Question: What is the hottest topic at your school? In Hangzhou Yongjin Middle School, it's money. The school had an activity called "making a living" recently. About 800 Junior 1 and Junior 2 students were divided into 112 teams. They went out to make money by selling things. What did they choose to sell? Some sold newspapers; some chose bottled water; some sold environmentally friendly shopping bags and bamboo baskets. Huqi's team decided to sell educational books in front of the Children Activity Centre. They thought parents would like to buy books for their children. But unfortunately , they came across urban management officers . The officers asked them to leave. "We played hide-and-seek with the officers for the whole morning," said Hu. "Finally we gave up and moved to other place. Wang Yongyi and her team sold ice cream in a square. They didn't meet any officers. But few people were interested in what they were selling. The team then put up a board saying the money was to help the "Project Hope" for country kids. It worked. More people came to their stall. A foreigner even gave them 100 yuan. Meng Zhaoxiang and his team were luckier. They sold all their cakes in four hours, spending 39.5 yuan and getting back 80 yuan. "It was not easy to make the money," said Meng. "Some people just looked. Others just tasted but didn't buy. Now I know how hard it is for our parents to earn the money we need to lead happy lives." 1. Where were books sold?
2. Where?
3. Who sold them?
4. Where did they go to school?
5. Were there 100 students?
6. How many?
7. Were they all in one group?
8. How many were they divided in to?
9. Who gave them trouble?
10. how?
11. Did they stay anyhow?
12. Doing what?
13. With whom?
14. Who sold ice cream?
15. Were they doing well?
16. What did they do about that?
17. Did that help?
18. Were foreigners greedy?
19. How much did they give?
20. What was a popular item that day?
21. Did they take long to get rid of?
22. How many were sold?
23. Did they make a good amount? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. educational
2. Children Activity Centre
3. Huqi's team
4. Hangzhou Yongjin Middle School
5. No
6. About 800
7. No
8. 112 teams
9. urban management officers
10. asked them to leave
11. During the morning they stayed.
12. played hide-and-seek
13. urban management officers
14. Wang Yongyi and her team
15. No
16. put up a board saying the money was to help the "Project Hope"
17. Yes
18. No
19. 100 yuan
20. cakes
21. four hours
22. all their cakes
23. Yes

Question: CHAPTER XIV

OUT OF AN UNPLEASANT SITUATION

Not one of the party was just then in a position to give poor Hans any assistance. All were stuck in the ooze, and one horse after another was slowly but surely sinking.

"We must turn back," cried Songbird, "and do it in a hurry, too."

"Easier said than done," grunted Fred. "My, this is worse than glue!"

"I think the ground on our left is a bit firmer than here," said Sam. "I am going to try it, anyway."

Not without considerable difficulty, he turned his steed, and after a struggle the spot he had indicated was gained. Dick followed, and so did Tom.

The Rovers were safe, but not so their chums. Hans was the worst off, but Fred and Songbird were likewise in positions of serious peril. Wags was flying around, barking dismally, as though he understood that all was not right.

"Turn this way!" called out Sam. "It's your one hope!"

"Let me have that rope you are carrying, Tom," said Dick, and having received the article, he threw one end to Hans, who was still floundering around. "Catch hold, Hans, and I'll haul you over!"

As the rope fell across the German youth's body, he caught it tightly in both hands, and, as Dick, Tom and Sam pulled with might and main, he fairly slid on his breast to where they were standing.

"Mine gracious, dot vos somedings awful!" he exclaimed. "It vos so sticky like molasses alretty!"

"Now, we must help the others," said Dick. 1. Who was the worst off?
2. Who could help him?
3. What were they stuck in?
4. What was it worse than?
5. According to who?
6. What did Songbird want to do?
7. How quickly?
8. Was there any firm ground?
9. Where?
10. Did anyone go that way?
11. Who?
12. Was it easy?
13. Did anyone else go that way?
14. Who?
15. Anyone else?
16. What did Dick ask Tom for?
17. What did Dick do with it?
18. What did Hans catch it with?
19. Who pulled Hans?
20. Were they successful? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Hans
2. The Rovers
3. in the ooze,
4. glue
5. Fred
6. turn back
7. in a hurry
8. yes
9. on their left
10. yes
11. Sam
12. no
13. yes
14. Dick
15. Tom
16. rope
17. he threw one end to Hans
18. both hands
19. Dick, Tom and Sam
20. yes

Question: ECMAScript (or ES) is a trademarked scripting-language specification standardized by Ecma International in ECMA-262 and ISO/IEC 16262. It was created to standardize JavaScript, so as to foster multiple independent implementations. ECMAScript has remained the best-known implementation of JavaScript since the standard was first published, with other well-known implementations including JScript and ActionScript. Coders commonly use ECMAScript for client-side scripting on the World Wide Web, and it is increasingly being used for writing server applications and services using Node.js.

The ECMAScript specification is a standardized specification of a scripting language developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape; initially it was named Mocha, later LiveScript, and finally JavaScript. In December 1995, Sun Microsystems and Netscape announced JavaScript in a press release. In March 1996, Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released, featuring support for JavaScript.

Owing to the widespread success of JavaScript as a client-side scripting language for Web pages, Microsoft developed a compatible dialect of the language, naming it JScript to avoid trademark issues. JScript added new date methods to alleviate the Year 2000 problem caused by the JavaScript methods that were based on the Java "Date" class. JScript was included in Internet Explorer 3.0, released in August 1996.

Netscape delivered JavaScript to Ecma International for standardization and the work on the specification, ECMA-262, began in November 1996. The first edition of ECMA-262 was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly in June 1997. Several editions of the language standard have been published since then. The name "ECMAScript" was a compromise between the organizations involved in standardizing the language, especially Netscape and Microsoft, whose disputes dominated the early standards sessions. Eich commented that "ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease." 1. What is ECMAScript?
2. Who created it?
3. From which company?
4. What was it originally called?
5. When did it become known as Javascript?
6. What browser supported it?
7. What else?
8. What issue did Javascript have?
9. Who tried to fix the problem?
10. What was the name of their effort?
11. Why did they call it that?
12. Why was ECMAScript created? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. a trademarked scripting-language specification
2. Brendan Eich
3. Netscape
4. Mocha,
5. In December 1995
6. Internet Explorer
7. Netscape Navigator 2.0
8. trademark
9. Microsoft
10. JScript
11. t to avoid trademark issues
12. to standardize JavaScript