Pat O'Burke was a poor Irishman with a large family, and one morning, waking up very early from cold and hunger, he decided to go shooting in a wood near his cottage. The wood belonged to Lord Northwood, a rich gentleman, Pat had no _ to go there, but in it there were swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds that were good to eat, and Pat determined to take the risk. Suddenly he saw the owner, with a group of friends, coming towards him in the wood. There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood's face as he caught sight of the gun in Pat's hands. Pat's heart sank with fear, but he saw there was no hope of escape, so he walked boldly up to the group and said to Lord Northwood, "Good morning, sir, and what has brought you out so early this morning?" Lord Northwood, rather surprised, said he and his friends were taking a little exercise to get an appetite for their breakfast. Then, looking at Pat with suspicion , he said, "but why are you out so early in the morning?" "Well, sir" said Pat, "I just came out to see if I could get a breakfast for my appetite." The whole crowed burst into laughter at Pat's ready wit(,), and with a smile Lord Northwood walked on, leaving Pat to try his luck with the rabbits. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was Pat O'Burke?
2. What kind of house did he live in?
3. What was near it?
4. Was Pat honest when he answered Lord Northwood's question?
5. Did he get in trouble for it?
6. Was Pat supposed to go in the forest?
7. Who owned the forest?
8. Was there something in the forest that Pat could eat?
9. Who did Pat meet in the forest?
10. Who asked the first question?
11. What was Lord Northwood doing?
12. And what did Pat say he was doing?
13. What was the reaction to Pat's answer?
Answer: 1. an Irishman with a large family,
2. a cottage
3. a forest
4. yes
5. Hunting in Northwood's propertty
6. no
7. Northwood
8. here were swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds
9. northwood, with a group of friends
10. Pat O'burke
11. taking a little exercise to get an appetite for their breakfast.
12. to see if I could get a breakfast for my appetite
13. with a smile Lord Northwood walked on, leaving Pat to try his luck with the rabbits

Problem: Two Chinese farmers who became an overnight hit when their heart-rending version of a famous pop song appeared on the Internet took to the stage in front of thousands of fans in Shanghai last Saturday.

Wang Xu, 44,and Liu Gang, 29, sang "In the Spring" alongside the song's star composer Wang Feng, in front of about 80,000 people at the Shanghai Stadium. The audience buzzed with excitement and let out deafening cheers, the moment as they were introduced on the stage and then when Liu started the first sentence of their parts of the song.

The two migrant workers became stars after singing the tearjerker song during an evening drinking session in a 6-square-meter rented room in a late August evening. A friend recorded the performance on a cell phone and posted it on the Internet.

"If someday I am dead, please bury me in the spring," they sing. Wang's penetrating chorus, delivered with his eyes closed, has moved thousands to tears.

Wang and Liu consider the song a true portrait of lower-class groups like themselves. "With no credit card, no girlfriend, or a home with hot water, but only a guitar, I am singing happily, on streets, under bridges or in wild country, though nobody pays attention to the music," they sing.

To support his wife and two sons, Wang came to Beijing in 2000 from the countryside and has worked as a boiler man, and street peddler, before becoming a medical warehouse keeper, with a monthly pay of around 1,500 yuan. Little is left after he pays 600 yuan for rent and buys food.

Liu came to Beijing in 2002. "I wanted to try my luck in the big city, " he said. He had worked as a guard, roadside peddler, and porter, but never had a stable job. Street performing was his main income, even after he married and became a father three years ago.

Wang and Liu are still uncertain where their fame will lead. Wang has started learning to use a computer. They even have a micro blog account to communicate with fans.
1. What is the name of the famous pop song?
2. Who composed it?
3. Who else did he perform with at the stadium?
4. And what are these two known for?
5. Is singing their primary occupation?
6. Who put the video on the web?
7. Are they good singers?
8. How many children does Wang have?
9. Are they boys or girls?
10. When did he come to Beijing?
11. And Liu?
12. Do they know what will happen with their new fame?
13. Have they learned anything new since then?
14. What have they learned?
15. How many people did they perform for at the Stadium?
16. How did the crowd react?
17. Can you give an example of the song's lyrics?
18. How do the two singers view the piece they sang?
Answer: 1. "In the Spring"
2. Wang Feng
3. Wang Xu and Liu Gang
4. singing the tearjerker song during an evening drinking session
5. no
6. a friend
7. yes
8. Ttwo
9. boys
10. 2000
11. 2002
12. no
13. yes
14. learning to use a computer and having a micro blog
15. 80,000
16. buzzed with excitement and let out deafening cheers
17. "If someday I am dead, please bury me in the spring,"
18. a true portrait of lower-class groups like themselves

question: CHAPTER XVI Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty.

Coyote has a crafty brain; His wits are sharp his ends to gain.

There is nothing in the world more true than that. Old Man Coyote has the craftiest brain of all the little people of the Green Forest or the Green Meadows. Sharp as are the wits of old Granny Fox, they are not quite so sharp as the wits of Old Man Coyote. If you want to fool him, you will have to get up very early in the morning, and then it is more than likely that you will be the one fooled, not he. There is very little going on around him that he doesn't know about. But once in a while something escapes him. The coming of Paddy the Beaver to the Green Forest was one of these things. He didn't know a thing about Paddy until Paddy had finished his dam and his house, and was cutting his supply of food for the winter.

You see, it was this way: When the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind first heard what was going on in the Green Forest and hurried around over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest to spread the news, as is their way, they took the greatest pains not to even hint it to Old Man Coyote because they were afraid that he would make trouble and perhaps drive Paddy away. The place that Paddy had chosen to build his dam was so deep in the Green Forest that Old Man Coyote seldom went that way. So it was that he knew nothing about Paddy, and Paddy knew nothing about him for some time.
1. What is the name of this chapter?
2. what kind of brain does he have
3. how are his wits?
4. is there anything more true?
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answer:
1. Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty
2. a crafty brain
3. sharp
4. His wits are sharp his ends to gain