Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Greenwich is on the River, five miles from the middle of London, and its history is two thousand years old. The first English people were fishermen there, and they named the place Greenwich, meaning "green village". Later the English kings and queens lived at Greenwich in their beautiful places.

The name of the earliest palace was Placentia. Henry VIII lived there. He knew that England must be strong at sea. So he started two big ship-yards at Greenwich. But trouble was coming to Greenwich. In 1649, a war started in England and for eleven years there was no king. The men who had worked for him at Placentia decided to live the place themselves. They sold all its beautiful things. Finally, the war ended and King Charles II came back. But Placentia was falling down. So King Charles built a new and bigger palace, which is now open to the public.

At this time, Charles was worried about losing so many of its ships at sea: their sailors did not know how to tell exactly where they were. So in 1675, Charles made John Flamsteed, the first astronomer in England, try to find the answer. Flamsteed worked in a new building on the high ground in Greenwich Park. From it with a telescope which he made himself, Flamsteed could look all round the sky. And he did, night after night, for twenty years. Carrying on Flamsteed's work a hundred years later, an astronomer called Harrison finally made a clock which told the time at sea, and helped sailors to know where they were. You can see Harrison's clock, still working, in Greenwich's museum of the sea. Because of Flamsteed's work, every country in the world now tells its time by Greenwich Time.

1. how far from London is Greenwich?
2. Does it have a meaning?
3. who built the ports?
4. did he have a house there?
5. named what?
6. where is the clock now?
7. when did the war start?
8. how old is Greenwhich's history?
9. who made the telescope?
10. why did he make it?
11. who made the clock?
12. what happened to everything in Placentia?
13. by who?
14. who appointed Flamsteed?
15. Did King Charles make a new house?
16. where did Flamsteed work?
17. for how long?
18. Did the clock help?
19. who did it help?
20. how?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. five miles
2. meaning "green village"
3. Henry VIII
4. yes
5. Placentia
6. n Greenwich's museum of the sea
7. In 1649
8. two thousand years old
9. Flamsteed
10. look at round the sky
11. Harrison
12. it was destroyed
13. the war
14. Charles
15. yes
16. Flamsteed worked in a new building on the high ground in Greenwich Park
17. for twenty years
18. yes
19. helped sailors
20. to know where they were

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XV.

Still the silence lasted. Henry had tried at first to persuade himself that it was only by chance that he never heard his own name from lips that used to call it more often than any other. Indeed, he was so much used to favour, that it needed all the awe-struck pity of the rest to prove to him its withdrawal; and he was so much in the habit of thrusting himself before Samuel, that even the sight and sound of the First Book of Euclid, all day long, failed to convince him that his brother could be preferred; above all, as Nurse Freeman had been collecting his clean shirts as well as Sam's, and all the portmanteaus and trunks in the house had been hunted out of the roof. Once, either the spirit of imitation, or his usual desire of showing himself off, made him break in when Sam was knitting his brows frightfully over a sum in proportion. Hal could do it in no time!

So he did; but he put the third term first, and multiplied the hours into the minutes, instead of reducing them to the same denomination; so that he made out that twenty-five men would take longer to cut a field of grass than three, and then could not see that he was wrong; but Miss Fosbrook and Sam both looked so much grieved for him, that a start of fright went through him.

Some minds really do not understand a fault till they see it severely visited; and "at least" and "couldn't help" had so blinded Henry's eyes that he had thought himself more unlucky than to blame, till his father's manner forced it on him that he had done something dreadful. Vaguely afraid, he hung about, looking so wretched that he was a piteous sight; and it cut his father to the heart to spend such a last day together. Mayhap the Captain could hardly have held out all that second day, if he had not passed his word to his brother.

1. Who would thrust themself before Samuel?
2. Who was gathering shirts?
3. Who did they belong to?
4. And?
5. ?
6. What happened to the trunks?
7. Did Henry think he was lucky?
8. Who made him realize that he did something bad?
9. What was his last day with his dad like?
10. And how did Henry look?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Henry
2. Nurse Freeman
3. henrys
4. Sam's
5. Sam's
6. hunted out of the roof
7. Not
8. Miss Fosbrook and Sam both looked so much grieved for him
9. it cut his father to the heart
10. Wretched

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Many people think heroes need to be handsome, rich, or very smart. But as for me, a hero is a person who always helps others. My hero is Uncle Bill. He is the oldest son of a worker, and he grew up in a poor family with four younger brothers and two little sisters. He was good at neither writing nor math. In fact, he never did well in school. so he had to give up school at a very young age. He worked and gave all his money to help his parents. When he was getting older, he found that he was very interested in fixing things. he collected broken things which people threw away and fixed them into good ones. He could fix almost everything that did not work. He worked hard never gave up. Finally, he opened his own repair shop. It took him about 20 years to become a successful shopkeeper . Now, he is very rich and has four shops. But he never forgets the days when he had nothing. He gives money to poor families, helps poor kids buy books and offers them free lunch. He also encourages people to reuse things. He always says :Make good use of what you have because we just have one earth. I am proud of Uncle Bill. He is really a hero.

1. Do all great people need to be good looking?
2. Can they be poor?
3. Who is an example of this?
4. Is he an only child?
5. Was he wealthy?
6. How many siblings did he have?
7. Boys?
8. Girls?
9. Was he good at geography?
10. Did he graduate?
11. Was there anything he liked to do?
12. What was that?
13. What kinds of things did he work on?
14. Did people give them to him?
15. What did he do with this hobby?
16. How long did it take to do well?
17. Did he open five of them?
18. How many?
19. Can he buy whatever he wants now?
20. How does he spend it?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. no
2. yes
3. Uncle Bill
4. no
5. no
6. six
7. Four
8. Two
9. no
10. no
11. yes
12. fixing things
13. things peopel threw away
14. no
15. opened a repair shop
16. Iabout 20 years
17. no
18. four
19. yes
20. gives it to poor families