question: CHAPTER XV

AN AUTOMOBILING ADVENTURE

"What did you run over?" asked Sam.

"Look for yourself," returned his big brother. "This is an outrage! I wish I could catch the party responsible for it," he added bitterly.

Dick had stopped the touring car in the midst of a quantity of broken glass bottles. The glass covered the road from side to side, and had evidently been put there on purpose.

"Say, do you think that chauffeur had anything to do with this?" demanded Tom.

"Hardly," answered Dick. "If his story about the fire was not true he'd know he'd be found out."

"Maybe it was done by some country fellow who is running an auto repair shop," suggested Sam. "I've heard of such things being done--when business was dull."

"Well, we'll have to fix the tire, that is all there is to it," said the oldest Rover. "Might as well get out while we are doing it," he added to the girls.

"Lucky you stopped when you did," said Tom as he walked around the machine. "If you hadn't we might have had all four tires busted."

"What a contemptible trick to play," said Dora as she alighted,

"Can you mend the tire?" asked Nellie as she, too, got out, followed by her sister.

"Oh, yes, we can mend it--or rather put on another," said Dick. "But we'll examine all the tires first," he added, taking off a lamp for that purpose.

It was found that each tire had some glass in it, and the bits were picked out with care. While this was going on Dick suddenly swung the lamp around so that its rays struck through the trees and bushes lining the roadway.
1. Is Sam an only child?
2. Does he have a sister?
3. Does he have a brother?
4. What's his name?
5. Why did the car stop?
6. Why were they in the road?
7. Do they know who did it?
8. Who do they suspect?
9. Are all of the tires destroyed?
10. Any of them?
11. Was there glass in more than one tire?
12. How many?
13. What did they do about that?
14. How does Dick feel when he runs over the glass?
15. What does he yearn to do?
16. What did the chauffeur tell a story about?
17. When might an repair store owner do it?
18. Are there girls in the car?
19. What are their names?
20. What does Nellie want to know?
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answer: 1. No
2. unknown
3. Yes
4. Dick
5. They ran over broken glass bottles.
6. They were put there on purpose
7. No
8. An auto repair shop owner
9. No
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. All of them
13. they picked out the glass
14. Angry
15. catch the party responsible
16. the fire
17. when business was dull
18. Yes
19. Dora and Nellie
20. If the tire can be mended

Hello Sandy, We have just returned form our holiday. We went with our friends,Edward Smith and his wife Tina, to the Yorkshire Moors. It is a beautiful natural park. There are lots of places to walk on the tops of the hills,miles of grassland with no people,just sheep and birds. Edward had just come out of hospital and he could not walk as far as before. However, this meant that we walked in the mornings, and then stopped at a restaurant for lunch each day before returning to the place we lived in. Edward and I slept in front of the fire all afternoon, while the ladies went for another walk. Very pleasant! I took lots of photos from the place we lived in, across the valley below us, of the morning sunrise, and the mist in the valley. Also, in England, the old steam-powered trains are very popular. I took many photos of the train. Yesterday we had the first snow of this winter. It is very early. We usually have snow in January. It rained all day, then snowed in the evening .Today we have bright sunshine! Both Jenny and I are well. I don't know if I told you, in the last e-mail , that Jenny is now working in a hotel. Although she has to work hard, people there are nice, and she is enjoying the work. Please write to us to tell us your news. Yours, Victor What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is this letter addressed to?
2. And who is it from?
3. Where did Victor vacation to?
4. Did he go alone?
5. Who was he with?
6. What is the Yorkshire Moors?
7. What can you do there?
8. Is it crowded?
9. What kinds of animals are there?
10. Did Edward do a lot of walking?
11. Why not?
12. What did they do in the morning?
13. And in the afternoon?
14. Where?
15. Aside from walking, what other hobby did Victor partake in?
16. What did he photograph?
17. Anything else?
18. What kind of train was it?
19. What kind of weather did they have yesterday?
20. What about today?
Answer: 1. Sandy.
2. Victor.
3. The Yorkshire Moors.
4. No.
5. Edward Smith and his wife Tina.
6. A beautiful natural park.
7. There are lots of places to walk.
8. No.
9. Sheep and birds
10. He could not walk as far as before.
11. Edward had just come out of hospital.
12. They walked.
13. They slept.
14. In front of the fire.
15. Took photos
16. The sunrise.
17. The train.
18. Old steam-powered.
19. It snowed.
20. Sunshine!

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Korean is considered one of the hardest languages in the world to master, but an elephant in a South Korean zoo is making a good start.

Koshik, a 22-year-old Asian elephant has stunned experts and his keepers at Everland Zoo near Seoul by imitating human speech. Koshik can say the Korean words for "hello," "sit down," "no," "lie down" and "good." His trainer, Kim Jong Gap, first started to realize Koshik was mimicking him several years ago.

""In 2004 and 2005, Kim didn't even know that the human voice he heard at the zoo was actually from Koshik," zoo spokesman In Kim In Cherl said. "But in 2006, he started to realize that Koshik had been imitating his voice and mentioned it to his boss."

Why do elephants have hair on their heads?

His boss initially called him "crazy."

Koshik's remarkable antics grabbed the interest of an elephant vocalization expert thousands of kilometers away at the University of Vienna in Austria.

""There was a YouTube video about Koshik vocalizing, and I was not sure if it was a fake, or if it was real," Dr. Angela Stoeger-Horwath said. She traveled with fellow expert Dr. Daniel Mietchen to South Korea in 2010 to test the elephant's ability. They recorded Koshik repeating certain words his keeper said and then played them for native Korean speakers to see, if they were recognizable.

"It is, for some of the sounds he makes, quite astonishing for how similar they are," said Mietchen of the University of Jena in Germany. "For instance the word 'choa' (meaning good) -- if you hear it right after what the keeper says -- it's quite similar." 1. What grabbed expert's interest?
numbered_answers:
1. unknown