question: Lots of people make it as their aim to get to the top of Mount Everest. Mark is one of them. The difference between Mark and other climbers is that he lost both his legs when climbing. New Zealand's highest mountain, Mount Cook. He was caught in a big ice hole and he had to have his legs cut below the knees after he was saved. But that couldn't make Mark lose heart, who has become the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest. From the top of the world's highest mountain, Mark called his wife to say he made it. His wife, Anne got the phone when she was sleeping. She couldn't hear him clearly on the phone. She was unable to say when he reached the top but thought it was around mid-day. She also said his "legs" didn't work well sometimes, so her husband was carrying a spare leg and repair tools. Mark used to be a mountain guide before his accident. He said it was not important that no one like him had ever reached the 8850-meter mountain. "I'm not doing this to be the first. I have been climbing most of my life and I just feel Mount Everest is really a great aim. I want to send a message that I can do-anything better."
1. Where Mark wants to go?
2. Do many aspire that?
3. If he reaches there what record he would make?
4. Why he has man-made legs?
5. In what incident?
6. Where?
7. Where is it?
8. Is it the highest there?
9. What he used to do before the accident?
10. Did he really want to climb everest to set a record?
11. What was his thought about that?
12. Does he think his adventurer will send a great message?
13. What would be the message?
14. How high is the Everest?
15. Who did he call from that height?
16. What's her name?
17. What she was doing at that moment?
18. What he told her?
19. Could she hear him properly?
20. Did his "legs" helped him always in climbing Everest?
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answer: 1. the top of Mount Everest
2. yes
3. he would be the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest
4. he had his legs cut after being saved
5. He was caught in a big ice hole
6. Mount Cook
7. New Zealand
8. yes
9. he was a mountain guide
10. no
11. he has been climbing most of my life
12. yes
13. he can do anything better
14. 8850 meters
15. his wife
16. Anne
17. she was sleeping
18. he made it to the top
19. no
20. no

question: Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, and third-largest in the United Kingdom. Historically part of Lanarkshire, the city is now located within the boundaries of Glasgow City Council one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. Inhabitants of the city are referred to as "Glaswegians" or "Weegies".

Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric and royal burgh, and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the fifteenth century, it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. From the eighteenth century onwards, the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies.

With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the population and economy of Glasgow and the surrounding region expanded rapidly to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of chemicals, textiles and engineering; most notably in the shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was the "Second City of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period, although many cities argue the title was theirs.
1. What river is the city on?
2. What are inhabitants referred to?
3. Which city is it?
4. In what nation?
5. What region of the country is the city in?
6. Is it the largest seaport in Britain?
7. What University is there?
8. When was it built?
9. What happened in the 18th century?
10. What trade was Glasgow linked to?
11. with who?
12. who else?
13. When did the population expand rapidly?
14. What was Glasgow a centre for?
15. What else exploded during the Industrial Revolution?
16. What kind of engineering were they into?
17. Is Glasgow by the sea?
18. When was Glasgow called the "Second City of the British Empire?"
19. What City Council is Glasgow in?
20. How many council areas are there?
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answer: 1. River Clyde
2. "Glaswegians"
3. Glasgow
4. Scotland
5. West Central Lowlands
6. yes
7. University of Glasgow
8. in the fifteenth century
9. it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment
10. transatlantic trade
11. with North America
12. the West Indies
13. during the Industrial Revolution
14. chemicals, textiles and engineering
15. shipbuilding and marine engineering industry
16. marine
17. no
18. for much of the Victorian era
19. Glasgow City Council
20. 32 council areas

question: CHAPTER XXV. THE WIGMORE VENUS

The morning was so brilliantly fine; the populace popped to and fro in so active and cheery a manner; and everybody appeared to be so absolutely in the pink, that a casual observer of the city of New York would have said that it was one of those happy days. Yet Archie Moffam, as he turned out of the sun-bathed street into the ramshackle building on the third floor of which was the studio belonging to his artist friend, James B. Wheeler, was faintly oppressed with a sort of a kind of feeling that something was wrong. He would not have gone so far as to say that he had the pip--it was more a vague sense of discomfort. And, searching for first causes as he made his way upstairs, he came to the conclusion that the person responsible for this nebulous depression was his wife, Lucille. It seemed to Archie that at breakfast that morning Lucille's manner had been subtly rummy. Nothing you could put your finger on, still--rummy.

Musing thus, he reached the studio, and found the door open and the room empty. It had the air of a room whose owner has dashed in to fetch his golf-clubs and biffed off, after the casual fashion of the artist temperament, without bothering to close up behind him. And such, indeed, was the case. The studio had seen the last of J. B. Wheeler for that day: but Archie, not realising this and feeling that a chat with Mr. Wheeler, who was a light-hearted bird, was what he needed this morning, sat down to wait. After a few moments, his gaze, straying over the room, encountered a handsomely framed picture, and he went across to take a look at it.
1. What chapter are we on?
2. Is the day dreary?
3. In what city are the happy people?
4. Who turns in to the building?
5. Which floor does he go to?
6. Who lives there?
7. What does he do for a living?
8. Who did he hold accountable for his mental state?
9. And who's she?
10. When did he feel she was acting rummy?
11. Did he have to knock at the studio?
12. Who was there?
13. What did he feel he needed to do with Wheeler?
14. How does he describe the artist?
15. What does he decide to do since the artist's away?
16. What does he see across the room?
17. Does he turn away from it?
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answer:
1. XXV
2. no
3. New York
4. Archie Moffam
5. third
6. James B. Wheeler,
7. he is an artist
8. Lucille
9. his wife
10. that morning
11. no
12. no one
13. chat
14. a light-hearted bird
15. wait
16. a picture
17. no