input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. "Mom, you should put some of your things away. The house should be safe for the baby," said my son Mark as he walked upstairs with his wife and fifteen-month-old Hannah.

They visited us for the Thanksgiving holiday. After driving all day from Salt Lake to Ft. Collins, his temper showed. "That one finger rule may work with other kids, but never Hannah," he insisted.

When my three granddaughters first moved into our house three years ago, my friend offered me her secret to behave grandchildren. "Teach them the 'one finger rule'." All of her five grandchildren learned it at a young age and it proved to also work well with mine.

I picked up my granddaughter and said, "Well, Mark, just watch." I hugged her and walked all around the great room.

"Hannah, you may touch anything in this room you want, but, you can only use one finger." I showed the technique by touching my forefinger to the sculpture. Hannah followed my example. "Good girl. Now what else would you like to touch?"

She stretched her finger toward the lamp. I allowed her to touch everything in sight, plants, glass objects, TV, VCR, speakers, etc. If she started to grab , I gently reminded her to use one finger. She always obeyed. However, Hannah, an only child, possessed a more adventurous personality. Her father predicted it would prevent her from accepting the "one finger rule".

During their four-day stay, we aided Hannah in remembering "one finger rule". She learned quickly.

Months later, my husband and I drove to Salt Lake. I watched Mark continue to practice the one finger rule. I smiled happily each time he asked Hannah to touch with "one finger". 1. Where does Mark live?
2. What is the one finger rule?
3. What did Hannah touch?
4. Where did the narrator drive later?
5. Why did she smile during the trip?
6. How old is Hannah?
7. Did Mark initially have doubts the one finger rule would work?
8. Is Hanna an only child?
9. What holiday did Mark and his family visit?
10. Is Mark married?
numbered_answers: 1. Salt Lake to Ft. Collins,
2. you may touch anything in this room you want, but, you can only use one finger
3. the lamp
4. Salt Lake
5. she watched Mark continue to practice the one finger rule
6. fifteen-month-old
7. Yes
8. No
9. Thanksgiving
10. Yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- Edgar Hernandez didn't expect to learn that he was pre-diabetic at age 16.

When his mother burst into tears at the doctor's office, it hit him hard. He was 370 pounds and couldn't stand to look at himself.

It was tough being a fat kid, but things became unbearable in high school. Edgar was seeing a therapist for depression symptoms. He was frequently bullied in gym class. Kids would point at his "fat wobbling everywhere," especially as he struggled to keep up.

"I tried my best to ignore it. But there were times when I just gave in and started crying," said Edgar, who lives in a suburb of St. Louis and is now 18.

Everyone in his family had a weight problem; his parents developed type 2 diabetes in their forties. But Edgar was the biggest.

"He would eat two really big burritos or sandwiches a day, packed with cheese, sour cream, a lot of bread, butter," his older brother Mario said. "He would be watching TV, playing video games."

After receiving the sobering blood test result at the doctor's office, Edgar went home and cried. And then something new happened: He owned up to his weight problem.

"It was time to stop blaming others for my choices and make a choice to take responsibility," he said.

He dried his tears, threw on his jacket and began jogging. He only got about half a mile before he stopped and threw up.

That was a year and a half ago. Edgar, who is 5-foot-9, went on to drop nearly 200 pounds. He now weighs 185 pounds. He has traded his double-XL shirts and size 48 pants for medium T-shirts and 33-inch pants. 1. How much did Hernandez weigh?
2. What was he diagnosed with?
3. What did his mother do in the doctor's office?
4. Was he treated well in school?
5. What was his reaction to the bullying?
6. Where does he live?
7. Do his parents have a disease?
8. What is it?
9. How old were they when they were diagnosed?
10. WAs evereyone in his family overweight?
11. Is he the smallest?
12. What's his brother's name?
13. Is he older than Edgar?
14. Did Edgar stop blaming others?
15. How tall is he?
16. How much does he weigh now?
17. What size shirt does he wear now?
18. And before?
19. What size pants now?
20. And before?
numbered_answers: 1. 370 pounds
2. depression
3. burst in to tears
4. No
5. Ignored or cried
6. suburb of St. Louis
7. Yes
8. diabetes
9. in their forties
10. Yes
11. No
12. Mario
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. 5-foot-9,
16. 185 pounds
17. medium
18. ouble-XL shirts
19. 33-inch pants.
20. size 48

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

IN THE MOUNTAINS OF ALASKA

"Sam, I think we are in for a heavy snow to-day."

"I think so myself, Dick. How much further do we go?"

"About two miles," came from Jack Wumble. "I reckon I got a bit off the trail yesterday, but I know I am right now, boys."

"But where is Tom?" came from Sam.

"He must be right ahead of us--if what we have been told is true," answered his brother.

The conversation recorded above took place just ten days after Dick and Sam arrived in Dawson City. During that time the Rover boys and Jack Wumble had spent two days in buying the necessary outfit, to follow Tom and his strange companion to the wild region in Alaska known as Lion Head. The start had been made, and now the three found themselves on a narrow mountain trail in a country that looked to be utterly uninhabited.

For three days they had been close behind Tom and Ike Furner, this being proven by the remains of campfires and other indications. Once they had met some prospectors returning to the Klondyke and these men had told of passing the pair ahead, and that Furner had said they were bound for a spot not many miles from Lion Head called Twin Rocks.

"I never heard o' Twin Rocks before," said Jack Wumble. "But if it is nigh Lion Head we ought to be able to locate it."

"Provided we don't get snowed in before we reach it," returned Sam. 1. Do they think it will snow today?
2. where are they?
3. which town?
4. how long did they spend getting their equipment?
5. who were they following?
6. how did they know they were on the right track?
7. where were they going?
8. did they ,meet anyone on the trail?
9. who?
10. where were they going?
11. had they seen Tom and Ike?
12. Where is Twin Rocks?
13. what had happened to Jack the day before?
14. how much further do they plan on traveling today?
15. What might keep them from finding Twin Rocks?
16. who is traveling with Jack Wumble?
17. what is their last name?
18. were there any towns near them on the trail?
numbered_answers:
1. Yes
2. Alaska
3. Dawson City
4. Two days
5. Tom and Ike Furner
6. Because of remains of campfires and other indications
7. Twin Rocks
8. Yes
9. Prospectors
10. The Klondyke
11. Yes
12. Not many miles from Lion Head
13. He got a bit off the trail
14. About two miles
15. Getting snowed in
16. Dick and Sam
17. Rover
18. No