Q: Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power (the rate at which work is done). There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions being used today are the mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is 745.7 watts, and the metric horsepower, which is approximately 735.5 watts.

The term was adopted in the late 18th century by Scottish engineer James Watt to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses. It was later expanded to include the output power of other types of piston engines, as well as turbines, electric motors and other machinery. The definition of the unit varied among geographical regions. Most countries now use the SI unit "watt" for measurement of power. With the implementation of the EU Directive 80/181/EEC on January 1, 2010, the use of horsepower in the EU is permitted only as a supplementary unit.

The development of the steam engine provided a reason to compare the output of horses with that of the engines that could replace them. In 1702, Thomas Savery wrote in "The Miner's Friend":

So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same. Then I say, such an engine may be made large enough to do the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work

Answer the following questions:
1. What does hp stand for?
2. Is there only one type of Hp?
3. What is one type?
4. What else is that type called?
5. Is that 735 watts?
6. How many watts is it?
7. Which type is approximately 735 watts?
8. Who is a Watt named for?
9. When did this occur?
10. What did the term compare the output of steam engines to?
11. Did it ever include engines of other types?
12. What is one kind?
13. Was the meaning the same no matter where you were?
14. What is it known as now for the most part?
15. What happened in January of 2010?
16. What did that mean for the EU?
17. Who did something in 1702?
18. What did he do?
19. Did he think an engine could do the work of twenty horses?
20. How would it have to be maintained?
A: 1. Horsepower
2. No
3. imperial horsepower
4. mechanical horsepower
5. no
6. 745.7 watts
7. metric horsepower
8. James Watt
9. late 18th century
10. The power of draft horses.
11. Yes.
12. piston engines
13. No.
14. SI unit .
15. EU Directive 80/181/EEC
16. That the use of horsepower in the EU is permitted only as a supplementary unit.
17. Thomas Savery
18. Wrote in "The Miner's Friend":
19. Yes.
20. Constantly.
Q: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN WATSON, M.D.

OUR prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition towards ourselves, for on finding himself powerless, he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. "I guess you're going to take me to the police-station," he remarked to Sherlock Holmes. "My cab's at the door. If you'll loose my legs I'll walk down to it. I'm not so light to lift as I used to be."

Gregson and Lestrade exchanged glances as if they thought this proposition rather a bold one; but Holmes at once took the prisoner at his word, and loosened the towel which we had bound round his ancles. [23] He rose and stretched his legs, as though to assure himself that they were free once more. I remember that I thought to myself, as I eyed him, that I had seldom seen a more powerfully built man; and his dark sunburned face bore an expression of determination and energy which was as formidable as his personal strength.

"If there's a vacant place for a chief of the police, I reckon you are the man for it," he said, gazing with undisguised admiration at my fellow-lodger. "The way you kept on my trail was a caution."

"You had better come with me," said Holmes to the two detectives.

"I can drive you," said Lestrade.

"Good! and Gregson can come inside with me. You too, Doctor, you have taken an interest in the case and may as well stick to us."

Answer the following questions:
1. Had the prisoner resisted arrest?
2. Did this mean he hated the people arresting him?
3. Where are they going to take him
4. What is holding his feet together?
5. Did they take it loose?
6. Why?
7. Where?
8. Who does he ask to untie him?
9. Is he a big guy?
10. Who doesn't really trust him?
11. How does?
12. Is something wrong with his face?
13. What?
14. What job did he suggest someone apply for?
15. What did the guy do to make him think that?
16. Who's gong to drive?
17. Who is invited to come along?
A: 1. yes
2. no
3. the police-station
4. a towel
5. yes
6. so he could walk
7. to his cab
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. yes
10. Gregson and Lestrade
11. Holmes
12. yes
13. sunburned
14. chief of the police
15. kept on his trail
16. Lestrade
17. Doctor
Q: CHAPTER I. A DISPERSION

'A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always _will_ telegraph when he is coming,' said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years older, came into the room.

'No, it is not Reggie. It is from Lily. Poor Lily! Jasper--- accident---Come.'

'Poor dear Lily! Is it young Jasper or old Jasper, I wonder?'

'If it were young Jasper she would have put Japs. I am afraid it is her husband. If so, she will be going off to him. I must catch the 11.20 train. Will you come, Ada?'

'Oh no; I should be knocked up, and on your hands. The suspense is bad enough at home.'

'If it is old Jasper, we shall see in the paper to-day. I will send it down to you from the station. Supposing it is Sir Jasper, and she wants to go out to him, we must take in some of the children.'

'Oh! Dear little Primrose would be nice enough, but what should we do with that Halfpenny woman? If we had the other girls, I suppose they would be at school all day; but surely some might go to Beechcroft. And mind, Jane, I will not have you overtasking yourself! Do not take any of them without having Gillian to help you. That I stipulate.'

Jane Mohun seemed as if she did not hear as these sentences were uttered at intervals, while she stood dashing off postcards at her davenport. Then she said, on her way to the door---

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was sending postcards?
2. Who was on a davenport?
3. What was she doing?
4. What was nerve-racking?
5. Who opened it?
6. Does she have a sister?
7. Her name?
8. Is she younger?
9. About how old was she?
10. Was the telegram from Reginald?
11. Who was it from?
12. What happened?
13. Involving whom?
14. Who is supposed to assist Jane?
15. Where will the girls go if not to school?
16. What time is the train?
17. Who is Lily's husband?
18. What is his title?
19. What is halfpenny?
20. Who is nice?
A:
1. Lily
2. Jane Mohun
3. dashing off postcards
4. a telegram
5. Jane
6. yes
7. Miss Adeline Mohun
8. no
9. about forty
10. no
11. Lily
12. an accident
13. Jasper
14. Gillian
15. Beechcroft
16. 11.20
17. Jasper
18. Sir Jasper
19. a woman
20. Primrose