Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.

MORE OF THE RESULTS OF WAR.

I need not trouble the reader with an account of the meeting with my faithful servant. While we were still engaged in questioning each other, I noticed that the countenance of our friend the scout wore an anxious and almost impatient expression.

"Anything wrong, Dobri?" I inquired.

"God knows!" he replied in a solemn tone, which impressed me much. "A rumour has come that the Circassians or the Bashi-Bazouks--I know not which, but both are fiends and cowards--have been to Venilik, and--"

He stopped abruptly.

"But that village was in the hands of the Russians," I said, at once understanding his anxiety.

"It may be so, but I go to see without delay," he replied, "and have only stopped thus long to know if you will go with me. These brutes kill and wound women and children as well as men. Perhaps your services may--Will you go?"

He spoke so earnestly, and his face looked so deadly pale, that I felt it impossible to refuse him. I was much exhausted by the prolonged labours of the day, but knew that I had reserve strength for an emergency.

"Give me a few minutes," said I,--"just to get leave, you know. I can't go without leave."

The scout nodded. In ten minutes I had returned. Meanwhile, Lancey had prepared my horse and his own. Swallowing a can of water, I vaulted into the saddle. It was very dark, but Petroff knew every foot of the country. For several hours we rode at a smart gallop, and then, as day was breaking, drew near to Venilik. As we approached, I observed that the bold countenance of the scout became almost pinched-looking from anxiety. Presently we observed smoke against the sky, and then saw that the village had undoubtedly been burned. I glanced at Petroff nervously. There was no longer a look of anxiety on his face, but a dark vindictive frown.

1. Who asked the king to go with him?
2. Where were they going?
3. Who did Dobri hear had been to Venilik?
4. Who was supposed to be in control of the town?
5. What did Dobri say the brutes do?
6. And men?
7. Who horses did Lancey get ready?
8. How much water did he drink before they left?
9. Was it daylight?
10. Who was very familiar with the area?
11. How fast did they travel?
12. What did they see once they arrived?
13. What was on Petroff's face now?
14. What is this a story of, according to the author?
15. What did Dobri call the Circassians and Bashi-Bazouks?
16. Did his face look pale when he was asking for his friend to go with him to Venilik?
17. Was the man already tired from working all day?
18. What did he have for an emergency, though?
19. What did he have to get before they could go?
20. How long did it take him to get that?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Dobri
2. Venilik.
3. the Circassians or the Bashi-Bazouks
4. the Russians
5. kill and wound women and childrenen
6. yes
7. my horse and his own
8. a can
9. yes
10. Petroff
11. at a gallop
12. the village had been burned
13. a dark vindictive frown.
14. the results of war
15. fiends and cowards
16. yes
17. yes
18. reserved strength
19. leave to go
20. ten minutes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Jack and Mike are on holiday in France. Mike loves visiting old buildings. Jack likes, too. In the village Jack and Mike see a beautiful old church, but when they come into the church, some people are there. They don't know what the people are doing. "Oh! Just sit quietly, and do like the others!" Mike says. Because they don't really know French, so they stand, kneel, and sit to follow other people. Then the priest says something. The man next to Jack and Mike stands up. "We should stand up, too!" Jack whispers to Mike. So, Jack and Mike stand up with the man. Suddenly, all the people smile! After that, Jack and Mike walk to the priest. "What's so funny?" Jack asks in English. With a smile on his face the priest says, "Boys, there is a new baby born, we ask the father to stand up." Mike smiles and says, "We should understand what people do before we do like them. "

1. what country is mentioned?
2. who is there?
3. are they there for work?
4. why are they there?
5. does they enjoy something?
6. what?
7. did the find one to visit?
8. was it unsightly?
9. what did it house?
10. was it empty?
11. who was there?
12. Is someone addressing the group?
13. who?
14. did everyone stay seated?
15. who stood?
16. anyone else?
17. did they speak the language?
18. why did the other gentleman stand?
19. who's dad was he?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. France
2. Jack and Mike
3. No
4. they are on holiday
5. Yes
6. visiting old buildings
7. Yes
8. No
9. a church
10. No
11. some people
12. Yes
13. a priest
14. No
15. The man next to Jack and Mike
16. Jack and Mike
17. No
18. he was the father
19. the new baby

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most Indian and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

To feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand or a lit candle in front of one's mouth, and say pin [pn] and then spin [spn]. One should either feel a puff of air or see a flicker of the candle flame with pin that one does not get with spin. In most dialects of English, the initial consonant is aspirated in pin and unaspirated in spin.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), aspirated consonants are written using the symbols for voiceless consonants followed by the aspiration modifier letter , a superscript form of the symbol for the voiceless glottal fricative h. For instance, p represents the voiceless bilabial stop, and p represents the aspirated bilabial stop.

1. How can you tell an aspirated sound from an unaspirated one?
2. what is one way to do that?
3. Is there another way?
4. what are two words you can speak to notice the difference?
5. which is aspirated?
6. what is the definition of aspiration?
7. what happens to a candle when one speaks an aspirated sound near it?
8. What does IPA stand for?
9. How are aspirated sounds noted?
10. Where is the modifier placed?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. test for a puff of air
2. put a candle in front of your mouth
3. put your hand in front of your mouth
4. pin and spin
5. pin
6. the strong burst of breath
7. there will be a flicker in the candle flame.
8. International Phonetic Alphabet
9. by voiceless consonants followed by an aspiration modifier
10. as a superscript