Problem: The University of British Columbia, commonly referred to as UBC, is a public research university with campuses and facilities in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia, the university became independent and adopted its current name in 1915. It is British Columbia's oldest institution of higher learning and has over 60,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley campuses. Most students are enrolled in five larger faculties: Arts, Science, Applied Science, UBC Faculty of Medicine and the Sauder School of Business. UBC's Vancouver campus is within the University Endowment Lands, about west of Downtown Vancouver. The Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is in Kelowna.

According to the annual rankings compiled by "Maclean's" and "U.S. News and World Report", the university consistently ranks among the top three research universities nationwide. In 2015, "U.S. News and World Report" and "Times Higher Education" ranked UBC among the 20 best public universities worldwide. With an annual research budget valued at $600 million, UBC funds 8,442 projects as of 2014. Faculty, alumni and researchers have received seven Nobel Prizes, 69 Rhodes Scholarships, 65 Olympic medals, 8 memberships in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and 208 fellowships to the Royal Society of Canada. The university has also educated three Canadian prime ministers, most recently Justin Trudeau, the current prime minister.
1. What does UBC stand for?
2. What year was it founded in?
3. What city?
4. What was it named as initially?
5. How many students attend it?
6. Name the important 5 faculties there?
7. What type of university is it?
8. Is it ranked in the top three?
9. Name one political figure who attended it?
10. Who is he?
Answer: 1. The University of British Columbia
2. 1908
3. British Columbia, Canada
4. the McGill University College of British Columbia
5. over 60,000
6. Arts, Science, Applied Science, Medicine, Business
7. a public research university
8. yes
9. Justin Trudeau
10. the current prime minister

Problem: CHAPTER X

I knew the moment I opened the door that changes were on foot. Our studio sitting-room was dismantled of many of its treasures. Allan, with his coat off and a pipe in his mouth, was throwing odds and ends in a promiscuous sort of way into a huge trunk which stood open upon the floor. Arthur, a few yards off, was rolling a cigarette.

Our meeting was not wholly free from embarrassment. I think that for the first time in our lives there was a cloud between Allan and myself. He stood up and faced me squarely.

"Arnold," he said, "where is Isobel?"

"In Illghera with her grandfather," I answered. "Where else should she be?"

"Are you sure?"

"I have seen her there with my own eyes," I affirmed.

There was a moment's pause. I saw the two exchange glances. Then Allan held out his hand.

"That damned woman again!" he exclaimed. "Forgive me, Arnold!"

"Willingly," I answered, "when I know what for."

"Suspecting you. Lady Delahaye wrote Arthur a note, in which she said that the Archduchess and you had made fresh plans. You can guess what they were. And Illghera was off. You did hurry us away from Paris a bit, you know, and I was fool enough to imagine for a moment that there might be something in it. Forgive me, Arnold!" he added, holding out his hand.

"And me!" Arthur exclaimed, extending his.

I held out a hand to each. There was something grimly humorous in this reception, after all that I had suffered during the last few days. My first impulse of anger died away almost as quickly as it had been conceived.
1. Where is Isobel?
2. With whom?
3. What room are we in?
4. What was Allan doing?
5. Was he wearing a coat?
6. What was Arthur doing?
7. What is the narrator's name?
8. Who penned the letter?
9. To whom was it written?
10. What did it say?
11. Were things clear between Allan and me?
12. Who did Arnold shake hands with?
Answer: 1. In Illghera
2. her grandfather
3. studio sitting-room
4. smoking his pipe
5. no
6. rolling a cigarette
7. Lady Delahaye
8. Lady Delahaye
9. Arthur
10. Archduchess and you had made fresh plans
11. Yes
12. Arnold

Problem: For many people the subject of hiccups is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different. His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack. Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him. "When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either." After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong. "They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped." Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.
1. Who is the world record holder for hiccups?
2. Where was Harry Mendes from?
3. What was wrong with him?
4. How old was he?
5. What did he do when he started to hiccup?
6. How often did he have the hiccups?
7. Did the doctors find something wrong with his x-ray?
8. Did Harry have hot drinks to try to cure himself?
9. How long before he went to the hospital?
10. Did the medicine cure his hiccups right away?
11. How long did it take to work?
12. How long did Charles Osborne hiccup for?
13. Did he stop in 1995?
14. Why did Charles Osborne's hiccups stop?
15. What did Harry's father try to do to stop his hiccups?
16. What did Charles Osborne do for a living?
17. What country was he from?
18. What day of the week did Harry's hiccups start?
19. Was it dinner time?
20. Is Harry back at school?
Answer:
1. Charles Osborne,
2. Birmingham
3. He had hiccups day and night for two weeks.
4. fifteen-years
5. He drank a glass of water
6. Every four seconds.
7. They couldn't find anything wrong.
8. No, cold drinks.
9. After a week.
10. No.
11. Another week.
12. Two weeks.
13. No, Charles Osborne did.
14. Nobody knows why.
15. Shock him.
16. He was a farmer.
17. America.
18. Sunday.
19. No.
20. HYes.