Q: CHAPTER XIX

WHAT HAPPENED TO TOM AND SAM

Let us return to Tom and Sam, at the time they were left alone at Binoto's hostelry.

"I wish we had gone with Dick and Uncle Randolph," said Tom, as he slipped into his coat and shoes. "I don't like this thing at all."

"Oh, don't get scared before you are hurt, Tom!" laughed his younger brother. "These people out here may be peculiar, but --"

Sam did not finish. A loud call from the woods had reached his ears, and in alarm he too began to dress, at the same time reaching for his pistol and the money belt which Randolph Rover had left behind.

"I -- I guess something is wrong," he went on, after a pause. "If we -"

"Tom! Sam! look out fo' yourselves!" came from Aleck, and in a second more the negro, burst on their view. "Come, if yo' is dressed!" he added.

"Where to?" asked Tom hurriedly.

"Anywhar, Massah Tom. De others is took prisoners! Come!" And Aleck almost dragged the boy along.

The Rover boys could readily surmise that Aleck would not act in this highly excited manner unless there was good cause for it. Consequently, as Sam said afterward, "They didn't stand on the order of their going, but just flew." Pell-mell out of the hostelry they tumbled, and ran up the highway as rapidly as their nimble limbs would permit.

They heard several men coming after them, and heard the command "Halt!" yelled after them in both French and bad English. But they did not halt until a sudden tumble on Tom's part made the others pause in dismay.

1. No
2. Sam
3. Yes
4. Brothers
5. loud call
6. Aleck
7. negro
8. took prisoners
9. Rover
10. Binoto's hostelry
11. several men
12. yes
13. Randolph Rover
14. No
15. French and bad English

Numbered questions:
1. Was Tom getting undressed?
2. Who was he talking to?
3. Are they related?
4. How?
5. What did they hear in the forest?
6. Who arrived to warn them?
7. What race was he?
8. What did he say occurred to the rest of them?
9. What was the sibling's last name?
10. Where were they going to leave from?
11. How many men fell on their tracks?
12. Did they tell the brothers to stop?
13. Whose money belt did they have?
14. Did the men chasing them speak the same tongue?
15. In which did they speak?

Q: Ron loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the following year. As Ron was walking to the game, a car hit him so hard that he was thrown three feet into the air. Ron woke up in a hospital room. When he learned that both his legs were broken, he realized his college basketball dreams were over. Ron did what the doctors told him, but his progress was slow. When he left the hospital, Ron was sent to a health center for physical treatment. A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny. Sunny was a coach.His legs were hurt paralysed from a skiing accident. Even though he couldn't move his legs, Sunny coached of a basketball team called the Suns. Everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself. After becoming a part of the Suns, Ron improved quickly. Basketball was like medicine for him. And whenever Ron became depressed or angry, Sunny was there to encourage and help him. The day before Ron left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he managed to be generous and cheerful, even with his paralysis. Sunny smiled and said, "It's really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows fall behind."

1. Ron
2. playing college basketball
3. Yes
4. unny
5. center for physical treatmen
6. coach
7. Yes
8. No
9. His legs were hurt paralysed
10. skiing accident

Numbered questions:
1. who is the main character?
2. what did he want to do next year?
3. did he meet someone?
4. who?
5. where?
6. what was his profession?
7. was he ambulatory?
8. that means can he walk, was he ambulatory?
9. why not?
10. how?

Q: My name is Lisa.I have a bird.She is white.So I call her Xiaobai.Xiaobai is only two years old.She's not big.But she is beautiful and clever.She can speak. One day I go shopping with my sister Gina and Xiaobai.At Green Clothes Store Gina sees a red skirt and says, "Look! Lisa! That red skirt is very beautiful." Xiaobai answers her instead of me, "No.I think you look nice in that green skirt." Gina says, "OK.I listen to you." Then she asks the shop assistant, "How much is the green one?" The shop assistant looks at Xiaobai, opens her mouth but says nothing.At last she says to Gina, "I never see a bird that can speak these words.It's great! You can take this green skirt.Oh, you don't need to pay for it." Gina is very happy.She asks me and my bird to have a big lunch in Leo's Restaurant and then we go home.

1. Xiaobai.
2. White.
3. Yes
4. yes
5. Shopping
6. Nothing
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. No.
10. Gina and Xiaobai.
11. My sister
12. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. What is your bird's name?
2. what color isshe?
3. can she talk?
4. do you take her outside with you?
5. where did you take her?
6. what did you buy that day?
7. can you take your bird into stores?
8. how about restaurants?
9. did you go shopping alone?
10. who did you go with?
11. who is Gina?
12. Did Gina have fun that day?

Q: (CNN) -- Barcelona will meet arch-rival Real Madrid in the semifinal of the Copa del Rey after Leo Messi fired the Catalans past Malaga Thursday.

The Argentina international scored his 40th goal of the season as Barca claimed a 4-2 win to prevail 6-4 on aggregate and set up two more 'El Clasico' games.

It will give Barcelona, which is top of La Liga, the opportunity to avenge its defeat by Jose Mourinho's men in the 2010 final.

Messi and Ronaldo ensure honors shared in 222nd El Clasico

With Real trailing Barca by 15 points in the league, Mourinho will be desperate to regain the trophy which Pep Guardiola lifted in his final game in charge at the Camp Nou last season.

But if the current Spanish champions are to triumph, they will have to stop Messi and his accomplices, who continue to prosper despite the absence of coach Tito Vilanova.

Vilanova, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, left deputy Jordi Roura in charge, but it made little difference as Barca continued its hot streak.

The statistics are frightening. Barcelona have now scored 100 goals in its 34 goals this season.

It is the fourth year in succession that Messi has reached the 40-goal mark, while his late header also made it 23 goals in his past 15 starts.

With the tie level at 2-2 going into the second leg, Barcelona made the perfect start when Pedro headed home after just eight minutes.

Messi leads Barcelona to new record

But Malaga fought back and Joaquin equalized four minutes later with a neat finish following wonderful interplay.

1. unknown
2. Barcelona and Real Madrid
3. no
4. the semifinal
5. Barcelona
6. Jose Mourinho's men
7. Vilanova
8. Jordi Roura i
9. Mourinho
10. 100
11. the 40-goal mark
12. 23
13. 15
14. Barcelona
15. unknown
16. in 222nd El Clasico

Numbered questions:
1. What sport is the story about?
2. What teams are mentioned?
3. Will they meet in the final?
4. What will the match be?
5. Who was in the 2010 final?
6. Who beat them?
7. Who has cancer?
8. Who takes his place?
9. What team do they coach?
10. How many goals has Barcelona scored?
11. What has Messi accomplished?
12. How many has he scored recently?
13. in how many starts?
14. What team does he lead?
15. What team does Ronaldo play for?
16. What honor did he share?