question: CHAPTER XXXIV

THE CONSUMMATION

It was hot outside in the noisy streets, but the Somasco Consolidated offices were quiet and cool when Alton entertained two of his friends there one afternoon. There is no special sanctity attached to a place of business in the West, and nobody who knew Alton would have been astonished to find plates of fruit upon the papers which littered his table, and a spirit lamp burning on the big empty stove. A very winsome young lady also sat in a lounge-chair, and Forel close by glanced at her with a most unbusinesslike twinkle in his eyes. Seaforth had been married recently, and his wife had called in to see, so she told Alton, that he was not working him too hard.

"You will give Mrs. Charley some tea," said Alton. "Your husband, madam, has been brought up well, but there was a time when I had real trouble in teaching him. Forel, you'll find some ice and soda yonder as well as the other things."

Nellie Seaforth laughed a little as she thrust the cup away. "No," she said; "I know where that tea comes from, and I would sooner have some ice and soda with out the other things. Have the strawberries gone up, Harry?"

Alton nodded. "That's a fact, and I am very glad," he said. "You see, we are sending out about a ton of them every day, and there are none to equal ours in the Dominion. Still, if Charley wasn't so lazy he'd give you some. Can't you find that ice, Forel? There was a big lump yesterday."
1. Whose wife stopped by the office?
2. Why is she there?
3. Who is his boss?
4. Where do they work?
5. Where is it located?
6. Is Alton a messy guy?
7. What time of day is it?
8. How's the weather?
9. How many people are at the office?
10. Does Nellie accept the drink she was offered?
11. What is it?
12. What does she want instead?
13. Who's looking for the ice?
14. Do they sell something at this business?
15. What?
16. Who does he feel he has better strawberries than?
17. Do they sell a lot?
18. How many daily?
19. How long ago was Seaforth's wedding?
20. How much do the berries cost?
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answer: 1. Seaforth's
2. To see that he wasn't working too hard.
3. Alton
4. Somasco Consolidated
5. In the west
6. Yes
7. Afternoon
8. Hot
9. Alton, his two friends, and Forel.
10. No
11. Tea
12. Ice and soda
13. Forel
14. Yes
15. Strawberries
16. Anyone in the Dominion
17. Yes
18. About a ton
19. Recently
20. Unknown but they had gone up.

question: The Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry are the most respected prizes in science. But talk to scientists in private, and many will complain why (besides jealousy, perhaps) are some scientists unhappy with the Nobels?

One reason is that the committees can often be slow to recognize achievement. Alfred Nobel specified in his will that the prizes should reward work done in the previous year. But experience soon showed that this was risky, as medals were given out for discoveries that later proved questionable. So a degree of caution is probably advisable. Sometimes, though, it can lead to strange results. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for instance, had to wait until 1983 to win a prize for work he had done in the 1930s on the structure of stars. However, Albert Einstein never won a prize for his theory of relativity. Even though some pretty suggestive evidence had been produced by Arthur Eddington in 1919, relativity, which has later passed every experimental test ever thrown at it, was still considered somewhat risky and obscure.

Another criticism concerns the tradition that no more than three people can share a prize. Science is rarely this clear-cut. Take this year's physics prize, which recognised Peter Higgs for predicting the existence of the mass-bestowing particle that now bears his name. Dr Higgs was only one of several people with a claim. Two other teams---- Rober Brout and Francois Englert, as well as Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hageh and Tom Kibble----- submitted papers on the same idea to the same journal that published Dr Higgs's work, all within a few months of each other. Science often works like this, with different people coming up with similar ideas at similar times. In the event, the committee decided to honour Dr Engler (Brout is dead, therefore unqualified), whose paper was earlier than Dr Higgs's but did not explicitly predict a particle, over Dr Guralnik and his collaborators, who were more comprehensive but published a few weeks later.
1. What is a reason that scientists are unhappy with Nobels?
2. Did Albert Einstein ever win a Nobel Prize?
3. How many can have the honor at one time?
4. When did Chandrasekhar get his award?
5. What did the person do to get the award this year?
6. Who else claimed it?
7. Who was it?
8. Who else got honored?
9. Who was earlier than the winner?
10. What is the most respected award?
11. What is risky?
12. Anything else that is a risk?
13. What was done in the '30s?
14. Who did the most comprehensive report?
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answer: 1. Slow to recognize achievement
2. No
3. Three
4. 1983
5. Making a prediction
6. Two other teams
7. Rober Brout and Francois Englert
8. Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hageh and Tom Kibble
9. Dr Engler
10. The Nobel Prize
11. relativity
12. Rewarding work done in the previous year
13. Work on the structure of stars
14. Dr Guralnik and his collaborators

question: Mr. Smith works in a factory. There he drives a truck. He's tired all the time. When he comes back, he's always busy and doesn't want to do any housework. His wife is a doctor and likes to keep all the things clean. So she has to do all at home. She usually goes to work from Monday to Friday and has to do all on weekends. All her friends know about it and sometimes they come to help her. It's Saturday today. Mrs Smith tells her husband to help her do some housework, but he says he has something to do and goes out early in the morning. He leaves a lot of dirty clothes at home. Mrs Smith doesn't go to work but she doesn't feel well. So she doesn't want to do any housework. After breakfast, Jo, one of her friends, comes to see her when she's sitting on a chair. The girl finds the rooms are dirty and she asks, "Don't you clean your rooms today, Mrs Smith?" "No, I don't."says the doctor. "Why don't you wear your glasses?" "Then I will think the rooms are still clean."
1. Where does the man work?
2. How does he get there?
3. How does he feel most days?
4. What doesn't he enjoy doing?
5. What does Mrs. Smith do for work?
6. What days?
7. So when does that leave time for cleaning?
8. What day is it today?
9. What did Mr. Smith leave a lot of when he left for the day?
10. who came by after the morning meal?
11. Named what?
12. Where was Mrs. Smith when she came by?
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answer:
1. in a factory
2. unknown
3. tired
4. housework
5. she's a doctor
6. Monday to Friday
7. weekends
8. Saturday
9. dirty clothes
10. one of her friends
11. Jo
12. sitting on a chair