One day Peng Xianzhe learned he would go to the Mashan School in Guizhou. The 16-year-old boy tried to imagine how serious the drought was for the students at that school. However, he realized it was more serious than he had imagined when he saw the sign "DON'T wash clothes with water,or you will be punished . " Because of drought, the school has been short of water for a long time. Each student has only one bottle of water every day for washing and drinking. The drought has made the poor students much poorer. Peng is a student from Beijing Chaoyang Foreign Language School. He took part in the school's Rain & Bow Project from April 2 to 10. The project idea came from Peng's principal . One day, she heard a sad story about Li Guoxian, a poor girl in the Mashan School,who stopped going to school because of drought. The principal started this project to help the school. In one day, 3,000 students made over 10,000 donations of water,books and clothes. Peng and other four students went to the Mashan School and gave the donations with five teachers. They visited poor families, made surveys and had classes at the school. Ding Zhentao,16,was worried about the school's poor learning environment. "The blackboards and playground are too _ to use,"Ding said. "Besides, there really aren't enough teachers. A teacher has to teach both history and English, and even the cook is a class teacher. " Although life isn't easy, students at the school have a positive attitude towards life and they are quite willing to learn. That's what moved 16-year-old Chen Shi most. "They sang their songs together as usual before class every afternoon. After class, the students asked us to tell them things about Beijing and our studies," Chen said. "You can see the passion in them. I believe it will make a difference. Their futures will be bright. " ,. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was collected as donations?
2. How many were collected?
3. Who donated that much?
4. Why did they start collecting these donations?
5. Who started the students donating?
6. What school did they take the donations to?
7. What other problems did they have?
8. Why was it like that?
9. Where did they bring the donations from?
10. Did they speak to the students afterward?
Answer: 1. water,books and clothes
2. 10,000
3. 3,000 students
4. a poor girl in the Mashan School stopped going to school because of drought
5. Peng's principal
6. the Mashan School
7. poor learning environment
8. there really aren't enough teachers
9. Beijing Chaoyang Foreign Language School
10. yes

question: Chapter XV.

Return to the Congo Mouth.

In the evening there was a palaver.

I need hardly say that my guide, after being paid to show me Nsundi, never had the slightest intention to go beyond the Yellala. Irritated by sleeping in the open air, and by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen, he and his moleques had sat apart all day, the picture of stubborn discontent, and

"Not a man in the place But had discontent written large in his face."

I proposed to send back a party for rum, powder, and cloth to the extent of 150, or half the demand, and my factotum, Selim, behaved like a trump. Gidi Mavunga, quite beyond self-control, sprang up, and declared that, if the Mundele would not follow him, that obstinate person might remain behind. The normal official deprecation, as usual, made him the more headstrong; he rushed off and disappeared in the bush, followed by a part of his slaves, the others crying aloud to him, "Wenda!"-- get out! Seeing that the three linguisters did not move, he presently returned, and after a furious address in Fiote began a Portuguese tirade for my benefit. This white man had come to their country, and, instead of buying captives, was bent upon enslaving their Mfumos; but that "Branco" should suffer for his attempt; no "Mukanda" or book (that is, letter) should go down stream; all his goods belonged of right to his guide, and thus he would learn to sit upon the heads of the noblesse, with much of the same kind.
1. What was one of the things the narrator proposed to send a party for?
2. What's another?
3. And the third thing?
4. For how much?
5. Who behaved like a trump?
6. Where was the guide paid to show the narrator?
7. Where did he never have the intention of going behond?
8. What was one of the things that he was irritated by?
9. And what was another?
10. What did these make him and the moleques do all day?
11. What were they the picture of?
12. What did Gidi Mavunga say as he sprang up?
13. Where did he disappear to then?
14. Who followed him?
15. What did the other slaves yell out to him?
16. How many linguisters were there?
17. When he came back, what language was his address in?
18. But before Portuguese, what was he speaking in?
19. What was the white man bent on instead of buying captives?
20. What does "Mukanda" mean?
21. What chapter is this?
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answer:
1. rum
2. powder
3. cloth
4. 150
5. Selim
6. Nsundi
7. Yellala
8. sleeping in the open air
9. total want of hospitality
10. sit apart
11. stubborn discontent
12. obstinate person might remain behind
13. in the bush
14. a part of his slaves
15. Wenda!"-- get out!
16. three
17. Portuguese
18. Fiote
19. enslaving their Mfumos
20. book
21. XV