Q: A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate with the fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity. Soviet aircraft carriers now in use by Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers, these ships while sized in the range of large fleet carriers were designed to deploy alone or with escorts and provide both strong defensive weaponry and heavy offensive missiles equivalent to a guided missile cruiser in addition to supporting fighters and helicopters.

Answer the following questions:
1. who is the fleet carrier meant to work with
2. what do they provide
3. what were escort carriers made for?
4. what are the ones used by Russia called?
5. what were they designed for?
6. what did they support?
7. which is the fastest?
8. why do the light aircrafts of a smaller size?
9. who uses the Soviet carriers now?
10. what is added on top?
A: 1. main fleet
2. an offensive capability.
3. to provide defense for convoys of ships.
4. called heavy aviation cruisers
5. were designed to deploy alone or with escorts
6. fighters and helicopters.
7. A fleet carrier
8. reduced aircraft capacity
9. Russia
10. flight deck
Q: "Lizzie, there's a letter for you!" Emily called up the stairs to her sister. Elizabeth looked down. "Is it from Harvard? They refused my application once." Emily answered, "No, it's from Yale." Quickly, Elizabeth walked downstairs. She took the letter and opened it. "Rejected again," Elizabeth said unhappily. "Who says women can't be doctors?"

"They are fools not to accept you. You can't let them stop you, Lizzie," Emily said.

"I won't. I'll apply to Geneva Medical College," Elizabeth told her sister. As it turned out, the professors at Geneva Medical College were not fools. They allowed Elizabeth Blackwell to study medicine.

In 1848, a year before Elizabeth would graduate, a typhoid epidemic broke out in New York. Elizabeth wrote to Emily. "There's an outbreak of typhoid, and I am going to help. It is dangerous, so if I should not survive, please do me the honor of studying medicine yourself."

Emily replied, "Encouraged by your dream and success, I have decided to study in medical school, as well."

Having survived the disease, Elizabeth tried to set up a private medical practice. "I graduated first in my class but no one believes a woman can be a good doctor," she said to Emily one day. "All I hear is that doctors should be men, while women should stay home to cook and clean."

Emily said worriedly, "I will graduate in June with my medical degree. What shall we do?" Elizabeth thought for a while and replied, "There's a big house in the poor part of our town. We can practice medicine there for people who couldn't afford care."

Soon with the help of some friends, Elizabeth and Emily bought the house and opened a hospital for poor women and children. "We'll have an all-women staff ," Elizabeth said. "And later, we'll add a medical college for women!" Emily added. At last, Elizabeth realized her dream of being a doctor.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was the goal to become a nurse?
2. What was it then?
3. Who's dream was it?
4. and did she encourage another to follow in her footsteps?
5. Who?
6. What was their relationship?
7. What was the illness that was widespread?
8. Did either of them contract it?
9. Who was the letter from?
10. Was it a correspondence of acceptance?
11. Where did she eventually attend?
12. In that era what were females expected to do?
13. When was the sister to graduate from university?
14. What was the plan to practice as in what people?
15. was their building in the ritzy part of town?
16. where was it?
A: 1. no
2. doctor
3. Elizabeth
4. yes
5. Emily
6. sisters
7. typhoid
8. no
9. Yale.
10. no
11. Geneva Medical College
12. cook and clean
13. in June
14. poor women and children.
15. no
16. in the poor part of our town
Q: CHAPTER XIII.

On the next morning Michel Voss and his son met in the kitchen, and found Marie already there. 'Well, my girl,' said Michel, as he patted Marie's shoulder, and kissed her forehead, 'you've been up getting a rare breakfast for these fellows, I see.' Marie smiled, and made some good-humoured reply. No one could have told by her face that there was anything amiss with her. 'It's the last favour of the kind he'll ever have at your hands,' continued Michel, 'and yet he doesn't seem to be half grateful.' George stood with his back to the kitchen fire, and did not say a word. It was impossible for him even to appear to be pleasant when such things were being said. Marie was a better hypocrite, and, though she said little, was able to look as though she could sympathise with her uncle's pleasant mirth. The two men had soon eaten their breakfast and were gone, and then Marie was left alone with her thoughts. Would George say anything to his father of what had passed up-stairs on the previous evening?

The two men started, and when they were alone together, and as long as Michel abstained from talking about Marie and her prospects, George was able to converse freely with his father. When they left the house the morning was just dawning, and the air was fresh and sharp. 'We shall soon have the frost here now,' said Michel, 'and then there will be no more grass for the cattle.'

Answer the following questions:
1. Where did Michel meet someone?
2. Who was already there?
3. Who did he plan on meeting?
4. What was his name?
5. Did he seem thankful for breakfast?
6. Was he talkative?
7. What subject did Michel avoid talking about with George?
8. When did an event happen with Marie and George?
9. How was Michel related to Marie?
10. Who was described as a hypocrite?
11. When did the men leave home?
12. How was the weather?
13. What would the cattle soon lose?
14. Due to what?
A:
1. in the kitchen
2. Marie
3. his son
4. George
5. no
6. no
7. Marie and her prospects
8. the previous evening
9. he's her uncle
10. Marie
11. after breakfast
12. cool
13. grass
14. frost