Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Once there was a fish who had lived his whole life in his bowl. He often got bored and wished to see the rest of the world, but because he was a fish, he couldn't leave the water. So one day he made a special fish suit that would allow him to walk on land and breathe air like humans. He knew this would change his life, and make him rich, but first he would have to test it out.

He put the suit on and leaped from the bowl that until now had been his whole world. The suit worked! Now he could go where he wanted.

First he went to the kitchen of the house. There he saw a parrot eating a cracker. Second he went outside to the yard. He saw squirrels there running around looking for food. Third he went to the barn in the field. He saw a mommy cow. She was teaching her calf how to run. Finally he went to forest where he saw more trees than he had ever seen in his whole life.

But after all this he was tired, and made up his mind to go back to his home in the bowl. It was a lot of work trying to see the world. He took off the special suit and splashed back into the water. His suit had passed the test and he was very happy, but he had made up his mind that his bowl was the place for him.

1. Where did the fish live?
2. For how long?
3. Did he find that exciting?
4. So how'd he feel?
5. And what did he want to do?
6. Could he?
7. Why?
8. Why not?
9. So what'd he do to change that?
10. What'd it do?
11. And what else?
12. Like who?
13. What'd he know?
14. But what'd he have to do first?
15. Did the suit work?
16. Where could he now go?
17. So where'd he go first?
18. What'd he see there?
19. Doing what?
20. Where did he go next?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. in his bowl.
2. his whole life
3. No
4. He often got bored
5. see the rest of the world
6. No
7. he couldn't leave the water.
8. because he was a fish
9. he made a special fish suit
10. allow him to walk on land
11. breathe air
12. humans
13. this would change his life, and make him rich
14. test it out
15. Yes
16. where he wanted
17. the kitchen of the house
18. a parrot
19. eating a cracker
20. outside to the yard.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students learn and some teachers teach.

More than one hundred seventy-five thousand students attend the public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last year, the school system used digital books in fifteen schools. This school year, middle schools and high schools changed from printed to electronic textbooks in their social studies classes.

Luke Rosa is a history teacher at Falls Church High School. His students work on laptop computers at school. He explains the idea to them this way. "I mean, it's just like a regular textbook, except it's got it all online."

Peter Noonan, an assistant superintendent of schools, said, "The world's changing. And the online textbooks can change right along with the events that are happening." Digital books also cost less than printed textbooks, he said.

A student named Melanie Reuter said, "I don't have to carry a textbook around, so that's nice."

But another student said, "I don't like it because the Internet sometimes doesn't work."

Students also need access to the Internet when they are not at school. About ten percent of students in Fairfax Country do not have a computer or online access at home. Public libraries in the country have free Internet. There are also after-school computer labs as well as computer clubhouse supported by the country. Middle school student Slieman Hakim is happy about that. He said, "My family only has one computer; my sister and I both do our homework on it. So I come here to do my homework. It's good."

Other school systems in the area are also considering online textbooks.

1. What is having an impact on education?
2. How does Melanie feel about them?
3. Why?
4. Does anyone mention a downside?
5. What is it?
6. Who teaches history?
7. Where?
8. What does the superintendant like about them?
9. Can they be updated more easily?
10. How many kids attend school in Fairfax county?
11. What state is it located in?
12. How many schools had digital text books last year?
13. Is anyone getting them this year?
14. Who?
15. For all courses?
16. Which one?
17. Do people use them for reading other things?
18. Is the school located in Washington?
19. Is it near there?
20. Who has students who work on computers in class?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Now online textbooks
2. She likes it
3. She doesn't have to carry a textbook around
4. Yes
5. because the Internet sometimes doesn't work
6. Luke Rosa
7. Falls Church High School
8. Digital books also cost less than printed textbooks
9. Yes
10. one hundred seventy-five thousand
11. Virginia
12. fifteen
13. Yes
14. middle schools and high schools
15. No
16. social studies
17. Yes
18. No
19. Yes
20. Luke Rosa

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Chapter 13: An Abortive Attack.

Three weeks passed. James kept his men steadily at work, and even the scouts allowed that they made great progress. Sometimes they went out in two parties, with an officer and a scout to each, and their pouches filled with blank cartridge. Each would do its best to surprise the other; and, when they met, a mimic fight would take place, the men sheltering behind trees, and firing only when they obtained a glimpse of an adversary.

"I did not think that these pipe-clayed soldiers could have been so spry," Nat said to James. "They have picked up wonderfully, and I wouldn't mind going into an Indian fight with them. They are improving with their muskets. Their shooting yesterday wasn't bad, by no means. In three months' time, they will be as good a lot to handle as any of the companies of scouts."

Besides the daily exercises, the company did scouting work at night, ten men being out, by turns, in the woods bordering the lake. At one o'clock in the morning, on the 19th of March, Nat came into the officers' tent.

"Captain," he said, "get up. There's something afoot."

"What is it, Nat?" James asked, as he threw off his rugs.

"It's the French, at least I don't see who else it can be. It was my turn tonight to go round and look after our sentries. When I came to Jim Bryan, who was stationed just at the edge of the lake, I said to him, 'Anything new, Jim?' and he says, 'Yes; seems to me as I can hear a hammering in the woods.' I listens, and sure enough axes were going. It may be some three miles down. The night is still, and the ice brought the sound.

1. What did James do with his people?
2. Were they progressing well?
3. Was the fighting between them real?
4. Did they shoot real bullets?
5. What was in their bags?
6. What did they do when night fell?
7. Where did they keep watch?
8. Is it evening when Nat wakes James?
9. What time is it?
10. Was James sleeping?
11. What position does he hold?
12. Does Nat believe the men will be skilled after a few months?
13. Who would he fight with them at his side?
14. Who was in the woods with them?
15. Who heard them?
16. What did they detect?
17. How far away?
18. Was it cold?
19. What did Nat call the others?
20. Were they agile?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. He kept them at work
2. Yes
3. No
4. No
5. blank cartridges
6. scouting work
7. in the woods bordering the lake
8. No
9. one o'clock in the morning
10. Yes
11. Captain
12. Yes
13. Indians
14. The French
15. Nat and Jim
16. Hammering in the woods
17. Three miles
18. Yes
19. pipe-clayed soldiers
20. Yes