Problem: CHAPTER IX

THE SMITING OF AMON

That evening I sat ill at ease in my work-chamber in Seti's palace, making pretence to write, I who felt that great evils threatened my lord the Prince, and knew not what to do to turn them from him. The door opened, and old Pambasa the chamberlain appeared and addressed me by my new titles, saying that the Hebrew lady Merapi, who had been my nurse in sickness, wished to speak with me. Presently she came and stood before me.

"Scribe Ana," she said, "I have but just seen my uncle Jabez, who has come, or been sent, with a message to me," and she hesitated.

"Why was he sent, Lady? To bring you news of Laban?"

"Not so. Laban has fled away and none know where he is, and Jabez has only escaped much trouble as the uncle of a traitress by undertaking this mission."

"What is the mission?"

"To pray me, if I would save myself from death and the vengeance of God, to work upon the heart of his Highness, which I know not how to do----"

"Yet I think you might find means, Merapi."

"----save through you, his friend and counsellor," she went on, turning away her face. "Jabez has learned that it is in the mind of Pharaoh utterly to destroy the people of Israel."

"How does he know that, Merapi?"

"I cannot say, but I think all the Hebrews know. I knew it myself though none had told me. He has learned also that this cannot be done under the law of Egypt unless the Prince who is heir to the throne and of full age consents. Now I am come to pray you to pray the Prince not to consent."
1. What is the title of the chapter?
2. Where does the story open?
3. What is the author trying to do?
4. Who entered the room?
5. Who was she?
6. What did summons did she bring?
7. What was the new title of the woman summoned?
Answer: 1. THE SMITING OF AMON
2. The work-chamber in Seti's palace
3. making pretence to write
4. Pambasa
5. The chamberlain
6. the Hebrew lady Merapi wished to speak with me.
7. Scribe Ana

Problem: (CNN) -- The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California interstate.

It took the California Highway Patrol to bring the car safely to a stop.

The driver, Jim Sikes, said he was traveling east on Interstate 8 outside of the San Diego area when he attempted to pass a slower vehicle.

"I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny ... and it just stuck there," he said at a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office. "As I was going, I was trying the brakes ... and it just kept speeding up."

Sikes said he called 911 for help, and dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car. But nothing worked.

At one point, Sikes said he reached down to try to pull the accelerator up, but it "stayed right where it was."

Alerted by emergency dispatchers, a California Highway Patrol officer was able to catch up to Sikes' Prius and used the patrol car's public address system to instruct Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time.

The tactic worked, and the car slowed to about 50 mph. Sikes said he was able to shut off the car, and it rolled to a stop. The responding officer, Todd Neibert, positioned his patrol car in front of the Prius as a precaution to prevent it from moving again.
1. Who called 911?
2. Why?
3. What make and model?
4. Where?
5. What road?
6. Who helped?
7. What did they do?
8. Anything else?
9. Did the patrolman do anything else?
10. What was he doing when it malfunctioned?
11. What was he attempting?
Answer: 1. Jim Sikes
2. His car's accelerator became stuck
3. Toyota Prius
4. California
5. A southern California interstate.
6. The California Highway Patrol
7. They instructed Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time
8. dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car
9. He positioned his patrol car in front of the Prius
10. He pushed the gas pedal to pass a car
11. To pass a car

Problem: Golf in the USA was until quite recently the hobby of old,middle class white men.Not any more.The fact that the class,age and race barriers that existed in the sport have finally been broken down is due almost entirely to two people.Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie.

Tiger Woods was born in California in 1975 and is one of the greatest golfers of all time.His ethnic background is marvelously rich and varied.His father Earl was of mixed of black,Chinese and Native American ancestry and his mother Kultida,who was originally from Thailand,also had Chinese and Dutch forefathers.

Woods became a professional golfer in 1996 and,less than a year later,astonished the world easily winning the prestigious Masters Colf Tournament,an annual event which takes place at the Augusta Golf Club in Georgia,USA.At 21,he was the youngest golfer ever to win the tournament,but much more important,he was also the first Asian American to do it.

Woods'amazing achievement is put into perspective when you realize that until 1990,no non-white American had ever been allowed to join Augusta Golf Club.Even in 2000,it only had two black members.In fact,in 1977,Clifford Roberts,the chairman of the club and founder of the Masters Tournament,proclaimed:"As long as 1 am alive,golfers will be white and caddies

will be black."Roberts died not long after making this racist remark...

Fortunately,his views were not shared by his successors and the dramatic appearance of Tiger Woods on the Golf scene radically changed attitudes to the sport and prompted a major surge of interest in the game among ethnic minorities end young people in the USA.

Michelle Wie,a Korean American born in 1989 whose mother was an amateur golf champion in Korea,will probably became the greatest woman golfer of all time.She's 1.85 meters tall and she can play a golf ball further than most men.Like Woods,she has transformed the world of golf,and wants to do so in even more dramatic ways.She has expressed her determination to play on the men's tournament circuit,not just the women's,and has already appeared in several professional men's tournaments.

Thanks to Woods and Wie,golf in America will never be the same again.
1. In what year was Tiger Woods born?
2. In what state?
3. What sport does he play?
4. Is he mixed race?
5. What racial background does his father have?
6. And his mother?
7. From what country is she?
8. What is her name?
9. In what year did Woods start his career in golfing?
10. Did he win a big award within a year of that?
11. Where does it take place?
12. How old was Woods at this time?
13. Was he the first Asian American to win it?
14. Who was chairman of the Augusta Golf Club?
15. What tournament did he establish?
16. In what year was Michelle Wie born?
17. What nationality is she?
18. Was her mother involved in golfing?
Answer:
1. 1975
2. California
3. Golf
4. ethnic background is marvelously rich and varied
5. black,Chinese and Native American
6. Chinese and Dutch
7. Thailand
8. Kultida
9. 1996
10. Masters Colf Tournament
11. Augusta Golf Club in Georgia
12. 21
13. yes
14. Clifford Roberts
15. Masters Tournament
16. 1989
17. 1989
18. Korean American