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

Mr. Oscar Fischer and his friend, Senator Theodore Hastings, stood side by side, a week later, in the bar of one of the most fashionable of New York hotels. They were passing away the few minutes before Pamela and her aunt would be ready to join them in the dining room above.

"Very little news, I fancy," Hastings remarked, glancing at the tape which was passing through his companion's fingers.

"Nothing--of any importance," Fischer replied. "Nothing."

The older man glanced searchingly at his companion, the change in whose tone was ominous. Fischer was standing with the tape in his hand, his eyes glued upon a certain paragraph. The Senator took out his eyeglasses and looked over his friend's shoulder.

"What's this?" he demanded. "Eh?"

Fischer was fighting a great battle and fighting it well.

"Something wrong, apparently, with Frank Roughton," he observed; "an old college friend of mine. They made him Governor of----only last year."

Hastings read the item thoughtfully.

Governor Roughton this morning tendered his resignation as Governor of the State of----. We understand that it was at once accepted. Numerous arrests have taken place with reference to the great explosion at the Bembridge powder factory.

"Looks rather fishy, that," Hastings observed thoughtfully.

"I'm sorry for Roughton," Fischer declared. "He was a perfectly straight man, and I am sure he has done his best."

"Great friend of yours?" the other asked curiously.

"We were intimately acquainted," was the brief answer.

The two men finished their cocktails in silence. On their way upstairs the Senator took his companion's arm. 1. What was the news that morning?
2. Who was Oscar Fischer's friend?
3. Who would be joining them?
4. Where they in the state of Maine?
5. What state were they in?
6. Who was Theodore Hastings?
7. What did Fischer think about Governor Roughton?
8. Did he know him well?
9. Were any arrests made?
10. Did Theodore Hastings have good eye sight?
11. What were the two men doing?
12. When did Roughton become governor?
numbered_answers: 1. Governor Roughton tendered his resignation
2. Theodore Hastings
3. Pamela and her aunt
4. No
5. New York
6. Senator
7. He was a perfectly straight man
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. No
11. finishing cocktails
12. last year

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. One day my dad was walking home and he had a big ice-cream cone. He had chocolate and vanilla and strawberry ice-cream on top of each other. He was moving his head back and forward to some music that he was playing when a spider dropped on his ice-cream for a little bite. My dad saw right away that a spider was on it and he brushed the spider off. After the spider was put on the floor, a fly flew into his ice-cream, right where the spider had been! Oh how terrible! My dad made the spider leave and right after that he saw an alligator come running up to him wanting a bite of his ice-cream too! My dad dropped his cone, ran away, and bought a yoghurt instead. He thought about buying a dingdong, but since dinner time was so close and he had such a big lunch, he thought a yoghurt would be better. It's a much safer and better dessert.

165 words. 1. What was his dad doing one day?
2. with what?
3. Was it big?
4. What kind?
5. What happened to it?
6. why?
7. What did he do?
8. Where did it go?
9. then what?
10. Where?
11. Then what?
12. Doing what?
13. Why?
14. What did he do?
15. And?
16. What else?
17. What did he think of buying?
18. What was close?
19. Did he buy it?
20. Why?
numbered_answers: 1. walking home
2. an ice-cream cone.
3. yes
4. chocolate and vanilla and strawberry
5. a spider dropped on it
6. a little bite
7. e brushed the spider off
8. the floor
9. a fly flew into his ice-cream
10. right where the spider had been
11. He saw an alligator
12. running up to him
13. wanting a bite of his ice-cream
14. dropped his cone
15. ran away
16. he bought a yoghurt
17. a dingdong
18. dinner
19. no
20. he thought a yoghurt would be better

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN)Just how cold and miserable is it in upstate New York?

It's apparently so miserable that even those whose job it is to encourage visits to Ithaca are telling tourists they probably should make other plans.

Web visitors who go to VisitIthaca.com, the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau website, will now see a pop-up banner that says, "That's it. We surrender. Winter, you win. Key West anyone?"

Bruce Stoff, director of the Visitors Bureau, came up with the unconventional marketing campaign.

"It was 5 degrees below zero this morning when I woke up," Stoff said Monday. "Everyone in the Northeast is beaten by winter now, and we're dreaming of being someplace that is warm."

The message goes on to say, "Due to this ridiculously stupid winter, Ithaca invites you to visit the Florida Keys this week. Please come back when things thaw out. Really, it's for the birds here now." It provides a link to the Keys website at fla-keys.com.

A spokesperson for the Florida Keys Tourism Council called the initiative "the wackiest thing I've ever seen in my life from a tourism marketing standpoint."

Andy Newman got a call from Stoff last week pitching the idea and asking for permission to use pictures of the Florida Keys homepage.

This wasn't an advertising campaign, Newman said, and no money was exchanged.

"I didn't believe he'd actually go through with it," Newman said.

But considering the weather conditions in the Keys right now, he understands.

"It's in the 70s, there's no snow and no frost on the ground," Newman said. 1. Who is the director of the Visitors Bureau?
2. Is the weather in upstate New York pleasant?
3. What is the web address for Ithaca tourism?
4. Where do they suggest you visit instead?
5. Who represents Florida Keys tourism?
6. Did any money change hands for the endorsement?
7. What is the weather like in Florida?
8. How cold is it in Ithaca?
9. Why did Stoff contact Newman?
10. Did Newman believe he would actually employ the campaign?
11. What are people in the northeast dreaming about?
12. Did Winter beat Ithaca?
numbered_answers:
1. Bruce Stoff
2. No
3. VisitIthaca.com
4. Florida Keys
5. Andy Newman
6. No
7. It's in the 70s
8. 5 degrees below zero
9. permission to use pictures of the Florida Keys homepage
10. No
11. someplace that is warm
12. Yes