input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Around 1300, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt. A series of famines and plagues, including the Great Famine of 13151317 and the Black Death, reduced the population to around half of what it was before the calamities. Along with depopulation came social unrest and endemic warfare. France and England experienced serious peasant uprisings, such as the Jacquerie and the Peasants' Revolt, as well as over a century of intermittent conflict in the Hundred Years' War. To add to the many problems of the period, the unity of the Catholic Church was shattered by the Western Schism. Collectively these events are sometimes called the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages.

Despite these crises, the 14th century was also a time of great progress in the arts and sciences. Following a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman texts that took root in the High Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance began. The absorption of Latin texts had started before the Renaissance of the 12th century through contact with Arabs during the Crusades, but the availability of important Greek texts accelerated with the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks, when many Byzantine scholars had to seek refuge in the West, particularly Italy. 1. Was the 14th century a time of terrible disaster?
2. how many areas progressed?
3. what areas?
4. When did growth come to a halt in europe?
5. why?
6. what did that do to the people?
7. How many countries had peasant uprisings?
8. name them
9. Who fought the hundred years war
10. What happened to the Roman Catholic Church?
11. by?
12. What language texts were of interest in the high middle ages?
13. what did that start?
14. contact with who has begun the learning of latin texts?
15. During which events?
16. How did Greek texts arrive?
17. Who captured the city?
18. Which scholars sought help elsewhere?
19. Where did they go
20. When was the great famine?
numbered_answers: 1. no
2. Two
3. arts and sciences
4. Around 1300
5. famines and plagues
6. halved the population
7. Two
8. France and England
9. France and England
10. the unity was shattered
11. Western Schism.
12. ancient Greek and Roman texts
13. the Italian Renaissance began
14. Atabs
15. the Crusades,
16. refugees from the fall of Constantinople
17. Ottoman Turks
18. many Byzantine scholars
19. Italy
20. 13151317

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do -- especially in tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. "It's amazing how many candidates _ themselves," he says.

"Resumes arrive with faults. Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I cross out the candidates," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?"

Can we pay too much attention to details? Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees," says Charles Garfield, the professor at the University of California, San Francisco, "We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else."

Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off course 90 percent of the time," says Garfield. "But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary." Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.

Too often we believe what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow. 1. Who is Bob Crosskey?
2. what does he sazy?
3. What do most not bother to do?
4. Do resumnes have faults?
5. What does Garfield say?
6. what does he compare?
7. what do perfectionists struggle with?
8. What must we constantly do?
9. what?
10. who is garfield?
11. what is his last name?
12. Where is the college?
13. what do we do too often?
14. What happens rarely?
15. What happens with little things?
16. what\ type?
17. what should everyone do?
18. especially when?
19. what goes across his desk?
20. how often?
numbered_answers: 1. human-resources expert
2. Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do
3. r to spell the company's name correctly.
4. yes
5. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees,
6. this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA.
7. little things at the cost of something larger they work toward.
8. ask ourselves
9. how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture.
10. the professor at the University of California
11. Charles Garfield,
12. California, San Francisco
13. \ what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break
14. success so mysterious.
15. rewards follow.
16. large
17. Attention to detail
18. in a tight job market.
19. appliocations
20. every day.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Chapter 14

THROUGH THE VALLEY

Sampson looked strangely at the great bloody blot on my breast and his look made me conscious of a dark hurrying of my mind. Morton came stamping up the steps with blunt queries, with anxious mien. When he saw the front of me he halted, threw wide his arms.

"There come the girls!" suddenly exclaimed Sampson. "Morton, help me drag Wright inside. They mustn't see him."

I was facing down the porch toward the court and corrals. Miss Sampson and Sally had come in sight, were swiftly approaching, evidently alarmed. Steele, no doubt, had remained out at the camp. I was watching them, wondering what they would do and say presently, and then Sampson and Johnson came to carry me indoors. They laid me on the couch in the parlor where the girls used to be so often.

"Russ, you're pretty hard hit," said Sampson, bending over me, with his hands at my breast. The room was bright with sunshine, yet the light seemed to be fading.

"Reckon I am," I replied.

"I'm sorry. If only you could have told me sooner! Wright, damn him! Always I've split over him!"

"But the last time, Sampson."

"Yes, and I came near driving you to kill me, too. Russ, you talked me out of it. For Diane's sake! She'll be in here in a minute. This'll be harder than facing a gun."

"Hard now. But it'll--turn out--O.K."

"Russ, will you do me a favor?" he asked, and he seemed shamefaced. 1. Who had remained at the camp?
2. Who carried the narrator indoors?
3. Where did they put him down?
4. In which room?
5. Who was hit hard?
6. Where was the bloody spot?
7. Who looked strangely at it?
8. And who was coming up the steps?
9. What did Sampson shout out?
10. What were the names of the women who were approaching?
11. Did they seem calm?
12. How did they seem?
13. Was the parlor room dark?
14. What was happening to the light?
15. Who was going to be there in a minute?
16. What number chapter is this?
17. What is its title?
18. What was Russ' last name?
19. What did Sampson's look make the narrator conscious of?
20. What did Morton come stamping up the steps with?
numbered_answers:
1. Steele
2. Sampson and Johnson
3. On the couch
4. In the parlor
5. Russ
6. On his breast
7. Sampson
8. Morton
9. "There come the girls!"
10. Miss Sampson and Sally
11. No
12. Alarmed
13. No
14. Seemed to be fading.
15. Diane
16. 14
17. THROUGH THE VALLEY
18. Wright
19. a dark hurrying of my mind.
20. blunt queries,