Problem: Jack wants to play with his dog, Max. Jack finds the ball. He throws the ball across the yard. Max runs after the ball. Max brings the ball back to Jack. Jack plays fetch with Max for a long time.

Jack now wants to Max for a walk. He looks for Max's leash. He looks on the porch. He looks in the closet. He looks on the hooks by the front door. Jack finally finds the leash in the kitchen drawer.

Jack puts the leash on Max and leads him out the front gate. Jack isn't sure where he wants to go. He thinks about taking Max around the block. He thinks about taking Max to the pet store for a treat. He thinks about visiting his friend. He finally knows where to go. He takes Max to the park. He sees his friends, Jim. Sammy, and Paul, at the park. They are all friends but Jack likes Sammy the best.

Jack has a great time playing with Max at the park. They play with a Frisbee. They chase in other and roll on the ground. Max is very dirty when they got home. Jack has to give Max a bath in the tub.
1. What is the dog called?
Answer: 1. Max

Problem: The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated from 5000 BC have been excavated in Mexico and the Indus Valley Civilization in Ancient India (modern-day Pakistan and some parts of India). Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

The earliest evidence of cotton use in South Asia has been found at the site of Mehrgarh, Pakistan, where cotton threads have been found preserved in copper beads; these finds have been dated to Neolithic (between 6000 and 5000 BCE). Cotton cultivation in the region is dated to the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered parts of modern eastern Pakistan and northwestern India between 3300 and 1300 BCE The Indus cotton industry was well-developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the industrialization of India. Between 2000 and 1000 BC cotton became widespread across much of India. For example, it has been found at the site of Hallus in Karnataka dating from around 1000 BC.
1. Where was cotton used earliest?
2. What is the fiber usually spun into?
3. And what is it used to make?
4. Fabric discovered in Mexico was dated from when?
5. What is Ancient India now called?
6. Was there an invention that lowered production costs?
7. What was it?
8. What is the most commonly used material in clothing today?
9. Where was the earliest evidence of cotton being in use found?
10. At what particular site?
11. What have threads been found preserved in?
12. To what period have they been dated?
13. What is the range of years in that period?
14. When did cotton become common across India?
15. Has it been found in Karnataka?
16. At what location?
17. From what time?
18. Was cotton grown in the Indus Valley?
19. What parts did this Valley cover?
20. In what time period?
Answer: 1. since prehistoric times
2. into yarn or thread
3. a soft, breathable textile
4. from 5000 BC
5. modern-day Pakistan and some parts of India
6. yes
7. the cotton gin
8. cotton
9. South Asia
10. at the site of Mehrgarh, Pakistan
11. copper beads
12. to Neolithic
13. between 6000 and 5000 BCE
14. Between 2000 and 1000 BC
15. yes
16. at the site of Hallus
17. around 1000 BC
18. yes
19. parts of modern eastern Pakistan and northwestern India
20. between 3300 and 1300 BCE

Problem: CHAPTER XLII

What Can You Give in Return?

In spite of the family troubles, these were happy days for Beatrice. It so seldom happens that young ladies on the eve of their marriage have their future husbands living near them. This happiness was hers, and Mr Oriel made the most of it. She was constantly being coaxed down to the parsonage by Patience, in order that she might give her opinion, in private, as to some domestic arrangement, some piece of furniture, or some new carpet; but this privacy was always invaded. What Mr Oriel's parishioners did in these halcyon days, I will not ask. His morning services, however, had been altogether given up, and he had provided himself with a very excellent curate.

But one grief did weigh heavily on Beatrice. She continually heard her mother say things which made her feel that it would be more than ever impossible that Mary should be at her wedding; and yet she had promised her brother to ask her. Frank had also repeated his threat, that if Mary were not present, he would absent himself.

Beatrice did what most girls do in such a case; what all would do who are worth anything; she asked her lover's advice.

"Oh! but Frank can't be in earnest," said the lover. "Of course he'll be at our wedding."

"You don't know him, Caleb. He is so changed that no one hardly would know him. You can't conceive how much in earnest he is, how determined and resolute. And then, I should like to have Mary so much if mamma would let her come."
1. Who was getting married?
2. Where was she going?
3. And with whom?
4. For what purpose?
5. What was on her mind?
6. Why?
7. Who else wouldn't be there?
8. So what did she do?
9. Was he concerned?
10. Did she believe him?
11. Why?
12. Could he be persuaded?
13. Who won't allow her other friend to attend?
Answer: 1. Beatrice.
2. The parsonage.
3. Patience
4. Give her opinion.
5. Grief.
6. Mary wouldn't be at her wedding.
7. Frank.
8. Asked her lover's advice.
9. No.
10. No.
11. He is so changed.
12. No.
13. Mary.

Problem: Nine years after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a seismic event in Lebanese history, the trial of four men accused of his killing opened Thursday in a special United Nations-backed court.

However, the stand at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague was empty, with the suspects -- alleged associates of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah -- still on the run.

Billionaire statesman Hariri was killed in February 2005 when a bomb struck his motorcade near the Beirut seafront. The blast ripped apart his armored car and destroyed the motorcade, killing 21 other people and wounding more than 200 others.

It was a moment that changed Lebanese history, fueling the sectarian divisions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Mediterranean country and leading to the withdrawal of Syrian troops.

The special court investigating the assassination announced in February 2012 that Mustafa Badreddine, Salim Ayyash, Hussein Oneissi and Assad Sabra would be tried in absentia.

They face counts ranging from conspiracy to commit a terrorist act to murder and attempted murder. Hezbollah denies involvement.

Hearing streamed live

Presiding Judge David Re opened the trial, presenting the indictments against the accused. Thursday's hearing also included the prosecution's opening statements, expected to continue until Friday, according to the official Twitter account of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

"This is a historic day for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as it marks the transition from complex and difficult investigations to the new phase of trial," said Marten Youssef, a spokesman for the tribunal.
1. Who was Rafik Hariri?
2. How many people were involved in his death?
3. How were they killed?
4. Where was he when this happened?
5. How many people were held responsible?
6. What were their names?
7. Who else?
8. Who is Marten Youssef?
9. Where the accused present during the trial?
10. What were they officially charged with?
11. What day of the week did the hearing start?
12. Was it expected to continue for another day?
13. What made the day so significant?
14. Who was still on the loose?
Answer:
1. Prime Minister
2. 21 killed
3. a bomb
4. near the Beirut seafront.
5. four
6. Mustafa Badreddine
7. Salim Ayyash, Hussein Oneissi
8. a spokesman for the tribunal.
9. No
10. conspiracy to commit a terrorist act
11. Thursday
12. yes
13. transition from complex and difficult investigations to the new phase of trial
14. the suspects