Question: Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Korean is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to master, but an elephant in a South Korean zoo is making a good start.

Koshik, a 22-year-old Asian elephant has stunned experts and his keepers at Everland Zoo near Seoul by imitating human speech. Koshik can say the Korean words for "hello," "sit down," "no," "lie down" and "good." His trainer, Kim Jong Gap, first started to realize Koshik was mimicking him several years ago.

""In 2004 and 2005, Kim didn't even know that the human voice he heard at the zoo was actually from Koshik," zoo spokesman In Kim In Cherl said. "But in 2006, he started to realize that Koshik had been imitating his voice and mentioned it to his boss."

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His boss initially called him "crazy."

Koshik's remarkable antics grabbed the interest of an elephant vocalization expert thousands of kilometers away at the University of Vienna in Austria.

""There was a YouTube video about Koshik vocalizing, and I was not sure if it was a fake, or if it was real," Dr. Angela Stoeger-Horwath said. She traveled with fellow expert Dr. Daniel Mietchen to South Korea in 2010 to test the elephant's ability. They recorded Koshik repeating certain words his keeper said and then played them for native Korean speakers to see, if they were recognizable.

"It is, for some of the sounds he makes, quite astonishing for how similar they are," said Mietchen of the University of Jena in Germany. "For instance the word 'choa' (meaning good) -- if you hear it right after what the keeper says -- it's quite similar." 1. What is one of the hardest languages to master?
2. Who is learning it?
3. Where?
4. Which one?
5. Which is where?
6. What is the elephant's name?
7. How old is he?
8. When did he start?
9. Who saw a video about him?
10. What is she?
11. where does she work?
12. What did she do?
13. Did she go alone?
14. Who went with her?
15. When?
16. What did they do when they got there?
17. Was he actually speaking?
18. What was he doing?
19. What was his name?
20. How was the video found? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Korean
2. an elephant
3. in a zoo
4. Everland Zoo
5. Seoul
6. Koshik
7. 22
8. unknown
9. Dr. Angela Stoeger-Horwath
10. an elephant vocalization expert
11. at the University of Vienna
12. traveled to South Korea
13. no
14. Dr. Daniel Mietchen
15. 2010
16. recorded Koshik
17. no
18. mimicking the trainer
19. Kim Jong Gap
20. on YouTube

Question: Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart on the right. The characters encoded are numbers 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, basic punctuation symbols, control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a space. For example, lowercase j would become binary 1101010 and decimal 106. ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters (many now obsolete) that affect how text and space are processed and 95 printable characters, including the space (which is considered an invisible graphic:223).

The code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together, and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. The first two columns (32 positions) were reserved for control characters.:220, 2368,9) The "space" character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20hex;:23710 for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits. The committee decided it was important to support uppercase 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes,:228, 23714 as was done in the DEC SIXBIT code. Lowercase letters were therefore not interleaved with uppercase. To keep options available for lowercase letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter A was placed in position 41hex to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.:23818 The digits 09 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward. 1. what is based on the eng. alphabet?
2. how was it made? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. ASCII
2. encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers

Question: CHAPTER II--NIGHT IN THE PARK

Although with her infallible instinct Mrs. Small had said the very thing to make her guest 'more intriguee than ever,' it is difficult to see how else she could truthfully have spoken.

It was not a subject which the Forsytes could talk about even among themselves--to use the word Soames had invented to characterize to himself the situation, it was 'subterranean.'

Yet, within a week of Mrs. MacAnder's encounter in Richmond Park, to all of them--save Timothy, from whom it was carefully kept--to James on his domestic beat from the Poultry to Park Lane, to George the wild one, on his daily adventure from the bow window at the Haversnake to the billiard room at the 'Red Pottle,' was it known that 'those two' had gone to extremes.

George (it was he who invented many of those striking expressions still current in fashionable circles) voiced the sentiment more accurately than any one when he said to his brother Eustace that 'the Buccaneer' was 'going it'; he expected Soames was about 'fed up.'

It was felt that he must be, and yet, what could be done? He ought perhaps to take steps; but to take steps would be deplorable.

Without an open scandal which they could not see their way to recommending, it was difficult to see what steps could be taken. In this impasse, the only thing was to say nothing to Soames, and nothing to each other; in fact, to pass it over.

By displaying towards Irene a dignified coldness, some impression might be made upon her; but she was seldom now to be seen, and there seemed a slight difficulty in seeking her out on purpose to show her coldness. Sometimes in the privacy of his bedroom James would reveal to Emily the real suffering that his son's misfortune caused him. 1. Who had invented many of the striking expressions?
2. Did he have a sibling?
3. Was it a brother or a sister?
4. What was his name?
5. Who had said something to make her guest 'more intreguee than ever'?
6. What word did Soames make up to characterize the situation?
7. Where wast the billiard room?
8. Who was the wild one?
9. What did he say the Buccaneer was doing?
10. And what did he think Soames was?
11. What was considered deplorable?
12. Was it easy to figure out which steps to take?
13. What should be said to Soames?
14. Who was supposed to be shown coldness?
15. Why?
16. Who did James sometimes speak with in his room?
17. About what?
18. Who had infallible instincts?
19. Who couldn't talk about the subject with themselves?
20. Where was Mrs. MacAnder's encounter? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. George
2. yes
3. a brother
4. Eustace
5. Mrs. Small
6. subterranean
7. at the Red Pottle
8. George
9. he was 'going it'
10. about fed up
11. taking steps
12. no
13. nothing
14. Irene
15. because some impression might be made upon her
16. Emily
17. the real suffering that his son's misfortune caused him
18. Mrs. Small
19. the Forsytes
20. in Richmond Park