question: In order to save money for a trip to Thailand to visit her family and friends, Emma White, a keeper in California, worked overtime. She saved more than 900 dollars and was planning to buy a ticket, but she lost her purse with all her money and credit cards .

Emma looked through the garbage and all the buildings where she worked but came up empty-handed. She went home heartbroken. She believed that she had lost her money forever. While Emma was at home, sad and depressed, a homeless man was searching through the garbage looking for things to sell. As he was looking through a garbage bag, he found something wrapped in a plastic bag.

The homeless man, who did not want to be recognized, took the purse to Sherry Wesley, because Sherry Wesley knew him from her volunteer work at a homeless shelter. The homeless man came to Sherry Wesley with the wad of money and said, "This probably belongs to someone that you work with; can you find the owner?" Sherry Wesley works in one of the buildings that Emma cleans and she knew Emma had lost her purse.

Emma was amazed when she heard the good news. "I couldn't believe it when they called me," she said. "He has a very big heart. If someone else had found the purse, the money would be gone." As a reward, Emma gave the man 100 dollars. The homeless man gave half of the money to Sherry Wesley and asked her to donate it to charity for him.
1. How much was rewarded?
2. To whom?
3. Who got 1/2?
4. What was she supposed to do with it?
5. Did she know Emma?
6. How?
7. Where was it found?
8. Was somebody going on a vacation?
9. Where?
10. Why?
11. Who was going?
12. Did she have a job?
13. What was it?
14. Where?
15. Did she work many hours?
16. Was she able to save anything?
17. what?
18. How did the man know Sherry?
19. What did he show her?
20. Did he expect recognization?
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answer: 1. 100 dollars
2. The homeless man
3. Sherry Wesley
4. donate it to charity
5. yes
6. works in building that Emma cleans
7. the garbage
8. yes
9. Thailand
10. visiting family and friends
11. Emma
12. yes
13. a keeper
14. California
15. yes
16. yes
17. 900 dollars
18. volunteer work at a homeless shelter
19. money
20. no

question: Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment . Then the school's hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What's more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million. Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%. Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School's example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine's 17,000 seventh-graders - and for new seventh-graders each fall. In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal , which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits will also provide e-mail service for the city's 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system's 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers. Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the _ have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. "That is the worst when they disable you," says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. "I taught my mom to use e-mail," says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. "And now she's taking computer classes. I'm so proud of her!"
1. Which school did the program initially begin at?
2. Where is it located?
3. Who headed it?
4. What did it purchase for everybody?
5. Are other educational institutions planning on doing the same?
6. Where?
7. When did New York approve their program?
8. For how many pupils?
9. How many are in the fourth grade?
10. How much did the first program cost?
11. What problems was it fixing?
12. Did it work?
13. How much did it improve enrollment?
14. What about scores?
15. Who approved the plan in Maine?
16. What office does he hold?
17. How much did he budget for it?
18. Which pupils is he planning to fund first?
19. How many?
20. Were there difficulties encountered by the program?
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answer: 1. Carmen Arace Middle School
2. Bloomfield, Connecticut
3. Delores Bolton
4. laptop computers
5. yes
6. rural Maine and New York City
7. April 12
8. 1.1 million
9. 87,000
10. $2.5 million
11. low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment
12. yes
13. by 20%
14. by 35%
15. Angus King
16. Governor
17. $50 million
18. seventh-graders
19. 17,000
20. yes

question: CHAPTER II

SOMETHING OF THE PAST

"The horses are running away!"

"Oh, we'll be killed!"

Such were the cries from the two girls as the mettlesome grays tore along the country highway at a speed that seemed marvelous.

"Dave, can I help you?" asked Ben, anxiously.

"I don't think so," answered the young driver between his set teeth. "I guess I can bring them down. Anyway, I can try."

"What shall we do?" wailed Jessie.

"Don't do anything--sit still," ordered Dave. He was afraid that Jessie in her excitement might fling herself from the flying sleigh.

On and on bounded the frightened team. Each of the grays now had his bit in his teeth, and it looked as if it would be impossible for Dave to obtain control of the pair. And, worst of all, they were now approaching a turn, with the hill on one side of the roadway and a gully on the other.

"Better keep them as far as possible away from the gully," suggested Ben.

"That is what I'm trying to do," returned Dave, setting his teeth grimly.

Dave Porter was a resolute youth, always doing his best to accomplish whatever he set out to do. Had it been otherwise, it is not likely that he would have occupied the position in which we found him at the opening of our story.

When a very small youth Dave had been found wandering along the railroad tracks near Crumville. He could tell little about himself or how he had come in that position; and kind people had taken him in and later on had placed him in the local poorhouse. From that institution he had been taken by an old college professor, named Caspar Potts, who at that time had been farming for his health.
1. Who is driving?
2. What is the vehicle?
3. What's making it move?
4. Are they going too fast?
5. Why?
6. Who offered Dave some assistance?
7. Is he a passenger?
8. Who else is riding along?
9. What are their names?
10. Do you know the other ones name?
11. Is Dave and old man?
12. Does he take pride in his work?
13. Was he an orphan/
14. Where did someone find him?
15. What was the closest town?
16. did someone take care of him?
17. who?
18. What was his name?
19. Where did he get him?
20. What are the horses coming upon?
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answer:
1. Dave
2. sleigh
3. The horses
4. Yes
5. They were frightened
6. Ben
7. unknown
8. two girls
9. Jessie
10. unknown
11. No
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. along the railroad tracks
15. Crumville
16. Yes
17. an old college professor
18. Caspar Potts
19. in the local poorhouse
20. a turn