Q: CHAPTER I

I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time I had come as far as the manse, the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs, and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away.

Mr. Campbell, the minister of Essendean, was waiting for me by the garden gate, good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted; and hearing that I lacked for nothing, he took my hand in both of his and clapped it kindly under his arm.

"Well, Davie, lad," said he, "I will go with you as far as the ford, to set you on the way." And we began to walk forward in silence.

"Are ye sorry to leave Essendean?" said he, after awhile.

"Why, sir," said I, "if I knew where I was going, or what was likely to become of me, I would tell you candidly. Essendean is a good place indeed, and I have been very happy there; but then I have never been anywhere else. My father and mother, since they are both dead, I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary, and, to speak truth, if I thought I had a chance to better myself where I was going I would go with a good will."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who waited for someone?
2. Where at?
3. What was he?
4. Of what?
5. Who did he wait for?
6. Was it a warm meeting?
7. Had Davie had breakfast?
8. Where would they be parting ways?
9. Does Davie like where he lives?
10. Are his parent alive?
11. Is he strongly attached to where he lives?
12. What time of the year was it?
13. What year?
14. Was it rainy?
15. Then what was it like?
16. What were the birds doing?
17. Where?
18. What kind of birds were they?
19. Was he on a hill?
20. What was fading?
A: 1. Mr. Campbell
2. by the garden gate
3. a minister
4. Essendean
5. Davie
6. yes
7. yes
8. the ford
9. yes
10. no
11. no
12. June
13. 1751
14. no
15. The sun was shining
16. whistling
17. in the garden lilacs
18. blackbirds
19. no
20. the mist
Q: It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man.Over the phone ,his mother told him,"Mr.Belser died last night ,The funeral is Wednesday."Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days.

When Jack was very young ,his father died.Mr Belser,who lived in the same neighborhood with them,spent as much time as he could to make sure Jack had a man's influence in his life.He spent a lot of time teachimg Jack he thought what was important in his following life.If Mr.Belser hadn' taught him how to weave,he wouldn't be in this business now.So he promised his mother he would attend Mr.Belser's funeral.

"You'd better not drive your car.It's a long way."his mother warned him.

Busy as he was,he kept his word.Though tired from the earliest flight,Jack tried his best to help.Mr.Belser's funeral was small because he had no children of his own and most of his s had passed away.

The night before he had to return home,Jack and his mother stopped by to see the old house Mr.Belser once lived.Now it belonged to him.He bought the house from one of his s.

The house was exactly as he remembered.Every step held memories.Every picture,every piece of furniture... Jadk stopped suddenly.

The box on his desk was gone!He once asked the old man what was inside.He just smiled and said it was the most valuable thing to him,though it almost cost nothing to others.He figured that someone from the Belser family had taken it ."I will never know what was so valuable to him."Jack thought disappotntedly.

Three days later returning home from work,Jack discovered a small package in his mailbox.

The handwriting was difficult to read,but the return address caught his attention."Mr.Harold Belser"it read.

Jack couldn't wait to open it .Inside lay the familiar small box.His heart racing,Jack unlocked the box.Inside he found a gold pocket watch with these words engraved:"Jack,Thanks for your time!Harold Belser."

"The thing he valued most was my time."Jack held the watch before his chest,tears filling his eyes.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did the memories of belser flash through his mind like?
2. Had it been a while since he Jack had seen him?
3. What did he teach jack?
4. Was Belser's funeral larger?
5. Who stopped by belsers old house with jack?
6. Was the house different than he remembered?
7. What did Jack receive in the box he got that return address was Mr, Harold Belser?
8. What was a skill Belser taught him that causes him to be in buisness now?
9. Who did Jack think took the box that was normally on Belser's desk?
10. What did his mother warn him about driving?
A: 1. an old newsreel
2. it had been some time since Jack had seen the old man
3. what was important in his following life.
4. no
5. his mother
6. no
7. a gold pocket watch with these words engraved:"Jack,Thanks for your time!Harold Belser."
8. taught him how to weave
9. someone from the Belser family had taken it
10. "You'd better not drive your car.It's a long way."
Q: TUNIS, Tunisia (CNN) -- Polls closed late Sunday in Tunisia, the torchbearer of the so-called Arab Spring, but voters will not see results of national elections until Tuesday, officials said.

On Sunday, long lines of voters snaked around schools-turned-polling-stations in Tunis's upscale Menzah neighborhood, some waiting for hours to cast a vote in the nation's first national elections since the country's independence in 1956.

"It's a wonderful day. It's the first time we can choose our own representatives," said Walid Marrakchi, a civil engineer who waited more than two hours, and who brought along his 3-year-old son Ahmed so he could "get used to freedom and democracy."

Tunisia's election is the first since a popular uprising in January overthrew long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and triggered a wave of revolutions -- referred to as the Arab Spring -- across the region.

More than 60 political parties and thousands of independent candidates competed for 218 seats in a new Constitutional Assembly, which will be charged with writing a new constitution and laying the framework for a government system.

Voters appeared jubilant on Sunday, taking photos of each other outside polling stations, some holding Tunisian flags.

"It's a holiday," said housewife Maha Haubi, who had just taken her position at the end of the long line of more than 1,000 voters waiting outside an elementary school in Menzah.

"Before we never even had the right to say 'yes' or 'no.'"

Nearby, banker Aid Naghmaichi said she didn't mind the long wait to vote.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where is this taking place?
2. What is being voted on?
3. What day of the week did they vote?
4. When was the last one held?
5. What else happened then?
6. Where are people voting?
7. What is something they turned into a place to vote?
8. Did anyone have to wait?
9. When do they get to know who won?
10. Who speaks about this?
A:
1. Tunisia
2. Representatives are being chosen
3. Sunday
4. 1956
5. Country gained its independence
6. Menzah neighborhood
7. Schools
8. Yes
9. unknown
10. Cnn