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201 | (CNN) -- Actor Zachary Quinto, known for playing Spock in the 2009 "Star Trek" remake and his role as Sylar on the television show "Heroes," acknowledged his homosexuality in a post on his website Sunday, saying the action comes after the suicide of a 14-year-old who killed himself after apparently being harassed over his sexuality.
"When I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer killed himself -- I felt deeply troubled," Quinto posted. "But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an 'It Gets Better' video only months before taking his own life -- I felt indescribable despair.
"I also made an 'It Gets Better' video last year in the wake of the senseless and tragic gay teen suicides that were sweeping the nation at the time," Quinto wrote. "But in light of Jamey's death, it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality."
Rodemeyer was found dead September 18 outside his parents' home in Buffalo, New York. His parents said he had experienced years of bullying over his sexual orientation. His suicide has attracted the attention of such stars as Lady Gaga, who dedicated a song to him at a recent concert.
The "It Gets Better" campaign is aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered youth who may experience bullying.
"Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country," Quinto said. "Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society -- and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action."
Answer the following questions:
1. who died?
2. did he die in an accident?
3. how did he die?
4. how old was he when he died?
5. what month was his body discovered?
6. on which day?
7. where was his body discovered?
8. who lived in the house?
9. in what city?
10. state?
11. did a singer acknowledge his passing?
12. who?
13. how did she acknowledge it?
14. on an album?
15. where?
16. which crusade is trying to help harassed young ones?
17. is another performer mentioned?
18. who?
19. how does he perform?
20. what is he famous for?
Numbered answers: | 1. Jamey Rodemeyer
2. No
3. he killed himself
4. 14
5. September
6. the 18th
7. outside a home
8. his parents
9. Buffalo
10. New York
11. Yes
12. Lady Gaga,
13. she dedicated a song to him
14. No
15. at a recent concert
16. The "It Gets Better" campaign
17. Yes
18. Zachary Quinto
19. he acts
20. playing Spock | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
202 | Read the text and answer the questions.
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of , Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country.
Organised prehistoric cultures began developing on current Bulgarian lands during the Neolithic period. Its ancient history saw the presence of the Thracians, Greeks, Persians, Celts, Romans, Goths, Alans and Huns. The emergence of a unified Bulgarian state dates back to the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681 AD, which dominated most of the Balkans and functioned as a cultural hub for Slavs during the Middle Ages. With the downfall of the Second Bulgarian Empire in 1396, its territories came under Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries. The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 led to the formation of the Third Bulgarian State. The following years saw several conflicts with its neighbours, which prompted Bulgaria to align with Germany in both world wars. In 1946 it became a one-party socialist state as part of the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc. In December 1989 the ruling Communist Party allowed multi-party elections, which subsequently led to Bulgaria's transition into a democracy and a market-based economy.
1. When were the first Bulgarian cultures started?
2. Were the Greeks ever in the area?
3. How many others are listed?
4. About when was the first unified state there?
5. What was it called?
6. What area did it control?
7. Who was there?
8. Was this during the Renaissance?
9. What was this time period called?
10. What occurred in 1396?
11. Who took over then?
12. Were they in charge for a long time?
13. What was the outcome of the Russo-Turkish War?
14. What year was that?
15. Did they join the allies in WW2?
16. Were they democratic in the years after the war?
17. Did they ever become that?
18. When?\
19. What body of water is Bulgaria west of?
20. How many countries in Europe are bigger?
Numbered answers: | 1. the Neolithic period
2. yes
3. seven
4. 681 AD
5. the First Bulgarian Empire
6. most of the Balkans
7. Slavs
8. no
9. the Middle Ages
10. the downfall of the Second Bulgarian Empire
11. the Ottomans
12. yes
13. the formation of the Third Bulgarian State
14. 1877–78
15. no
16. no
17. yes
18. After December 1989
19. the Black Sea
20. 15 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
203 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
A naughty boy was sitting in math class on Tuesday. There was a broken sink in the back of the room full of water. There was also a kitty on the open window. A loud plane was flying outside and scared the kitty inside. The naughty boy walked up to the kitty and picked it up. What do you think he did next? He threw the kitty into the water in the sink! The kitty didn't last long and ran away from the sink faster than lightning! The other children laughed and laughed, but the teacher didn't think it was funny. She didn't let the naughty boy play on the playground for a week! But the boy didn't care. The class thought he was funny, and so did he. But he would have to get smarter because the sink was fixed soon. The naughty boy thought the teacher was a witch who used a magic kiss to fix it. He had no idea that her husband fixed it the next day.
1. Where was the boy sitting?
2. When?
3. And what kind of person was he?
4. What was in the back of the room?
5. And what was in it?
6. And what else was in the room?
7. Where?
8. What was outside?
9. And how'd the cat feel about that?
10. So what'd the boy do?
11. And then?
12. Did the cat like it?
13. So what'd it do?
14. From where?
15. And how?
16. What'd the other kids do?
17. Did the teacher think it was funny?
18. So did she punish him?
19. How?
20. Who fixed the sink eventually?
Numbered answers: | 1. in math class
2. on Tuesday
3. naughty
4. a broken sink
5. water
6. a kitty
7. on the open window
8. A loud plane
9. scared
10. walked up to the kitty and picked it up
11. He threw the kitty into the water in the sink
12. No
13. ran away
14. the sink
15. faster than lightning
16. laughed and laughed
17. No
18. Yes
19. She didn't let the naughty boy play on the playground for a week
20. The teacher's husband | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
204 | Chapter V. Mohun Appears For The Last Time In This History
Besides my Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who, for family reasons, had kindly promised his protection and patronage to Colonel Esmond, he had other great friends in power now, both able and willing to assist him, and he might, with such allies, look forward to as fortunate advancement in civil life at home as he had got rapid promotion abroad. His grace was magnanimous enough to offer to take Mr. Esmond as secretary on his Paris embassy, but no doubt he intended that proposal should be rejected; at any rate, Esmond could not bear the thoughts of attending his mistress farther than the church-door after her marriage, and so declined that offer which his generous rival made him.
Other gentlemen, in power, were liberal at least of compliments and promises to Colonel Esmond. Mr. Harley, now become my Lord Oxford and Mortimer, and installed Knight of the Garter on the same day as his grace of Hamilton had received the same honour, sent to the colonel to say that a seat in Parliament should be at his disposal presently, and Mr. St. John held out many flattering hopes of advancement to the colonel when he should enter the House. Esmond’s friends were all successful, and the most successful and triumphant of all was his dear old commander, General Webb, who was now appointed Lieutenant-General of the Land Forces, and received with particular honour by the ministry, by the queen, and the people out of doors, who huzza’d the brave chief when they used to see him in his chariot, going to the House or to the Drawing-room, or hobbling on foot to his coach from St. Stephen’s upon his glorious old crutch and stick, and cheered him as loud as they had ever done Marlborough.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who are among the people who would help Esmond?
2. Why he would help him?
3. Are there others who would do that too?
4. Are they powerful?
5. Would he succeed with their help?
6. in what?
7. Where?
8. Was he successful abroad?
9. Who did he take as secretary?
10. Where?
11. Where he did not wish to meet someone?
12. whom?
13. When?
14. Did he refuse the offer?
15. Of whom?
16. Were others generous in their promises to him?
17. Who was knighted?
18. Was anyone honored in the same day?
19. Who was that?
20. Who got the command of the land forces?
Numbered answers: | 1. Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon
2. for family reasons
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. civil life
7. at home
8. yes
9. Mr. Esmond
10. Paris embassy
11. farther than the church-door
12. his mistress
13. after her marriage
14. yes
15. his rival
16. yes
17. Mr. Harley
18. yes
19. Hamilton
20. General Webb | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
205 | The idea of not having a phone at ail could be beneficial sounds crazy to people who are addicted to the global Internet or even just Facebook. Indeed, it sounds like a pain. But some luxuries of a phone-free lifestyle make us realize that freedom has long been absent from our lives with a phone. According to The Wall Street Journal's Anton Troianovski. people expect less of you when you don't have a cell phone. Melissa Hildebrand, for example, doesn't even own n phone. She just leaves if her friends don't turn up on time for an event or meeting. "She gives them 15 to 30 minutes to show up," writes Troianovski. With a cell phone in hand, one receives apology calls, which will lengthen the waiting. Without a phone, that responsibility seems to reduce. Dean Obeidallah of CNN believes that not having a cell phone gives him the ability to see things; A beautiful woman burning past while fixing her makeup; Asian tourists busy taking photos; a businessman talking on his phone and looking important. "Instead of texting or checking my e-mail, I began to actually, look at the people I sharing the streets with. It is truly like a movie set filled with extras from all walks of life, Obeidallah said. Along with these small benefits of not having a phone, however, come all its inconvenience. Nancy Kadlick told The Wall Street Journal that she once missed an airport pick-up due to not having a phone. For Rebecca Greenfield, a columnist for the Atlantic Wire, the inconvenience of not having a phone outweigh(;) these small luxuries. But she also said: "Not having one every once in a while sounds like a nice practice."
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. When do people expect less of you?
2. Who doesn't own one?
3. Why not?
4. Is anyone else phone free?
5. Was it convenient for her?
6. Why not?
7. Who leaves somewhere if her friends are late?
8. How long does she give them to show up?
9. What types of calls are avoided?
10. Who thinks that not having a phone all the time would be nice?
11. What does she do?
12. Who is with CNN?
13. What is missing from our life when we have a phone?
14. What does going without a phone help us to understand?
15. What sounds crazy to some people?
16. What people does it seem that way to?
17. What is longer when you have a cell phone?
18. Who quit sending messages and checking his phone all the time?
19. What does he do instead?
20. What do these things remind him of?
Numbered answers: | 1. when you don't have a cell phone
2. Dean Obeidallah
3. he believes that not having a cell phone gives him the ability to see things
4. Nancy Kadlick
5. no
6. she once missed an airport pick-up due to not having a phone
7. Melissa Hildebrand
8. 15 to 30 minutes
9. apology calls
10. Rebecca Greenfield
11. a columnist for the Atlantic Wire
12. Dean Obeidallah
13. responsibility
14. that freedom that has long been absent from our lives
15. The idea of not having a phone at all
16. people who are addicted to the global Internet
17. the waiting
18. Dean Obeidallah
19. He sees things
20. a movie set | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
206 | Oil is plentiful in West Texas. When people think of West Texas they think of these machines called "pump-jacks." A pump-jack is a machine that pulls Oil out of the Earth. Robert's job is to fix pump-jacks. So he travels to West Texas to see if he can help. Steve owns many pump-jacks and is having a very tough time keeping them working. During the summer in West Texas the temperature can be over 100, which causes these machines to break often. Robert runs into Steve at a restaurant on a very hot day. After they talked about the weather for a few seconds, Steve says "my machines keep breaking because of this heat!" Robert says "Steve, I think you and I are both in luck because I fix pump-jacks." Immediately, they both travel out to Steve's land and Robert gets to work!
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. What is there a lot of in West Texas?
2. What gets oil out of the Earth?
3. Who fixes it?
4. Who has a lot of pump jacks?
5. Is he having issues with the equipment working?
6. Why?
7. Who does he meet at the diner?
8. What did they chat about?
9. Do they figure out a solution over the broken machines?
10. How soon do they go to the land after meeting?
Numbered answers: | 1. Oil.
2. A pump-jack.
3. Robert.
4. Steve.
5. Yes.
6. Because the temperature is often over 100, which causes them to break.
7. Steve.
8. The weather.
9. Yes.
10. Immediately. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
207 | Phone Soap: Charge and Clean Your Phone
You may charge your phone every day, but do you clean your phone as much? Whatever your hands touch, your phones touch. It has been discovered that some phones have 18 times more bacteria and viruses than any surface in a public restroom. So it probably won't surprise you that a 2011 University of London study found that one in six of our phones have bacteria and viruses on them--specifically, the bacteria called E. coli.
The research on bacteria and viruses led to the invention of Phone Soap. It is not actually liquid like dishwasher soap. It is a phone charger that uses the electromagnetic radiation used in hospitals to kill 99.9 percent of bacteria and viruses, cleaning your phone while it charges.
"There are really certain types of bacteria and viruses that we should not be in touch with, and they are really on our phones," says Wes Barnes, the Phone Soap co-founder. It all started while his cousin and co-founder, Dan LaPorte, was in his cancer research lab at college. "He realized he got the idea of getting rid of bacteria and viruses on the phones," said Barnes. "In the lab they used UV-C light for destroying them. He realized this would be the fastest, most powerful way to kill any bacteria and viruses living on electronic machines."
Phone Soap looks like a little metal suitcase. Your phone rests in to charge and get cleaned at the same time. Instead of plugging your phone into the wall, you'd plug it into the Phone Soap charger box. The process only takes a few minutes but, Barnes says, "The idea is that you can leave it in there overnight if you want to keep charging. Reflective paint keeps the light completely around the phone so it cleans the phone fully."
The co-founders spent 2013 finding the right companies and they started shipping the product in late November. By last week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Phone Soap was all grown-up. Both co-founders have left their previous jobs and are selling Phone Soap nonstop. "We're shipping almost more than we can handle each day," Barnes says. "It's been a great adventure."
1. What is the subject of the article?
2. What is it used for?
3. How effective is it?
4. Who conducted a study on phone cleanliness?
5. When?
6. What did they find?
7. What led to the invention of Phone Soap?
8. Who were the founders?
9. Are they related?
10. How?
11. How were bacteria and viruses destroyed in LaPorte's lab?
12. What was LaPorte's realization?
13. What does Phone Soap look like?
14. Does a phone have to be charging for it to work?
15. Is the phone plugged in the wall?
16. Where?
17. How long does the process take?
18. Can the phone be left charging overnight?
19. What is used to make sure the phone is completely cleaned?
20. Where did the inventors showcase Phone Soap?
Numbered answers: | 1. Phone Soap
2. kills bacteria and viruses on phone
3. 99.9 percent
4. University of London
5. 2011
6. ne in six of our phones have bacteria and viruses on them
7. research on bacteria and viruses
8. Wes Barnes and Dan LaPorte
9. yes
10. cousins
11. UV-C light
12. UV-C light is fastest to kill bacteria & viruses
13. little metal suitcase
14. yes
15. no
16. Phone Soap charger box
17. a few minutes
18. yes
19. Reflective paint
20. International Consumer Electronics Show | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
208 | Zach has a stepson, Bradley. One day, Zach drove over to meet Bradley. Bradley was a student in a high school. He neither liked nor disliked Zach, even though he had known Zach for three years. Zach was still trying to get along with Bradley. He told Bradley that he was coming over. Bradley said OK. When Zach got there, he asked if Bradley wanted to drive his car. Bradley had a driver's _ . Bradley said all right. Zach told him not to drive too fast, but he could drive anywhere he wanted. Bradley got on the 210 Road and headed northwest. Zach gave Bradley a few driving tips: Don't drive next to big cars; don't drive behind trucks with goods... On their way back, Zach suggested that they stop at the golf course . He wanted to show Bradley how to play golf. But Bradley didn't like it; he liked his video games. However, Bradley soon found that playing golf was fun and he did very well. The next day, Bradley, for the first time, called Zach. Bradley asked if Zach would come the next Saturday, so they could take a drive and go to the golf course again. Zach said yes, with a happy feeling in his heart.
1. How did Bradley feel about Zach?
2. How long were they family?
3. Who did Zach visit?
4. Can he drive?
5. Where could they go?
6. Where did they travel?
7. Where else?
8. Whose idea was it?
9. Why?
10. Did he like that idea?
11. What did he discover?
12. What happened later?
13. And the day after?
14. Why?
15. What was the answer?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. didn't like or dislike him.
2. thre years
3. Bradley
4. yes
5. anywhere he liked.
6. Northwest on the 210 road
7. the golf course
8. Zach's
9. He wanted to show Bradley how to play golf.
10. no
11. golf is fun
12. he did very well.
13. bradley called Zach for the 1st timw
14. to ask if Zach would come the next Saturday, so they could take a drive and go to the golf course again.
15. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
209 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
A sense of humor is just one of the many things shared by Alfred and Anthony Melillo, 64-year-old twin brothers from East Haven who made history in February 2002. On Christmas Eve, 1992, Anthony had a heart transplant from a 21-year-old donor. Two days before Valentine's Day in 2002, Alfred received a 19-year-old heart, marking the first time on record that twin adults each received heart transplants.
"I'm 15 minutes older than him, but now I'm younger because of my heart and I'm not going to respect him," Alfred said with a big smile, pointing to his brother while talking to a roomful of reporters, who laughed frequently at their jokes.
While the twins knew that genetics might have played a role in their condition, they recognized that their eating habits might have also contributed to their heart problems. "We'd put half a pound of butter on a steak. I overdid it on all the food that tasted good, so I guess I deserved what I got for not dieting properly."
The discussion moved to Anthony's recovery. In the five years since his heart transplant, he had been on an exercise program where he regularly rode a bicycle for five miles, swam each day, and walked a couple of miles. He was still on medication, but not nearly as much as Alfred, who was just in the early stage of his recovery.
"Right now I feel pretty young and I'm doing very well," Anthony said. "I feel like a new person." Alfred said his goal, of course, was to feel even better than his brother. But, he added, "I love my brother very much. We're very close and I'm sure we'll do just fine."
1. when did Anthony have a heart transplant?
2. where are Anthony and his brother from?
3. when did alfred get his heart?
4. how old had the donor been?
5. were eating habits part of why they were sick?
6. how much butter did they use?
7. on what?
8. how far each day did anthony exercise?
9. Does Alfred do the same?
10. how old are they?
11. is it common for twins to have heart ops?
12. Does Anthony take as much medication as he had before?
13. who takes more drugs
14. How is Anthony feeling?
15. and how\s he doing?
16. And Alfred?
17. what's his goal?
18. who is older?
Numbered answers: | 1. 1992
2. East Haven
3. 2002
4. 19
5. yes
6. half a pound
7. steak
8. rode a bicycle for five miles, swam each day, and walked a couple of miles
9. no
10. 64
11. no
12. no
13. Alfred
14. young
15. very well
16. like a new person
17. to feel better than his brother.
18. Alfred | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
210 | Lima (, , Quechua: , Aymara: ) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population of more than 10 million, Lima is the most populous metropolitan area of Peru and the third-largest city in the Americas (as defined by "city proper"), behind São Paulo and Mexico City.
Lima was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, as "Ciudad de los Reyes". It became the capital and most important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. Following the Peruvian War of Independence, it became the capital of the Republic of Peru. Around one-third of the national population lives in the metropolitan area.
Lima is home to one of the oldest higher-learning institutions in the New World. The National University of San Marcos, founded on May 12, 1551 during the Spanish colonial regime, is the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas.
In October 2013 Lima was chosen to host the 2019 Pan American Games. It also hosted the December 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference and the Miss Universe 1982 pageant.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Lima Metropolitan Area
2. Lima and Callao
3. Pizarro
4. 1535
5. More than 10 million
6. Yes
7. Around one-third of the national population
8. Peru
9. Following the Peruvian War of Independence
10. One of the oldest higher-learning institutions in the New World.
11. The National University of San Marcos
12. 1551
13. The Spanish
14. The United Nations Climate Change Conference
15. The Miss Universe pageant
16. The central coastal part
17. The Pacific
18. It's the third largest city
19. São Paulo and Mexico City
20. Spanish
Numbered questions: | 1. what is its urban area known as?
2. what is that compsed of?
3. Who founded it?
4. when?
5. what is the population?
6. do many live in the metro area?
7. about how many?
8. what is it the capital of?
9. when did it become the capital?
10. what is it home to?
11. which one?
12. when was it founded?
13. who ruled then?
14. what did it host in 2014?
15. how about in 1982?
16. what part of the country can you find it?
17. What ocean?
18. how does it rank in size for the Americas?
19. which two are larger?
20. What nationality was the founder? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
211 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (), commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey.
Rutgers was chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The college was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), a New York City landowner, philanthropist and former military officer, whose $5,000 bond donation to the school allowed it to reopen after years of financial difficulty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church.
In 1864, the college expanded its role in research and instruction in agriculture, engineering, and science when it was named as the state's sole land-grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862.
In 1924, it gained university status with the introduction of graduate education and further expansion. However, Rutgers evolved into a coeducational public research university after being designated "The State University of New Jersey" by the New Jersey Legislature in laws enacted in 1945 and 1956. It is one of only two colonial colleges that later became public universities. Rutgers, however, remains something of a public-private hybrid, in particular retaining certain "private rights" against unilateral changes in its governance, name, and structure that the state might otherwise want to impose.
Answer the following questions:
1. When did it gain university status?
2. What state is Rutgers in?
3. What is it called?
4. What country is it located in?
5. Are their larger universities in new jersey?
6. Is it public or private?
Numbered answers: | 1. In 1924
2. New Jersey
3. Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU,
4. America
5. no
6. both | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
212 | Read the text and answer the questions.
James was getting ready for the weekend. He needed to go to the store. He needed to get food for his friend's birthday party. James made a list of things to get. He wrote down strawberries, apples, cupcakes, juice, and bananas. James was going to make a fruit salad. James went to the store. He bought the apples, cupcakes, and bananas that were on the shopping list. He forgot to buy the juice. James also bought a toy mouse for a present for his friend. James was very excited for the party this weekend.
The day of the party finally arrived. James made the fruit salad with the apples, strawberries, and bananas he bought. He set out the cupcakes and fruit salad on the table. He placed the toy mouse in shiny paper and set it on the table too. He checked his watch. It was almost time for the party. The birthday guests would be there soon.
Once the guests came they ate cupcakes and fruit salad. Everyone liked the food. James gave his friend the present. His friend really liked the toy mouse. James was very happy because his friend had a great birthday.
1. Who was getting ready for the weekend?
2. where did he need to go?
3. What did he need to get?
4. Did he make a list of things he needed to get?
5. What was on the list?
6. What was he going to make?
7. What did he forget to buy?
8. What kind of toy did he buy?
9. What did he set out with the fruit salad on the table?
10. What did he place in shiny paper?
Numbered answers: | 1. James
2. the store
3. food for his friend's birthday party
4. yes
5. strawberries, apples, cupcakes, juice, and bananas
6. fruit salad.
7. juice
8. a toy mouse
9. cupcakes
10. the toy mouse | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
213 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; ) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, as well as several much smaller islands.
Prince Edward Island is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population. It is the only subnational jurisdiction of North America outside the Caribbean to have no mainland territory, and the only such jurisdiction to have no land boundary. The island has several informal names: "Garden of the Gulf," referring to the pastoral scenery and lush agricultural lands throughout the province; and "Birthplace of Confederation" or "Cradle of Confederation", referring to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, although PEI did not join Confederation until 1873, when it became the seventh Canadian province. The backbone of the economy is farming; it produces 25% of Canada's potatoes. Historically, PEI is one of Canada's older settlements and demographically still reflects older immigration to the country, with Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and French surnames being dominant to this day.
According to the 2016 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 142,907 residents. It is located about north of Halifax, Nova Scotia and east of Quebec City. It consists of the main island and 231 minor islands. Altogether, the entire province has a land area of . Its capital is Charlottetown.
1. How many people are there in the province of Prince Edward Island?
2. What is Prince Edward Island?
3. What is one or the informal names for it?
4. What is another?
5. What is the basis of its economy?
6. What's its third informal name?
7. How much or Canada's potatoes does it grow?
8. What kind of surnames would you find there?
9. Besides the main island, how many others does it have?
10. How many minor islands does it have?
11. What kind of Province is it?
12. What other kind of province is it one of?
13. How many Maritime Provinces are there total?
14. When was the Charlottetown Conference?
15. What happened in 1873?
16. What is it situated north of?
17. And what city is it east of?
18. What is it a subnational jurisdiction of?
19. Does it have a mainland territory?
20. Is it a newer settlement?
Numbered answers: | 1. 142,907
2. it is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, as well as several much smaller islands
3. : "Garden of the Gulf,"
4. "Birthplace of Confederation"
5. The backbone of the economy is farming
6. "Cradle of Confederation"
7. 25%
8. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and French surnames
9. several much smaller islands
10. 231 minor islands
11. a Canadian province
12. a Maritime Provinc
13. three
14. in 1864
15. it joined the Confederation
16. Halifax
17. Quebec City
18. subnational jurisdiction of North America
19. no
20. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
214 | Youth, friendship and love are the main themes of this year's Chinese movies, such as So Young(<<>> ) and American Dreams in China(<<>> ). Tiny Times(<<>> ), one of the most popular movies this summer, also has the same features. The movie was based on author and director Guo Jingming's novel of the same name. It tells a story about four girls who come from different backgrounds and of different personalities. Since it was shown on June 27, Tiny Times has made 483 million yuan at the box office. The sequel of it was shown on Aug 8 and it has also been a big box office hit. Cao Yuhan, 13, a high school student at Beijing Jianhua Experimental School, is a big fan of the movie. "I'm deeply touched by their friendship," Cao said. "When Nan Xiwang is in trouble, the other three girls try their best to help her, even running barefoot in the snow. However, not everyone has had good things to say. The people's Daily said that the film went too far in encouraging youths to become materialistic . Film commentator Raymond Zhou wrote on his online blog that "Buying luxury goods seems as a way to express love or friendship, and the word 'money' is repeated over and over again. Song Kexin, 14, a high school student at Zhida Middle School in Taiyuan, Shanxi, shows a typical example of a fan's attitude . And that's to look for the positive value. "That movie is a little far from our daily life. My friends and I are not having parties every day," Song said, "But I admire Tang Wanru's optimistic attitude. She's always looking at the bright side of life. I should learn from her."
Answer this series of questions:
1. how much did Tiny Times make at the box office ?
2. the sequel was shown on what date ?
3. what high school student is fond of the movie ?
4. how old is he ?
5. at what school ?
6. who thinks the film went to far ?
7. encouraging who ?
8. to do what ?
9. who ran barefoot ?
10. why ?
11. to help who ?
12. did everyone have positive things to say ?
13. who shows a good example of a fan attitude ? ?
14. how old are they ?
15. what school do they attend ?
16. where ?
17. what country ?
18. who looks at the bright side ?
19. how many main themes are there in this years movies ?
20. name one
Numbered answers: | 1. 483 million yuan
2. Aug 8
3. Cao Yuhan
4. 13
5. Beijing Jianhua Experimental School
6. The people's Daily
7. youths
8. become materialistic
9. the other three girls
10. to help her
11. Nan Xiwang
12. no
13. Song Kexin
14. 14
15. Zhida Middle School
16. Taiyuan
17. China
18. a typical fan
19. Three
20. Youth | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
215 | I stepped inside my mother's car and dropped my backpack on the floor as my face filled with excitement. Today's the day that we're going to the candy store and picking out a new treat to have after dinner. Some people may like going to the movies, or the game room, or even to parks, but going to the candy store once a week and getting to see all the different colors and taste all the different treats is my favorite activity. As soon as we pull up, she tells me to not run around too much inside, but I'm so excited I barely hear her. She opens the door and we walk inside where the clerk first welcomes us. Since we do this each week, he calls me by my name of Trevor and says that he's come up with a few candies for me to try.
I walk over to the table and see three types of M&M's laid out. He knows I'm not a big fan of peanuts so he left out the peanut kind, instead giving me mint flavored, cookies 'n creme flavored, and white chocolate flavored. They all taste great and the clerk asks which I like the most. It takes me a bit to choose, but I finally choose the Mint as this week's choice. He rings us up at the front desk and says that since we buy from his shop so much, he's going to give us a sale, so we think it'll be a nickel or a dime or even a quarter off. Actually, the clerk ends up cutting it half off! We thanked him and went on our way as I tried not to eat all the way home.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. what is his favorite activity
2. How does he get there
3. how does he feel about it
4. what is his name
5. what doesn't he like
6. what flavor does he like
7. what flavors did he choose from
8. why do they get a discount
9. how much did they save
10. how did they feel about it
11. where did they go next
Numbered answers: | 1. going to the candy store
2. his mom's car
3. excited
4. Trevor
5. peanuts
6. mint
7. mint, cookies and creme and white chocolate
8. they shop there a lot
9. half
10. grateful
11. home | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
216 | Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American major record label established in 1958 as the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group (WMG), and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19, 1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.. For most of its early existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world.
In 2003, these music assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner and purchased by a private equity group. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011. WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the world's last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company.
Artists currently signed to Warner Bros. Records include Sleeping with Sirens, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Kimbra, the Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crow, Ciara, Gorillaz, Adam Lambert, Bette Midler, Blur, Duran Duran, Fleet Foxes, Jason Derulo, Kid Rock, Lily Allen, Linkin Park, Muse, Nile Rodgers, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Black Keys, My Chemical Romance and Regina Spektor.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Does this company sign artists?
2. What is the company called?
3. When was it started?
4. Is it called something different now?
5. Who is someone they signed?
6. Anyone else?
7. Was it autonomous at first?
8. Who long did it shift around?
9. Did it start big and then get small?
10. Who had them in 2003?
11. After that?
12. What happened in 2011?
13. How many huge musical businesses are there?
14. Are they the biggest?
15. Are they all on the public market?
16. Who runs it?
17. Do they only sign women?
18. What male example is there?
19. Do they have less than 5 people right now?
20. Do they make films?
Numbered answers: | 1. yes
2. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
3. 1958
4. WMG
5. Sleeping with Sirens
6. Cher
7. no
8. from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.
9. no
10. Time Warner
11. A private equity group.
12. It was bought by Access Industries.
13. Three
14. yes
15. no
16. Cameron Strang
17. no
18. Adam Lambert
19. no
20. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
217 | Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network. It was first defined in 1988 in the CCITT red book. Prior to ISDN, the telephone system was viewed as a way to transport voice, with some special services available for data. The key feature of ISDN is that it integrates speech and data on the same lines, adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system. The ISDN standards define several kinds of access interfaces, such as Basic Rate Interface (BRI), Primary Rate Interface (PRI), Narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN), and Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN).
ISDN is a circuit-switched telephone network system, which also provides access to packet switched networks, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in potentially better voice quality than an analog phone can provide. It offers circuit-switched connections (for either voice or data), and packet-switched connections (for data), in increments of 64 kilobit/s. In some countries, ISDN found major market application for Internet access, in which ISDN typically provides a maximum of 128 kbit/s bandwidth in both upstream and downstream directions. Channel bonding can achieve a greater data rate; typically the ISDN B-channels of three or four BRIs (six to eight 64 kbit/s channels) are bonded.
1. When was ISDN first defined?
2. Where?
3. What does it stand for?
4. Does it support video?
5. What else?
6. What is its key feature?
7. was this available before?
8. What does BRI stand for?
9. What kind of interface is BRI?
10. Can you name other kinds?
11. What are the name of two others?
12. What kind of switches does ISDN use?
13. Can you utilize any others?
14. Which one?
15. What does that do?
16. What kind of wire is used?
17. Does this lead to better or worse quality?
18. How many kilobits are utilized?
19. Whats the max bandwidth?
20. Is that for both directions?
21. What can result in a higher rate?
22. How many are bonded?
Numbered answers: | 1. 1988
2. in the CCITT red book
3. Integrated Services Digital Network
4. yes
5. speech
6. it integrates speech and data on the same lines
7. no
8. Basic Rate Interface
9. access interface
10. Yes
11. Narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN), and Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN)
12. circuit-switches
13. Yes
14. packet-switched
15. carries data
16. copper
17. Better
18. 64 kilobit/s
19. 128 kbit/s
20. yes
21. Channel bonding
22. three or four | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
218 | CHAPTER XXIX.
THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE.
44--33.
The murderers of Cæsar had expected the Romans to hail them as deliverers from a tyrant, but his great friend Marcus Antonius, who was, together with him, consul for that year, made a speech over his body as it lay on a couch of gold and ivory in the Forum ready for the funeral. Antonius read aloud Cæsar's will, and showed what benefits he had intended for his fellow-citizens, and how he loved them, so that love for him and wrath against his enemies filled every hearer. The army, of course, were furious against the murderers; the Senate was terrified, and granted everything Antonius chose to ask, provided he would protect them, whereupon he begged for a guard for himself that he might be saved from Cæsar's fate, and this they gave him; while the fifteen murderers fled secretly, mostly to Cisalpine Gaul, of which Decimus Brutus was governor.
Cæsar had no child but the Julia who had been wife to Pompeius, and his heir was his young cousin Caius Octavius, who changed his name to Caius Julius Cæsar Octavianus, and, coming to Rome, demanded his inheritance, which Antonius had seized, declaring that it was public money; but Octavianus, though only eighteen, showed so much prudence and fairness that many of the Senate were drawn towards him rather than Antonius, who had always been known as a bad, untrustworthy man; but the first thing to be done was to put down the murderers--Decimus Brutus was in Gaul, Marcus Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia, and Sextus Pompeius had also raised an army in Spain.
1. What did the murderers of Caesar expect?
2. Who read Caesar's will?
3. What was his body laying on?
4. What did the will show?
5. Did he have children?
6. Did someone demand an inheritance?
7. Who?
8. How old was he?
9. What relation was he?
10. Had the inheritance been seized?
11. By whom?
12. Why?
13. What did the Senate think?
14. Why?
15. How was Antonious known?
16. Who were Caesar's murderers?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Romans to hail them as deliverers from a tyrant
2. Antonius
3. couch of gold and ivory
4. benefits he had intended for his fellow-citizens
5. No
6. Yes
7. Caius Octavius
8. eighteen
9. his young cousin
10. Yes
11. Antonius
12. it was public money
13. they were drawn towards Octavius
14. he showed prudence and fairness
15. a bad, untrustworthy man
16. Decimus Brutus, Marcus Brutus, Cassius, and Sextus Pompeius | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
219 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Fanny the fly was hungry. She went to the store. She saw her friend Colin the cat at the store. Colin waved to Fanny. Fanny waved back. At the store, Fanny bought ice cream, fruit, and pasta. Then she went home. She looked in her fridge. In her fridge she saw meatballs, rice, tomato sauce, and garlic. She chose to make a pasta dinner and invite all of her friends over. She invited Colin the cat and Danny the dog. She also invited Freddy the frog and Allen the alligator. Everyone arrived to a beautiful meal made by Fanny. They all ate happily. After dinner, Fanny brought out dessert. She brought out pie, fruit, cupcakes, and ice cream. Everybody ate a cupcake. Danny ate ice cream too. Allen had some pie and fruit as well as the cupcake. Colin had some pie too. Fanny told everyone to come back for dinner again. They all said goodbye and left. Fanny was happy and full. She went to bed smiling to herself.
1. What kind of animal was Fanny?
2. Where did she go?
3. Who did she see at the store?
4. Was Colin a cat?
5. Did they wave to each other?
6. What did Fanny buy?
7. Where did she go after that?
8. What did she see in her fridge?
9. What did she decide to make for dinner?
10. Was she going to invite anyone over for dinner?
11. What were the names of the friends she invited?
12. Were they happy to eat?
13. Did Fanny bring out dessert?
14. What did she bring out for dessert then?
15. Who ate ice cream?
16. Did everyone eat a cupcake?
17. Did Fanny invite them back?
18. Did everyone say goodbye?
19. Who was happy and full?
Numbered answers: | 1. a fly
2. to the store
3. her friend Colin
4. yes
5. yes
6. ice cream, fruit, and pasta
7. home
8. meatballs, rice, tomato sauce, and garlic
9. a pasta dinner
10. yes
11. Colin, Danny, and Allen
12. yes
13. yes
14. pie, fruit, cupcakes, and ice cream
15. Danny
16. yes
17. yes
18. yes
19. Fanny | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
220 | Simon hardly listened to his teachers or worked hard in class. For him, talking was so much better. He never stopped talking. He wanted to be heard. "If you listen carefully, you'll learn something." Mrs. Jacobs told him many times, but it didn't work. Last Sunday, Simon had a sore throat and he lost his voice the next morning. "Can I stay home?" he tried to ask, but words didn't come out. His mother thought he could go to school. He felt upset. When he got to school, he didn't say anything to his friends or teachers. Everyone started talking at once. They were excited, worried and surprised. Mrs. Jacobs seemed happy. Simon was bored because he couldn't talk. But it wasn't so bad. He could do his homework. The next day, even though his voice was coming back, he stayed quiet again. He listened and put up his hand to speak. What a great difference! ,.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Mrs. Jacobs
2. Simon
3. No.
4. No.
5. Lost his voice.
6. Last Sunday
7. Yes
8. His mother thought he could go to school
9. No.
10. Yes.
11. Yes.
Numbered questions: | 1. What was the teacher's name?
2. Who was one of her students?
3. Was he quiet?
4. Was he a good listener?
5. What made him be quiet?
6. When?
7. Did he go to school the next day?
8. Why didn't he stay home?
9. Did he talk to anyone that day?
10. Was he able to concentrate more when he was silent?
11. Did he try to be quiet more often? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
221 | Smart Exercise
Doctors are starting to find more and more information that suggests a connection between exercise and brain development. Judy Cameron, a scientist at Oregon Health and prefix = st1 /ScienceUniversity, studies brain development. According to her research, it seems that exercise can make blood vessels, including those in the brain, stronger and more fully developed. Dr. Cameron claims this allows people who exercise to concentrate better. As she says: "While we already know that exercise is good for the heart, exercise can literally cause physical changes in the brain."
The effects of exercise on brain development can even be seen in babies. Babies who do activities that require a lot of movement and physical activity show greater brain development than babies who are less physically active. With babies, even a little movement can show big results. Margaret Barnes, a pediatrician , believes in the importance of exercise. She thinks that many learning disabilities that children have in elementary school or high school can be traced back to a lack of movement as babies. "Babies need movement that stimulates their five senses. They need to establish a connection between motion and memory. In this way, as they get older, children will begin to associate physical activity with higher learning," says Margaret.
Older people can beef uptheir brains as well.CornellUniversitystudied a group of seniors ranging in age from seventy to seventy-nine. Their study showed a short-term memory increase of up to 40 percent after exercising just three hours a week. The exercise does not have to be very difficult, but it does have to increase the heart rate. Also, just like the motion for infants, exercise for older people should involve some complexity. Learning some new skills or motions helps to open up memory paths in the brain that may not have been used for a long time.
For most people, any type of physical activity that increases the heart rate is helpful. The main goal is to increase the brain's flow of blood. And your brain can benefit from as little as two to three hours of exercise a week.
Answer the following questions:
1. Are doctors starting to think there is a connection between exercise and brain development?
2. What does judy Cameron's research say about the topic?
3. Can exercise cause physical changes in the brain?
4. What does it say children need to associalte physical activity with?
5. What percentage increase in short term memory was a result of exercise in older people?
6. What should one learn to open up memory paths in the brain that may not have been used in a long time?
7. Does Dr. Cameron calm exercise helps concentration?
8. What does the exercise need to increase to help?
9. How low of time is said to be needed?
10. What University does Judy Cameron work for?
Numbered answers: | 1. yes
2. exercise can make your brain stronger
3. yes
4. physical activity shows greater brain development
5. up to 40 percent
6. Learning some new skills or motions
7. yes
8. the brain's flow of blood
9. two to three hours of exercise a week.
10. Oregon Health | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
222 | Read the text and answer the questions.
(CNN) -- Woody Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity -- he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.
Woody Harrelson says he got into a clash with a photographer because he mistook him for a zombie.
The TMZ photographer filed a complaint with police claiming the actor damaged his camera and pushed him in the face at La Guardia Airport, according to an airport spokesman.
"We're looking into this allegation and if it's warranted, we'll turn it over to the proper authorities," said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Ron Marsico.
The photographer, who was not identified, captured the encounter on a small camera after his larger one was broken.
Harrelson, who is being sued by another TMZ photographer for an alleged assault in 2006, did not deny his involvement.
"I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character," Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.
"With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie," he said.
TMZ.com posted two videos of the incident, including one recorded by the larger camera before it was damaged.
The first video shows the photographer following Harrelson and his daughter down an escalator and out of the terminal. It ends with Harrelson apparently reaching for the lens.
1. Did something happen at the airport?
2. Who was involved?
3. Did he recognize the paparazzi?
4. What did he think he was?
5. Were they in Chicago?
6. Where were they?
7. Which airport?
8. Did anyone make a report?
9. Whom?
10. Who did he file it with?
11. Where does he work?
12. Has the actor encountered zombie's before?
13. Where?!
14. Was his son with him during the altercation?
15. Who was?
16. How many videos were put online?
17. What site are they on?
18. Was the name of the photographer disclosed?
19. Did he follow them on the stairs?
20. Where then?
Numbered answers: | 1. Yes
2. Woody Harrelson and a photographer
3. No
4. a zombie.
5. No
6. New York
7. La Guardia Airport
8. Yes
9. The photographer
10. With the police
11. TMZ
12. Yes
13. In a movie called 'Zombieland'
14. No
15. His daughter
16. two
17. TMZ.com
18. No
19. No
20. down an escalator | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
223 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Taking risks in life with her career, and less so at the buffet table, have served Mireille Guiliano and her readers well.
The longtime Veuve Clicquot champagne house executive has a wisdom about women, French and otherwise, that's made her one others turn to for advice.
The former CEO and best-selling author of "French Women Don't Get Fat" and "French Women for All Seasons" is now toasting her latest book, "Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility."
Inspired by the young women who've approached her for guidance, Guiliano, who splits her time between New York and Paris, set out to impart what she's learned through her career.
"We have to help each other and help especially the young generation progress and not make the same mistakes we did," she said. "These very difficult times, with the recession and all of that, are actually a positive for women because it gives us a chance to make a difference and show that we are becoming the majority, and we should be treated as such."
CNN sat down recently with Guiliano to discuss the word that hurts the careers of women most, the lessons her mother taught her and any last-minute tips she has to prevent holiday-food overindulgence. Here are excerpts from that interview:
CNN: What exactly is this art of savoir faire you speak of?
Guiliano: Savoir faire is a complex set, a mix I should say, of competence, experience and knowing somehow instinctively how to make a decision in a given situation. [It's] creating your own luck and your own opportunities and then making the most of them.
1. who interviewed her recently?
2. what does she do?
3. where was she an executive?
4. who has inspired her?
5. what question did CNN ask her?
6. what is her latest book?
7. do others turn to her for advice?
8. what wisdom does she have?
9. and what else?
10. how many other books have been mentioned?
11. has she taken risks?
12. in what?
13. how many cities does she spend time in?
14. please name them.
15. who does she say we have to especially help?
16. does she say recession is good for women?
17. does savoir faire talk about creating your own luck?
18. and what else?
19. please name one of the books she has written.
20. does she want the young generation to repeat our mistakes?
Numbered answers: | 1. CNN
2. former CEO and best-selling author
3. Veuve Clicquot champagne house
4. the young women who've approached her for guidance
5. What exactly is this art of savoir faire you speak of?
6. "Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility."
7. yes
8. a wisdom about women
9. Savoir faire
10. Two
11. yes
12. life with her career
13. Two
14. New York and Paris
15. the young generation
16. yes
17. yes
18. your own opportunities
19. "French Women Don't Get Fat"
20. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
224 | Gaius Julius Caesar (Latin: CAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR, , born: 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), usually called Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. He is also known as a notable author of Latin prose.
In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as "Populares" were opposed by the "Optimates" within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both the Channel and the Rhine, when he built a bridge across the Rhine and crossed the Channel to invade Britain.
These achievements granted him unmatched military power and threatened to eclipse the standing of Pompey, who had realigned himself with the Senate after the death of Crassus in 53 BC. With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to step down from his military command and return to Rome. Caesar refused the order, and instead marked his defiance in 49 BC by crossing the Rubicon with the 13th Legion, leaving his province and illegally entering Roman Italy under arms. Civil war resulted, and Caesar's victory in the war put him in an unrivalled position of power and influence.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Name one person in an alliance with Caesar?
2. And another?
3. What was the nickname of this alliance in the Roman Senate?
4. Which group opposed them?
5. Naame one person in the Optimates?
6. And another?
7. Which river did Caesar cross in defiance?
8. When?
9. With whom?
10. What happened then?
11. Who won?
12. When were the Gallic wars completed?
13. Which rivers did Caesar cross in those wars?
14. How did he get across the Rhine>
15. Why did he cross the channel?
16. What did the senate ask him to do after the Gallic wars?
17. When was he born?
18. When did he die?
19. Was he an author?
20. of what?
Numbered answers: | 1. Pompey
2. Crassus
3. Populares
4. Optimates
5. Cato the Younger
6. Cicero
7. Rubicon
8. 49 BC
9. the 13th Legion,
10. Civil war
11. Caesar
12. 51 BC
13. the English Channel and the Rhine
14. he built a bridge
15. to invade Britain
16. step down from his military command
17. 13 July 100 BC
18. 15 March 44 BC
19. yes
20. Latin prose | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
225 | (CNN) -- A former Microsoft executive and his son were aboard a turboprop airline that crashed Friday morning into two houses in East Haven, Connecticut, a family member told CNN.
There has been "no official confirmation or positive identification" that Bill Henningsgaard and his son were on board, but there is no reason to believe that it was not the two of them, his brother, Blair Henningsgaard, said.
Also feared dead in the crash were two children -- ages 1 and 13 -- in one house, East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. said. The other house was unoccupied.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators cannot confirm the number of people killed, saying there are reports of four to six people dead.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said there could be as many as five people killed in the crash, including up to three people on the plane.
But Blair Henningsgaard said only his brother and his nephew were believed to be on the plane.
Two bodies were seen inside the home but haven't been recovered because the home is unstable, East Haven Fire Chief Douglas Jackson said at a press conference Friday afternoon.
Fire consumed both houses, preventing firefighters from searching for victims, Jackson said, and the basement in the home holding at least two victims was filled with water.
Maturo said the children were in one house with their mother when the plane struck shortly before 11:30 a.m. The mother escaped, he said.
"It's ... total devastation in the back of the home," Maturo said.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Which Connecticut official said there could be five people killed in a plane crash?
2. What kind of plane was it?
3. What man was probably on the plane?
4. Where was he a former executive at?
5. Who was possibly aboard the plane with him?
6. According to what family member?
7. What's his name?
8. When did the crash happen?
9. Where did it crash?
10. Did it hit anything on the house?
11. What?
12. Was anyone in the houses?
13. One or both?
14. Was anyone on the ground hurt?
15. Who?
16. How badly were they hurt?
17. How old were they?
18. Were they able to recover the bodies?
19. Why not?
20. Has there been official confirmation of any of the deaths?
Numbered answers: | 1. Gov. Dannel Malloy
2. A turboprop.
3. Bill Henningsgaard.
4. Microsoft.
5. His son.
6. Bill's brother.
7. Blair Henningsgaard,
8. Friday morning.
9. East Haven, Connecticut.
10. Yes.
11. Two houses.
12. Yes.
13. One.
14. Yes.
15. Two children.
16. Feared dead.
17. 1 and 13
18. No.
19. Fire consumed both houses.
20. No. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
226 | The defined dogma of the Immaculate Conception regards original sin only, saying that Mary was preserved from any stain (in Latin, macula or labes, the second of these two synonymous words being the one used in the formal definition). The proclaimed Roman Catholic dogma states "that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin." Therefore, being always free from original sin, the doctrine teaches that from her conception Mary received the sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after birth.
The definition makes no declaration about the Church's belief that the Blessed Virgin was sinless in the sense of freedom from actual or personal sin. However, the Church holds that Mary was also sinless personally, "free from all sin, original or personal". The Council of Trent decreed: "If anyone shall say that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he who falls and sins was never truly justified; or, on the contrary, that throughout his whole life he can avoid all sins even venial sins, except by a special privilege of God, as the Church holds in regard to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema."
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Which religion is this about?
2. What does the Immaculate Conception deal with?
3. From what language is macula or labes?
4. Who granted Mary a privilege?
5. Does Mary have the stain or original sin?
6. Is actual or personal sin different from that?
7. Does the church find Mary to have personally sinned?
8. By what other title is Mary known?
9. Who is the Saviour of the human race?
10. Do you know what the Council of Trent was?
11. Did the Council have authority to decree certain rules or beliefs?
Numbered answers: | 1. Roman Catholic
2. original sin
3. Latin
4. God,
5. No
6. Yes
7. No
8. Blessed Virgin Mary
9. Jesus Christ
10. Yes
11. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
227 | Chapter 13. NAT'S NEW YEAR
'I don't expect to hear from Emil yet, and Nat writes regularly, but where is Dan? Only two or three postals since he went. Such an energetic fellow as he is could buy up all the farms in Kansas by this time,' said Mrs Jo one morning when the mail came in and no card or envelope bore Dan's dashing hand.
'He never writes often, you know, but does his work and then comes home. Months and years seem to mean little to him, and he is probably prospecting in the wilderness, forgetful of time,' answered Mr Bhaer, deep in one of Nat's long letters from Leipzig.
'But he promised he would let me know how he got on, and Dan keeps his word if he can. I'm afraid something has happened to him'; and Mrs Jo comforted herself by patting Don's head, as he came at the sound of his master's name to look at her with eyes almost human in their wistful intelligence.
'Don't worry, Mum dear, nothing ever happens to the old fellow. He'll turn up all right, and come stalking in some day with a gold-mine in one pocket and a prairie in the other, as jolly as a grig,' said Ted, who was in no haste to deliver Octoo to her rightful owner.
'Perhaps he has gone to Montana and given up the farm plan. He seemed to like Indians best, I thought'; and Rob went to help his mother with her pile of letters and his cheerful suggestions.
1. Where was Nat?
2. What had he promised?
3. Who did?
4. Who touched someone on the head?
5. What did she do?
6. Did he look stupid?
7. Who were they wondering about?
8. Does he keep in contact?
9. Is he lazy?
10. Who was comforting his mother?
11. What did he speculate?
12. Did Rob help his mother?
13. With What?
14. Where did Mr. Bhaer think he was?
15. How many letters had been delivered from him since he left?
16. Is time of importance to him?
17. What did he like best?
18. According to whom?
19. Did he share that with anyone?
20. What did he do?
21. Who did she not think a note would be arriving from?
Numbered answers: | 1. Leipzig.
2. He didn't.
3. Dan
4. Mrs Jo
5. Pat Don on the head.
6. No
7. Dan
8. not often
9. No
10. Ted
11. That he had gone to montana.
12. Yes.
13. Her pile of letters
14. Prospecting in the wilderness
15. Only two or three.
16. No
17. indians it seemed
18. Rob
19. No
20. Thought it
21. Emil | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
228 | (CNN) -- Federal and state authorities won't say specifically why, but they think a letter purported to be from a New Hampshire teenager missing for nearly two months might in fact be the real thing.
Abigail Hernandez was last seen on October 9, according to the FBI, as she headed home from her high school in the town of Conway, and officials fear she might be held against her will.
"We are concerned for her safety," New Hampshire Associate Attorney General Jane Young said Friday at a news conference called to discuss the search for the girl.
"She is not out there alone. She has somebody who is either helping her, whether that be a friend or what we fear is a foe."
At the news conference, authorities revealed that Abigail's mother, Zenya Hernandez, received a letter on November 6 that appeared to be from her missing daughter. That letter was kept secret until Friday, said Young, because "law enforcement had to take every possible step to verify its authenticity.
"And at this juncture, we believe in fact that it was written by Abby and was sent to her mother," Young added.
Neither federal nor state authorities would discuss the contents of the letter beyond Young saying the writing is in "a tone Abby would have used," and that the letter underwent "expert analysis" before its existence was announced publicly.
Officials also said revealing details about the letter could potentially trigger "copycat" letters that would slow down the investigation.
The letter was written on October 22, and postmarked on October 23, according to Young, and it was turned over to authorities for investigation after Zenya Hernandez received it nearly two weeks after it was postmarked.
1. Who is this story about?
2. When was she last seen?
3. Where?
4. Where was she coming from?
5. In what State?
6. What was received on November 6?
7. By whom?
8. Who received it?
9. What's her name?
10. Why was the letter not made known immediately?
11. Which authorities were investigating?
12. When was the correspondence written?
13. Was it mailed or hand delivered?
14. Did it have a postmark?
15. On what date?
16. How long afterwards did mom receive it?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Abigail Hernandez
2. October 9
3. Conway
4. high school
5. New Hampshire
6. a letter
7. Abby
8. her mother
9. Zenya Hernandez
10. to verify its authenticity
11. Federal and state
12. October 22
13. mailed
14. yes
15. October 23
16. nearly two weeks after | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
229 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
CHAPTER VIII.
M. Goudé grumbled much when he heard that his whole class were going to be absent for three days.
"A nice interruption to study," he said, "however, you were none of you doing yourselves any good, and you may as well be out in the fields as hanging about the streets gossiping. We can always talk, but during the past six weeks Paris has done nothing but talk. Don't come back with any of your number short. You have all got something in you and are too good for food for Prussian powder."
Cuthbert went that evening to the Michauds, in his uniform, not for the purpose of showing it off, but because men in plain clothes, especially if of fair complexions, were constantly stopped and accused of being German spies, were often ill-treated, and not unfrequently had to pass a night in the cells before they could prove their identity. Mary gave an exclamation of surprise at seeing him so attired, but made no remark until after chatting for half an hour with the Michauds. The husband presently made the excuse that he had to attend a meeting and went off, while madame took up some knitting, settled herself in an easy chair, and prepared for a quiet doze, then Mary said in English--
"I have no patience with you, Cuthbert, taking part with these foolish people. The more I see of them the more I get tired of their bombast and their empty talk. Every man expects everyone else to do something and no one does anything."
1. Who has Mary lost patience with?
2. Who doesn't she like?
3. What is sick of hearing?
4. Who does she think does something?
5. Who do men expect to do something?
6. Where is Cuthbert visiting?
7. What is he wearing?
8. Is he trying to impress people?
9. What was he trying to avoid being called?
10. How are they treated?
11. Do they ever get put in jail?
12. For how long?
13. How do they get out?
14. What kind of attire might have caused him these problems?
15. Is he dark skinned?
16. What is he?
17. How long did he talk with the Michauds?
18. Where did the husband go?
19. Who is a teacher?
20. How long will his students be gone?
Numbered answers: | 1. Cuthbert,
2. foolish people
3. bombast and their empty talk
4. no one
5. Every man
6. Michauds
7. uniform
8. no
9. German spies
10. ill-treated
11. yes
12. a night
13. by proving their identity
14. plain clothes
15. no
16. white
17. half an hour
18. to attend a meeting
19. M. Goudé
20. three days | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
230 | Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- The European Union announced a recovery package of 180 million euros for the Ivory Coast on Tuesday as residents of the African nation attempted to adjust to life with a clear leader and relative stability after months of bloodshed.
Forces arrested former President Laurent Gbagbo after storming his residence on Monday. Gbagbo defied calls to step down after an electoral commission declared he lost a presidential election in November to Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara has been recognized internationally as the legitimate winner.
A violent power struggle followed the standoff, with supporters loyal to both sides taking to the streets in protests since December. Hundreds have been killed, according to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Andris Piebalgs, EU commissioner for development, announced the recovery package on Tuesday.
"We will stand by Ivory Coast and its people by immediately starting to work with the government of President Ouattara to support him in getting the country on the right track towards reconciliation, democracy, economic recovery and sustainable development," he said.
The funding will provide support to ensure basic needs for citizens such as health, water, sanitation and to support the agricultural sector, Piebalgs said in a statement. It also will clear the Ivory Coast's debt accumulated through the European Investment Bank.
Top military brass pledged their support to Ouattara in a ceremony Tuesday at a hotel in Abdijan. Gen. Phillipe Mangou, Gbagbo's former army chief of staff, said on state television that the generals were received by Ouattara and given orders to take measures to restore order in the country.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. the Ivory Coast
2. former President
3. Laurent Gbagbo
4. yes
5. Alassane Ouattara
6. no
7. They stormed his residence
8. They took to the street
9. 180 million euros
10. to ensure basic needs
11. health, water, sanitation
12. Piebalgs
13. EU commissioner for development
14. Hundreds
15. the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross
Numbered questions: | 1. Which country will get the package?
2. Who was arrested?
3. What was his name?
4. Is the situation okay now?
5. Who actually won the election?
6. Did he former president step down after election loss?
7. What ensued that?
8. What the supporters did?
9. How much was the package in value?
10. What support this funding would provide?
11. For example?
12. Who said that?
13. Who is he?
14. How many people died in the conflict?
15. Who estimated that? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
231 | The House of Bourbon is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty (). Bourbonic kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently have monarchs of the House of Bourbon.
The royal Bourbons originated in 1272 when the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon married the youngest son of King Louis IX. The house continued for three centuries as a cadet branch, while more senior Capetians ruled France, until Henry IV became the first Bourbon king of France in 1589. Bourbon monarchs then united to France the small kingdom of Navarre, which Henry's father had acquired by marriage in 1555, ruling both until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Restored briefly in 1814 and definitively in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the senior line of the Bourbons was finally overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. A cadet Bourbon branch, the House of Orléans, then ruled for 18 years (1830–1848), until it too was overthrown.
The Princes de Condé were a cadet branch of the Bourbons descended from an uncle of Henry IV, and the Princes de Conti were a cadet branch of the Condé. Both houses were prominent French noble families well known for their participation in French affairs, even during exile in the French Revolution, until their respective extinctions in 1830 and 1814.
Answer the following questions:
1. What 's the main topic?
2. When did it originate?
3. Was the wife or the husband the Bourbon in the marriage?
4. Who did she marry?
5. What is The House of Bourbon?
6. In what century did the house have Spanish thrones?
7. What dynasty did they belong to?
8. In what century did they first rule?
9. And for how much longer did the house hold on?
10. What branch?
11. What types of rules were French property at the time?
12. Name a Bourbon cadet branch?
Numbered answers: | 1. The House of Bourbon
2. 1272
3. wife
4. the youngest son of King Louis IX.
5. a European royal house of French origin
6. By the 18th century
7. the Spanish Bourbon dynasty
8. 16th
9. three centuries
10. a cadet branch
11. senior Capetians
12. the House of Orléans | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
232 | Read the text and answer the questions.
For more than 40 years, scientists have sought to learn how well human beings can adapt to long periods in space. The International Space Station continues to provide valuable knowledge about spaceflight. But an earlier space station, Skylab, helped make the current space project possible.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield sang aboard the International Space Station on May 12, 2013. His music video has become extremely popular. The astronaut played his own version of David Bowie's song Space Oddity. He performed while floating weightlessly, with images of planet earth and space appearing in the window behind him.
Chris Hadfield recently returned home after nearly five months on the space station. For him, the long flight produced a hit video on YouTube and no major physical problems. But 40 years ago, scientists did not know how humans would react to long-term spaceflight. To find out, NASA, the American space agency, launched Skylab in May, 1973. Over nearly a year, three teams of astronauts visited Skylab for stays of between 28 to 84 days. They learned how people react to extended periods in space.
Gerald Carr commanded Skylab 4. He spoke at a NASA event marking the 40th anniversary of Skylab's launch. He said that the loss of the body's muscle mass was a main concern. Astronauts on Skylab used exercise equipment to stay strong. The astronauts spent their workdays carrying out experiments, including biomedical research.
Marshall Porterfield is the director of NASA's Space Life and Physical Sciences Division. He says the Skylab astronauts' understanding of their own ability to deal with long-term spaceflight continues to help current astronauts. NASA says the next step for life away from Earth is a year-long space station mission, set for 2015.
1. What provides knowledge about space?
2. What is an earlier space station?
3. Did it help the current project?
4. What song did a man sing on the station?
5. When?
6. Who did this?
7. What nationality is he?
8. How long was he in space?
9. Who launched Skylab?
10. When?
11. What is NASA?
12. How long was Skylab in space?
13. How long would astronauts stay there?
14. How many teams?
15. Who commanded Skylab 4?
16. Where did he speak?
17. marking what?
18. Were there negatives to space travel?
19. How did they battle this?
20. Who is Marshall Porterfield?
Numbered answers: | 1. The International Space Station
2. Skylab
3. Yes
4. David Bowie's song Space Oddity
5. on May 12, 2013
6. Chris Hadfield
7. Canadian
8. nearly five months
9. NASA
10. in May, 1973
11. the American space agency
12. Over nearly a year
13. for stays of between 28 to 84 days
14. three
15. Gerald Carr
16. at a NASA event
17. marking the 40th anniversary of Skylab's launch
18. loss of the body's muscle mass
19. They used exercise equipment to stay strong
20. the director of NASA's Space Life and Physical Sciences Division | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
233 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region situated at the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, which contain Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, , located on the west of the Greater Caucasus mountain range. The Greater Caucasus acts as a natural barrier separating Europe from Southwest Asia, the latter including the Transcaucasus and Anatolia regions.
The Caucasus region is separated between northern and southern partsthe North Caucasus and Transcaucasus, respectively. The Greater Caucasus range in the north is within the Russian Federation, while the Lesser Caucasus to the south is divided between several independent states, namely Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. The Transcaucasus extends eastwards to the Caspian Sea and northwestern Iran, and extends westwards into northeastern Turkey.
The region is known for its linguistic diversity: aside from Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian families are indigenous to the area.
Pliny the Elder's "Natural History" (77–79 AD) derives the name of the Caucasus from Scythian "kroy-khasis" ("ice-shining, white with snow"). German linguist Paul Kretschmer notes that the Latvian word "Kruvesis" also means "ice".
In the "Tale of Past Years" (1113 AD), it is stated that Old East Slavic Кавкасийскыѣ горы ("Kavkasijskyě gory") came from Ancient Greek Καύκασος ("Kafkasos"), which, according to M. A. Yuyukin, is a compound word that can be interpreted as the "Seagull's Mountain" (καύ-: καύαξ, καύηξ, ηκος ο, κήξ, κηϋξ "a kind of seagull" + the reconstructed *κάσος η "mountain" or "rock" richly attested both in place and personal names.)
1. what seas is the area in between?
2. What is the Europe's highest mountain?
3. where is it located?
4. in what region?
5. What is it known for?
6. What does the greater Caucasus seperate?
7. Where is the name dervived from?
8. meaning?
9. anything else?
10. and who has noted that?
11. What languages are spoken here?
12. any other?
13. and who is indigenous to the area?
14. Where would you find Transcaucasus?
15. Whatis included in the Russian Federation?
16. Transcaucasus extends eastward to what?
17. and?
18. and westward?
19. What year was Tale of past years written?
Numbered answers: | 1. Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
2. Mount Elbrus
3. Greater Caucasus mountain range
4. west
5. linguistic diversity
6. Europe from Southwest Asia
7. Scythian "kroy-khasis"
8. ice-shining, white with snow
9. ice
10. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"
11. Turkic languages
12. Indo-European
13. Northeast Caucasian families
14. southern part
15. The Greater Caucasus
16. the Caspian Sea
17. northwestern Iran
18. into northeastern Turkey
19. 1113 AD | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
234 | (CNN) -- K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr., the founder and owner of the Tennessee Titans/Houston Oilers football franchise and a co-founder of the American Football League, died Monday morning at his home in Houston, the team said.
He was 90.
Adams owned the team for more than 53 years, starting in Houston, where his Oilers began play in 1960 as a charter member of the NFL's new competitor, the AFL.
Adams, an oil company founder, teamed with other businessmen, including eventual Dallas Texans and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, to form the eight-team AFL in 1959. The Oilers won two AFL championships before the league merged with the NFL in 1970.
The Oilers franchise moved to Tennessee in 1997, eventually settling in Nashville as the Tennessee Titans.
His franchise reached the Super Bowl once during his stewardship: in January 2000, when the Titans lost 23-16 to the St. Louis Rams.
People we lost in 2013
Adams' death came three days after "Bum" Phillips, the man Adams employed as Oilers coach and general manager from 1975 to 1980, died at age 90.
St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who was the Oilers' and Titans' coach from 1994 to 2010, said Monday that he was "extremely saddened" to hear of Adams' death.
"My respect for Mr. Adams goes well beyond the owner/coach relationship that we shared for many years. He was a pioneer in the football business. He played a key role in creating and sustaining the American Football League, which helped push the popularity of our game to where it is today," Fisher said in a statement released by the Rams.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who is the owner of the Titans?
2. Did he die?
3. Where at?
4. When did the franchise move?
5. Did they make it to superbowl?
6. What year?
7. How long did he own the team?
8. Who was Jeff?
9. For what team?
10. What was his feelings toward the sudden lost of Adam?
11. Who else passed around Adam?
12. Who was he?
13. Who else did Adam pair with for business?
14. Like who?
15. What did their busniess consist of?
16. Did they win any championships?
Numbered answers: | 1. K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr.
2. Yes
3. His home
4. 1997
5. Yes
6. 2000
7. More than 53 years
8. A head coach
9. St. Louis Rams
10. extremely saddened
11. "Bum" Phillips
12. Oilers coach
13. Other businessmen
14. Lamar Hunt
15. Eight teams
16. unknown | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
235 | CHAPTER XI
A MIDNIGHT SCARE
The Rovers reached Cottonton without catching sight of Dan Baxter again, nor did they locate him while stopping at the town.
"He knows enough to keep out of our way," remarked Dick. "Even now he may be watching every move we make."
They did not remain in Cottonton long, and that night found them once more on a trail leading to another patch of timber. All were in excellent spirits, and Hans enlivened the time by singing a song in his broken English in a manner which convulsed them all.
"Hans would make his fortune on the variety stage," remarked Fred. "His manner is too funny for anything."
"Vot you said apout a stage?" demanded the German youth. "I ton't vos ride on no stage ven I got a goot horse alretty."
"Fred wants you to go on the stage," said Sam,
"He thinks you might play Shakespeare," said Tom.
"Vot kind of a play is dot Shakespeares?"
"It's a farce in 'steen acts and twice as many scenes," said Dick. "You might play the double-tongued mute."
"I like not such a blay. I like dot blay vere da vos all killed off kvick."
"Good gracious! Hans wants to go in for tragedy!" ejaculated Tom. "Who would think he was so bloodthirsty. If you keep on like that, Hansy, dear, I'll be afraid you'll murder us in our sleep."
"I like dem murders. Da vos alvays make dem goose skins mine back town."
At this there was a general roar.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. What entertainment did Hans provide?
2. What did they think he would be better at?
3. How did he feel about that?
4. What type of play would he be in?
5. By whom?
6. What would he play?
7. Where did their group reach?
8. In what location/village?
9. Who didn't they run into?
10. Who thought he might not be far away though?
11. Who had an accent?
12. What type was it?
13. Who was surprised by the statement Hans made of killing?
14. What did he fear?
Numbered answers: | 1. he sang a song
2. the variety stage
3. he didn't like it
4. a trgedy
5. Shakespeare
6. a murderer
7. a trail
8. outside Cottonton
9. Dan Baxter
10. Dick
11. Hans
12. German
13. Tom
14. being murdered | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
236 | (CNN) -- The Connecticut Senate on Thursday voted to repeal the death penalty, setting the stage for Connecticut to join several states that have recently abolished capital punishment.
In the last five years, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois have repealed the death penalty. California voters will decide the issue in November.
The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, where it is also expected to pass. Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has vowed to sign the measure into law should it reach his desk, his office said.
"For everyone, it's a vote of conscience," said Senate President Donald Williams Jr., a Democrat who says he's long supported a repeal. "We have a majority of legislators in Connecticut in favor of this so that the energies of our criminal justice system can be focused in a more appropriate manner."
In 2009, state lawmakers in both houses tried to pass a similar bill, but were ultimately blocked by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican.
Capital punishment has existed in Connecticut since its colonial days. But the state was forced to review its death penalty laws beginning in 1972 when a Supreme Court decision required greater consistency in its application. A moratorium was then imposed until a 1976 court decision upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment.
Since then, Connecticut juries have handed down 15 death sentences. Of those, only one person has actually been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan group that studies death penalty laws.
Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death by lethal injection in 2005 after giving up his appeals.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Can you tell me some states which have recently repealed the death penalty?
2. How long has Connecticut had the death penalty?
3. Was the practice ever placed on a moratorium?
Numbered answers: | 1. New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois
2. Since 1976
3. Yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
237 | CHAPTER XXV
TWO DEER
"He was here, and you chased him away!" exclaimed Dave. "Have you any idea where he went to?"
"I think he took the trail back of the house; the one leading to Carpen Falls," answered Lester Lawrence. "I slipped on my most outlandish costume, and I must have scared him out of his wits, for he ran like a deer," he added, with a smile.
"In that case there is no use in our looking for him around here," announced Roger.
"I think I'll give the hunt up," said Phil. "Finding my uncle has changed matters completely. What I want to do is to send word to my father that my uncle is found. Then, as soon as he is able to travel, I'll leave you fellows and take him home."
"I think I'll be able to walk on the foot in a day or two," answered Lester Lawrence. "You see I can already hobble around. But that sprain was a pretty bad one, I can assure you!"
After this the situation was discussed for some time--in fact, until well after the noon hour. Then one of the boys suggested that they have dinner, and while Phil and his uncle continued to talk over their personal affairs, Dave and his chums set about getting ready the meal.
While all in the cabin partook of the midday meal, the boys told the hermit about their life in camp, and also of their adventures at Oak Hall and in other places. Lester Lawrence listened interestedly to the recital, and asked innumerable questions concerning their doings, and also questioned Phil regarding conditions at home.
1. Who did Phil find?
2. Who was he going to let know?
3. Why was Lester having issues getting around?
4. Did he think it would heal quickly?
5. How long was the situation discussed?
6. What did they decide to do at that point?
7. Who prepared it?
8. Who spoke of personal matters?
9. How many of them ate the meal?
10. Did they all eat?
11. What part of their life did they talk about over the meal?
12. What else did they discuss?
13. Who asked many questions?
14. What was phil questioned about?
15. What was it that Lester slipped into?
16. What was the result?
17. What happened next?
18. Was Lester amused?
19. What did Phil give up?
20. Did Roger feel it was useless as well?
Numbered answers: | 1. his uncle
2. his father
3. sprain
4. yes
5. for some time, until well after the noon hour.
6. have dinner,
7. Dave and his chums
8. Phil and his uncle
9. unknown
10. yes
11. their life in camp
12. their adventures at Oak Hall and in other places.
13. Lester Lawrence
14. conditions at home
15. hismost outlandish costume
16. scared something out of it's wits
17. he ran like a deer
18. yes
19. the hunt
20. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
238 | Spiderman is one of the most famous comic book heroes of all time. He was created by Stan Lee in 1963 and was first introduced to the world in the pages of Marvel Comic Books. Spiderman's story is the story of Peter Parker, a child who lost his parents and lives with his aunt and uncle. Peter is a shy, quiet boy wearing glasses and has few friends. One day, on a high school class trip to a science lab, he gets bitten by a special spider. Soon Peter realizes he has amazing powers: he is as strong and quick as a spider and also has a type of sixth sense. He no longer needs his glasses and he can use his super power to fly through the city streets! Remembering something his Uncle Ben has told him _ ,Peter decides to use his powers to fight against enemies who do cruel things to people. And so, Spiderman is born. Life is not easy for Peter even though he is a superhero. He is in love with Mary Jane but he can't tell her about his amazing powers. Besides, his best friend Harry hates Spiderman! Peter is also short of money and time. He has to sell photos of Spiderman (himself!) to a newspaper and he keeps losing his other jobs because he's so busy saving people! Yet he has to fight against different kinds of cruel enemies.
1. Who was created?
2. by whom?
3. when?
4. was he famous?
5. who is he?
6. is he outgoing?
7. what bites him?
8. what did the spider bite do?
9. like what?
10. can he fly?
11. what does he use his power for?
12. does he love anyone?
13. who?
14. does she know?
15. does he have a best friend?
16. what's his name?
17. how does he make money?
18. sells to who?
19. where did he get bit?
20. why was he there?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Spiderman
2. Stan Lee
3. in 1963
4. yes
5. Peter Parker
6. no
7. a special spider
8. gave him amazing powers
9. he's strong and quick and has a sixth sense
10. yes
11. to fight against enemies who do cruel things
12. yes
13. Mary Jane
14. no
15. yes
16. Harry
17. sells photos of Spiderman/himself
18. a newspaper
19. a science lab
20. a class trip | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
239 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
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".
1. Who is Madonna?
2. Does she have different careers?
3. What are those?
4. What other title she has?
5. What lyrics she has written?
6. Was she a producer?
7. What happened in 1982?
8. What top song people recognized her with?
9. Where she came from?
10. When did she release her first song?
Numbered answers: | 1. An American singer.
2. Yes.
3. Songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.
4. Queen of Pop
5. Most of her songs.
6. Yes.
7. Signed with Sire Records.
8. Like a Virgin.
9. Bay City, Michigan.
10. 1983. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
240 | Roger Rolls was the first black governor in the history of New York State, USA. He was born in one of New York's notorious slums. The children born here rarely did decent work after they grew up. However, Roger Rolls was an exception, for he was not only admitted to the university, but also he became a governor. At his inaugural press conference, a reporter asked him, "What made you become the governor?" Faced with more than 300 journalists, Rolls did not mention his struggle but only spoke of his primary school schoolmaster---Pierre Paul.
In 1961, Pierre Paul was engaged as the director and principle of Nobita Primary School. When he entered this school, he found the children here didn't cooperate with the teachers. Pierre thought up many ways to guide them, but none was effective. Later, he found these children were very superstitious , so when he gave lectures, he added a program of palm reading as a means of fortune-telling, with which he encouraged the students.
When Rolls Jumped from the hathpace and walked to the platform with his small hands stretched out, Pierre Paul said, "As soon as I see your slender little fingers, I know you will be the governor of New York State in future." At that moment, Rolls was shocked because only his grandmother inspired him once, saying that he could become the governor of New York State, so he remembered that remark and believed him.
From that day on, the "New York State Governor" was like a banner that constantly inspired him to study energetically and make progress. Rolls no longer stained his clothes with mud, nor did he speak in foul language. He began to straighten his back when he was walking. In the next more than 40 years, he demanded himself according to the identity of a governor. At the age of 51, he finally became the governor of New York State.
Put up a banner of faith for yourself and you will have the drive to struggle and the vitality of life.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Roger Rolls
2. first black governor in the history of New York State
3. New York
4. slum
5. yes
6. Pierre Paul
7. his primary school schoolmaster
8. children didn't cooperate with the teachers
9. yes
10. no
11. he added a program of palm reading
12. 51
13. he would become governor of New York State
14. more than 40 years
15. more than 300
16. yes
17. Director
18. shocked
19. his grandmother
20. yes
Numbered questions: | 1. Who is the article about?
2. What is he famous for?
3. Where was he born?
4. Where in New York?
5. Did he go to college?
6. Who inspired him?
7. Who is that?
8. What was the problem at Nobita Primary School?
9. Did Paul try to help the problem?
10. Was he successful at first?
11. What did he find was effective?
12. How old was Paul when he became governor?
13. What did Paul predict in Rolls' hand?
14. How long did it take fore Rolls become governor?
15. How many journalists were at his inaugural press conference?
16. Was Paul involved at Nobita Primary School?
17. What was his job?
18. What was Rolls' reaction to Paul's prediction?
19. Had anyone else given him encouragement before?
20. Did Rolls constantly try to improve himself? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
241 | Once upon a time Jimmy had a mother who told him that he was good at music. Jimmy wanted to play music. He did not know which instrument to play, so he tried a piano first. The piano went like a sound. Then he tried a guitar. The guitar played. His brother told him that the piano was better to start, so Jimmy played the piano. He hammered on the keys. Jimmy's brother liked this, but mom did not like this. Jimmy tried playing very quiet. Jimmy's mom liked this, but Jimmy's brother did not like this. Jimmy tried playing in the middle. Jimmy liked this, and Jimmy's mom liked this, and Jimmy's brother liked this. It was great.
Answer the following questions:
1. What did the boy's mom tell him?
2. What was the first instrument that Jimmy learned how to play?
3. And the next one?
4. Why did he go back to the piano?
5. Why was his mom's problem with him playing the piano?
6. Was anyone okay with the way he played?
7. How did do to rectify the situation with his mom?
8. What was the problem with that?
9. What was his solution to this dilemma?
10. How did that work out?
11. Why was it great?
12. Why piqued his interest in music in the first place?
Numbered answers: | 1. that he was good at music
2. the piano
3. the guitar
4. His brother told him the piano was better to start with
5. He hammered on the keys
6. yes
7. Jimmy tried playing very quietly
8. His brother did not like this
9. He tried playing in the middle
10. It was great
11. Jimmy, his mom, and his brother all like this
12. His mother who told him that he was good at music | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
242 | Read the text and answer the questions.
When I was a little girl I lived in a place with no winter. It was always warm there. It never got cold. It never snowed. Sometimes it rained. Sometimes there was wind. But there was no snow on the trees or on the ground. There was no snow falling on our heads. There was no snow to make a snowman.
My teacher's name was Mrs. Scott. One day in December, Mrs. Scott told us that we were going to make a snowman. We were excited! We wanted to see a snowman. We knew how a snowman looked. We knew a snowman was made of three snowballs. A snowman had to have a carrot nose and black eyes and buttons. A snowman had a hat and a scarf. We knew all these things.
Mrs. Scott asked us to bring everything we needed to our classroom to make a snowman. Jimmy said, "I can bring the hat and the scarf." Anita said, "I can bring a carrot for the nose." Selma said, "I can cut out some black circles for the eyes and the buttons." Ricky asked, "But who can bring the snow?"
Mrs. Scott said, "I know what to do."
The next day all the children brought the things for the snowman. We did not know where Mrs. Scott would get the snow. Then she showed us. Our snowman is made of three bushes! Three bushes painted white! We put all the things on the bushes and it looked like a real snowman.
1. What did the teacher say the class would build?
2. what was her name?
3. and in what month was this?
4. what was the snowman made out of?
5. Who was bringing the accessories for it?
6. Who brought items for the head?
7. And what about for the face?
8. Why was there no white powder to use?
9. what was the temperature like?
10. was there any sort of precipitation?
11. what kind?
Numbered answers: | 1. a snowman
2. Mrs. Scott
3. December
4. snowballs
5. the students
6. Jimmy
7. Anita
8. there was no winter
9. warm
10. Sometimes
11. rain | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
243 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Mariupol, Ukraine (CNN)Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko declared a ceasefire went into effect at midnight Saturday local time (5 p.m. ET) between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian militants in the nation's east.
The separatist Donetsk People's Republic also announced the ceasefire.
But an apparent violation was reported less than 90 minutes after the ceasefire began when Ukraine's Anti-Terrorist Operation Command reported that a military post near Zolote in the Luhansk region has been shelled by mortars.
As a positive sign, CNN reporters in Ukraine reported the shelling quieted shortly after midnight.
The peace agreement signed in Minsk, Belarus, several days ago comes with many questions over how it will be implemented and whether it will stick. Mistrust is high on both sides, adding to the doubts.
The town of Debaltseve, a strategically located railroad hub in the east, is shaping up as a crucial piece of the ceasefire.
In his speech announcing the ceasefire, Poroshenko said Ukrainian troops control the town and warned militants to stay away.
"I think the fact of using the tense situation on the outskirts of Debaltseve by militants-terrorists-mercenaries poses a great threat, which can violate the ceasefire regime," Poroshenko said. "I am warning all participants of the Minsk negotiations, including the Russian Federation, which identifies itself as the guarantor of the reached agreements."
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, reporting from the eastern town of Donetsk, said separatists claim to have encircled Debaltseve.
"Debaltseve will be a vital flashpoint for the hours ahead," he said.
Poroshenko has warned that if the separatists do not abide by the ceasefire, he will impose martial law throughout Ukraine's territory, his spokesman Andrey Zhigulin told CNN.
1. Who is the Petro Poroshenko?
2. Of what country?
3. What did reporters in Ukraine report?
4. Who had called for a ceasefire?
5. Between who?
6. Did everyone adhere to it?
7. How long did it take for someone to violate it?
8. Where was the agreement signed?
9. What country is that in?
10. Do the two parties trust each other?
11. What town is becoming critical to the ceasefire?
12. Where is it located?
13. Who controls that city?
Numbered answers: | 1. the President
2. Ukraine
3. the shelling quieted
4. President Petro Poroshenko
5. the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian militants
6. No
7. less than 90 minutes
8. Minsk
9. Belarus
10. No
11. Debaltseve
12. in the east
13. Ukrainian troops | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
244 | (CNN) -- As World Cup openers go, this was about as bad as it gets for Portugal.
Thumped 4-0 by Germany, one key defender sent off, another possibly out of the tournament with injury and its World Player of the Year looking decidedly unfit.
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo wasn't lacking in effort but was as powerless as those around him to prevent Portugal being steamrollered by Der Mannschaft in Salvador.
It started badly for Paulo Bento's men and got steadily worse as Germany maintained its record of scoring at least four goals in every opening World Cup match since 2002.
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They were 1-0 down after 10 minutes when Joao Pereira was adjudged to have hauled down Mario Gotze. Fellow Bayern Munich star Thomas Muller confidently slotted home the penalty.
It was 2-0 when Mats Hummels thumped a header into the net from Toni Kroos' corner.
Just five minutes later, Real Madrid defender Pepe tangled with Muller, who sank theatrically to the turf claiming a hand to the face.
Pepe then stood over his opponent and pushed his head towards Muller's, the referee producing a straight red card.
Muller then struck just before the interval to put the game well beyond Portugal, pouncing on a loose ball inside the area to fire past Rui Patricio.
Portugal made a change at the break, as Ricardo Costa replaced Miguel Veloso, but it made little difference as Germany continued to press home their advantage.
Mesut Ozil, who plays for Arsenal, should have found the net when played through on goal but he hit his shot straight at Patricio.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Was the record broken?
2. Who lost the world cup?
3. to whom?
4. Was someone replaced?
5. What color card was produced?
6. What caused it?
7. Did the change out prove effective?
Numbered answers: | 1. unknown
2. Portugal.
3. Germany
4. unknown
5. red card.
6. Pepe then stood over his opponent and pushed his head towards Muller's
7. unknown | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
245 | The Azores ( or ; , ), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean about west of continental Portugal, about west of Lisbon, in continental Portugal, about from the African coast, and about southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Its main industries are agriculture, dairy farming, livestock, fishing, and tourism, which is becoming the major service activity in the region. In addition, the government of the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service and tertiary sectors. The main settlement of the Azores is Ponta Delgada.
There are nine major Azorean islands and an islet cluster, in three main groups. These are Flores and Corvo, to the west; Graciosa, Terceira, São Jorge, Pico, and Faial in the centre; and São Miguel, Santa Maria, and the Formigas Reef to the east. They extend for more than and lie in a northwest-southeast direction.
All the islands have volcanic origins, although some, such as Santa Maria, have had no recorded activity since the islands were settled. Mount Pico, on the island of Pico, is the highest point in Portugal, at . If measured from their base at the bottom of the ocean to their peaks, which thrust high above the surface of the Atlantic, the Azores are actually some of the tallest mountains on the planet.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. What is the official name of the Azores?
2. Where is it?
3. What country is it a region of?
4. How many islands does it include?
5. What kind?
6. Who is a major employer there?
7. What do they hire people for?
8. How many groupings of islands are there?
9. Are these geographical?
10. What are they?
11. What is Portugal's highest area?
12. Where is that?
13. Did all of the islands begin as volcanos?
14. Do they all still erupt?
15. When was the last eruption on Santa Maria?
16. What ocean are they in?
17. What is the main town?
18. Do they raise cows?
19. For what?
20. Do they have an tourists?
Numbered answers: | 1. the Autonomous Region of the Azores
2. in the North Atlantic Ocean about west of continental Portugal, about west of Lisbon, in continental Portugal, about from the African coast, and about southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
3. Portugal
4. nine major islands
5. Azorean
6. the government of the Azores
7. in the service and tertiary sectors
8. Three
9. yes
10. Flores and Corvo, to the west; Graciosa, Terceira, São Jorge, Pico, and Faial in the centre; and São Miguel, Santa Maria, and the Formigas Reef to the east
11. Mount Pico
12. on the island of Pico
13. yes
14. no
15. when the islands were settled
16. the Atlantic
17. Ponta Delgada
18. yes
19. dairy farming
20. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
246 | CHAPTER III. SWEDENBORG AND THE SIBYL.
MY narrative may move on again from the point at which it paused in the first chapter.
Mary and I (as you may remember) had left the bailiff alone at the decoy, and had set forth on our way together to Dermody's cottage.
As we approached the garden gate, I saw a servant from the house waiting there. He carried a message from my mother--a message for me.
"My mistress wishes you to go home, Master George, as soon as you can. A letter has come by the coach. My master means to take a post-chaise from London, and sends word that we may expect him in the course of the day."
Mary's attentive face saddened when she heard those words.
"Must you really go away, George," she whispered, "before you see what I have got waiting for you at home?"
I remembered Mary's promised "surprise," the secret of which was only to be revealed to me when we got to the cottage. How could I disappoint her? My poor little lady-love looked ready to cry at the bare prospect of it.
I dismissed the servant with a message of the temporizing sort. My love to my mother--and I would be back at the house in half an hour.
We entered the cottage.
Dame Dermody was sitting in the light of the window, as usual, with one of the mystic books of Emanuel Swedenborg open on her lap. She solemnly lifted her hand on our appearance, signing to us to occupy our customary corner without speaking to her. It was an act of domestic high treason to interrupt the Sibyl at her books. We crept quietly into our places. Mary waited until she saw her grandmother's gray head bend down, and her grandmother's bushy eyebrows contract attentively, over her reading. Then, and then only, the discreet child rose on tiptoe, disappeared noiselessly in the direction of her bedchamber, and came back to me carrying something carefully wrapped up in her best cambric handkerchief.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. Who had a message waiting for them?
2. Who was the message for?
Numbered answers: | 1. a servant
2. a message for me | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
247 | CHAPTER XXV. THE WIGMORE VENUS
The morning was so brilliantly fine; the populace popped to and fro in so active and cheery a manner; and everybody appeared to be so absolutely in the pink, that a casual observer of the city of New York would have said that it was one of those happy days. Yet Archie Moffam, as he turned out of the sun-bathed street into the ramshackle building on the third floor of which was the studio belonging to his artist friend, James B. Wheeler, was faintly oppressed with a sort of a kind of feeling that something was wrong. He would not have gone so far as to say that he had the pip--it was more a vague sense of discomfort. And, searching for first causes as he made his way upstairs, he came to the conclusion that the person responsible for this nebulous depression was his wife, Lucille. It seemed to Archie that at breakfast that morning Lucille's manner had been subtly rummy. Nothing you could put your finger on, still--rummy.
Musing thus, he reached the studio, and found the door open and the room empty. It had the air of a room whose owner has dashed in to fetch his golf-clubs and biffed off, after the casual fashion of the artist temperament, without bothering to close up behind him. And such, indeed, was the case. The studio had seen the last of J. B. Wheeler for that day: but Archie, not realising this and feeling that a chat with Mr. Wheeler, who was a light-hearted bird, was what he needed this morning, sat down to wait. After a few moments, his gaze, straying over the room, encountered a handsomely framed picture, and he went across to take a look at it.
1. What chapter are we on?
2. Is the day dreary?
3. In what city are the happy people?
4. Who turns in to the building?
5. Which floor does he go to?
6. Who lives there?
7. What does he do for a living?
8. Who did he hold accountable for his mental state?
9. And who's she?
10. When did he feel she was acting rummy?
11. Did he have to knock at the studio?
12. Who was there?
13. What did he feel he needed to do with Wheeler?
14. How does he describe the artist?
15. What does he decide to do since the artist's away?
16. What does he see across the room?
17. Does he turn away from it?
Numbered answers: | 1. XXV
2. no
3. New York
4. Archie Moffam
5. third
6. James B. Wheeler,
7. he is an artist
8. Lucille
9. his wife
10. that morning
11. no
12. no one
13. chat
14. a light-hearted bird
15. wait
16. a picture
17. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
248 | CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
TENDER TROUBLES
"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth."
"Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came."
"It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits. I'm sure there is something on her mind, and I want you to discover what it is."
"What makes you think so, Mother?"
"She sits alone a good deal, and doesn't talk to her father as much as she used. I found her crying over the babies the other day. When she sings, the songs are always sad ones, and now and then I see a look in her face that I don't understand. This isn't like Beth, and it worries me."
"Have you asked her about it?"
"I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded my questions or looked so distressed that I stopped. I never force my children's confidence, and I seldom have to wait for long."
Mrs. March glanced at Jo as she spoke, but the face opposite seemed quite unconscious of any secret disquietude but Beth's, and after sewing thoughtfully for a minute, Jo said, "I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. Why, Mother, Beth's eighteen, but we don't realize it, and treat her like a child, forgetting she's a woman."
"So she is. Dear heart, how fast you do grow up," returned her mother with a sigh and a smile.
"Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one. I promise never to hop very far, if that is any comfort to you."
1. Who had something bothering her?
2. Who was worried about her?
3. Who did she tell?
4. Why was she worried?
5. Was she laughing with her babies?
6. How old is she?
7. Who is Mrs. March?
8. Does she sing happy songs?
9. Is she ill?
10. Did she chat with her?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. Beth
2. Her mother
3. Jo
4. She sits alone and doesn't talk to her father
5. no
6. eighteen
7. mother
8. No
9. no
10. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
249 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Minsk, is the capital and largest city of Belarus, on the Svislach and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk raion (district). In 2013, it had a population of 2,002,600. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of the Executive Secretary.
The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the Principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers. In 1242, Minsk became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499.
From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. Minsk will host the 2019 European Games.
Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills, a region of rolling hills running from the southwest (upper reaches of the river Nioman) to the northeast – that is, to Lukomskaye Lake in northwestern Belarus. The average altitude above sea level is . The physical geography of Minsk was shaped over the two most recent ice ages. The Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is in the "urstromtal", an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age. There are six smaller rivers within the city limits, all part of the Black Sea basin.
1. What is the largest city in Belarus?
2. When was it first heard of?
3. What century?
4. On what did they begin to settle?
5. What was it connected to in 1793?
6. As a result of what?
7. What was it a capital of until 1991?
8. Since when?
9. Where is it located?
10. Does it have land above sea level?
11. What divides the city from southeast to northwest?
12. How many are in the city?
13. What basin do they share in common?
14. What is it the admin capital of?
Numbered answers: | 1. Minsk
2. 1067
3. 11th
4. on the rivers
5. the Russian Empire
6. the Second Partition of Poland.
7. the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
8. 1919
9. on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills
10. Yes
11. The Svislach River
12. Seven
13. the Black Sea basin.
14. Minsk Region | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
250 | Sarah looked up high. She could see the scissors up on top of the cabinet. If she could only reach them, she could cut the gum out of her baby sister's hair and her mom would never know. Her mom was still busy helping her brother take out the trash. Sarah quickly pushed a chair over to the cabinet. She climbed up on the chair and got the scissors. Then she hopped down and put the chair back at the table. Sarah ran to the bathroom and shut the door. While her sister sat on the floor, Sarah cut the gum and a big piece of Sally's hair, and then threw it into the trash.
Sarah put on her dress, then she and Sally headed back to the kitchen for breakfast. Sarah had taken a drink of her chocolate milk when she heard her brother Kyle start to laugh and point at Sally's head. Their mother heard the laugh and turned around to see what was so funny. Sarah began to turn red before their mother even asked what had happened. "I did it," Sarah said in a quiet voice, "I'm sorry, Mom."
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. scissors
2. on top of the cabinet
3. to cut gum out of her sister's hair
4. helping her brother take out the trash
5. a chair
6. yes
7. put the chair back at the table
8. bathroom
9. on the floor
10. Sally
11. threw it into the trash
12. the kitchen
13. for breakfast
14. chocolate milk
15. Kyle
16. brother
17. yes
18. yes
Numbered questions: | 1. What did Sarah need to reach?
2. where were they?
3. why did she need them?
4. what was her mother doing while she was contemplating how to reach?
5. what did Sarah stand on?
6. was she able to get them then?
7. what did she do with it after got down?
8. where did the sisters go to remove the gum?
9. where did her sister sit?
10. What is her name?
11. what did she do with the wad after she cut it out?
12. where did the girls go when they were done?
13. why?
14. what beverage did Sarah have?
15. who started laughing?
16. what was the relation to the girls
17. did Sarah confess to giving Sally a haircut?
18. did she she apologize? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
251 | A police cruiser draped in black banners and topped with a rose sat in front of the Jupiter, Florida, police department Monday morning, paying testament to a 20-year department veteran killed Sunday while helping escort President Barack Obama through Palm Beach County.
Officer Bruce St. Laurent, 55, was traveling with the presidential motorcade around 4:45 p.m. Sunday southbound on Interstate 95 through West Palm Beach when he pulled his motorcycle onto an on ramp, so he could stop traffic from accessing the highway, according to a statement released Monday by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera.
The statement said St. Laurent drove into the path of a 1994 Ford F150 driven by Susan Holloway, 56, of West Palm Beach, as she was accelerating to merge onto the interstate. Holloway hit the brakes to avoid the crash, but she hit St. Laurent's motorcycle, knocking the officer from his motorcycle and trapping him under her pickup when the vehicles came to rest, the statement said.
Jupiter Police Chief Frank Kitzerow said St. Laurent was transported to nearby St. Mary's Medical Center, where he died Sunday.
Barbera told CNN the statement details preliminary findings, and the ongoing investigation "could take months." When the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Highway Patrol complete their investigation, state attorneys will determine whether any charges will be filed in the case.
CNN senior photojournalist Peter Morris, who was in the motorcade, said this presidential caravan was longer than normal. In addition to the standard package of SUVs, he said three buses, including the president's campaign bus, comprised Sunday's motorcade south through Florida. Morris said motorcycle police often act as escorts and handle intersection control for motorcades.
Answer the following questions:
1. how old is officer St Laurent/
2. what happened to him?
3. how?
4. where did he work?
5. which one?
6. for how long?
7. what was he doing when the wreck happened?
8. who hit him?
9. where is she from?
10. who is the police chief/
11. will charges be filed?
12. was this a normal sized motorcade?
13. how many buses were there?
Numbered answers: | 1. 55
2. He died.
3. He as hit while riding a motorcycle.
4. police department
5. Jupiter, Florida
6. 20 years
7. traveling with the presidential motorcade
8. Susan Holloway
9. West Palm Beach
10. Frank Kitzerow
11. unknown
12. No
13. three | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
252 | Read the text and answer the questions.
(CNN) -- Thomas Aiken will take a two-shot lead heading into Sunday's final round of the Spanish Open at the El Prat Golf Club near Barcelona.
The South African who led at the halfway stage shot an even-par round of 72 on a day that was inevitably overshadowed by the death of Seve Ballesteros, who lost his three-year battle with cancer in the early hours of Saturday morning.
With flags at half-mast and players donning black ribbons, the European Tour marked the five-time major winner's passing with a minute's silence followed by a round of applause.
Among the many players paying their respects to Ballesteros were his long-standing friends and Ryder Cup allies Jose Maria Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez.
Colin Montgomerie, who played alongside Olazabal on Saturday said the Spaniard had been in tears for much of the third round.
"He has lost an older brother almost," Montgomerie said, EuropeanTour.com reported.
After his round, Olazabal reflected on the career of his great golfing companion.
"I don't think there will ever be another player like him. There can be others that are very good, but none will have his charisma," Olazabal said, EuropeanTour.com reported.
Spain's golfing maestro remembered
Pablo Larrazabal is currently tied for second place on six-under par and the highest placed Spaniard in an event which Ballesteros won three times during his career.
"Since I heard the news this morning I couldn't get it out of my head," Larrazabal said, EuropeanTour.com reported.
"It has been a tough day. I was on the eighth during the minute of silence. It was the saddest minute of my career," he added.
1. Who passed away?
2. When?
3. Was something else going on that day?
4. Who was leading?
5. Was the death sudden?
6. how long had he been ill?
7. How was he honored?
8. Were any of his friends there?
9. Whom?
10. When was there silence?
11. How long did it last?
12. Had Ballesteros ever won this event himself?
13. how many times?
Numbered answers: | 1. Seve Ballesteros
2. Saturday morning
3. the Spanish Open
4. Thomas Aiken
5. No
6. three years
7. flags were at half-mast and players wore black ribbons
8. Yes
9. Jose Maria Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez
10. at the European Tour, followed by a round of applause
11. a minute
12. yes
13. 5 times | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
253 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
CHAPTER IV.
NEGOTIATIONS.
It is necessary in this chapter to return to Phonny and Wallace, in order to explain how Phonny succeeded in getting his squirrel.
He was quite in haste, as he went on after leaving the squirrel, in order to get down to the mill where Espy lived, before the squirrel should have gnawed out. The road, he was quite confident, led to the mill.
"I should like to buy the squirrel, if Espy will sell him," said Phonny.
"Do you think that your mother would be willing?" asked Wallace.
"Why yes," said Phonny, "certainly. What objection could she have?"
"None, only the trouble that it would occasion her," replied Wallace.
"Oh, it would not make her any trouble," said Phonny. "I should take care of it myself."
"It would not make her much trouble, I know," said Wallace, "if you were only considerate and careful. As it is I think it may make her a great deal."
"No," said Phonny, "I don't think that it will make her any trouble at all."
"Where shall you keep your squirrel?" asked Wallace.
"In a cage, in the back room," said Phonny, promptly.
"Have you got a cage?" asked Wallace.
"No," said Phonny, "but I can make one."
"I think that in making a cage," replied Wallace, "you would have to give other people a great deal of trouble. You would be inquiring all about the house, for tools, and boards, and wire,--that is unless you keep your tools and materials for such kind of work, in better order than boys usually do."
1. Who wanted to buy the squirrel?
2. Who would have to sell the squirrel?
3. Where did Espy live?
4. Was Phonny in a hurry?
5. What did he think his mom think about the squirrel?
6. Where did Phonny plan to keep the squirrel?
7. Where would he put it?
8. Did he already have one?
9. How was he going to get one?
10. Who was Phonny talking to about all this?
11. Did Wallace think that it would be troublesome to build?
12. Why?
13. For what?
14. And what else?
15. Did Phonny ever get his squirrel?
16. What did he worry the squirrel might do?
17. What was Phonny pretty confident about?
18. What was he sure led to the mill?
19. What did Phonny's father say?
20. At first, did Wallace think his mother would object?
Numbered answers: | 1. Phonny
2. Espy
3. the mill
4. Yes
5. she would be willing
6. In a cage
7. in the back room
8. No
9. he can make one
10. Wallace
11. yes
12. You would be inquiring all about the house
13. tools
14. and boards
15. yes
16. gnaw out
17. it would not make his Mom any trouble
18. Yes
19. unknown
20. Yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
254 | CHAPTER VI
EXAMINATION DAY
It was plain that Fred and Charley had spread the news of their descent into the Pit, and of their battle with the Simpson clan and the Fishes. He heard the nine-o'clock bell with feelings of relief, and passed into the school, a mark for admiring glances from all the boys. The girls, too, looked at him in a timid and fearful way--as they might have looked at Daniel when he came out of the lions' den, Joe thought, or at David after his battle with Goliath. It made him uncomfortable and painfully self-conscious, this hero-worshiping, and he wished heartily that they would look in some other direction for a change.
Soon they did look in another direction. While big sheets of foolscap were being distributed to every desk, Miss Wilson, the teacher (an austere-looking young woman who went through the world as though it were a refrigerator, and who, even on the warmest days in the classroom, was to be found with a shawl or cape about her shoulders), arose, and on the blackboard where all could see wrote the Roman numeral "I." Every eye, and there were fifty pairs of them, hung with expectancy upon her hand, and in the pause that followed the room was quiet as the grave.
Underneath the Roman numeral "I" she wrote: "_(a) What were the laws of Draco? (b) Why did an Athenian orator say that they were written 'not in ink, but in blood'?_"
Forty-nine heads bent down and forty-nine pens scratched lustily across as many sheets of foolscap. Joe's head alone remained up, and he regarded the blackboard with so blank a stare that Miss Wilson, glancing over her shoulder after having written "II," stopped to look at him. Then she wrote:
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who had spread the news?
2. What was the teacher's name?
3. What were her salient qualities?
4. and?
5. Did she dress in a summery fashion?
6. What biblical story is referenced?
7. and?
8. What characterized the glances from the boys?
9. How many eyes were looking at the teacher's hand?
10. was the classroom hushed?
11. Who does she quote concerning Draconian laws?
12. Did all the children know the answer to her question?
Numbered answers: | 1. Fred and Charley
2. Miss Wilson
3. austere-looking
4. went through the world as though it were a refrigerator
5. No
6. David vs Goliath
7. the Simpson clan and the Fishes
8. the nine-o'clock bell
9. fifty pairs
10. Yes
11. What were the laws of Draco?
12. Yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
255 | John was excited for the treasure hunt. He called up his friends to help him find all of the items on the list. First he called Phil. Phil said he would come right over to help him find items. Next he called James. James said he could help, but had to finish breakfast first. Finally he called Pat and Paul. They were twins and were excited to join the treasure hunt. Finally, all his friends arrived. They were ready to look for the treasure hunt items. The items on the treasure hunt list were a cup, coin, apple, bell, mitten, and rock. The boys spread out in all directions, looking for the items. John found an item first. He found the rock. Phil found a coin on the sidewalk. He also found a mitten. James found an apple in the yard. Pat and Paul found a cup. All that was left to find was the bell. They looked and looked and finally, James found a bell beneath a bench. The boys were happy about finding all of the items.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Who had to finish breakfast?
2. Who was called before him?
3. Who was contacted last?
4. Are they siblings?
5. what were they all going to do?
6. What was one of the items they were looking for?
7. who discovered that item?
8. what was another item
9. who discovered that?
10. where was it?
11. What else did he find?
12. Who was the leader of this game?
13. were his friends all boys or girls?
14. what was another item they looked for?
15. who came across that?
Numbered answers: | 1. James
2. Phil.
3. Pat and Paul
4. yes, twins
5. look for the treasure hunt items
6. a cup
7. Pat and Paul
8. coin
9. Phil
10. on the sidewalk
11. a mitten.
12. John
13. boys
14. apple
15. James | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
256 | CHAPTER XXIX.
For an Indian isle she shapes her way With constant mind both night and day: She seems to hold her home in view And sails as if the path she knew, So calm and stately in her motion Across the unfathomed, trackless ocean. -- WILSON.
It has been said that Peter was in advance. When his canoe was nearly abreast of the usual landing at the hut, he saw two canoes coming out from among the rice, and distant from him not more than a hundred yards. At a greater distance, indeed, it would not have been easy to distinguish such an object on the water at all. Instead of attempting to avoid these two canoes, the chief instantly called to them, drawing the attention of those in them to himself, speaking so loud as to be easily overheard by those who followed.
"My young men are too late," he said. "The pale-faces have been seen in the openings above by our warriors, and must soon be here. Let us land, and be ready to meet them at the wigwam."
Peter's voice was immediately recognized. The confident, quiet, natural manner in which he spoke served to mislead those in the canoes; and when he joined them, and entered the passage among the rice that led to the landing, preceding the others, the last followed him as regularly as the colt follows its dam. Le Bourdon heard the conversation, and understood the movement, though he could not see the canoes. Peter continued talking aloud, as he went up the passage, receiving answers to all he said from his new companions, his voice serving to let the fugitives know precisely where they were. All this was understood and improved by the last, who lost no time in turning the adventure to account.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. who was ahead?
2. In what?
3. where at?
4. where?
5. what did he see?
6. how many?
7. coming from where?
8. how far away?
9. did he avoid them?
10. what did he do?
11. did they notice?
12. who else heard?
13. was his voice recognized?
14. what was misleading?
15. who overheard?
16. did he understand?
17. what did he not see?
18. where was Peter heading?
19. did he continue conversing with the others?
20. what did this cause?
Numbered answers: | 1. Peter
2. his canoe
3. abreast of the usual landing
4. at the hut
5. canoes
6. two
7. among the rice
8. not more than a hundred yards
9. no
10. called to them
11. yes
12. those who followed
13. yes
14. The confident, quiet, natural manner in which he spoke
15. Le Bourdon
16. yes
17. the canoes
18. up the passage
19. yes
20. let the fugitives know precisely where they were | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
257 | Mrs Black is sixty-nine years old. She has only a daughter named Sandra. Mr Black died twelve years ago. She was very sad and lived in her house alone. Two years later her daughter had a baby. The woman was busy all the time and no time to look after her son James. She asked her mother to live with with them. The old woman had to sell her house and moved there. She was strong and could do all the housework. And the family liked her. Last autumn Mrs Black went to do some shopping. A car hit her and her leg was hurt. She had to be in hospital for three months. She couldn't do anything after she came back. At first her daughter was kind to her, but soon she began to tired of her. The old woman wanted to leave, but she had no money to buy a house and nobody could take care of her. She didn't know what to do. One morning Mrs Black broke a plate. It made her daughter angry. She told James to buy a wooden for her grandma. That afternoon James came back with two wooden plates. She was surprised and asked "Why did you buy two plates, son" "One is for my grandma," answered the boy. "The other is for you." She cried for long. She's kind to her mother as she did before.
1. How many plates did the boy buy?
2. Who broke a plate?
3. How old is she?
4. Who does she live with?
5. No husband?
6. What was the daughter's name?
7. Why did she ask her mother to move in?
8. Who did the housework?
9. What did she injure?
10. How?
11. What was she doing?
12. How long was she in the hospital?
13. Did she fully recover?
14. Was her daughter understanding?
15. Why couldn't she move out?
16. What happened to her house?
17. What did Sandra ask James to do?
18. Did he?
19. For who?
20. Did Sandra cry?
21. Did she change her mindset?
Numbered answers: | 1. two
2. Mrs Black
3. sixty-nine
4. her daughter
5. he died twelve years ago
6. Sandra.
7. she was busy and needed someone to look after her son
8. Mrs Black
9. her leg
10. A car hit her
11. shopping
12. three months
13. no
14. At first
15. she had no money
16. She sold it to move in with Sandra
17. buy a wooden plate
18. He bought two
19. Grandmother and Mother
20. yes
21. yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
258 | CHAPTER 12
I saw her hold Earl Percy at the point With lustier maintenance than I did look for Of such an ungrown warrior.
--King Henry IV
As soon as Violet could leave her little boy without anxiety, the two sisters deposited Charles Layton at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, with hopes that a few years' training there would enable him to become Miss Martindale's little page, the grand object of his desires.
Their next and merriest excursion was to Percy's lodgings, where he had various Greek curiosities which he wished to show them; and Theodora consented to come with her brother and sister in a simple straightforward way that Violet admired.
His rooms were over a toy-shop in Piccadilly, in such a roar of sounds that the ladies exclaimed, and Arthur asked him how much he paid for noise.
'It is worth having,' said Percy; 'it is cheerful.'
'Do you think so?' exclaimed Violet. 'I think carriages, especially late at night, make a most dismal dreary sound.'
'They remind me of an essay of Miss Talbot's where she speaks of her companions hastening home from the feast of empty shells,' said Theodora.
'Ay! those are your West-end carriages,' said Percy; 'I will allow them a dreary dissatisfied sound. Now mine are honest, business-like market-waggons, or hearty tradesfolk coming home in cabs from treating their children to the play. There is sense in those! I go to sleep thinking what drops of various natures make up the roar of that great human cataract, and wake up dreaming of the Rhine falls.
1. what were the rooms over?
2. Where?
3. where did they leave Charles?
4. what did Percy want them to see?
5. who agreed to travel with their siblings?
6. where the rooms in a noisy area?
7. Does Percy like it that way?
8. how did he describe it?
9. did the rest like the noise?
10. who felt the sounds were scary?
11. what was Theodora reminded of?
12. Was Violet scared of the sounds the whole day?
13. How long would charles be at the asylum?
14. what would the schooling help him become?
15. What does Percy say about his sounds?
16. what does he wake up dreaming of?
17. what are the folk coming from?
18. and what do they come in?
19. what kind of carriage does Percy say make the scary sound?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. a toy-shop
2. Piccadilly
3. Deaf and Dumb Asylum
4. Greek curiosities
5. Violet
6. Yes.
7. Yes.
8. cheerful
9. No.
10. Violet
11. an essay of Miss Talbot's
12. Yes.
13. few years
14. Miss Martindale's little page
15. It is worth having
16. Rhine falls
17. treating their children to the play
18. cabs
19. West-end | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
259 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
All the animals were having a picnic. Turtle brought hotdogs for everyone. All the animals came to make their hotdogs. Rabbit put ketchup on his hotdog. Duck put mustard on his hotdog. Bear put ketchup and mustard on his hotdog. Turtle and Fox did not put ketchup or mustard on their hotdog. Goose looked at the hotdogs. He did not like hotdogs at all. He was very hungry. He looked around for something else to eat. Duck had brought chips, but Goose did not like chips. Bear had brought salad, but Goose did not like salad. Fox had brought apples, but Goose did not like apples. Rabbit brought carrots, but Goose did not like carrots. Goose looked around for something that he liked. Then he saw something near the edge of the meadow. It was a bunch of red strawberries. Goose liked strawberries very much. He took a basket and gathered up as many strawberries as he could and brought them to the picnic. Everyone was happy, and Goose was not hungry any more.
1. what activity were the animals engaging in?
2. what were they doing now?
3. who brought them?
4. was anyone hungry?
5. who?
6. why?
7. was there any other food there?
8. what?
9. did he want any of them?
10. did he find food he wanted?
11. where?
12. what was it?
13. what did he do with them?
14. what was the others reaction?
15. was he hungry?
Numbered answers: | 1. a picnic.
2. eating hotdogs
3. Turtle
4. yes
5. Goose
6. He did not like hotdogs at all.
7. yes
8. chips, salad, apples, and carrots
9. no
10. yes
11. Then he saw something near the edge of the meadow
12. red strawberries
13. he took them back to the picnic
14. Everyone was happy
15. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
260 | One afternoon, Kate and her brother Bob went out to play.Kate was eight, and Bob was ten."Let's go to the bridge and we can see fish in the river." said Kate. "I don't know..." Bob said."Mum told us, 'don't go on the bridge.' She said it's dangerous." Kate said, "I am not afraid.Are you?" They walked onto the bridge and began looking for fish in the river.The bridge was a train bridge.Trains went over the bridge three times a day. The children were standing in the middle of the bridge when they heard a loud noise."A train is coming!" Bob shouted."Run!" He ran to the end of the bridge.He was safe. Kate ran, too, but she fell.The train was coming fast.Kate ran towards Bob.She fell again right on the train tracks .There was no time to leave.She had to lie down between the tracks.A few seconds later, the train went over the girl, but she was not hurt at all.She stood up and said to Bob, "Don't tell Mum! Don't tell Mum!" At last their mother found out about the story.She was angry because they went on the bridge.But she was happy that Kate was all right.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. they heard a loud noise
2. train
3. train
4. ran
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. twice
8. lie down between the tracks
9. No
10. looking for fish
Numbered questions: | 1. What happened when they were in the middle of the bridge?
2. What kind of bridge was it?
3. What was the noise?
4. What did they do when they heard it?
5. Did they make it?
6. Both of them?
7. How many times did Kate fall?
8. What did she do the second time?
9. Was she hurt?
10. Why were they on the bridge? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
261 | Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data and is described as the branch of economics that aims to give empirical content to economic relations. More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference". An introductory economics textbook describes econometrics as allowing economists "to sift through mountains of data to extract simple relationships". The first known use of the term "econometrics" (in cognate form) was by Polish economist Paweł Ciompa in 1910. Jan Tinbergen is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of econometrics. Ragnar Frisch is credited with coining the term in the sense in which it is used today.
The basic tool for econometrics is the multiple linear regression model. Econometric theory uses statistical theory and mathematical statistics to evaluate and develop econometric methods. Econometricians try to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties including unbiasedness, efficiency, and consistency. "Applied econometrics" uses theoretical econometrics and real-world data for assessing economic theories, developing econometric models, analyzing economic history, and forecasting.
The basic tool for econometrics is the multiple linear regression model. In modern econometrics, other statistical tools are frequently used, but linear regression is still the most frequently used starting point for an analysis. Estimating a linear regression on two variables can be visualized as fitting a line through data points representing paired values of the independent and dependent variables.
Answer the following questions:
1. what method is being discussed?
2. what is it?
3. what does it try to do?
4. what else is it considered to be?
5. based on what?
6. what does it allow economists to do?
7. when was the word first used?
8. by who?
9. who is he?
10. who made up the term that we now use?
11. who else played an important role in coming up with it?
12. to what extent?
13. what is the most important tool for econometrics?
14. what does this theory use?
15. to accomplish what?
16. which is the most used tool?
17. how is this done?
18. how is it visualized?
19. of what?
20. what is the main goal of an econometrician?
Numbered answers: | 1. Econometrics
2. the application of statistical methods to economic data
3. give empirical content to economic relations
4. the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena
5. the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference
6. sift through mountains of data to extract simple relationships
7. 1910
8. Paweł Ciompa
9. a Polish economist
10. Ragnar Frisch
11. Jan Tinbergen
12. considered by many to be one of the founding fathers
13. the multiple linear regression model
14. statistical theory and mathematical statistics
15. to evaluate and develop econometric methods
16. linear regression
17. unknown
18. as fitting a line through data points representing paired values
19. the independent and dependent variables
20. to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
262 | Read the text and answer the questions.
California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the Pacific coast, California shares borders with Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. The state capital is Sacramento. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, respectively. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east; and from the redwood–Douglas fir forests in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in the southeast. The Central Valley, a major agricultural area, dominates the state's center. Though California is well-known for its warm Mediterranean climate, the large size of the state results in climates that vary from moist temperate rainforest in the north, to arid desert in the interior, as well as snowy alpine in the mountains.
What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for independence, but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The western portion of Alta California then was organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850. The California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom.
1. who first settled the land?
2. what happened in 1821?
3. how long did that last?
4. what caused an influx of people?
5. how does the state compare to others in population?
6. and size?
7. is it on the Atlantic Coast?
8. what mountains are in the east?
9. how many types of trees predominate?
10. overall what type of climate is there?
11. what's the weather int he mountains?
12. where is the capital
13. how many staes does it share a border?
14. what about other countries?
15. what is it?
16. are the redwood-fir forests in the southeast of the state?
17. What did the spanish empire call the area?
18. Did the gold rush cause a mass exodus of people leaving?
19. is LA County empty of people?
20. what's the desert in the southeast called?
Numbered answers: | 1. various Native American tribes
2. The area became a part of Mexico
3. 27 years
4. The California Gold Rush
5. it is the most populous state
6. third most extensive
7. no
8. Sierra Nevada
9. One
10. warm Mediterranean climate
11. snowy
12. Sacramento
13. Three
14. One
15. Mexico
16. no
17. Alta California
18. no
19. no
20. Mojave | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
263 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
The World Health Organization warns that millions of people are dying every year from indoor air pollution. The WHO finds that poor cooking, heating and lighting technologies are killing millions of people each year.
Indoor air pollution results from the use of dangerous fuels and cook-stoves in the home. To help fight the problem, the WHO announced, new guidelines aimed at reducing household pollutants.
WHO officials say nearly three billion people are unable to use clean fuels and technologies for cooking? heating and lighting. And they say more than seven million people die from exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollution each year. Of that number, the WHO says about 4. 3 million people die from household air pollution given off by simple coal cook-stoves. Most of the deaths are in developing countries.
Carlos Dora is Coordinator in the WHO's Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health. He says people should not use unprocessed coal and kerosene fuel indoors. He says opening a window or door to let out the harmful air will not improve the situation. It will only pollute the outdoors.
WHO officials say indoor pollution leads to early deaths from stroke, heart and lung disease, childhood pneumonia and lung cancer. Women and girls are the main victims. The United Nations found that more than 95 percent of households in sub-Saharan Africa depend on solid fuels for cooking. It says huge populations in India, China and Latin American countries, such as Guatemala and Peru, are also at risk.
Nigel Bruce is a professor of Public Health at the University of Liverpool. He says researchers are developing good cook-stoves and other equipment to burn fuels in a more efficient way.
WHO experts note some new, safe and low-cost technologies that could help are already available. In India, you can buy an induction stove for about $ 8.00. And in Africa a you can buy a solar lamp for less than $ 1. 00.
1. How many die annually from indoor air pollution?
2. Cooking, heating and what else kill them?
3. The WHO announced what?
4. WHO says how many people are unable to use clean fuels?
5. Are most deaths in United States?
6. Where are they at?
7. Who is Carlos Dora?
8. He said people should avoid using what?
9. What will not improve the situation?
10. What will it do, instead?
11. What conditions does indoor pollution lead to?
12. Are more men or women effected?
13. What area depend heavily on solid fuels for cooking?
14. What other areas with large populations are at risk?
Numbered answers: | 1. Millions
2. Lighting technologies
3. New guidelines aimed at reducing household pollutants
4. Nearly three billion
5. No
6. Developing countries.
7. Coordinator in the WHO's Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health.
8. Unprocessed coal and kerosene fuel
9. Opening a window or door
10. Pollute the outdoors.
11. Early deaths from stroke, heart and lung disease, childhood pneumonia and lung cancer.
12. Women
13. Sub-Saharan Africa
14. India, China and Latin American countries | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
264 | Chapter 14
THROUGH THE VALLEY
Sampson looked strangely at the great bloody blot on my breast and his look made me conscious of a dark hurrying of my mind. Morton came stamping up the steps with blunt queries, with anxious mien. When he saw the front of me he halted, threw wide his arms.
"There come the girls!" suddenly exclaimed Sampson. "Morton, help me drag Wright inside. They mustn't see him."
I was facing down the porch toward the court and corrals. Miss Sampson and Sally had come in sight, were swiftly approaching, evidently alarmed. Steele, no doubt, had remained out at the camp. I was watching them, wondering what they would do and say presently, and then Sampson and Johnson came to carry me indoors. They laid me on the couch in the parlor where the girls used to be so often.
"Russ, you're pretty hard hit," said Sampson, bending over me, with his hands at my breast. The room was bright with sunshine, yet the light seemed to be fading.
"Reckon I am," I replied.
"I'm sorry. If only you could have told me sooner! Wright, damn him! Always I've split over him!"
"But the last time, Sampson."
"Yes, and I came near driving you to kill me, too. Russ, you talked me out of it. For Diane's sake! She'll be in here in a minute. This'll be harder than facing a gun."
"Hard now. But it'll--turn out--O.K."
"Russ, will you do me a favor?" he asked, and he seemed shamefaced.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who had remained at the camp?
2. Who carried the narrator indoors?
3. Where did they put him down?
4. In which room?
5. Who was hit hard?
6. Where was the bloody spot?
7. Who looked strangely at it?
8. And who was coming up the steps?
9. What did Sampson shout out?
10. What were the names of the women who were approaching?
11. Did they seem calm?
12. How did they seem?
13. Was the parlor room dark?
14. What was happening to the light?
15. Who was going to be there in a minute?
16. What number chapter is this?
17. What is its title?
18. What was Russ' last name?
19. What did Sampson's look make the narrator conscious of?
20. What did Morton come stamping up the steps with?
Numbered answers: | 1. Steele
2. Sampson and Johnson
3. On the couch
4. In the parlor
5. Russ
6. On his breast
7. Sampson
8. Morton
9. "There come the girls!"
10. Miss Sampson and Sally
11. No
12. Alarmed
13. No
14. Seemed to be fading.
15. Diane
16. 14
17. THROUGH THE VALLEY
18. Wright
19. a dark hurrying of my mind.
20. blunt queries, | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
265 | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani court Monday gave police two weeks to prepare their case for charging five Americans whom police suspect of planning terrorist attacks.
Authorities have said they plan to prosecute the five men -- who are being held in jail -- under the country's anti-terrorism act.
A court hearing was set for January 18.
Police have said they are confident that the Americans were planning terrorist acts, according to Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, where the men were arrested December 9.
Gujjrar told CNN a preliminary investigation suggests that the men came to Pakistan to wage jihad and had sought to link up with Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-ud-Dawa militant organizations, neither of which showed interest, he said. The men wanted to martyr themselves, he said.
Jaish-e-Mohammed is the group believed to be responsible for the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl.
But Mohammed Ameer Khan Rokhri, an attorney representing the men, said they testified on the Quran, the Muslim holy book, "that they have no connection with any banned organization," including Jaish-e-Mohammed or al Qaeda.
They told the court, "We are going to Afghanistan to help the Muslims who have been injured by the NATO forces and other Afghan forces," the attorney said. And they said the didn't intend to commit any crime in Pakistan, he said.
The five young men are identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam. All are in their early 20s except Yemer, who, according to the interrogation report from Pakistani police, is 18 years old. Two of the suspects are Pakistani-American, two are Yemeni-American, and one is Egyptian-American.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. How many Americans were charged?
2. What was the name of the journalist murdered?
3. What group is responsible?
4. Who is his attorney?
5. What did he testify on?
6. Were all the victims in their 20's?
7. How long was the court given to prepare their case?
8. When was the hearing set for?
Numbered answers: | 1. five
2. Daniel Pearl
3. Jaish-e-Mohammed
4. Mohammed Ameer Khan Rokhri
5. the Quran
6. yes
7. two weeks
8. January 18 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
266 | The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on D-Day was far from ideal, but postponing would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the invasion planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days in each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and of developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an Allied invasion.
The amphibious landings were preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 American, British, and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight. Allied infantry and armoured divisions began landing on the coast of France at 06:30. The target stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Strong winds blew the landing craft east of their intended positions, particularly at Utah and Omaha. The men landed under heavy fire from gun emplacements overlooking the beaches, and the shore was mined and covered with obstacles such as wooden stakes, metal tripods, and barbed wire, making the work of the beach-clearing teams difficult and dangerous. Casualties were heaviest at Omaha, with its high cliffs. At Gold, Juno, and Sword, several fortified towns were cleared in house-to-house fighting, and two major gun emplacements at Gold were disabled, using specialised tanks.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. how many troops landed?
2. from how many countries?
3. please name them
4. when did the planning for this start?
5. what is this that we are talking about?
6. was this during a war?
7. which war?
8. what was the the operation for?
9. from?
10. did this operation have a codename?
11. what?
12. did they come in by water?
13. what about air?
14. what date was this?
15. of what year?
16. was the day called normandy landings?
17. then what?
18. where were the troops landing?
19. anywhere in particular?
20. was it peaceful when they landed?
Numbered answers: | 1. 24,000
2. Three
3. American, British, and Canadian
4. 1943
5. The Normandy landings
6. yes
7. World War II
8. liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe
9. Nazi control,
10. yes
11. Operation Neptune
12. yes
13. yes
14. 6 June
15. 1944
16. no
17. termed D-Day
18. coast of France
19. yes
20. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
267 | CHAPTER TWELVE.
VICTORY!
But before that winter closed, ay, before it began, a great victory was gained, which merits special mention here. Let us retrace our steps a little.
One morning, while Ian Macdonald was superintending the preparation of breakfast in some far-away part of the western wilderness, and Michel Rollin was cutting firewood, Victor Ravenshaw came rushing into camp with the eager announcement that he had seen the footprints of an _enormous_ grizzly bear!
At any time such news would have stirred the blood of Ian, but at that time, when the autumn was nearly over, and hope had almost died in the breast of our scholastic backwoodsman, the news burst upon him with the thrilling force of an electric shock.
"Now, Ian, take your gun and go in and win," said Victor with enthusiasm, for the youth had been infected with Rollin's spirit of gallantry.
"You see," Rollin had said to Victor during a confidential _tete-a-tete_, "ven a lady is in de case ye must bow de head. Ian do love your sister. Ver goot. Your sister do vish for a bar-claw collar. Ver goot. Vell, de chance turn up at last--von grizzly bar do appear. Who do shot 'im? Vy, Ian, certaintly. Mais, it is pity he am so 'bominibly bad shot!"
Victor, being an unselfish fellow, at once agreed to this; hence his earnest advice that Ian should take his gun and go in and win. But Ian shook his head.
"My dear boy," he said, with a sigh, "it's of no use my attempting to shoot a bear, or anything else. I don't know what can be wrong with my vision, I can see as clear and as far as the best of you, and I'm not bad, you'll allow, at following up a trail over hard ground; but when it comes to squinting along the barrel of a gun I'm worse than useless. It's my belief that if I took aim at a haystack at thirty yards I'd miss it. No, Vic, I must give up the idea of shooting altogether."
1. Who was in charge of the meal?
2. What was the meal?
3. What was Michael doing?
4. What did Victor see?
5. What did Victor want his friend to get?
6. Why?
7. What season was it?
8. Was Victor excited about the animal?
9. What about Ian?
10. Was Ian a good shot?
Numbered answers: | 1. Ian Macdonald
2. breakfast
3. cutting firewood
4. the footprints of an _enormous_ grizzly bear!
5. his gun
6. to win
7. winter close
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. No | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
268 | (CNN) -- Fang Lizhi, a famed Chinese democracy activist, has died in the United States, where he fled in exile more than 20 years ago, fellow activists said.
He was 76.
Fang died Friday in Tucson, Arizona, according to Wang Dan, a prominent student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests.
"My most, most respected teacher Fang Lizhi has died," Wang wrote on Facebook. "I am immensely sad. I hope that the Chinese people will forever remember him, that in our history there was a thinker named Fang (Lizhi) who inspired a 1989 generation and awakened the people to aspire to human rights and democracy."
He added, "Sooner or later, there will be a day when China will be proud of Fang Lizhi."
Fang, an accomplished astrophysicist, served as vice president of the elite University of Science and Technology at Hefei, Anhui province. He was dismissed from his job and expelled from the Communist Party in 1987, blamed for sympathizing with student protesters.
He was one of the three noted intellectuals who were publicly criticized during the "anti-bourgeois liberalization" campaign at that time, though Fang continued to speak out for democracy.
In early 1989, he wrote an open letter to Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping, calling for the release of Chinese political prisoners.
After the bloody crackdown during the Tiananmen protests on June 4, 1989, Fang and his wife Li Shuxian sought refuge inside the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
A year later, they were allowed to leave China for Britain and were soon after granted political refuge in the United States.
1. What kind of scientist was Fang?
2. Where did he work?
3. Where was that located?
4. what was his title?
5. Does he still have that job?
6. Why did he leave?
7. Did he quit
8. Is he still alive?
9. How old was he?
10. Where did his death occur?
11. Was he living there?
12. For how long?
13. How did he come to the U.S.?
14. How many countries did he live in?
15. Who is Wang Dan?
16. What is Fang Lizhi to him?
17. How does he feel about the death?
18. How does he think China should feel about Fang?
19. Who did Fang ask to set prisoners free?
20. When?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. astrophysicist
2. University of Science and Technolog
3. t Hefei, Anhui province
4. vice president
5. No
6. Due to the Tiananmen protests
7. No
8. No
9. 76.
10. United States
11. Yes
12. more than 20 years
13. In exile
14. Three
15. A prominent student leader of the Tiananmen Square protest
16. Teacher
17. Immensely sad.
18. Proud of Fang Lizhi.
19. Deng Xiaopin
20. 1989 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
269 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
My mother-in-law, Dorothy, is showing me the red notebook that's almost as precious to her as my husband's baby pictures. Inside the notebook is a list of the books she has read since 2007. For some people waking up in the middle of the night is a terrible thing. But for my mother-in-law, that time is a gift. At 87, she is getting the education she never had by working her way through great literature. She has now read close to 100 books, including every single novel by Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry James and Thomas Mann.
My mother-in-law discusses her passion with the enthusiasm of a young girl, although she can also be a very tough critic, writing "VG' for " very good" in the margins next to her favorites. So far, only a handful of books have received the top prize.
Born in Ridgefield, Conn, Dorothy was the youngest daughter of an Italian gardener. She taught herself English by reading The New York Times. Eager to come to Manhattan, she became a nurse, married a dentist and spent the next several decades keeping the house and raising a family. In her later years, she put her nursing skills to good use by taking care of my father-in-law, who had lung cancer. There were many trips to the emergency room in the middle of the night and then a long hospital stay. She stayed awake to watch over him for 15 hours a day. Always a light sleeper, she developed sleeplessness as a result of the stress.
It worsened after he died. Deeply sad and lonely for the first time in her life, she began waking up around 2am. Julian and Sylvia, the elderly couple next door suggest she read literature. And so Julian, a great lover of literature, became her "professor", providing books from his large library. Suddenly
turned onto a world of amazing characters.
1. Where was Dorothy born?
2. What did she read to learn English?
3. What was the profession of the man she wed?
4. What was her profession at this time?
5. What disease did her father-in-law have?
6. How many hours per day did she attend to him?
7. Did she develop sleeplessness?
8. Why?
9. What was the color of Dorothy's notebook?
10. What's in the notebook?
11. How many books has she read?
12. Has she read ones by Jane Austen?
13. What abbreviation does she use for "very good"?
14. Does she give that rating to a lot of books?
15. After he father-in-law's death, what time did she wake up?
16. What were her neighbor's names?
17. Which one of them gave her books?
18. What did he love?
19. Was he thought of as her professor?
20. Of what nationality was the gardener mentioned?
Numbered answers: | 1. Ridgefield, Conn
2. The New York Times.
3. Dentist.
4. Nurse.
5. Lung cancer.
6. 15.
7. Yes.
8. Stress.
9. Red.
10. A list of the books she has read since 2007.
11. Close to 100.
12. Yes.
13. VG.
14. No.
15. Around 2am.
16. Julian and Sylvia.
17. Julian.
18. Literature.
19. Yes.
20. Italian. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
270 | On June 26, 2000, two scientists, called Francis Collins and Craig Venter, told the world that they could read the whole "map" of the human body: DNA. DNA is something that everybody has, and it tells the body what to do. DNA is the reason that we look like our mother and father, because we get some of their DNA to make our own. People have been trying to understand the human body for a long time. In 1860, Gregor Mendel discovered a special reason why we look the same as other people in our family. It is because of small things named "genes" in our body. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick made another discovery and found out that those small parts are real messages written in the DNA with a special language. In 1961, Marshall Nirenberg and Johann Matthaci found a message in DNA showing how DNA tells the cell to build its parts. Scientists have now found all the words in the DNA map, but we still do not understand what they all do. By understanding what just one "word" means, we can help save more people from several illnesses. Most people hope that this will help make better medicine and help sick people. Other people worry that when people begin to know more words and find out lots of other information, we might use it in a wrong way, just to make people more attractive, or stop sick people from getting jobs. Man would have to meet a lot of trouble if DNA technic wasn't limited in use.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Two
2. Scientists
3. Francis Collins and Craig Venter
4. DNA
5. It tells the body what to do
6. Gregor Mende
Numbered questions: | 1. how many people said they could read peoples outline?
2. what were their jobs?
3. what were their names?
4. why do we look like our parents?
5. what else does it do?
6. who fount out about little thing in humans? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
271 | William James, the great psychologist , said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-five". He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have closed their minds to all new ideas; they have stopped to grow. The minute a man stops to grow -no matter what his years -that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old. Goethe passed away at eighty-three, and finished his only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, "What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense (extremely large)." And there you have the real answer to the question, "When is a man old?" Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn. As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say, "I grew", he is still young. The minute he ceases (stops) to grow, the minute he says to himself, "I know all that I need to know," -that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five; it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who is William James?
2. And what did he say about most men?
3. Is he right?
4. How so?
5. What about those who don't?
6. What did Gladstone do?
7. At what age?
8. How did Laplace feel when he died?
9. Why?
10. Did he believe that we knew anything?
Numbered answers: | 1. William James is a great psychologist.
2. He said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-five".
3. Yes, he was right.
4. At twenty-five, most men are satisfied with their jobs and close their minds to new ideas.
5. They never grow old.
6. Took up a new language.
7. Seventy.
8. Unsatisfied.
9. He was still sure that he had a lot to learn.
10. No. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
272 | Read the text and answer the questions.
Nana had a bunch of money. She had saved money her whole life. But Nana was afraid of people stealing her money. She planned to hide it. First she moved it around in her house and hid it behind a wall. Then she put her money in the attic. But she still didn't feel safe about her money. She was sure someone would find it. Finally she took it outside and started digging in the ground. She buried it in the ground so no one would find it. "It is going be safe here," said Nana. She was very pleased that she had hidden her money so well. The next day after breakfast, she went outside to make sure her money was still there. She stopped at the spot she thought she had buried it and began digging. After some time she hadn't found it. She climbed out of the hole and looked around. She had used a tree as a way to mark the spot. But she couldn't tell which tree. The wind was blowing and the trees all looked the same! She had used a brown spot on the ground to mark the spot. But she couldn't tell which brown spot it was! She knew she wasn't lost. Nana had hidden her money so well that no one could find it, and that included her!
1. What did granny have a bunch of?
2. How long had she been saving?
3. and what did she plan to do with it?
4. and where did she hide it?
5. and where next?
6. did she think it was hid well?
7. where did she hide it next?
8. when did she go make sure it was still there?
9. what kind of mark on the ground did she use to know where it was?
10. did she find it?
Numbered answers: | 1. money
2. her whole life
3. hide it
4. behind a wall
5. in the attic
6. no
7. in the ground
8. The next day
9. a brown spot
10. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
273 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
So ill he could not move, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart supposedly sang parts of his final masterpiece, "Requiem," from his deathbed. Two centuries later, the exact cause of the Austrian composer's premature death, in December 1791 at age 35, is still a mystery.
This portrait by painter Johann Georg Edlinger, showed Mozart not long before his mysterious death in 1791.
Theories abound. It's known that his entire body was so swollen he couldn't turn over in bed; some say jealous rivals poisoned him, while others suggest scarlet fever, tuberculosis, or lethal trichinosis from undercooked pork.
Now, new evidence points to an altogether different conclusion: Mozart may have died from kidney damage caused by a strep infection, possibly strep throat. Health.com: Can't stop coughing? 8 causes of chronic cough
Dr. Richard H.C. Zegers of the University of Amsterdam and his colleagues analyzed data from Vienna's death registry. Researchers had not previously analyzed the daily death registry -- begun in handwritten script in 1607 and maintained until 1920 -- for clues to Mozart's death.
Zegers and his team looked at information for 5,011 adults who died during three consecutive winters starting in 1790, as well as eyewitness accounts of Mozart's death, according to the study published this week in Annals of Internal Medicine.
"By looking at the patterns of death during Mozart's time and combining them with the signs and symptoms of his final disease, we have not one but two pillars on which our theory is built," said Zegers. "Although we can't be 100 percent conclusive, I'm convinced that we have come very near the exact reason he died."
1. When did Vienna start their death registry?
2. When does it end?
3. How was it written in the beginning?
4. Who has been looking it over?
5. From where?
6. What are they hoping to find?
7. Are they the first to do this?
8. When did Mozart die?
9. What month?
10. How old was he?
11. Are there rumors about how he died
12. Who might have poisoned him?
13. Where could he have picked up trichinosis?
14. Can that be fatal?
15. What did he do while on his deathbed?
16. What?
17. Who painted a picture of him?
18. Why couldn't he flip over?
19. What is a current theory on his cause of death?
20. From what?
Numbered answers: | 1. 1607
2. 1920
3. it was handwritten
4. Dr. Richard H.C. Zegers and his colleagues
5. the University of Amsterdam
6. clues to Mozart's death
7. unknown
8. 1791
9. December
10. 35
11. yes
12. jealous rivals
13. undercooked pork
14. yes
15. sing
16. "Requiem"
17. Johann Georg Edlinger
18. his body was swollen
19. kidney damage
20. a strep infection | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
274 | CHAPTER XI
OFF FOR BRILL COLLEGE
When old Ricks saw his neighbor approaching he could not at first believe his eyes. Then he ran up to the man, who was a particularly sour individual.
"Say, I thought you was dead," he gasped.
"Dead?" returned Ham Ludd. "Do I look like I was dead?" And he glared savagely at Ricks. "I ain't dead, not by a jugful!"
"Humph! Well, if you ain't dead, mebbe you'll explain about that cat, an' dog," went on old Ricks.
"Wot about 'em?"
"You told folks I poisoned the cat and starved the dog to death."
"I did not."
"You did--it was in the newspapers!" bawled old Ricks, commencing to dance around.
"I didn't! Where's them newspapers?" asked Ham Ludd, also growing excited.
"I ain't got 'em, but Tom Rover said----"
And then suddenly old Ricks stopped short. He was commencing to "smell a mouse," as the saying is.
"Wot did Tom Rover say?" demanded Ham Ludd.
"Never mind wot he said," grumbled the stationmaster. "Only you be careful o' wot you say about me in the future, Ham Ludd, thet's all!"
"Huh! I guess that Rover boy has been a'jokin' you ag'in, Ricky," said Ludd, with a grin. "How about thet busted-up bonfire, an' that snaky cigar? Ha! ha! he had you them times, didn't he?"
"You shet up, Ham Ludd!" roared the stationmaster. "Don't you say another word!"
"I'll say all I please! An' you'll put up that fence, too, or I'll have the law on ye!" retorted Ham Ludd; and then went on his way.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who was Ricks neighbor?
2. Was he a pleasant man?
3. What was surprising about seeing him?
4. How did Ham reply to the accusation?
5. What did Ricks then want him to explain?
6. Why?
7. Did he admit it?
8. Who told Ricks Ham had said that?
9. How did Tom Rover hear it?
10. Did he have a copy of the paper?
11. Was it determined that Rover had been lying?
12. Did Ricks apologize?
13. What did he instead say?
14. How did Ham reply?
15. What was Ricks job?
16. What station did he work at?
17. Did the two continue walking together?
Numbered answers: | 1. Ham Ludd
2. no
3. thought he was dead
4. "I ain't dead, not by a jugful!"
5. that cat, an' dog
6. Ham told folks I poisoned the cat and starved the dog to death
7. no
8. Tom Rover
9. the newspapers!
10. no
11. yes
12. no
13. "You shet up, Ham Ludd!"
14. 'll say all I please! An' you'll put up that fence, too, or I'll have the law on ye!"
15. stationmaster.
16. unknown
17. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
275 | When Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, she was unknown in the literary world. But an early review in The New York Times ensured that the book would be noticed. "It's as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration ," wrote Anatole Broyard, with an enthusiasm and amazement that was shared by many critics and readers. The book became a classic, and Robinson was recognized as one of the outstanding American writers of our time. Yet it would be more than twenty years before she wrote another novel.
During the period, Robinson devoted herself to writing nonfiction. Her essays and book reviews appeared in Harper's and The New York Times Book Review, and in 1989 she published Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution, criticizing severely the environmental and public health dangers caused by the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in England--and the political and moral corruption . In 1998, Robinson published a collection of her critical and theological writings, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, which featured reassessments of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Calvin, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Aside from a single short story--"Connie Bronson," published in The Paris Review in 1986--it wasn't until 2004 that she returned to fiction with the novel Gilead, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, Home, came out this fall.
Her novels could be described as celebrations of the human--the characters in them are unforgettable creations. Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her sister Lucille, who are cared for by their eccentric Aunt Sylvie after their mother commits suicide. Robinson writes a lot about how each of the three is changed by their new life together. Gilead is an even more close exploration of personality: the book centres on John Ames, a seventy-seven-year-old pastor who is writing an account of his life and his family history to leave to his young son after he dies. Home borrows characters from Gilead but centers on Ames's friend Reverend Robert Boughton and his troubled son Jack. Robinson returned to the same territory as Gilead because, she said, "after I write a novel or a story, I miss the characters--I feel like losing some close friends."
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Which book by Robinson is about Ruth and her sister Lucille?
2. When was it written?
3. How many years passed before she wrote another novel?
4. What did she write in between?
5. What did she publish in 1989?
6. And where did some of her essays and book reviews show up?
7. What did she publish in 1998?
8. What figures did it reassess?
9. What single short story did she write?
10. What did Anatole Broyard say about Housekeeping?
11. Who published Connie Bronson?
12. In what year?
13. When did Robinson start writing fiction again?
14. What was the name of the novel she wrote then?
15. When does her novel, Home, come out?
16. What happens to Ruth and Lucille's mother in Housekeeping?
17. Who takes care of them then?
18. What does the book Gilead center on?
19. How old is Ames?
20. Who is he writing his book for?
Numbered answers: | 1. Housekeeping.
2. 1980.
3. More than twenty.
4. Nonfiction.
5. Mother Country: Britain.
6. Harper's and The New York Times Book Review
7. The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought,
8. Charles Darwin and John Calvin.
9. Connie Bronson
10. "It's as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration
11. The Paris Review.
12. 1986
13. 2004
14. Gilead.
15. This fall.
16. She commits suicide.
17. Their Aunt Sylvie.
18. John Ames.
19. 77.
20. His son. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
276 | CHAPTER I.
CAMBYSES.
B.C. 530-524
Cyrus the Great.--His extended conquests.--Cambyses and Smerdis.--Hystaspes and Darius.--Dream of Cyrus.--His anxiety and fears.--Accession of Cambyses.--War with Egypt.--Origin of the war with Egypt.--Ophthalmia.--The Egyptian physician.--His plan of revenge.--Demand of Cyrus.--Stratagem of the King of Egypt.--Resentment of Cassandane.--Threats of Cambyses.--Future conquests.--Temperament and character of Cambyses.--Impetuosity of Cambyses.--Preparations for the Egyptian war.--Desertion of Phanes.--His narrow escape.--Information given by Phanes.--Treaty with the Arabian king.--Plan for providing water.--Account of Herodotus.--A great battle.--Defeat of the Egyptians.--Inhuman conduct of Cambyses.--His treatment of Psammenitus.--The train of captive maidens.--The young men.--Scenes of distress and suffering.--Composure of Psammenitus.--Feelings of the father.--His explanation of them.--Cambyses relents.--His treatment of the body of Amasis.--Cambyses's desecrations.--The sacred bull Apis.--Cambyses stabs the sacred bull.--His mad expeditions.--The sand storm.--Cambyses a wine-bibber.--Brutal act of Cambyses.--He is deemed insane.
About five or six hundred years before Christ, almost the whole of the interior of Asia was united in one vast empire. The founder of this empire was Cyrus the Great. He was originally a Persian; and the whole empire is often called the Persian monarchy, taking its name from its founder's native land.
Cyrus was not contented with having annexed to his dominion all the civilized states of Asia. In the latter part of his life, he conceived the idea that there might possibly be some additional glory and power to be acquired in subduing certain half-savage regions in the north, beyond the Araxes. He accordingly raised an army, and set off on an expedition for this purpose, against a country which was governed by a barbarian queen named Tomyris. He met with a variety of adventures on this expedition, all of which are fully detailed in our history of Cyrus. There is, however, only one occurrence that it is necessary to allude to particularly here. That one relates to a remarkable dream which he had one night, just after he had crossed the river.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. What was crossed?
2. What time period is this?
3. What became as one?
4. Did someone lose their mind?
5. Who did something really brutal?
6. Was something sacred?
7. What?
8. And its name?
9. Did it get killed?
10. Was there a heavy drinker?
11. Who?
12. What was his beverage of choice?
13. Who founded the nation?
14. What was his nationality?
Numbered answers: | 1. the river
2. About five or six hundred years before Christ,
3. almost the whole of the interior of Asia
4. yes
5. Cambyses.-
6. yes
7. The sacred bull
8. Apis.
9. unknown
10. yes
11. Cambyses
12. wine
13. Cyrus
14. Persian; | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
277 | Dallas (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed the scheduled execution on an inmate on death row in Texas amid questions about a psychologist who testified that blacks and Hispanics were more likely to commit future crimes.
Duane Edward Buck already had eaten a final meal of fried chicken, fried fish, french fries, salad, jalapeno peppers and apples when news came of the court's decision on Thursday evening, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said.
"Praise the Lord Jesus," Clark quoted the condemned man as saying. "God is worthy to be praised. God's mercy triumphs over judgment, and I feel good."
Buck had been set to die by lethal injection, but the court delayed the execution to give it time to review the way a lower court handled the case. While that happens, Buck remains on death row.
Buck was convicted of the 1995 killings of Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler. According to Texas officials, Buck shot Gardner in front of her daughter, who begged for her mother's life.
A third person, Phyllis Taylor, was shot, but she sought clemency for Buck this week. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, however, recommended against granting Buck clemency
Buck's attorney, Katherine C. Black, said the recommendation, "fails to recognize what the highest legal officer in the state of Texas has acknowledged: No one should be executed based on a process tainted by considerations of race."
Black is referring to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who was the state's attorney general in 2000, when he spoke of seven death row inmates, including Buck. Cornyn said he believed the inmates had been unfairly sentenced to death based on testimony that was racially tainted by psychologist Walter Quijano, who repeatedly told juries that black or Hispanic defendants were more likely to commit future crimes.
1. What was delayed?
2. Who delayed it?
3. What was the prisoner's name?
4. What was his lawyer's name?
5. In what state was he incarcarated?
6. Who is the spokesperson for Criminal Justice there?
7. What was Buck convicted of?
8. When did the crime happen?
9. Was anyone else hurt?
10. Who?
11. How were they hurt and killed?
12. How was Buck set to die?
13. Was he released from prison?
14. What did they do with him?
Numbered answers: | 1. scheduled execution on an inmate
2. The U.S. Supreme Court
3. Duane Edward Buck
4. Katherine C. Black
5. Texas
6. Jason Clark
7. killings of Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler
8. 1995
9. A third person
10. Phyllis Taylor
11. Buck shot Gardner
12. lethal injection
13. No
14. Buck remains on death row. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
278 | Several years ago ,Masaru Ibuka ,chairman of Sony ,was at a company planning a meeting. Suddenly he hdd a brilliant idea. He stopped the meeting and asked everyone present what would happen if Sony removed the recording function and 'speaker and sold headphones with a tape player instead. Almost everyone thought he was crazy. Still ,Ibuka kept thinking about his idea and worked at improving it The result, of course, turned out to be the wildly successful Sony Walkman. Good ideas often start with a seemingly silly question. Bill Bowerman was making breakfast one day. As he stood there making waffles for his son, he wondered what would happen if he poured rubber into his waffle iron. Later ,he tried it and the result looked something Like the bottom of most sports shoes we see today. Still, when he took this idea to several existing shoe companies, he was laughed at In fact, every single company turned him down. Though rather discouraged, Bowerman insisted and went on to form his own company, making NBKE athletic shoes. Sometime good ideas grow out of frustration .When Fred Smith was a student at Yale University, he had some paperwork that he needed to have delivered across the country the next day. Smith was amazed to find out that overnight delivery was impossible. He sat for a long while ,lost in thought Why couldn't there be a reliable overnight mail delivery service? He decided to design one. Smith did just that and turned his design into a class project His business professor gave him only a C for his efforts. However, Smith was not through. He improved the idea in that class project and finally turned them into one of the first and most successful overnight mail service in the world -- FedEx. We know that each of these ideas led to a very successful product or service that has changed the way many of us live. The best questions are usually open-ended and are often silly, Children aren't afraid to ask such questions ,but adults frequently are. Think how different the world might be if people never asked " silly" questions!
1. What type of questions led to success?
2. Who had the crazy idea to pour rubber onto a small kitchen appliance?
3. Did he try it?
4. What did it lead to?
5. What do they make?
6. Who had the concept for a portable player?
7. Where did he work?
8. What did they make from his concept?
9. Was it a popular product?
10. The concept of overnight services came out of which college?
11. What provoked it?
12. Did he present the concept as a project?
13. Was it a successful concept to the professor?
14. What grade was he given?
15. What did this man end up creating?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. silly" questions
2. Bill Bowerman
3. Yes
4. NBKE
5. athletic shoes
6. ,Masaru Ibuka
7. Sony
8. Sony Walkman
9. yes
10. Yale University
11. overnight delivery was impossible
12. yes
13. no
14. C
15. FedEx | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
279 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
CHAPTER XVI.
DISCOVERED.
Cummings was bringing up the rear during this march across the city, and when Jake halted he naturally thought it was in obedience to some signal made by Poyor, therefore he remained silent until hearing Neal say imploringly:
"Go on, Jake. Don't stop now when we have a chance of getting away in safety, for what is gold in comparison with life?"
"Have you halted with any idea that it may be possible to carry anything off with us?" Cummings asked, speaking in a whisper, and Jake replied in the same cautious tone:
"That's the size of it. You brought us here with the promise that we could make ourselves rich, and when the first little thing goes wrong you run. Now I will do as I please."
"It is nothing less than suicide. We have before us a journey so long and difficult that however small a burden you may have to carry, it will seem all too heavy."
By this time Poyor turned back to learn the cause of the halt, and when it was explained he said gravely:
"Each instant we stand here brings death so much nearer. Even at this moment watchful eyes may be upon us, and once we are discovered flight will be almost impossible."
The little party stood directly in front of what was evidently the main entrance to the temple. It was formed of twenty slender shafts of white stone which in the moonlight looked translucent, and each column upheld a grotesque figure composed of what appeared to be silver.
1. Who stopped the group's advance?
2. Who halted the group?
3. Who was in the rear?
4. Who did he believe had signalled?
5. Did he start talking?
6. Who did?
7. Did he agree with stopping?
8. What did he think was more important that gold?
9. Who inquired about taking stuff with them?
10. What did Jake say he had promised?
11. Did he want to run?
12. Did Cummings feel staying was dangerous?
13. Who felt they might be being watched?
14. Did he think escape would be easy?
15. Where were they standing?
16. To what?
17. What was it made of?
18. Of what material?
19. What color?
20. How did they look in the light?
Numbered answers: | 1. the main entrance to the temple
2. Jake
3. Cummings
4. Poyor
5. no
6. Neal
7. no
8. life
9. Cummings
10. we could make ourselves rich
11. Cummings did
12. Yes
13. poyor
14. no
15. the main entrance
16. the temple
17. twenty slender shafts
18. stone
19. white
20. translucent | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
280 | (CNN) -- A flurry of last-minute legal maneuvers Tuesday spared, for now, the life of John Ferguson, a Florida death row inmate who suffers from mental illness and at one point called himself the 'prince of God.'
Ferguson, a diagnosed schizophrenic convicted of killing eight people, was scheduled to get the lethal injection Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET at a Florida State Prison.
But an appeals court in Atlanta granted an emergency stay of execution Tuesday night.
Florida officials then asked the Supreme Court to allow the lethal injection to proceed. Just before midnight the high court denied Florida's request, keeping in place the stay of execution, according to court documents.
Some had questioned why authorities would kill a man who suffered from mental illness.
Laurel Bellows, the president of the American Bar Association, released a statement earlier Tuesday saying she was concerned about how thoroughly Ferguson's competency was evaluated.
"The American Bar Association is alarmed that Florida is poised to execute John Ferguson, a man diagnosed as severely mentally ill for more than 40 years, before the constitutionality of his execution is fully evaluated."
Chris Handman, one of Ferguson's attorneys, told CNN. "We think the court should intervene to stop that execution from going forward."
Handman said a court had earlier found that Ferguson was mentally ill and had delusions that caused him to think he is the "Prince of God."
Ferguson is on death row for the murders of eight people in Hialeah and Carol City, Florida, in the late 1970s.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. an emergency stay of execution
2. in Atlanta
3. John Ferguson
4. yup
5. Florida
6. yes
7. mentally ill
8. yes
9. schizophrenic
10. 40 years,
11. the president of the American Bar Association
12. They are alarmed
13. Tuesday
14. Chris Handman
15. intervene
16. stop that execution from going forward
17. eight people
18. the late 1970s
19. lethal injection
20. Tuesday
Numbered questions: | 1. What was given by an appeals court Tuesday?
2. Where?
3. Who received it?
4. Is he on death row?
5. Where?
6. Does he have an illness?
7. What kind?
8. Did a doctor say he's ill?
9. What is the name of his illness?
10. How long has he had that label?
11. Who is Laurel Bellows?
12. How does she say the Bar feels about this?
13. When did she say it?
14. Who is his lawyer?
15. What does he feel the court should do?
16. And do what?
17. Who did he murder?
18. when?
19. What were they planning to kill him with?
20. When? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
281 | Toyota is the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric vehicles, and one of the largest companies to encourage the mass-market adoption of hybrid vehicles across the globe. Cumulative global sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrid passenger car models achieved the 10 million milestone in January 2017. Its Prius family is the world's top selling hybrid nameplate with over 6 million units sold worldwide .
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937, as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and its first passenger car in 1936, the Toyota AA. Toyota Motor Corporation produces vehicles under five brands, including the Toyota brand, Hino, Lexus, Ranz, and Daihatsu. It also holds a 16.66% stake in Subaru Corporation, a 5.9% stake in Isuzu, as well as joint-ventures with two in China (GAC Toyota and Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor), one in India (Toyota Kirloskar), one in the Czech Republic (TPCA), along with several "nonautomotive" companies. TMC is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.
Toyota is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi. The main headquarters of Toyota is located in a 4-storey building in Toyota. As of 2006, the head office has the "Toyopet" Toyota logo and the words "Toyota Motor". The Toyota Technical Center, a 14-story building, and the Honsha plant, Toyota's second plant engaging in mass production and formerly named the Koromo plant, are adjacent to one another in a location near the headquarters. Vinod Jacob from "The Hindu" described the main headquarters building as "modest". In 2013, company head Akio Toyoda reported that it had difficulties retaining foreign employees at the headquarters due to the lack of amenities in the city.
Answer the following questions:
1. Where is Toyota's headquarters?
2. What city?
3. Are its offices in a skyscraper?
4. What is taller, its headquarters or technical center?
5. By how much?
6. What is that next to?
7. What did that used to be called?
8. Are those buildings far from the headquarters?
9. Is the headquarters often described as impressive?
10. What did Vinod Jacob call them?
11. Why do they have a hard time keeping foreign workers there?
12. How many car companies sell more hybrid vehicles than Toyota?
Numbered answers: | 1. Aichi
2. Toyota City
3. No
4. technical center
5. 10 stories
6. Honsha plant
7. Koromo plant
8. No
9. No
10. "modest".
11. lack of amenities in the city
12. zero | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
282 | Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXIII
"But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny?" said Lady Bertram. "How came she to think of asking Fanny? Fanny never dines there, you know, in this sort of way. I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go. Fanny, you do not want to go, do you?"
"If you put such a question to her," cried Edmund, preventing his cousin's speaking, "Fanny will immediately say No; but I am sure, my dear mother, she would like to go; and I can see no reason why she should not."
"I cannot imagine why Mrs. Grant should think of asking her? She never did before. She used to ask your sisters now and then, but she never asked Fanny."
"If you cannot do without me, ma'am--" said Fanny, in a self-denying tone.
"But my mother will have my father with her all the evening."
"To be sure, so I shall."
"Suppose you take my father's opinion, ma'am."
"That's well thought of. So I will, Edmund. I will ask Sir Thomas, as soon as he comes in, whether I can do without her."
"As you please, ma'am, on that head; but I meant my father's opinion as to the _propriety_ of the invitation's being accepted or not; and I think he will consider it a right thing by Mrs. Grant, as well as by Fanny, that being the _first_ invitation it should be accepted."
"I do not know. We will ask him. But he will be very much surprised that Mrs. Grant should ask Fanny at all."
1. What did Mrs Grant want?
2. to do what?
3. Who doesn't want her to go?
4. Why?
5. Who thinks she should go?
6. Whom is he?
7. Who did Mrs Grant ask before?
8. What did Edmund suggest?
9. who is his father?
10. Who did not let Fanny answer?
Numbered answers: | 1. Fanny
2. to dine somewhere
3. Lady Bertram
4. she cannot spare her
5. Edmund
6. her cousin
7. his sisters
8. ask his father's opinion
9. Sir Thomas
10. Edmund | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
283 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Maricel Apatan, 22, stands in the kitchen of the Edsa Shangi-La Hotel in Manila, preparing to decorate a cheesecake. It would seem to be a routine task for a cake chef, but Maricel is no ordinary chef -- she has no hands.
Maricel has come a long way since the day in September 2000 when she and her uncle were attacked near their farm. Fortunately, both of them survived, but the 11-year-old girl lost her hands. In 2004, she entered a Manila training centre for people with disabilities. She learned how to write and do housework and, more importantly, came to terms with her disability.
After graduation from high school, she took a two-year Hotel and Restaurant course and _ even though she was the only disabled student in the course. After she moved back to Manila to continue her studies, the media started reporting on this determined young woman. She didn't shy away from the attention. "I wanted others living with disabilities to believe it's possible to live a normal life," Maricel says.
After managers at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel saw Maricel on television, they hired her as part of the hotel's Care for People project. She has also accomplished her goal of inspiring others. One of them is Ronelyn Calumpiano, a 21-year-old with cerebral palsy . She saw Maricel on television and was moved by her confidence. Ronelyn will soon start classes and is already planning a career in IT.
Maricel's three younger sisters have moved to Manila. She pays for the rent of their small apartment, while their parents look after their family farm in Mindanao. "It is difficult to make ends meet but I don't lose hope. I believe anything is possible if you dream, work hard and pray."
1. How old is Maricel?
2. What is her disability?
3. Did she always have no hands?
4. Was she in a violent altercation?
5. Was there a family member with her?
6. Which one?
7. Did he survive?
8. How old she during this?
9. Where did it happen?
10. Did she make it out of high school?
Numbered answers: | 1. 22
2. she has no hands.
3. No
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. her uncle
7. Yes
8. 11
9. near their farm
10. Yes | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
284 | CHAPTER VIII. 'LE BROUILON'
But never more the same two sister pearls Ran down the silken thread to kiss each other. --Tennyson
Berenger was obliged to crave permission from the King to spend some hours in riding with Osbert to the first hostel on their way, to make arrangements for the relay of horses that was to meet them there, and for the reception of Veronique, Eustacie's maid, who was to be sent off very early in the morning on a pillion behind Osbert, taking with her the articles of dress that would be wanted to change her mistress from the huntress maid of honour to the English dame.
It was not long after he had been gone that a sound of wheels and trampling horses was heard in one of the forest drives. Charles, who was amusing himself with shooting at a mark together with Sidney and Teligny, handed his weapon to an attendant, and came up with looks of restless anxiety to his Queen, who was placed in her chair under the tree, with the Admiral and her ladies round her, as judges of the prize.
'Here is _le brouillon_,' he muttered. 'I thought we had been left in peace too long.'
Elisabeth, who Brantome says was water, while her husband was fire, tried to murmur some hopeful suggestion; and poor little Eustacie, clasping her hands, could scarcely refrain from uttering the cry, 'Oh, it is my uncle! Do not let him take me!'
The next minute there appeared four horses greatly heated and jaded, drawing one of the court coaches; and as it stopped at the castle gate, two ladies became visible within it--the portly form of Queen Catherine, and on the back seat the graceful figure of Diane de Ribaumont.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Who needed to ask for the right to go with the men?
2. Where was he going?
3. What did he need there?
4. What else?
5. Who is she?
Numbered answers: | 1. Berenger
2. first hostel
3. make arrangements for the relay of horses
4. reception of Veronique
5. Eustacie's maid, | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
285 | CHAPTER XXI.
SHEWING HOW COLONEL OSBORNE WENT TO NUNCOMBE PUTNEY.
Colonel Osborne was expected at Nuncombe Putney on the Friday, and it was Thursday evening before either Mrs. Stanbury or Priscilla was told of his coming. Emily had argued the matter with Nora, declaring that she would make the communication herself, and that she would make it when she pleased and how she pleased. "If Mrs. Stanbury thinks," said she, "that I am going to be treated as a prisoner, or that I will not judge myself as to whom I may see, or whom I may not see, she is very much mistaken." Nora felt that were she to give information to those ladies in opposition to her sister's wishes, she would express suspicion on her own part by doing so; and she was silent. On that same Thursday Priscilla had written her last defiant letter to her aunt,--that letter in which she had cautioned her aunt to make no further accusations without being sure of her facts. To Priscilla's imagination that coming of Lucifer in person, of which Mrs. Trevelyan had spoken, would hardly have been worse than the coming of Colonel Osborne. When, therefore, Mrs. Trevelyan declared the fact on the Thursday evening, vainly endeavouring to speak of the threatened visit in an ordinary voice, and as of an ordinary circumstance, it was as though a thunderbolt had fallen upon them.
"Colonel Osborne coming here!" said Priscilla, mindful of the Stanbury correspondence,--mindful of the evil tongues of the world.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Who was told of the colonel's coming?
2. What day were they told?
3. Who was coming?
4. Did anything else happen that Thursday?
5. What else happened?
6. Was it a friendly letter?
7. Were the women excited for the visitor?
8. What was his arrival likened to?
9. Were there any other conflicts of interest?
10. what?
11. Where does this excerpt take place?
12. Is Mrs. Trevelyan in hysterics?
Numbered answers: | 1. Mrs. Stanbury and Priscilla
2. Thursday
3. Colonel Osborne
4. yes
5. Priscilla wrote her aunt
6. no
7. no
8. The coming of Lucifer
9. yes
10. Emily argued with Nora
11. Nuncombe Putney
12. no | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
286 | After the first World War, a small group of veterans returned to their village in Britain. Most of them managed to get along fairly well, but one--Francis Blustering, who had been wounded and who never recovered his strength-- was unable to work like others. In time he became very poor. Yet he was too proud to accept anything from the people in the village.
Once, these veterans held a reunion dinner in the home of Jules Grandin, who had made a good deal of money. Grandin produced a curiosity --a large old gold coin. Each man examined it with interest as it passed around the long table. All, however, had drunk wine freely and the room was full of noisy talk, so that the gold piece was soon forgotten. Later, when Grandin remembered it and asked for it, the coin was missing.
One of them suggested everyone be searched, to which all agreed, except Blustering. "You refuse, then?" asked Grandin. Blustering said with a red face, "Yes, I cannot allow it."
One by one, the others turned out their pockets. When the coin failed to appear, attention was focused on poor Blustering. Under the pitying stares of his friends, he walked out and returned to his home.
A few years later, Grandin made his house repaired. A workman found the gold coin, buried in dirt between planks of the floor. Hurrying to Blustering's home, Grandin apologized to him.
"But why didn't you allow yourself be searched?"
"Because I was a thief," Blustering said brokenly. "For weeks we had not had enough to eat and my pockets were full of food that I had taken from the table to carry home to my wife and hungry children."
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. When does this story take place?
2. Who returned to their village?
3. Did all of them do well?
4. Who didn't?
5. Why?
6. Did he have a job?
7. Who held a dinner?
8. What was the reason for the dinner?
9. What did Grandin show the men?
10. Did Grandin forget about the coin?
11. What did one of the men say they should do?
12. Did everyone say okay?
Numbered answers: | 1. Britain
2. small group of veterans
3. No
4. Francis Blustering
5. wounded and never recovered his strength
6. No
7. veterans
8. renunion dinner
9. a large old gold coin
10. Yes
11. One of them suggested everyone be searched.
12. No | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
287 | (CNN) -- Four months after a criminal investigation began into the disappearance of an Oregon boy, officials continue to ask the public for leads and tips.
Thursday marks Kyron Horman's 8th birthday. Desiree Young, Kyron's biological mother, said she will celebrate the birthday by releasing red balloons outside a church in Medford, Oregon.
His stepmother, Terri Horman, said she dropped him off at Skyline Elementary School on the morning of June 4. She has been the subject of intense scrutiny for several months.
In divorce filings, her ex-husband, Kaine Horman, said he believes that Terri Horman "is involved" in the boy's disappearance.
Court documents also allege Terri Horman attempted to hire a man to kill her husband.
Meanwhile, Skyline Elementary began its first day of classes for the year on Tuesday with additional security measures to protect the children and staff.
In a letter to parents, Principal Ben Keefer said video cameras will be installed this weekend at Skyline.
"These cameras will show external views of the building as well as the main hallway," he wrote.
Also, security procedures will be reviewed to ensure they are effective, he added.
Tributes, messages, posters and cards that adorned a "Wall of Hope" for Kyron were moved from school property to a fence outside a nearby fire station, said the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
"We're happy that the fire district can provide this service to the community," said Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Communications Officer Brian Barker. "Our hearts go out to Kyron's family and we all hope for a positive resolution to this case."
1. Who was kidnapped?
2. Who dropped him off at school?
3. Who does she say could be the suspect?
4. Who tired to murder him?
5. What was placed for him at the school?
Numbered answers: | 1. Kyron Horman
2. Terri Horman
3. Terri Horman
4. Terri Horman attempted to hire a man to kill her husband.
5. "Wall of Hope" | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
288 | 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.
1. Where was Toby thrown?
2. and winnie?
3. how old was she?
4. how did she feed?
5. by?
6. what award did they win?
7. Who choked?
8. what does she do for a job?
9. what did she do differntly?
10. why?
11. how did the dog help?
12. does he normally do that?
13. what was poisoning the Keeslings
14. what was the gas?
15. who was unconcious?
16. who did the cat wake?
17. how?
18. was she silent?
19. where do the Keeslings live?
20. how close to death were the family?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. He was thrown into a garbage bin
2. She was hiding under a barn
3. She was a week-old
4. She was fed with an eyedropper
5. By Cathy's husband, Eric
6. They won Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
7. Amy Paul
8. makes jewelry
9. She ate the skin
10. She read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients
11. he jumped on her
12. No
13. a gas-driven pump
14. carbon monoxide
15. the couple's 14-year-old son
16. Cathy Keesling
17. jumped on the bed and clawed her
18. No
19. Indiana
20. They were only minutes from death | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
289 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
It was Saturday and it was nice outside. I did not have school and my mom did not have work. When I woke up we ate breakfast and got ready for the day. My mom started to clean up the house so I went up to my room to play with my toys. My mom came upstairs and told me, "If you clean up your room there is a great surprise in it for you." I was very excited about what the surprise was but not very excited to clean my room. My mom left and closed the door. I looked around and saw how messy my room was. And I really did not want to clean it. So what I did was pick up all my stuff in my room and put it all in my closet. It did not take me very long so I hung out in my room for a little bit longer before heading downstairs to the basement to tell my mom I was ready for my surprise. She came upstairs to see how I did and immediately saw what I did. She was not happy about it. She said, "You either do it right, or Ill do it right and you won't get a surprise." That was enough to make me clean my room right. Finally, my mom told me the surprise when I was all finished. She told me we were going out to the park! But by the time we got there, I could only play for a little bit before it started getting dark. I wished I would have cleaned my room right the first time so I had more time at the park.
1. What day was it?
2. How was it outside?
3. Didhe have school?
4. How about his mom?
5. What did they do in the morning?
6. what else?
7. What did mom do?
8. What did you do?
9. why?
10. Where did mom go?
11. Why?
12. What?
13. How did you feel?
14. about what?
15. Where did mom go?
16. Where did you put your stuff?
17. Did it take long?
18. Did mom see the room?
19. Was she happy?
20. What did she say?
Numbered answers: | 1. Saturday
2. nice
3. no
4. no
5. ate breakfast
6. got ready for the day
7. clean
8. went to my room
9. to play with my toys
10. upstairs
11. to tell me something
12. "If you clean up your room there is a great surprise in it for you
13. excited
14. the surprise
15. she left
16. In the closet
17. no
18. yes
19. no
20. You either do it right, or Ill do it right and you won't get a surprise | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
290 | CHAPTER XIII
DORA, GRACE AND NELLIE
That Tad Sobber was in a thorough rage was easily to be seen. His eyes were full of hate and he looked ready to fly at Tom and tear him to pieces.
All of the boys expected to see a great fight, and some backed away from the landing, to give the contestants more room.
But before anything could be done Dick leaped to the front and barred the bully's further progress.
"Stop it, Sobber," he said quietly but firmly.
"Get out of my way, Dick Rover!" roared the bully. "This is none of your affair."
"Then I'll make it my affair," answered the eldest Rover boy. "You shall not attack my brother here."
"Don't worry, Dick--I can take care of him," put in Tom, undauntedly, and doubled up his fists. "Maybe he'd like to go down stairs again and smash some more dishes."
"Not when John Fly am carryin' dem," put in the colored waiter, who stood looking at the wreckage with a sober face. "I don't want no moah such knockovers, I don't!" And he shook his woolly head decidedly.
The noise had summoned numerous cadets to the scene, and now George Strong, the head teacher, appeared.
"What is the trouble here?" he demanded.
For the moment nobody answered him, and he gazed in wonderment at the broken dishes and the scattered food.
"Been a accident, sah," said John Fly. "Dat young gen'man dun fall down de stairs an' knock me ober, tray an' all, sah."
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. no
2. Tom
3. a fight
4. no
5. no
6. Dick stopped the bully
7. no
8. the brother of Dick
9. a waiter
10. George Strong
11. head teacher
12. no
13. no
14. John Fly
15. no
16. DORA, GRACE AND NELLIE
17. no
Numbered questions: | 1. Was Tad in a good mood?
2. Who was he upset with?
3. What were the boys hoping to see?
4. Did they scoot in closer to get a better view?
5. Did Tad have a good reason to be angry?
6. What did Dick do?
7. Did he yell at Tad?
8. Who is Tom?
9. Who is John Fly?
10. Who interrupted the chaos?
11. What was his job?
12. was Tom afraid of Tad?
13. Was Dick the youngest brother?
14. Who answered George
15. Was he honest?
16. What is this chapter called?
17. Were any of them mentioned in this story? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
291 | (CNN) -- A South African man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the killing of white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche, a lawyer in the case said.
Chris Mahlangu was convicted on four counts including murder, for which he got life, lawyer Zola Majavu said.
Terreblanche, the leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB), was killed in April 2010 following an apparent dispute over wages with workers on his farm.
Terreblanche, 69, was bludgeoned with clubs and stabbed with a machete during the attack at his farm near Ventersdorp in South Africa's North West province, police said.
The trial began in October.
Police charged Mahlangu and a 16-year-old in the death. It was not immediately clear what sentence the minor got.
The AWB is best known for trying to block South Africa's effort to end apartheid. The group used terrorist tactics in a bid to stall the country's first all-race vote in 1994, killing more than 20 people in a wave of bombings on the eve of the elections.
Terreblanche was convicted of a 1996 attempted murder of a black man who worked as a security guard on his farm. He served about two-thirds of a five-year sentence.
CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who was killed?
2. Who is that?
3. When did it happen?
4. Why did it happen?
5. How old was he when he passed?
6. Who murdered him?
7. Anyone else?
8. How old was his partner in crime?
9. What sentence did the child get?
10. What about Chris?
Numbered answers: | 1. Eugene Terreblanche
2. the leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB),
3. in April 2010
4. because of a dispute over wages with workers on his farm
5. 69
6. Chris Mahlangu
7. yes
8. 16
9. It wasn't clear
10. life | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
292 | Read the text and answer the questions.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission is urging would-be voters to turn out for the scheduled voter registration session in January, in hopes for a "free fair and credible elections in 2011," a Commission spokesman said Thursday.
"This reassurance is necessary against the backdrop of the theft of some Direct Data Capture machines at the Lagos airport, " said Kayode Robert Idowu, a Commission spokesman in a press statement.
On Tuesday, 20 voting machines were stolen at the Lagos airport, out of a total of 6,000 brought into the country by Zinox Technologies Ltd., Idowu said. Sixteen machines have been recovered so far and security agents are investigating the case, he said.
The equipment, meant for registering voters for the upcoming election in Nigeria, is comprised of laptops and webcams. It was stolen from a clearing point at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, said Idowu.
The equipment was the first consignment ordered to help register voters for the 2011 elections.
The presidential election is expected to take place in April 9.
President Goodluck Jonathan, who became president after the death of Umaru Yar'Adua earlier this year, is running for election to the office. He will be challenged in the primaries by another former vice president of Nigeria.
Atiku Abubakar is the consensus candidate put forward by a bloc of leaders from Nigeria's influential Northern Political Leaders Forum, which announced in September that it would name someone to take on Jonathan in the presidential primaries for the People's Democratic Party.
1. Who is urging voters?
2. Are they would-be voters?
3. Why they are addressed?
4. When?
5. What was stolen?
6. Where?
7. How many?
8. Out of how many?
9. How many been recovered?
10. Which company imported those machines?
11. Is anyone investigating?
12. Who?
13. Who is the current president?
14. Is he on the ballot?
15. Who will be his contender?
16. What is his name?
17. Who are supporting him?
18. When they announced that?
19. Who was the previous president?
20. What happened to him?
Numbered answers: | 1. Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission
2. yes
3. They want a free and credible election
4. 2011
5. voting machines
6. Lagos airport
7. , 20 voting machines
8. 6,000
9. Sixteen machines
10. Zinox Technologies Ltd
11. yes
12. security agents
13. Goodluck Jonathan
14. yes
15. another former vice president of Nigeria.
16. Atiku Abubakar
17. Northern Political Leaders Forum
18. September
19. Umaru Yar'Adua
20. He died | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
293 | Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
Kanye Omari West (/ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, rapper, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. He is among the most acclaimed musicians of the 21st century, attracting both praise and controversy for his work and his outspoken public persona.
Raised in Chicago, West briefly attended art school before becoming known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, producing hit singles for artists such as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to widespread commercial and critical success, and founded record label GOOD Music. He went on to explore a variety of different musical styles on subsequent albums that included the baroque-inflected Late Registration (2005), the arena-inspired Graduation (2007), and the starkly polarizing 808s & Heartbreak (2008). In 2010, he released his critically acclaimed fifth album, the maximalist My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and the following year he collaborated with Jay-Z on the joint LP Watch the Throne (2011). West released his abrasive sixth album, Yeezus, to further critical praise in 2013. Following a series of recording delays and work on non-musical projects, West's seventh album, The Life of Pablo, was released in 2016.
1. When was West born?
2. where did he grow up?
3. did he attend any special school?
4. what was he first known for?
5. how many job titles does he have?
6. how many albums does he have?
7. when was the last released?
8. what was the first?
9. who has he worked with?
10. why did he stop producing?
11. why is he controversal?
Numbered answers: | 1. June 8, 1977. June 8, 1977
2. Raised in Chicago. In Chicago.
3. attended art school. Yes, he did.
4. known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records. He was known as a music producer.
5. American hip hop recording artist, record producer, rapper, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Five.
6. West's seventh album. Seven.
7. released in 2016. In 2016.
8. The College Dropout in 2004. In 2004.
9. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. He has worked with Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.
10. ntent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper. He wanted to try a career as a rapper.
11. outspoken public persona. His work and his outspoken public persona. | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
294 | CHAPTER XII
SHALL A MAN ESCAPE HIS FATE?
On the way to the Danish Legation, Colonel Harris asked Luke what his plans were for the evening.
"I shall," replied Luke, "call at Grosvenor Square. I may find Uncle Rad, or Philip, or both at home. I mean to have a good tussle about this wintering abroad. It's really most important."
"I call it criminal," retorted Colonel Harris, "keeping a man in London who has been used to go south in the winter for the past twenty years at least."
"Uncle Rad is still fairly well now, though I do think he looks more feeble than usual. He ought to go at once."
"But," suggested Louisa, "he oughtn't to go alone."
"No. He certainly ought not."
"Would Mr. de Mountford go with him?"
"I don't think so."
"This new man of his, then?"
"That," said Luke hotly, "would be madness. The man is really a drunkard."
"But somebody ought to go."
"Edie would be only too willing--if she is allowed."
"Edie?" exclaimed Louisa.
And she added with a smile:
"What will Reggie Duggan have to say to that?"
"Nothing," he replied quietly. "Reggie Duggan has cried off."
"You don't mean that."
"He has given up Edie who has little or nothing a year, and become engaged to Marian Montagu who has eight thousand pounds a year of her own."
"Poor Edie!" murmured Louisa, whilst Colonel Harris's exclamation was equally to the point and far more forcible, and more particularly concerned the Honourable Reginald Duggan.
Answer this series of questions:
1. whats the name of the chapter ?
2. who thinks is criminal ?
3. colonel who ?
4. what is crinminal ?
5. for how many years is mentioned ?
6. who is still well ?
7. should he go at once ?
8. should he go alone ?
9. who said that ?
10. who agreed with her ?
11. who asked luke about plans ?
12. on the way to where ?
13. how many people would be at home ?
14. who are they ?
15. and the other ?
16. what is important ?
17. about what ?
18. who is a drunk ?
19. who would be willing ?
20. who questioned edie ?
Numbered answers: | 1. SHALL A MAN ESCAPE HIS FATE
2. Colonel
3. Harris
4. keeping a man in London
5. twenty
6. Uncle Rad
7. yes
8. no
9. Louisa
10. Colonel Harris
11. Colonel Harris
12. Danish Legation
13. Two
14. Uncle Rad
15. Philip
16. o have a good tussle
17. wintering abroad
18. Mr. de Mountford
19. Edie
20. Louisa | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
295 | We have heard about people who have special memories. Recently there has been a report about a woman from Australia who can remember almost every detail of all the events in her daily life. Rebecca Sharrock, 25, is one of just 80 people worldwide who have been identified as having Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory ( HSAM,). It means she can remember every small event-which most people would forget with in (......) days-as if it had happened just minutes ago. "I remember my mum putting me in the driver's seat of a car and taking a picture of me when I was 12 days old," she said. "That's my earliest memory. I remember every day since then. I can't tell all the dates exactly because I was too young to understand calendars, but I remember what I did that every day, what the weather was like and so on." Rebecca can also re-experience taste. If she's eating something that she doesn't like, she thinks about Black Forest cake, her favorite food, and the memory will be so strong that she can nearly "taste" it. However, sometimes her memories prove to be painful. Because they're not just events that she remembers. "When I relive memories, the feelings return, too," Rebecca said. "For example, I remember falling over when I was three at my grandparents' house and hurting my left knee. Talking about it now, I feel painful in my left knee. " "At night, I have to sleep with the radio/recorder and a soft light on, she added. "1f it's too dark or quiet, my mind would be filled with all these memories and I can't sleep. "
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. How old is Rebecca Sharrock?
2. Where is she from?
3. What special talent does she have?
4. Which means what?
5. How old was she in the first thing she remembers?
6. Where was she then?
7. What did her mom do after that?
8. What kinds of things does she remember about each day?
9. Which sense of hers has an unusual feature?
10. How is it unusual?
11. What thing does she enjoy eating the most?
12. How many people have incredible memories like her?
13. Are they all in Australia?
14. How old was she during her first memory?
15. What body part did she hurt when she was little?
16. Where was she when that happened?
17. How old was she then?
18. What happened when she talked about it?
19. What does she listen to when she rests?
20. Why?
Numbered answers: | 1. 25
2. Australia
3. Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory
4. she can remember almost every detail of all the events in her daily life
5. 12 days old
6. in the driver's seat of a car
7. take a picture
8. what she did and what the weather was like
9. taste
10. she can re-experience taste
11. Black Forest cake
12. 80
13. no
14. 12 days old
15. her left knee
16. her grandparents' house
17. three
18. she felt pain in her left knee
19. radio/recorder
20. if it's too dark or quiet she can't sleep | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
296 | Pope Francis (; ; ; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, a title he holds "ex officio" as Bishop of Rome, and sovereign of Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, the first to choose a name not used by a predecessor since Lando in 913 AD, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked briefly as a chemical technologist and nightclub bouncer before beginning seminary studies. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's provincial superior of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argentina, and the administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner considered him a political rival. Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. What is the birth name of Pope Francis?
2. What is his current name and title?
3. How did he get his current name?
4. Whom did he name himself after?
5. Have any other popes used the name Francis?
6. Who was the last pope to choose a name that had not been used by a pope before?
7. Where was Pope Francis born?
8. What scientific job did he hold?
9. What nonscientific job did he hold in his early days?
10. What happened to him in 1969?
11. What was his title in 1973?
12. How long did he hold that?
13. How many years did he hold that title?
14. When did he become a cardinal?
15. Who gave him that title?
16. Who was pope before Francis?
17. Who gave Francis the title of pope?
18. When?
19. When did Benedict resign?
Numbered answers: | 1. Jorge Mario Bergoglio
2. Pope Francis
3. He chose it
4. Saint Francis of Assisi
5. no
6. Lando
7. Argentina
8. a chemical technologist
9. nightclub bouncer
10. He was ordained
11. provincial superior
12. from 1973 to 1979
13. six
14. 2001
15. Pope John Paul II
16. Pope Benedict XVI
17. a papal conclave
18. 13 March
19. 28 February 2013 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
297 | (CNN) -- World-record signing Cristiano Ronaldo scored on his debut as Real Madrid kicked off the Spanish football season with a shaky 3-2 victory at home to Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday night.
Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after paying off a small chunk of his record transfer fee with a goal on his Real debut.
Real's new generation of "Galacticos" were preceded onto the pitch by the world's fastest man Usain Bolt, with the Jamaican sprint star dribbling a ball to the delight of a packed Bernabeu crowd.
Coach Manuel Pellegrini fielded seven new signings against a team who stunned Real 2-1 on the opening day last season to foreshadow a season of massive upheaval for the underachieving capital club.
The first goal took just 26 minutes in coming as $92 million signing Kaka fed the ball to $50 million capture Karim Benzema, whose shot rebounded off the post and fell welcomingly to Real captain Raul to score.
Ronaldo, who cost $130 million when he left Manchester United, then rose highest to meet a free-kick from $50 million midfielder Xavi Alonso but headed over the bar.
Deportivo stunned the home crowd in the 30th minute when former Real striker Riki was allowed a free header to equalize in the type of defensive lapse that typified Madrid's performances last season.
But while Pellegrini has obvious problems to sort out at the back, where he fielded debutants Ezequiel Garay and Raul Albiol in the absence of the suspended Pepe, he has volumes of attacking resources at the other end of the pitch.
1. How long did the first goal take?
2. How much did he cost when he left Manchester United?
3. Who is this story about?
4. What sport is played in this story?
5. Whose shot rebounded off the post?
6. What's real's new generation called?
7. Did he play for anyone else?
8. How many did the coach sign?
9. How much was his free-kick?
10. Does Ronaldo celebrate after signing?
11. What was the score before he signed on?
Numbered answers: | 1. 26 minutes
2. $130 million
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
4. football
5. Karim Benzema
6. "Galacticos"
7. Ronaldo, who cost $130 million when he left Manchester United, then rose highest to meet a free-kick from $50 million midfielder Xavi Alonso but headed over the bar
8. seven
9. unknown
10. yes
11. 2-1 | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
298 | The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. It is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. Hertz are commonly expressed in multiples: kilohertz (10 Hz, kHz), megahertz (10 Hz, MHz), gigahertz (10 Hz, GHz), and terahertz (10 Hz, THz).
Some of the unit's most common uses are in the description of sine waves and musical tones, particularly those used in radio- and audio-related applications. It is also used to describe the speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven.
The hertz is equivalent to cycles per second, i.e., "1/second" or formula_1. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined the second as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom" and then adds the obvious conclusion: "It follows that the hyperfine splitting in the ground state of the caesium 133 atom is exactly 9 192 631 770 hertz, ν(hfs Cs) = 9 192 631 770 Hz."
In English, "hertz" is also used as the plural form. As an SI unit, Hz can be prefixed; commonly used multiples are kHz (kilohertz, 10 Hz), MHz (megahertz, 10 Hz), GHz (gigahertz, 10 Hz) and THz (terahertz, 10 Hz). One hertz simply means "one cycle per second" (typically that which is being counted is a complete cycle); 100 Hz means "one hundred cycles per second", and so on. The unit may be applied to any periodic event—for example, a clock might be said to tick at 1 Hz, or a human heart might be said to beat at 1.2 Hz. The occurrence rate of aperiodic or stochastic events is expressed in reciprocal second or inverse second (1/s or s) in general or, in the specific case of radioactive decay, in becquerels. Whereas 1 Hz is 1 cycle per second, 1 Bq is 1 aperiodic radionuclide event per second.
1. What is a hertz?
2. What does it measure?
3. Anything else?
4. Like what?
5. How did it get its name?
6. Who is he?
7. Is it used only in English-speaking countries?
8. How do you know that?
9. What time span is used in defining the measurement?
10. How long is a second?
11. Who decided that?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. the derived unit of frequency
2. sine waves
3. yes
4. also the speeds at which computers are driven.
5. It is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
6. the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves
7. no
8. it is in the International System of Units (SI)
9. a second
10. "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom"
11. The International Committee for Weights and Measures | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
299 | Make use of the article to answer the questions.
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. Known alternatively in Cornwall as Duke of Cornwall and in Scotland as Duke of Rothesay, he is the longest-serving heir apparent in British history, having held the position since 1952. He is also the oldest person to be next in line to the throne since Sophia of Hanover (the heir presumptive to Queen Anne), who died in 1714 at the age of 83.
Charles was born at Buckingham Palace as the first grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun Schools, which his father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had attended as a child, as well as the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, Australia. After earning a bachelor of arts degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, Charles served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1976.
In 1981, he married Lady Diana Spencer and they had two sons: Prince William (born 1982), later to become Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry (born 1984). In 1996, the couple divorced, following well-publicised extramarital affairs. Diana died in a car crash in Paris the following year. In 2005, Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles.
1. What famous person is the article about?
2. Why is he famous?
3. Where was he born?
4. When?
5. Who is his mother?
6. Who are his grandparents?
7. Who was his father?
8. What is the title Prince Philip had before he married?
9. How is Prince Charles known in Cornwall?
10. And in Scotland?
Numbered answers: | 1. Charles Philip Arthur George
2. He is the Prince of Wales
3. Buckingham Palace
4. 14 November 1948
5. Queen Elizabeth II
6. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
7. Prince Philip
8. Duke of Edinburgh
9. Duke of Cornwall
10. Duke of Rothesay | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |
300 | The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Though not at the geographic center of the Federal District, the Capitol forms the origin point for the District's street-numbering system and the District's four quadrants.
The original building was completed in 1800 and was subsequently expanded, particularly with the addition of the massive dome, and expanded chambers for the bicameral legislature, the House of Representatives in the south wing and the Senate in the north wing. Like the principal buildings of the executive and judicial branches, the Capitol is built in a distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior. Both its east and west elevations are formally referred to as "fronts", though only the east front was intended for the reception of visitors and dignitaries.
Prior to establishing the nation's capital in Washington, D.C., the United States Congress and its predecessors had met in Philadelphia (Independence Hall and Congress Hall), New York City (Federal Hall), and a number of other locations (York, Pennsylvania; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland; and Nassau Hall in Princeton, New Jersey). In September 1774, the First Continental Congress brought together delegates from the colonies in Philadelphia, followed by the Second Continental Congress, which met from May 1775 to March 1781.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. Washington, D.C.
Numbered questions: | 1. Where in the US in the Capitol Building? | Flan-Coqa (T) | - | question-answering | 1 | eng | Latn | train |