Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

One day Mrs Black visited her family doctor, Mr Dodd. Mr Dodd was an old funny man with a beard. "What's the problem ?" the doctor asked her. "I am very worried about my son, Jake," Mrs Black said, "I can't stop him from betting. He spends all his money betting on horse races. And even worse he'll bet on everything. It doesn't matter what it is." The doctor said, "I've saved many people from gambling before. Send him to me." The next day Mrs Black sent her son to see the doctor. While they were talking , the boy was looking at the doctor's beard. Suddenly he said, "I bet you $ 50 that your beard is not a real one." "Oh, no, " the doctor said. "Can I pull your beard and find out ?" the boy said. The doctor thought this is a good way to teach him a lesson; so he said, "Ok, if my beard is real , you will have to pay me $ 50." The boy pulled it and soon found out it was real. The doctor laughed. Two days later the doctor telephoned Mrs Black, "I think I've saved your son." He told her the story. But Mrs Black said, "You're wrong. You've made him worse." "How can that be ?" the doctor asked . "Before he went to see you, he bet me $ 100 that you would ask him to pull your beard !" ,.

1. What's the doctor's name?
2. What's his most notable characteristic?
3. What color is it?
4. What's the mother's name?
5. What's the son's name?
6. What's his issue?
7. Why did she send him to the doctor?
8. Did the doctor solve it?
9. How many days passed from the beginning to the end of the story?
10. How much cash had the boy made by the end?
11. What dis he usually make wagers on?
12. Did the doctor volunteer to help with this?
13. Was his beard fake?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Mr Dodd
2. he has a beard
3. unknown
4. Mrs Black
5. Jake
6. gambling
7. he bets on everything
8. no
9. Two
10. $50
11. horse races
12. yes
13. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

A SOIREE WILDLY INTERRUPTED, AND FOLLOWED UP BY SURPRISING REVELATIONS.

One afternoon Captain Lee and Emma called on Mrs Tipps, and found her engaged in earnest conversation with Netta. The captain, who was always in a boiling-over condition, and never felt quite happy except when in the act of planning or carrying out some scheme for the increase of general happiness, soon discovered that Netta was discussing the details of a little treat which she meant to give to the boys and girls of a Sunday-school which she and her mother superintended. With all his penetration he did not, however, find out that the matter which called most for consideration was the financial part of the scheme--in other words, how to accomplish the end desired with extremely limited means. He solved the question for them, however, by asserting that he intended to give all the scholars of all the Sunday-schools in the neighbourhood a treat, and of course meant to include Netta's school among the rest-- unless, of course, she possessed so much exclusive pride as to refuse to join him.

There was no resisting Captain Lee. As well might a red-skin attempt to stop Niagara. When once he had made up his mind to "go in" for something, no mortal power could stop him. He might indeed be _turned_. Another object of interest, worthy of pursuit and judiciously put before him, might perhaps induce him to abandon a previous scheme; but once his steam was up, as John Marrot used to say, you could not get him to blow it off into the air. He was unlike the iron horse in that respect, although somewhat like him in the rigour of his action. Accordingly the thing was fixed. Invitations were sent out to all the schools and to all who took an interest in them, and the place fixed on was a field at the back of Mrs Tipps's villa.

1. Who was irresistible?
2. What is his will compared to?
3. Was he easily swayed?
4. Was it at all possible to sway him?
5. How?
6. Who made an analogy about his will?
7. What was it?
8. What was sent to educational facilities?
9. Who did Lee visit?
10. Was he with anyone?
11. Was anyone else there?
12. When did he feel most satisfied?
13. What had they been talking about?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Captain Lee
2. iron horse
3. No
4. Yes
5. Another object of interest, worthy of pursuit
6. John Marrot
7. once his steam was up, you could not get him to blow it off into the air
8. Invitations
9. Mrs Tipps
10. Netta
11. Emma
12. when in the act of planning or carrying out some scheme for the increase of general happiness
13. the details of a little treat

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Rome (CNN) -- Italian judges released the captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from house arrest Thursday, but ordered him not to leave his home town while the case against him continues, his lawyer said.

Francesco Schettino has been under house arrest in his home town of Meta di Sorrento, near Naples, since January 17.

At least 30 people died when the cruise liner struck rocks and turned on its side off the Italian island of Giglio on January 13.

Schettino faces allegations of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship, failing to report an accident to the coast guard and destroying a natural habitat, a prosecutor said this year. Giglio is a protected park.

Schettino's lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, had argued for the lifting of the restrictions on his client, saying his behavior had been "faultless."

The judge leading the preliminary investigations, Valeria Montesarchio, said it would be easy to keep Schettino under "adequate supervision" in Meta di Sorrento without house arrest because it is a small town, according to court documents released Thursday.

In addition, the months Schettino has spent under house arrest have already produced a "deterrent effect," Montesarchio said.

Concordia disaster focuses attention on how cruise industry operates

The judge also lifted a provision barring Schettino from communicating with anyone apart from his lawyers and family.

From the beginning, Leporatti said, the attitude of the captain had been "totally collaborative, he has spoken on his defense but admitting his responsibilities, without trying to download them on others."

1. Who was allowed to go home?
2. Who is he?
3. Who gave the verdict?
4. What was the verdict?
5. Where he had to stay?
6. Which city?
7. When?
8. What he actually did?
9. Did he do anything to the envronment?
10. What?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Francesco Schettino
2. captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner
3. Italian judges
4. Guilty
5. house arrest
6. Meta di Sorrento
7. January
8. manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship, failing to report an accident to the coast guard and destroying a natural habita
9. Yes
10. destroyed a natural habitat