Problem: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy.

Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it.

When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework.
1. what does timothy like to play
2. what kind of sports
3. what kind of sports
4. does he pretend he is famous for it?
5. Does he have an imaginary friend?
6. what is their name?
7. who are his real friends he plays with
8. What does Andrew do when he goes home after playing baseball?
9. what does he do after he eats?
10. Is had imaginary friend a person?
11. what is he?
12. What does he do with timorthy?
Answer: 1. sports
2. basketball and baseball
3. basketball and baseball
4. yes
5. yes
6. Sean
7. Mandy and Andrew
8. snacks
9. finishes his homework
10. no
11. an elephant
12. watches television

Problem: A little boy named Justin lived on a farm. His father James owned the farm. His uncles Jerry, Todd, and Billy also worked on the farm.

The farm had chickens, cows, horses, sheep, and pigs. He loved to play with all of the animals on the farm, but the horses were his favorite. He would spend all day riding the horses. He loved when baby horses were born. They were born in the spring. When a baby horse was born, Justin's father would bring the baby out of the barn for Justin to pet.

Justin also loved playing in the fields on the farm. He would run through the meadows trying to catch butterflies. He also loved to stay up late and catch fireflies in the dark.

Justin also loved going fishing in the summer. On one Tuesday evening, he went to the farm's pond and caught a huge catfish. The fish was so large that it almost broke his fishing pole. Justin brought the fish in.

The fish looked at Justin with sad eyes. Looking at the fish, Justin felt bad that he had caught it. He threw the catfish back into the pond. He packed away his fishing pole and went back home. He told his father about the catfish and how he let it go.

His father said, "I am proud of you for doing that, son."
1. Where did Justin live?
2. Who owned it?
Answer: 1. on a farm
2. His father

Problem: Cyber language is popular among Chinese netizens, who create English words to reflect novel phenomenon in society.

"Gelivable", combining pinyin of Chinese characters Geili (giving strength) with the English suffix for adjectives, literally means "giving power" or "cool". Similarly, "Hengelivable" means "very cool", and "ungelivable" means "dull, not cool at al". "Antizen" referred to the group of college graduates who, earning a poor salary and living in small rented apartments, are like the tiny and laborious ants.

David Tool, a professor with the Beijing International Studies University said it's very interesting to combine Chinese with English to create new words. "English is no longer mysterious to the Chinese people. They can use the language in a flexible way according to their own experiences," he said. Chinese words and expressions were created, as well, by netizens. One example was "Suan Ni Hen". This three-character expression, which originally meant "you win" with the first character carrying the same pronunciation as garlic in Chinese, is used to satirize high garlic and food prices this winter.

Chinese people use the character "bei" before a verb to show a passive voice, and it is used by netizens to show the helplessness in front of false conclusions and fake media reports. For instance, "zisha" means "suicide" while "beizisha" means "be officially presumed to have committed suicide", and xiaokang means "fairly comfortable life" while "beixiaokang" means "be said to be living a fairly comfortable life".

Wu Zhongmin, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, saw the phenomenon of word creation as a natural response of young people to social issues. "Cyber language is more vivid and it shortens people's distances," he said.
1. What professor works at Beijing International Studies University?
2. Which word has 2 meaning?
3. How many mean to kill one's self?
4. Is the language still a mysterious
5. How many dialogs are they putting together?
6. Who creates Chines characters?
7. Passive sounds that come out of you mouth
8. What helps other communicate?
9. What are like little tiny bug?
Answer: 1. David Tool
2. Suan Ni Hen
3. Two
4. unknown
5. unknown
6. netizens
7. bei
8. cyber language
9. college graduates

Problem: CHAPTER XIX. THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON

A telegram had been received in the morning, which kept Valetta and Fergus on the qui vive all day. Valetta was an unspeakable worry to the patient Miss Vincent, and Fergus arranged his fossils and minerals.

Both children flew out to meet their father at the gate, but words failed them as he came into the house, greeted the aunts, and sat down with Fergus on his knee, and Valetta encircled by his arm.

'Yes, Lilias is quite well, very busy and happy---with her first instalment of children.'

'I am so thankful that you are come,' said Adeline. 'Jane ventured to augur that you would, but I thought it too much to hope for.'

'There was no alternative,' said Sir Jasper.

'I infer that you halted at Avoncester.'

'I did so; I saw the poor boy.'

'What a comfort for his sister!'

'Poor fellow! Mine was the first friendly face he had seen, and he was almost overcome by it'---and the strong face quivered with emotion at the recollection of the boy's gratitude.

'He is a nice fellow,' said Jane. 'I am glad you have seen him, for neither Mr. White nor Rotherwood can believe that he is not utterly foolish, if not worse.'

'A boy may do foolish things without being a fool,' said Sir Jasper. 'Not that this one is such another as his father. I wish he were.'

'I suppose he has more of the student scholarly nature.'

'Yes. The enlistment, which was the making of his father, was a sort of moral suicide in him. I got him to tell me all about it, and I find that the idea of the inquest, and of having to mention you, you monkey, drove him frantic, and the dismissal completed the business.'
1. Where were they all day?
2. What held them there?
3. When did it arrive?
4. Was anyone distracted by something?
5. Whom?
6. How did Miss Vincent feel?
7. Is someone a new parent?
8. Do they have a lot of spare time?
9. Who was met at the gate?
10. How many kids were there?
11. Was someone acting in an ignorant way?
12. Who was it?
13. Did Jane think he was mean?
14. How did she feel about him?
15. Who had seen him?
16. Was someone putting something in order?
17. Who?
18. What was he organizing?
19. Who let him sit on their knee?
20. Was he holding anyone else?
21. Whom?
Answer:
1. on the qui vive
2. A telegram
3. in the morning
4. yes
5. Fergus
6. worried
7. yes
8. yes
9. their father
10. Two
11. yes
12. the poor boy
13. no
14. She thought he was a nice fellow
15. Sir Jasper
16. yes
17. Fergus
18. his fossils and minerals
19. his father
20. yes
21. Valetta