input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER X

A BREEZE OF WIND

The hay was almost in when Frank and Harry stood one evening close under the apex of the roof in the log barn. The crop was heavy and because the barn was small it had been their business during the afternoon to spread and trample down the grass Jake flung up to them. They had been working at high pressure at one task or another since soon after daylight that morning, and now the confined space was very hot, though the sun was low. Its slanting rays smote the cedar shingles above their bent heads, and the dust that rose from the grass floated about them in a cloud and clung to their dripping faces. Frank felt that the veins on his forehead were swollen when they paused a moment for breath, leaning on their forks.

"I suppose we could get a couple more loads in, and there can't be more than that," said Harry dubiously. "I wouldn't mind a great deal if the next jumperful upset."

Frank devoutly wished it would, for he felt that he must get out into the open air, but a few moments later they heard the plodding oxen's feet and the groaning of the clumsy sled. The sounds ceased abruptly and Jake's voice reached them.

"Tramp it down good!" he called. "You've got to squeeze in this lot and another."

Frank choked down the answer which rose to his lips. But the hay must be got in, and the boys fell with their forks upon the first of the crackling grass Jake flung up to them. There seemed to be more dust in it than usual, and before the jumper was half unloaded they were panting heavily. When at last the oxen hauled the sled away they stood doubled up knee-deep in the hay with their backs close against the roof. 1. Who had been working on the hay?
2. Would would they have time for?
3. Who thought this?
4. Who needed air?
5. Who flung the grass?
6. What was there more of than normal?
7. What pulled the sled?
8. How was the weather?
9. What type of shingles are there?
10. How tall was the hay when they were done?
numbered_answers: 1. Frank and Harry
2. to get a couple more loads in
3. Harry
4. Frank
5. oxen
6. dust
7. the oxen
8. very hot
9. cedar
10. unknown

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER VIII

Mrs Tom Mackenzie's Dinner Party

Mrs Tom was ever so gracious on the arrival of her sister-in-law, but even in her graciousness there was something which seemed to Margaret to tell of her dislike. Near relatives, when they are on good terms with each other, are not gracious. Now, Mrs Tom, though she was ever so gracious, was by no means cordial. Susanna, however, was delighted to see her aunt, and Margaret, when she felt the girl's arms round her neck, declared to herself that that should suffice for her,--that should be her love, and it should be enough. If indeed, in after years, she could make Jack love her too, that would be better still. Then her mind went to work upon a little marriage scheme that would in due time make a baronet's wife of Susanna. It would not suit her to become Lady Ball, but it might suit Susanna.

"We are going to have a little dinner party to-day," said Mrs Tom.

"A dinner party!" said Margaret. "I didn't look for that, Sarah."

"Perhaps I ought not to call it a party, for there are only one or two coming. There's Dr Slumpy and his wife; I don't know whether you ever met Dr Slumpy. He has attended us for ever so long; and there is Miss Colza, a great friend of mine. Mademoiselle Colza I ought to call her, because her father was a Portuguese. Only as she never saw him, we call her Miss. And there's Mr Rubb,--Samuel Rubb, junior. I think you met him at Littlebath." 1. Who announced they were going to have a dinner party?
2. What was she gracious about?
3. Who was able to pick up her dislike?
4. Who was happy to see her aunt?
5. How many were coming to the party?
6. Who was one of them?
7. Who was another?
8. Where was her father from?
9. What was Mr. Rubb's first name?
10. What chapter is this?
11. What's the title of it?
12. Was Mrs Tom cordial?
13. Who might it suit to be Lady Ball?
14. Was Dr Slumpy their doctor for a long time?
15. And what was Miss Colza considered?
16. What kind of a friend was she though of as?
17. Was Samuel Rubb, Samuel Rubb Sr?
18. What was he?
19. Why were they supposed to call Miss Colza, Mademoiselle Colza?
20. Why do they call her Miss instead?
numbered_answers: 1. Mrs Tom.
2. The arrival of her sister-in-law
3. Margaret
4. Susanna
5. Three.
6. Dr. Slumpy.
7. Miss Colza
8. Portugal
9. Samuel
10. VIII
11. Mrs Tom Mackenzie's Dinner Party
12. No.
13. Susanna.
14. Yes.
15. Mademoiselle Colza
16. A great friend
17. No.
18. Junior
19. Her father was Portuguese.
20. She never saw him

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. One day Mrs Wilson took Trudy and Ben to go shopping. They went to the supermarket in the new shopping mall . "Why do you buy things here, Mum?" Trudy asked. "Because they are cheaper than those at the corner store," Mrs Wilson said. "Help me check the prices." The Wilsons were not wealthy and Mrs Wilson was always careful with her money. She looked carefully at the prices of things. She bought some groceries in the supermarket. When they got home, the children said, "We don't think you saved money by going to the supermarket there." "Of course I did," said Mrs Wilson, "everything was cheap there." "We know," said the children, "but we came home by taxi because we had too much to carry. The cost of the taxi was more than the money you saved!" Mrs Wilson added everything up and found her children were right. "Well done,"she said, "next time we will do shopping near our home." 1. how many people are in the sotry?
2. What are they called?
3. did they stay in the house?
4. did they travel somewhere?
5. where?
6. what did they do there?
7. did they have a great deal of money?
8. did they purchase anything?
9. what?
10. just a few?
11. how many?
12. did they walk back the house?
13. how did they travel?
14. was it free?
numbered_answers:
1. Three
2. Mrs Wilson, Trudy and Ben
3. no
4. yes
5. the supermarket in the new shopping mall
6. checked prices
7. no
8. yes
9. groceries
10. some
11. too much to carry
12. no
13. by taxi
14. no