Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills such as the Blackdown Hills, Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels. There is evidence of human occupation from Paleolithic times, and of subsequent settlement in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The county played a significant part in the consolidation of power and rise of King Alfred the Great, and later in the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion. The city of Bath is famous for its substantial Georgian architecture and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The people of Somerset are mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for AD 845, in the inflected form "Sumurstum", and the county is recorded in the entry for 1015 using the same name. The archaic name Somersetshire was mentioned in the Chronicle's entry for 878. Although "Somersetshire" was in common use as an alternative name for the county, it went out of fashion in the late 19th century, and is no longer used possibly due to the adoption of "Somerset" as the county's official name after the establishment of the county council in 1889. As with other counties not ending in "shire," the suffix was superfluous, as there was no need to differentiate between the county and a town within it.

1. What is one of famous cities in this area?
2. What is it known for?
3. Since when has this area been populated?
4. What is the oldest way it was spelled?
5. When was it written?
6. When else?
7. When did it change to the current way?
8. What are some features of the area?
9. What else?
10. What ruler did it support?
11. And acted in what other events?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Bath
2. its architecture
3. Paleolithic times
4. Sumursaetum
5. 845
6. 1015
7. 1889
8. rolling hills
9. large flat expanses
10. Alfred the Great
11. Engliush Civil War and Monmouth Rebellion

Question: CHAPTER THE THIRD

THE NEW PHASE

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In the course of the next six months the child of the ages became an almost ordinary healthy baby, and Trafford began to think consecutively about his scientific work again--in the intervals of effort of a more immediately practical sort.

The recall of molecular physics and particularly of the internal condition of colloids to something like their old importance in his life was greatly accelerated by the fact that a young Oxford don named Behrens was showing extraordinary energy in what had been for a time Trafford's distinctive and undisputed field. Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men. He had begun as Trafford's pupil and sedulous ape; he had gone on to work that imitated Trafford's in everything except its continual freshness, and now he was ransacking every scrap of suggestion to be found in Trafford's work, and developing it with an intensity of uninspired intelligence that most marvellously simulated originality. He was already being noted as an authority; sometimes in an article his name would be quoted and Trafford's omitted in relation to Trafford's ideas, and in every way his emergence and the manner of his emergence threatened and stimulated his model and master. A great effort had to be made. Trafford revived the drooping spirits of Durgan by a renewed punctuality in the laboratory. He began to stay away from home at night and work late again, now, however, under no imperative inspiration, but simply because it was only by such an invasion of the evening and night that it would be possible to make headway against Behren's unremitting industry. And this new demand upon Trafford's already strained mental and nervous equipment began very speedily to have its effect upon his domestic life. 1. Did the child become ordinary and healthy?
2. Who was doing work?
3. What kind of work?
4. What was he trying to remember about colloids?
5. What subject are they a part of?
6. Who was from Oxford?
7. Was he lazy about his work?
8. What did he show?
9. Was he encroaching on Trafford's territory?
10. Who do people like Behrens frustrate?
11. Who did he learn from?
12. What did Trafford treat him like?
13. Did he mimic Trafford in every manner?
14. Where did it differ?
15. So what was he looking for now?
16. Was he considered an authority?
17. Was Trafford always given credit for what was his own idea?
18. Who would be given credit?
19. Who did Trafford cheer up?
20. How? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. yes
2. Trafford
3. scientific
4. the internal condition
5. molecular physics
6. Behrens
7. no
8. extraordinary energy
9. yes
10. originative men
11. Trafford
12. a sedulous ape
13. no
14. continual freshness
15. unknown
16. yes
17. no
18. Behren
19. Durgan
20. a renewed punctuality in the laboratory

Q: Volleyball has become a worldwide sport that is popular with all age groups, but when did this fun sport start? The history of volleyball dates back to 1895 when William G.Morgan met a Canadian James Naismith, inventor of basketball and was influenced by him and basketball.Then he wanted to invent a new game that was fit for middle-aged men.

Morgan enjoyed the game of basketball, but soon he realized that it was too fast paced for some of the older men.So, he decided to invent a game that was still played on a court , but the players were not required to run up and down--he created the game of "mintonette." Volleyball history shows that the original game of mintonette was played on a full court with a net in the middle.Two teams tossed the ball back and forth over the net, similar to the game of badminton.In order to cut down the equipment costs, the players played the ball with their hands.

The game quickly became popular, and everyone wanted to learn how to play volleyball.It quickly spread to other areas, across the United States, and even to other countries.Several changes were made to the game.

Then specific volleyball rules were set into place.Some of the rules of volleyball included the court size, number of players, and number of hits per team.The rules also stated that players must rotate around the court so that everyone had a turn to serve the ball.Also, a standard volleyball size and shape were decided within a few years.The rules continued to change and adjust throughout the history of volleyball, until the game became what we have today.

Even though volleyball history says that the game was originally created for middle-aged men, the game has become so popular among all kinds of people.Today there are many different kinds of competitive volleyball teams: high school volleyball, college volleyball, women volleyball, men, children, mixed teams, etc.There is an endless amount of possibilities with this game because it is easy to learn, many people can play together, and it can by played indoors or outside.

1. Mintonette
2. Badminton
3. They tossed the ball instead of hitting it.
4. No
5. unknown
6. Middle aged men.
7. Yes
8. unknown
9. Yes
10. Basketball
11. James Naismith
12. Canadian
13. William G. Morgan
14. unknown
15. 1895
16. unknown
17. Making a game that older men could play.
18. No

Numbered questions:
1. What was volleyball originally called?
2. What other game was it very similar to?
3. What was the main difference between it and the game it became?
4. Did it stay in its original country?
5. How many countries did it spread to?
6. Who was it created for?
7. Did it remain popular for that age group?
8. When did the rules evolve to what we consider as volleyball today?
9. Do some schools have volleyball teams?
10. What sport inspired volleyball?
11. Who created that sport?
12. What was his nationality?
13. Who created volleyball?
14. What was his nationality?
15. When did he meet Naismith?
16. What did they talk about?
17. What was one of his primary objective in making the game?
18. Is it difficult to start playing?