question: "Can I stay home from school today? I'm ill," he tells his mum. His mother touches his head. "OK, but you will have to look after yourself. I am going to work now," she says. After the front door closes, Jack springs out of bed. He takes off the three warm sweaters he is wearing and puts on a T-shirt and shorts. Then he runs for the kitchen . He is very hungry. After breakfast, Jack turns on the TV. He watches some cartoons and a VCD all the morning. At eleven he calls his friend Tom, who is "ill" too. Tom says he will come over after lunch. The two boys play computer games all the afternoon. Tom has to leave at 4 o'clock, as his mother usually gets home early. Next day, Jack says he feels much better and goes to school. Their Maths teacher Miss Clark says with a smile, "We are having the Maths test now, class. Too many students were at home yesterday."
1. What does Jack get out of?
2. Why does he stay home?
3. What does he take off that he is wearing?
4. What does he put on after that?
5. What does he do after eating?
6. What does he watch?
7. What is the Jack's friend called?
8. Is he "sick," too?
9. When does Jack plan to go see Tom?
10. What time does Tom have to go home?
11. What is Jack's maths teacher called?
12. Does Jack's mother work?
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answer: 1. school
2. because of a maths test
3. three warm sweaters
4. a T-shirt and shorts
5. turns on the TV
6. cartoons and a VCD
7. Tom
8. yes
9. after lunch
10. 4 o'clock
11. Miss Clark
12. yes

question: CHAPTER XLIV

The Philistines at the Parsonage

It has been already told how things went on between the Tozers, Mr. Curling, and Mark Robarts during that month. Mr. Forrest had drifted out of the business altogether, as also had Mr. Sowerby, as far as any active participation in it went. Letters came frequently from Mr. Curling to the parsonage, and at last came a message by special mission to say that the evil day was at hand. As far as Mr. Curling's professional experience would enable him to anticipate or foretell the proceedings of such a man as Tom Tozer, he thought that the sheriff's officers would be at Framley parsonage on the following morning. Mr. Curling's experience did not mislead him in this respect. "And what will you do, Mark?" said Fanny, speaking through her tears, after she had read the letter which her husband handed to her.

"Nothing. What can I do? They must come."

"Lord Lufton came to-day. Will you not go to him?"

"No. If I were to do so it would be the same as asking him for the money."

"Why not borrow it of him, dearest? Surely it would not be so much for him to lend."

"I could not do it. Think of Lucy, and how she stands with him. Besides, I have already had words with Lufton about Sowerby and his money matters. He thinks that I am to blame, and he would tell me so; and then there would be sharp things said between us. He would advance me the money if I pressed for it, but he would do so in a way that would make it impossible that I should take it."
1. Where are the police expected to show up/
2. When?
3. Who is having money trouble?
4. Who might he be able to get some money from?
5. Would it be a loan?
6. Who thinks he should take it?
7. Who's she?
8. Who wants him to borrow the money?
9. Who is that?
10. When did Lord Lufton show up?
11. Does Mark want to borrow from him?
12. Whose financial issues did he talk to Lufton about?
13. Who's fault does Lufton think it is?
14. Does he think they would argue?
15. Where were messages being received?
16. How often?
17. From who?
18. How did the last message get there?
19. What was it warning of?
20. Was Mr. Forrest still involved?
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answer: 1. Framley parsonage
2. the following morning
3. Mark
4. Lord Lufton
5. yes
6. Lucy
7. unknown
8. Fanny
9. his wife
10. today
11. no
12. Sowerby's
13. Mark's
14. yes
15. the parsonage
16. frequently
17. Mr. Curling
18. by special mission
19. the evil day
20. no

question: London (CNN) -- Sixty years ago Monday, a 25-year-old woman visiting a remote part of Kenya got a message that her father had died.

She cut her trip short and flew home to London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill met her at the airport -- because with her father dead, she had become Queen Elizabeth II.

Celebrations of her Diamond Jubilee, marking six decades on the throne, officially begin Monday and continue through June, when London will mark the anniversary of her coronation with festivities including up to 1,000 boats sailing up the River Thames.

On Monday, the queen thanked the public "for the wonderful support and encouragement that you have given to me and (husband) Prince Philip over these years."

She said in the open letter that she planned to "dedicate myself anew to your service."

She called on people to "give thanks for the great advances that have been made since 1952 and to look forward to the future with clear head and warm heart" in a brief letter that she signed simply "Elizabeth R."

She was honored with a 41-gun salute in London's Hyde Park Monday, and a 21-gun salute in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Two new photographs of the queen were released Monday as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, showing her wearing a necklace worn by Queen Victoria in her own Diamond Jubilee portrait in 1897.

She is the oldest British monarch in history, but has not yet passed her great-great-grandmother Victoria as the longest-reigning one.

Elizabeth II was not in line to the throne when she was born April 21, 1926. But the fate of Lilibet, as she was known to her friends, changed when her uncle Edward abdicated the thone to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.
1. what is a Diamond Jubilee?
2. how long has Elizabeth II been Queen?
3. how old was she at that time?
4. who is her husband?
5. How does she sign her letters?
6. how was she honored on Monday?
7. what did the recent photos released show?
8. Was she always in line to be queen?
9. what changed?
10. why did he give it up?
11. What is the queen called by her friends?
12. Is she the longest reigning monarch?
13. who is?
14. how is she related to Elizabeth?
15. what does she plan to do according to her letter?
16. what is one festivity that will take place to celebrate?
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answer:
1. marks six decades on the English throne
2. Sixty years
3. 25
4. Prince Philip
5. "Elizabeth R."
6. gun salutes
7. her wearing a necklace of Queen Victoria
8. no
9. her uncle Edward abdicated the thone
10. to marry Wallis Simpson
11. Lilibet
12. no
13. Queen Victoria
14. she is her great-great-grandmother
15. "dedicate myself anew to your service."
16. up to 1,000 boats sailing up the River Thames