Question: CHAPTER XII

Throughout the night reigned an almost sepulchral silence, and when the morning broke, the _City of Boston_, at a scarcely reduced speed, was ploughing her way through great banks of white fog. The decks, the promenade rails, every exposed part of the steamer, were glistening with wet. Up on the bridge, three officers besides the captain stood with eyes fixed in grim concentration upon the dense curtains of mist which seemed to shut them off altogether from the outer world. Jocelyn Thew and Crawshay met in the companionway, a few minutes after breakfast.

"I can see no object in the disuse of the hooter," Crawshay declared querulously. "Nothing at sea could be worse than a collision. We are simply taking our lives in our hands, tearing along like this at sixteen knots an hour."

"Isn't there supposed to be a German raider out?" the other enquired.

"I think it is exceedingly doubtful whether there is really one in the Atlantic at all. The English gunboats patrol these seas. Besides, we are armed ourselves, and she wouldn't be likely to tackle us."

Jocelyn Thew had leaned a little forward. He was listening intently. At the same time, one of the figures upon the bridge, his hand to his ear, turned in the same direction.

"There's some one who doesn't mind letting their whereabouts be known," he whispered, after a moment's pause. "Can't you hear a hooter?"

Crawshay listened but shook his head.

"Can't hear a thing," he declared laconically. "I've a cold in my head coming on, and it always affects my hearing." 1. How many people were on the bridge?
2. Are they all equal in rank?
3. How many are equal?
4. What are they?
5. What is the other person?
6. How is he looking at something?
7. What is he looking at?
8. Are they on land?
9. Where are they?
10. What ocean are they in?
11. Who thinks they're going too fast?
12. How fast are they going? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. four
2. No
3. three
4. officers
5. the captain
6. grim concentration
7. mist
8. No
9. City of Boston
10. Atlantic
11. Crawshay
12. sixteen knots an hour

Question: One day, Jack told his friend. Tom , that he loved a very beautiful girl with charming eyes and long hair, and that he wanted to marry her. Tom was so happy to hear the news and asked Jack to lead him to her. However, Tom loved her at first sight, He then told Jack, "This girl is not suitable for you. She deserves a handsome man like me." Jack was astonished and struggled with Tom until they went to the police to solve the problem.

They told the policeman their story. The policeman asked them to bring the girl to his office.

However, when the policeman saw her, he became taken with her and said, "This girl is not suitable for you two. She deserves someone with a status like me." The three men struggled with each other and then went to the king.

The king asked them to bring him the girl. When the king saw the girl, he said, "Oh, the girl should marry a king like me." They all argued with each other.

Then the girl said, "I have a solution. I'm going to run and you'll run after me. I'll be the wife to the one who catches me first." The four men all agreed and ran after her. While running after her, they suddenly fell into a deep hole. From the top, the girl looked at them and said, "Now, let me tell you who I am."

"I'm Reputation--I'm the one all people run after. They compete against each other to get me . They leave principles aside to seek for me, and they are sure to fall like you !" 1. Who was Jack's friend?
2. What did he tell him?
3. How much?
4. Was he happy?
5. Did he say anything back?
6. what?
7. What happened when they got to her?
8. Did they fight over her?
9. what happened next?
10. What did he do?
11. Did they take her?
12. What did the officer do?
13. Did they go together?
14. What did he do?
15. Were they angry?
16. What did they all do about it?
17. What did he do?
18. did they?
19. What did she do?
20. What was it?
21. Did they?
22. Who was she? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Tom
2. he loved a girl
3. to marry her.
4. yes
5. yes
6. to lead him to her.
7. he loved her
8. yes
9. They told the policeman
10. asked them to bring the girl
11. yes
12. he became taken with her
13. no
14. said, "This girl is not suitable for you two.
15. yes
16. struggled and then went to the king.
17. asked them to bring the girl
18. yes
19. she said she had a solution.
20. to run after her.
21. yes
22. A Reputation

Question: Abkhazia is a partially recognised state on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus Mountains, south of Russia and northwest of Georgia proper. It covers and has a population of around 240,000. Its capital is Sukhumi. The separatist Abkhazian polity, formally the Republic of Abkhazia or Apsny, is recognised only by Russia and a small number of other countries. While Georgia lacks control over Abkhazia, the Georgian government, the United Nations and the majority of the world's governments consider Abkhazia part of Georgia, whose constitution designates the area as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.

The status of Abkhazia is a central issue of the GeorgianAbkhazian conflict and GeorgiaRussia relations. The region enjoyed autonomy within Soviet Georgia at the time when the Soviet Union began to disintegrate in the late 1980s. Simmering ethnic tensions between the Abkhazthe region's "titular ethnicity"and Georgiansthe largest single ethnic group at that timeculminated in the 19921993 War in Abkhazia which resulted in Georgia's loss of control of most of Abkhazia, the "de facto" independence of Abkhazia, and the mass exodus and ethnic cleansing of Georgians from Abkhazia. Despite the 1994 ceasefire agreement and years of negotiations, the dispute remains unresolved. The long-term presence of a United Nations Observer Mission and a Russian-led Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) peacekeeping force failed to prevent the flare-up of violence on several occasions. In August 2008, Abkhaz forces fought against Georgian forces during the Russo-Georgian War, which led to the formal recognition of Abkhazia by Russia, the annulment of the 1994 ceasefire agreement, and the termination of the UN mission. On 28 August 2008, the Parliament of Georgia declared Abkhazia a Russian-occupied territory. 1. What is on the eastern coast of the black sea?
2. what is it called?
3. what else borders it?
4. What is it south of?
5. And northwest of where?
6. How many people live there?
7. What is it's capital?
8. Who considers it to be part of them?
9. who is under conflict?
10. When was the ceasefire? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. a partially recognised state
2. Abkhazia
3. Caucasus Mountains
4. Russia
5. Georgia proper
6. around 240,000
7. Sukhumi.
8. Georgia
9. the Abkhaz and Georgians
10. 1994