question: CHAPTER VI

THE HALL OF THE ATLAS

From the moment when the tailor had bowed his farewell to the moment when Graham found himself in the lift, was altogether barely five minutes. As yet the haze of his vast interval of sleep hung about him, as yet the initial strangeness of his being alive at all in this remote age touched everything with wonder, with a sense of the irrational, with something of the quality of a realistic dream. He was still detached, an astonished spectator, still but half involved in life. What he had seen, and especially the last crowded tumult, framed in the setting of the balcony, had a spectacular turn, like a thing witnessed from the box of a theatre. "I don't understand," he said. "What was the trouble? My mind is in a whirl. Why were they shouting? What is the danger?"

"We have our troubles," said Howard. His eyes avoided Graham's enquiry. "This is a time of unrest. And, in fact, your appearance, your waking just now, has a sort of connexion--"

He spoke jerkily, like a man not quite sure of his breathing. He stopped abruptly.

"I don't understand," said Graham.

"It will be clearer later," said Howard.

He glanced uneasily upward, as though he found the progress of the lift slow.

"I shall understand better, no doubt, when I have seen my way about a little," said Graham puzzled. "It will be--it is bound to be perplexing. At present it is all so strange. Anything seems possible. Anything. In the details even. Your counting, I understand, is different."
1. was the lift fast?
2. who was in the lift?
3. Who bowed?
4. how long was he in the lift?
5. who did he avoid looking at?
6. who has troubles?
7. was this like a dream?
8. whose mind was in a whirl?
9. who caused unrest?
10. when will it be clearer?
11. according to who?
12. was everything impossible?
13. was his breath slow and calm?
14. was graham mentally alert?
15. was he confused?
16. was his appearance disconcerting?
17. who left graham?
18. did sleep alude graham?
19. dd he believe he was in danger?
20. who was shouting?
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answer: 1. no
2. Graham
3. the tailor
4. unknown
5. Graham
6. Howard and Graham
7. yes
8. Graham's
9. Graham
10. later
11. Howard
12. no
13. no
14. no
15. yes
16. yes
17. the tailor
18. it hung about him
19. yes
20. 'they' were

CHAPTER IV--PURITAN TIMES

After his dispute with the haymakers, Sir Thomas Clarke sold Merdon to William Brock, a lawyer, from whom it passed to John Arundel, and then to Sir Nathanael Napier, whose son, Sir Gerald, parted with it again to Richard Maijor, the son of the mayor of Southampton. This was in 1638, and for some time the lodge at Hursley was lent to Mr. Kingswell, Mr. Maijor's father-in-law, who died there in 1639, after which time Mr. Maijor took up his abode there. He seems to have been a shrewd, active man, and a staunch Protestant, for when there was a desire to lease out Cranbury, he, as Lord of the Manor, stipulated that it should be let only to a Protestant of the Church of England, not to a Papist. The neighbourhood of the Welleses at Brambridge probably moved him to make this condition.

The person who applied for the lease was Dr. John Young, Dean of Winchester, who purchased the copyhold of Cranbury before 1643, and retired thither when he was expelled from his deanery and other preferments in the evil times of the Commonwealth, and there died, leaving his widow in possession.

Whether the lady was molested by Mr. Maijor we do not know. He was no favourite with Richard Morley, who rented the forge in Hursley, the farm of Ratlake and Anvyle, as Ampfield was then spelt, and thought him a severe lord to his copyholders. Morley was born at Hursley, and was sent to school at Baddesley in 1582, the year of the great hailstorm of the nine-inch stones. He kept valuable memoranda, which Mr. Marsh quotes, and died in 1672, when he is registered as:- What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who applied for the lease?
2. What was his title?
3. When did he purchase the copyhold of Cranbury?
4. Did he retire there?
5. When he passed who did he leave it to?
6. Who sold to Merdon?
7. After what?
8. With who?
9. Who did he sell Merdon to ?
10. What was his profession?
11. Who did he pass it to?
12. Then who had it/
13. What happened in 1638?
14. What is one characteristic of Mr. Maijor?
15. Was he religious?
Answer: 1. Dr. John Young
2. Dean of Winchester
3. before 1643
4. yes
5. his widow
6. Sir Thomas Clarke
7. a dispute
8. he haymakers
9. William Brock
10. a lawyer
11. John Arundel
12. Sir Nathanael Napier
13. Sir Gerald gave it to Richard Maijor
14. shrewd
15. yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. U.S. billionaire Bill Gates went to watch a game of his friend, U.S. teen player Ariel Hsing, at the ExCel Centre while the girl was playing against Chinese Li Xiaoxia. Gates wore an orange jacket and dark blue baseball cap. He sat in the front row of thespectators' stand andapplauded for every point Hsing scored. "I'm wishing her the best of luck, but the opposite player is really great," Gates said. Hsing was in her third match at London 2012. She had already beaten Mexico's Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian. Hsing is known in the U.S. as a close friend with billionaires Warren Buffett and Gates. She is close enough to call them "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill". Buffett met Hsing when she was only 9. Two years later, he invited her to play against his friends. She has returned several times after that. Earlier this year after winning a position on the U.S. team, she took a few points off Buffett and Gates. When asked whether he has won a point off Hsing, Gates said, "She beat me when she was nine. She has been nice to me." 1. Who are two of Hsing's billionaire friends?
2. Is she friends with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates?
3. Are they billionaires?
4. What does Hsing call them?
5. How was old was she when she met Bill Gates?
6. How old was she when he invited her to play against his buddies?
7. What did Bill wear to the game at ExCel Centre?
8. Did he have a good seat?
9. Who did Hsing defeat from Mexico?
numbered_answers:
1. unknown
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill".
5. Nine
6. 11
7. orange jacket and dark blue baseball ca
8. Yes
9. Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian.