Problem: CHAPTER II

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"Did you get any more particulars?" asked Sam, of the college poet.

"No. The newspaper man was busy, so the Doctor said, and didn't have time to go into details," answered Songbird.

"Did he say who the other prisoners were who got away?" asked Dick.

"Yes, a tramp who was up for robbing a man on the road and a bank clerk who took some money from the bank."

"None of the crowd we are interested in," said Tom.

"I'm glad of it," returned his older brother. "It is bad enough for Crabtree to get away. I hope they keep a strict guard over the others after this."

"Oh, they will, rest assured of that," came from Stanley Browne. "The head jailer will get a raking over the coals for this, mark my words."

"The Stanhopes and the Lanings will be sorry to learn that Crabtree got away," said Sam. "I wonder if they aren't searching for him," mused Sam.

"Oh, they'll search for all of them," put in Songbird. "I think the newspaper man said the sheriff had a posse out."

"Too bad!" said Dick, shaking his head gravely. "And just when we felt sure old Crabtree wouldn't be able to give us any more trouble!"

"It beats the nation, what that man can do!" cried Sam. "Maybe be hypnotized one of the jailers-- just as he hypnotized Mrs. Stanhope years ago.

"He'd be equal to it-- if he got the chance," answered Tom; and then all of the students had to go in to their classes.
1. How many people escaped from jail?
2. Did any have names?
3. Who?
4. What were the other two?
5. Are any of them who the siblings were looking for?
6. Who was questioning the scholarly poem writer?
7. Did he find any specifics from him?
8. Why not?
9. According to who?
10. What will happen to the employee who let the criminals escape?
11. According to whom?
12. Who will be upset that the named criminal escaped?
13. What has the main cop done?
14. How do they know that?
15. Says who?
16. What special power is possibly attributed to the named criminal?
17. Who would he have dazzled with it?
18. Who else?
19. When?
20. Where do they walk to after they finish talking?
Answer: 1. Three
2. Yes
3. Crabtree
4. a tramp and a bank clerk
5. No
6. Sam
7. No
8. The newspaper man was busy and didn't have time to go into details,"
9. the Doctor
10. They will get a raking over the coals
11. Stanley Browne
12. The Stanhopes and the Lanings
13. had a posse out."
14. the newspaper man said
15. Songbird
16. Ablility to hypnotize
17. one of the jailers
18. Mrs. Stanhope
19. years ago.
20. to their classes.

Q: Starting from this month, you won't be hearing the word "NBA" on sports programs on CCTV. Instead, sport hosts will give the full Chinese name when they refer to the NBA - National Basketball Association. You also won't hear any other English abbreviations on CCTV's Chinese programs, such as GDP (gross domestic product) or WTO (World Trade Organization). You will hear their Chinese translations. CCTV received a notice from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, telling it to avoid using English-language abbreviations in their reports to protect the "purity" of the Chinese language. A few other TV stations also received the notice. Fu Zhenguo, an editor of People's Daily, is one of the people who proposed the change. "Using English in a Chinese-speaking environment is against Chinese law," he said. "Using English on Chinese TV programs is unfair to people who don't understand English. It will have a bad language influence on kids and teenagers." But some experts have a different opinion. Liu Yaoying, a professor at the Communications University of China, said the move shows cultural conservatism . "If Western countries can accept some Chinglish words, why can't the Chinese language be mixed with English?" Liu said. A lot of people have criticized the move, saying that it will cause problems for them. "I understand what CD, VCD and DVD mean when I hear them. But I won't know what the TV programs are talking about if I hear those products' full Chinese names," a person wrote in a BBS post. Following the same post, another person wrote jokingly: "I'm not listening to my MP3 now. I'm listening to my Moving Picture Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3. Some people also question why CCTV is keeping its logo, since it is also an English abbreviation.

Answer the following questions:
1. What does NBA stand for?
2. What about GDP?
3. And WTO?
4. Will those acronyms be used on CCTV?
5. Why not?
6. Who said that?
7. Was CCTV the only one to be told that?
8. How many other places got the message?
9. Is speaking English in China illegal?
10. Will acronyms have a good influence on children?
11. Where does Fu Zhenguo work?
12. And Liu Yaoying?
A: 1. National Basketball Association
2. gross domestic product
3. World Trade Organization
4. No
5. to protect the "purity" of the Chinese language.
6. the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television
7. No
8. A few
9. Yes
10. No
11. People's Daily
12. Communications University of China

Problem: Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a sovereign country in Central Europe. It is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of with a mostly temperate climate. With a population of over 38.5million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest city is Warsaw. Other cities include Krakow, Wrocaw, Poznan, Gdansk and Szczecin.

The establishment of a Polish state can be traced back to 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of a territory roughly coextensive with that of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest (about 1 million km) and most populous countries of 16th and 17th century Europe with a uniquely liberal political system which declared Europe's first constitution.

Following the partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century, Poland regained its independence in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles. In September 1939, World War II started with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, followed by the Soviet Union invading Poland in accordance with the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. More than six million of Poland's citizens died in the war. After World War II, the Polish People's Republic was established as a satellite state under Soviet influence. In the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1989, most notably through the emergence of the Solidarity movement, Poland established itself as a democratic republic.
1. what country is the article about?
2. what is it's official name?
3. what is the earliest date in the article?
4. what happened then?
5. by who?
6. what religion was he?
7. when did the monarchy come into being?
8. what was signed in 1569?
9. what did it form?
10. was that big?
Answer:
1. Poland
2. The Republic of Poland
3. 966
4. Polish state established
5. Mieszko I
6. Christian
7. 1025
8. Union of Lublin
9. PolishLithuanian Commonwealth
10. Yes