question: CHAPTER XIX

MAUD MAKES A MEMORANDUM

My mother used to say to me: "Never expect to find brains in a pretty girl." Perhaps she said it because I was not a pretty girl and she wished to encourage me. In any event, that absurd notion of the ancients that when the fairies bestow the gift of beauty on a baby they withhold all other qualities has so often been disproved that we may well disregard it.

Maud Stanton was a pretty girl--indeed, a beautiful girl--but she possessed brains as well as beauty and used her intellect to advantage more often than her quiet demeanor would indicate to others than her most intimate associates. From the first she had been impressed by the notion that there was something mysterious about A. Jones and that his romantic explanation of his former life and present position was intended to hide a truth that would embarrass him, were it fully known. Therefore she had secretly observed the young man, at such times as they were together, and had treasured every careless remark he had made--every admission or assertion--and made a note of it. The boy's arrest had startled her because it was so unexpected, and her first impulse was to doubt his innocence. Later, however, she had thoroughly reviewed the notes she had made and decided he was innocent.

In the quiet of her own room, when she was supposed to be asleep, Maud got out her notebook and read therein again the review of all she had learned concerning A. Jones of Sangoa.
1. Who was good looking?
2. Was she very good looking?
3. What did she have along with her looks?
4. Was the narrator also good looking?
5. Who did Maud think was keeping a secret?
6. What did she think it would to, if revealed?
7. What did she do to try to uncover this secret?
8. What surprised her?
9. Did she initially think he might be guilty?
10. What did she decide subsequently?
11. Where was the man from?
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answer: 1. Maud Stanton
2. yes
3. brains
4. no
5. A. Jones
6. embarrass him,
7. secretly observed him
8. The boy's arrest
9. yes
10. .he was innocent.
11. Sangoa.

Alyssa got to the beach after a long trip. She's from Charlotte. She traveled from Atlanta. She's now in Miami. She went to Miami to visit some friends. But she wanted some time to herself at the beach, so she went there first. After going swimming and laying out, she went to her friend Ellen's house. Ellen greeted Alyssa and they both had some lemonade to drink. Alyssa called her friends Kristin and Rachel to meet at Ellen's house. The girls traded stories and caught up on their lives. It was a happy time for everyone. The girls went to a restaurant for dinner. The restaurant had a special on catfish. Alyssa enjoyed the restaurant's special. Ellen ordered a salad. Kristin had soup. Rachel had a steak. After eating, the ladies went back to Ellen's house to have fun. They had lots of fun. They stayed the night because they were tired. Alyssa was happy to spend time with her friends again. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What are Alyssa's friends called?
2. Where did Alyssa go to meet up with them?
3. Where was she from?
4. Where did she travel from?
5. What did she do before visiting?
6. What did she do there?
7. Anything else?
8. Did they have any refreshments?
9. Whose place did she hang out with them at?
10. What did they all feel?
11. Where did they go to eat?
12. What did they catch up on?
13. Did they all order the same food?
14. What did they do after?
15. What was the restaurant's special?
16. Why did they stay the night?
17. Who had the special?
18. What was the restaurant's special?
19. What did they have to quench their thirst?
Answer: 1. Kristin and Rachel
2. Miami
3. Charlotte
4. Atlanta
5. beach
6. swimming
7. laying out
8. yes
9. Ellen
10. happy
11. restaurant
12. lives
13. no
14. have fun
15. catfish
16. tired
17. Alyssa
18. catfish
19. lemonade

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese. Because most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is sometimes referred to as the Northern dialects (). Many local Mandarin varieties are not mutually intelligible. Nevertheless, Mandarin is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers (with nearly a billion).

Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups, with 70 percent of Chinese speakers and a huge area stretching from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. This is attributed to the greater ease of travel and communication in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of Mandarin to frontier areas.

Most Mandarin varieties have four tones. The final stops of Middle Chinese have disappeared in most of these varieties, but some have merged them as a final glottal stop. Many Mandarin varieties, including the Beijing dialect, retain retroflex initial consonants, which have been lost in southern dialect groups.

The capital has been within the Mandarin area for most of the last millennium, making these dialects very influential. Some form of Mandarin has served as a national lingua franca since the 14th century. In the early 20th century, a standard form based on the Beijing dialect, with elements from other Mandarin dialects, was adopted as the national language. Standard Chinese is the official language of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan and one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is used as one of the working languages of the United Nations. It is also one of the most frequently used varieties of Chinese among Chinese diaspora communities internationally. 1. what is mandrin
2. does the group include bejing dialect
3. how large is it
4. how many tones is it
5. what language was adopted as national language
6. what is official language of China
7. how many chinese dialects are there
8. all they all intelligable
9. how long has capital been within the mandrin
10. how many native speakers
numbered_answers:
1. a group of related varieties of Chinese
2. Yes
3. by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups
4. Most Mandarin varieties have four tones
5. Mandarin
6. Standard Chinese
7. seven or ten
8. No
9. most of the last millennium
10. unknown