
Wednesday
October 21 11:00am
The Sloth Must Be Crazy; Smarter than You Think
Bob investigates a shiny green object that fell from the sky, and, with Madge's help, figures out what it is. Also: Winslow fears that everyone else is smarter than he is.
Thursday
October 22 11:00 am
Fish out of Water; Burdette's Nest
Bob fears that Ick is stuck inside a rock, but soon learns that the rock is a fossil; Smooch and Snook help patch Burdette's nest.
Friday
October 23 11:00 am
Bones; Food and Plenty of It
After Winslow injures his arm, he refuses to slow down and winds up hurting his leg too.Also: Burdette is upset when the nuts on her favorite tree disappear.
Thursday
November 5 11:00 am
The Sting; Growing
Wartz's frog friend Greenie is frightened by Stripey the bee; Madge and Snook think about everything that's occurred at the World Tree during the past year.
Friday
November 6 11:00 am
The Big Race; You Are What You Are
Winslow, Smooch and Snook organize a relay race for all the animals of the World Tree.Also: Wartz wonders if fish and plants are related since they both need water to survive. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What do people receive from Snook on World Tree Day?
2. What does Snook distribute on World Tree Day?
3. What can one pick up from Snook on World Tree Day?
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3vnl7uk1xfjpizejz41ec8uroa7ftq | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXVII
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT
That evening the sole topic of conversation at Bear Camp was the news concerning Dave. The other lads could not bear to question Laura or Jessie on the subject, knowing how badly both of them must feel; but they asked Belle to tell all she knew, and also quizzed Mrs. Wadsworth and Mrs. Basswood.
"It's the worst state of affairs I have ever known," was the way the jewelry manufacturer's wife expressed herself, in private to Roger and Phil. "We, as you know, think the world and all of Dave, and we don't want him to drop back and become a nobody, even in name. He is a splendid boy, and no matter what happens we shall always think as much of him as we ever did."
"I think all his friends will stick to him," answered Roger. "At the same time, this will cut him to the heart; and what he'll do if they really prove he isn't Dave Porter, I don't know."
"Maybe the Porters will continue to keep him in the family as an adopted son," suggested Phil. "That is, if this report really proves to be true, which I don't believe will happen."
"I have always thought a great deal of Dave, ever since he saved Jessie from that gasoline explosion," returned Mrs. Wadsworth. "Should they find out that he is not a Porter, I think I would be strongly in favor of my husband adopting him."
"Say, that wouldn't be half bad!" burst out Phil, "and the suggestion does you credit, Mrs. Wadsworth. Personally, I think Dave is the finest fellow in the world." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the sole subject of conversation?
2. What was everybody discussing?
3. Who was everyone talking about?
Q2:
1. Where did discussions of Dave take place?
2. Where was everybody talking about Dave?
3. Where was everyone discussing Dave?
Q3:
1. Were people talking about Dave in the morning?
2. Did discussions of Dave take place in the morning?
3. Was it the morning when everyone spoke of Dave?
Q4:
1. What is Dave's last name?
2. What is Dave's family name?
3. What is Dave's surname?
Q5:
1. What are the last names of the two married ladies?
2. What last names do the married women have?
3. What are the family names of the women with husbands?
Q6:
1. Did Mrs. Wadsworth have a suggestion?
2. Did Mrs. Wadsworth talk about her idea?
3. Did Mrs. Wadsworth suggest anything?
Q7:
1. Who is a fan of Dave?
2. Who thinks Dave is a fine boy?
3. Who thinks highly of Dave?
Q8:
1. Who received a question?
2. Who did someone inquire after?
3. Which person got asked a question?
Q9:
1. What did someone ask Belle?
2. What was the question for Belle?
3. What question did Belle receive?
Q10:
1. Who was quizzed?
2. Which people got a quiz?
3. Who was asked a blitz of questions?
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3cfvk00fwll5gtd3p2wjwb7x1qt6l6 | race | The centenary of the birth of William Faulkner, one of the great modern novelists, was celebrated in September 1997. Faulkner wrote about the southern states of the United States of America where he grew up, and where his family had an important part to play in the history of that region. His work became a touchstone for insights into the troubled issues of southern American identity, race relations, and the family interrelationships of the old time southern gentry .
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. Despite his interest in writing, he left Oxford High School, Mississippi, without graduating. After World War I, he entered the University of Mississippi as a special student, a right to study which was granted to retired soldiers, although Faulkner had only finished training with the Air Force in Canada, and not entered combat .
Faulkner began to write poems, a verse play, short stories and finished his first novel Sartoris in 1928. His fiction was centered for 14 of the 19 novels published during his lifetime in a fictional region called Yoknapatawpha County. The name is said to come from the Indian Chickasaw word meaning split land.
In December 1950, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. When he accepted it in Stockholm, his speech emphasized that he wished to continue writing, but in a positive way that affirmed the power of humanity to prevail over adverse circumstances. As he said in his speech, he still felt that, despite the threat of nuclear war then hanging over the world, the central concern of the writer should be "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself". He wanted the tensions and problems that he had cast the spotlight on in the southern states of America to be resolved by the life-affirming attitudes and action of his characters. Like playwright Tennessee Williams, Faulkner was a major voice who spoke for the troubled heart of the southern states of America. His achievement is all the more remarkable because, as a schoolboy, he was not only a frequent absentee but also reportedly failed to reach pass grades in English class. His collected short stories, novels, poems, and other writings form a legacy( ) of literature which casts profound illumination on the special culture of the South, a culture which developed from a history and social circumstances that were always unique.
From the focus on a fictional county, and by remaining true to his view of a close-knit but real society that reflected the greater world around him, Faulkner in the end fashioned a legend of the Deep South that is one of the major achievements of the 20th century literature. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did William Faulkner do?
2. What was William Faulkner known for?
3. What was William Faulkner's claim to fame?
Q2:
1. What did William Faulkner write about?
2. What was the subject of William Faulkner's writing?
3. What did William Faulkner's novels focus on?
Q3:
1. What did William Faulkner write about in addition to the southern US states?
2. What was the subject of William Faulkner's writing other than the US states of the South?
3. What did William Faulkner's novels focus on apart from the southern US?
Q4:
1. What did William Faulkner do after World War I?
2. Once World War I was over, what did William Faulkner do?
3. What was William Faulkner up to once World War I ended?
Q5:
1. Did William Faulkner write poems?
2. Were there any poems by William Faulkner?
3. Was William Faulkner a poet?
Q6:
1. When was William Faulkner's first novel published?
2. What was the year of publication of William Faulkner's first novel?
3. When did William Faulkner come out with his first novel?
Q7:
1. Was William Faulkner's first novel fiction?
2. Did William Faulkner write a work of fiction for his first novel?
3. Was Sartoris fictional?
Q8:
1. What is the definition of Yoknapatawpha County?
2. What is the English translation of Yoknapatawpha County?
3. How can Yoknapatawpha be translated?
Q9:
1. What took place in December 1950?
2. What happened to William Faulkner in December 1950?
3. What was an important event in December 1950?
Q10:
1. Where did William Faulkner accept the Nobel?
2. In what city was William Faulkner awarded the Nobel Prize?
3. Where did William Faulkner receive his Nobel Prize?
Q11:
1. Has William Faulkner ever failed in school?
2. Did William Faulkner ever do extremely poorly in school?
3. Was William Faulkner ever a bad student?
Q12:
1. Did William Faulkner ever skip school?
2. Would William Faulkner not go to school sometimes?
3. Did William Faulkner neglect going to school?
Q13:
1. Which classes did William Faulkner fail?
2. What classes did William Faulkner not pass?
3. In which classes did William Faulkner fail to receive a passing grade?
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3hhragryx8504xiy01fn822tmwt9oo | race | A few months ago, Dr. Ken Duckworth, a psychiatrist in Massachusetts, was swimming in his community's pool, chatting with other swimmers. When he mentioned his career, one man wanted Duckworth's opinion on his struggles with depression; another asked for advice on a family member's mental illness.
"I was sort of amazed. They were talking openly about their mental disabilities with a stranger in a swimming locker room, " said Duckworth, "That wouldn't have happened 15 years ago. "
New research shows that these swimmers aren't the only ones opening up. According to a new study, more American adults than ever are reporting being disabled by the symptoms of depression, anxiety or other emotional problems.
The report, published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health, found that people who said they couldn't perform everyday tasks or engage in social and leisure activities because of a mental illness increased from 2 percent in 1999 to 2.7 percent in 2009. That increase amounts to nearly 2 million more people disabled by mental distress in the past decade, the report said.
Although people did not say they felt more mental distressed compared to past years, they reported that their mental health problems had a greater impact on their daily lives.
Dr. Ramin Mojtabai, the study's author, said it's unclear whether the findings tell a sad story of greater mental distress in recent times or point to a victory for public education about the importance of acknowledging and evaluating mental illness.
"It is possible that people are realizing the effects of mental illness more acutely now than before," he said. "People could be becoming more aware. "
Mojtabai said it's also possible that a number of factors could be taking a toll on the population's mental well-being. High unemployment, economic hardships and a growing sense of isolation could be putting greater stress on Americans.
But Duckworth said there could be a more positive explanation -- like his fellow swimmers, people may be getting more comfortable with talking about their mental distress.
"I wonder if this tells us that American culture is becoming more open and is giving people the ability to speak about it," he said. "If people have this problem and are willing to acknowledge it, then we're getting closer to dealing with it." QUESTIONS:
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1. What state did Dr. Duckworth work in?
2. Where was Dr. Duckworth's place of work?
3. What state was Dr. Duckworth's place of work located in?
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3z4airp3c6d591tvxfnqc9b3zks1xl | gutenberg | CHAPTER XVIII. THE ZENITH
Andrea Doria did not remain to make formal surrender of the citadel of Sinigaglia to the duke--for which purpose, be it borne in mind, had Cesare been invited, indirectly, to come to Sinigaglia. He fled during the night that saw Vitelli and Oliverotto writhing their last in the strangler's hands. And his flight adds colour to the versions of the affair that were afforded the world by Cesare and his father. Andrea Doria, waiting to surrender his trust, had nothing to fear from the duke, no reason to do anything but remain. Andrea Doria, intriguing against the duke's life with the condottieri, finding them seized by the duke, and inferring that all was discovered, had every reason to fly.
The citadel made surrender on that New Year's morning, when Cesare summoned it to do so, whilst the troops of the Orsini and Vitelli lodged in the castles of the territory, being taken unawares, were speedily disposed of. So, there being nothing more left to do in Sinigaglia, Cesare once more marshalled his men and set out for Città di Castello--the tyranny of the Vitelli, which he found undefended and of which he took possession in the name of the Church. Thence he rushed on towards Perugia, for he had word that Guidobaldo of Urbino, Fabio Orsini, Annibale and Venanzio Varano, and Vitelli's nephew were assembled there under the wing of Gianpaolo Baglioni, who, with a considerable condotta at his back, was making big talk of resisting the Duke of Romagna and Valentinois. In this, Gianpaolo persevered most bravely until he had news that the duke was as near as Gualdo, when precipitately he fled--leaving his guests to shift for themselves. He had remembered, perhaps, at the last moment how narrow an escape he had had of it at Sinigaglia, and he repaired to Siena to join Pandolfo Petrucci, who had been equally fortunate in that connection. QUESTIONS:
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1. Why was Cesare asked to come?
2. Why was an invitation extended to Cesare?
3. For what reason was Cesare's presence requested?
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