Question:
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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 eliminate 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 refuse 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?Absolutely not.

Perfectionists struggle over little things instead 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 will influence 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 90percent 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.

Again and again,we see that by doing little things within our grasp well,large rewards follow.
1. Where does Garfield work?
2. What does he do there?
3. Which Apollo mission was he involved with?
4. Was he involved with the Challenger?
5. What made a successful landing of the Apollo II likely?
6. Is it important to know where you want to go?
7. What does that allow us to judge?
8. What's Bob Crossley an expert in?
9. What type of apps does he see every day?
10. How come he sees them?
11. What do candidates do to themselves?
12. What do their resumes arrive with?
13. Can you give an example of one?
14. What does Bob do if he sees a mistake?
15. Does he trust them with a job?
16. What does Bob want them to be able to take care of?
17. Is it possible to pay too much attention to them?
18. Where does Garfield teach?
19. Where's that?
20. Should we care how details influence the larger picture?

Numbered answers:
1. NASA
2. he's a computer scientist
3. The Apollo II
4. unknown
5. they knew the exact position
6. yes
7. the importance of tasks
8. human-resources
9. job applications
10. it's part of his job
11. eliminate themselves
12. faults
13. spell the company's name wrong
14. refuses the candidates
15. no
16. details
17. Absolutely not
18. University of California
19. San Francisco
20. yes

Question:
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CHAPTER IV

And instead of 'dearest Miss,' Jewel, honey, sweetheart, bliss, And those forms of old admiring, Call her cockatrice and siren.--C. LAMB

The ladies of the house were going to a ball, and were in full costume: Eloisa a study for the Arabian Nights, and Lucilla in an azure gossamer-like texture surrounding her like a cloud, turquoises on her arms, and blue and silver ribbons mingled with her blonde tresses.

Very like the clergyman's wife!

O sage Honor, were you not provoked with yourself for being so old as to regard that bewitching sprite, and marvel whence comes the cost of those robes of the woof of Faerie?

Let Oberon pay Titania's bills.

That must depend on who Oberon is to be.

Phoebe, to whom a doubt on that score would have appeared high treason, nevertheless hated the presence of Mr. Calthorp as much as she could hate anything, and was in restless anxiety as to Titania's behaviour. She herself had no cause to complain, for she was at once singled out and led away from Miss Charlecote, to be shown some photographic performances, in which Lucy and her cousin had been dabbling.

'There, that horrid monster is Owen--he never will come out respectable. Mr. Prendergast, he is better, because you don't see his face. There's our school, Edna Murrell and all; I flatter myself that _is_ a work of art; only this little wretch fidgeted, and muddled himself.'

'Is that the mistress? She does not look like one.'

'Not like Sally Page? No; she would bewilder the Hiltonbury mind. I mean you to see her; I would not miss the shock to Honor. No, don't show it to her! I won't have any preparation.'
1. Hwere were the ladies of the house going?
2. who hated the presence of Mr. Calthorp?
3. what was she led away from Miss charlecote to be shown?
4. Were the ladies dressed in costume for the ball?
5. Who was dressed like a person in a story from Arabian nights?
6. Was the other dressed like a clergymans wife?
7. who was mentioned to pay Titania's bills?
8. Who's behaviour did Phoebe have anxiety about?
9. How is Owen described in the story?
10. Was it thought he would come out respectable?

Numbered answers:
1. to a ball
2. Phoebe
3. photographic performances
4. yes
5. Eloisa
6. yes
7. Oberon
8. Titania's
9. horrid monster
10. no

Question:
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Boston (CNN)It was 9:35 on a slow Thursday night in April 2013 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Chief John DiFava was about to call it quits. On his way out, he saw one of his rookie swing-shift officers, Sean Collier, sitting in his cruiser. He stopped to say goodnight.

"I chatted with him for a few minutes. I told him to be safe and I left," the chief told a crowded courtroom on Wednesday. He estimated the conversation lasted three, maybe four minutes.

"Did you ever see Sean Collier alive again after that?" Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb asked.

"I did not."

Less than an hour later, Collier lay bleeding in his patrol car after being ambushed and shot in the head. His car door was open, and his foot was lodged between the gas and brake pedals.

DiFava and other officers, assisted by surveillance videos, 911 callers and a lone bicyclist who happened to be passing by, recounted Collier's last moments in the death penalty trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The bicyclist, MIT mathematics Ph.D. candidate Nathan Harman, pointed to Tsarnaev in court and identified him as the man with "a big nose," who he saw leaning into Collier's squad car. He said Tsarnaev appeared to be alone.

Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time, does not dispute that he was present when Collier was killed on the evening of April 18, nor does he deny that he participated in the bombings three days earlier that killed three people and hurt more than 240 others.
1. What time was it?
2. What day of the week?
3. Night or day?
4. Who is Assistant U.S. Attorney
5. Who did he talk about
6. What month was it?
7. What year?
8. What city?
9. Was John DiFava a Police Chief
10. Where?
11. Who is Sean Collier
12. Is he dead?
13. Who is Nathan Harman
14. Does he bicycle?
15. Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
16. How many people did he injure?
17. How many people did he kill?
18. What was the date of that?
19. How old was the bomber?
20. What was the date when Collier died?
Numbered answers:
1. 9:35
2. Thursday
3. night
4. William Weinreb
5. Sean Collier
6. April
7. 2013
8. Boston
9. yes
10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11. a police office
12. yes
13. an MIT mathematics Ph.D. candidate
14. yes
15. the Boston Marathon bomber
16. more than 240
17. three
18. April 15
19. 19
20. April 2013