input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER II The Population of Compton Poynsett

He wanted a wife his braw hoose to keep, But favour wi' wooin' was fashous to seek.--Laird o' Cockpen

In the bright lamplight of the dining-table, the new population first fully beheld one another, and understood one another's looks.

There was much family resemblance between the five brothers. All were well-grown well-made men, strong and agile, the countenance pleasing, rather square of mould, eyebrows straight and thick, nose well cut and short, chin firm and resolute-looking, and the complexion very dark in Raymond, Frank, and the absent Miles. Frank's eyes were soft, brown, rather pensive, and absent in expression; but Raymond's were much deeper and darker, and had a steadfast gravity, that made him be viewed as formidable, especially as he had lost all the youthful glow of colouring that mantled in his brother's olive cheek; and he had a short, thick, curly brown beard, while Frank had only attained to a black moustache, that might almost have been drawn on his lip with charcoal.

Charlie was an exception--fair, blue-eyed, rosy, and with a soft feminine contour of visage, which had often drawn on him reproaches for not being really the daughter all his mother's friends desired for her.

And Julius, with the outlines of the others, was Albino, with transparent skin mantling with colour that contrasted with his snowy hair, eyebrows, and the lashes, veiling eyes of a curious coral hue, really not unpleasing under their thick white fringes, but most inconveniently short of sight, although capable of much work; in fact, he was a curiously perfect pink-and-white edition of his dark and bronzed brother the sailor. 1. How many brothers are there?
2. What is the first brother's name?
3. And the next?
4. And then?
5. next?
6. And the last brother's name?
7. Were all the boys dark complected?
8. Why not?
9. Who?
10. Were the brothers young children?
11. Which brother was absent?
12. Which guy had soft brown irises?
13. Where were the brothers seated?
14. What were the parent's names?
15. Did the boy's have curved, high eyebrows?
16. Were they known as weaklings?
17. Were they lazy and slow?
18. What color were Raymond's cheeks?
19. Was Charles manly?
20. Did the mother's friends want her to have all boys?
numbered_answers: 1. five
2. Raymond
3. Frank
4. Miles
5. Charlie
6. Julius
7. no
8. one was Albino
9. Julius
10. no
11. Miles
12. Frank
13. the dining-table
14. unknown
15. No
16. no
17. no
18. olive
19. no
20. no

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Lisa has a pet cat named Whiskers. Whiskers is black with a white spot on her chest. Whiskers also has white paws that look like little white mittens.

Whiskers likes to sleep in the sun on her favorite chair. Whiskers also likes to drink creamy milk.

Lisa is excited because on Saturday, Whiskers turns two years old.

After school on Friday, Lisa rushes to the pet store. She wants to buy Whiskers' birthday presents. Last year, she gave Whiskers a play mouse and a blue feather.

For this birthday, Lisa is going to give Whiskers a red ball of yarn and a bowl with a picture of a cat on the side. The picture is of a black cat. It looks a lot like Whiskers. 1. What's animal does Lisa have?
2. What's its name?
3. What color is it?
4. How old is it?
5. When is its birthday?
6. Did Lisa get a gift for Whiskers?
7. Where from?
8. And what is it?
9. Are they the same as last year's gifts?
10. What did she buy then?
11. What color was the feather?
12. And the ball?
13. How many gifts did she buy in total?
14. How is she feeling about her cat's birthday?
numbered_answers: 1. a cat
2. Whiskers.
3. black
4. One
5. Saturday
6. yes
7. pet store
8. A ball and a bowl
9. No
10. a mouse and a feather
11. blue
12. red
13. Four
14. excited

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills, New York, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, correctly spelling the word "knaidel."

"It means that I am retiring on a good note," said Mahankali, who attends Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 and was in his last year of eligibility. "I shall spend the summer, maybe the entire day, studying physics."

Mahankali, who wants to become a physicist, had finished third in the two previous national bees, being eliminated after misspelling words with German roots.

"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing," he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.

Pranav Sivakumar, a 13-year-old from Tower Lakes, Illinois, finished second. He missed on "cyanophycean" before Mahankali nailed "tokonoma" and "knaidel" for the victory.

The annual contest offers the winner a healthy dose of classroom cred, $32,500 in cash and savings bonds, a trophy and a library of reference materials.

Contest isn't bee-all and end-all

Eleven million schoolchildren participated in preliminaries leading up to the national contest this week. Of those, 281 children made the trip to Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington, for the national bee. Eleven spellers made it through to the finals.

Among them were 63 children who had been to at least one national bee before, and had to prepare for some changes in the rules for this year's events.

For the first time, participants had to demonstrate proficiency in vocabulary in addition to spelling. 1. Who is the young subject of the story?
2. How old is he?
3. What did he win?
4. What was the winning word?
5. What is he doing after this event?
6. What does he want to do when he grows up?
7. How did he do in his last two competitions?
8. What kind of words did he have trouble with?
9. What was the origin of the final word this time?
10. What does the word mean?
11. Who was the runner-up?
12. How old is he?
13. Where's he from?
14. What did he misspell?
15. What other word did the winning contestant get right?
16. What's the financial reward for the winner?
17. Do they also get a trophy?
18. Anything else?
19. What?
20. How many kids participate in the prelims for the event?
numbered_answers:
1. Arvind Mahankali
2. 13
3. the Scripps National Spelling Bee
4. "knaidel"
5. studying physics
6. wants to become a physicist
7. he finished third
8. words with German roots
9. German
10. dumpling
11. Pranav Sivakumar
12. 13
13. Tower Lakes, Illinois
14. "cyanophycean"
15. "tokonoma"
16. $32,500 in cash
17. yes
18. yes
19. a library of reference materials
20. eleven million