input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXIV

REALITIES

Though there was bitter frost in the ranges, it had but lightly touched the sheltered forests that shut in Bonavista. The snow seldom lay long there, and only a few wisps of it gleamed beneath the northern edge of the pines. Mrs. Acton, as usual, had gathered a number of guests about her, and Violet Hamilton sat talking with one of them in the great drawing-room one evening. The room was brilliantly lighted, and the soft radiance gleamed upon the polished parquetry floor, on which rugs of costly skins were scattered. A fire of snapping pine-logs blazed in the big English hearth, and a faint aromatic fragrance crept into the room.

Miss Hamilton leaned back in a softly padded lounge that was obviously only made for two, and a pleasant-faced, brown-eyed young Englishman, who had no particular business in that country, but had gone there merely for amusement, sat at the other end of it, regarding her with a smile.

"After all," he said reflectively, "I really don't think I'm very sorry the snow drove us down from our shooting camp in the ranges."

Violet laughed. She had met the man before he went into the mountains, and he had been at Bonavista for a week or two now.

"It was too cold for you up there?" she queried.

"It was," answered the man, "at least, it was certainly too cold for Jardine, who came out with me. He got one of his feet nipped sitting out one night with the rifle on a high ledge in the snow, and when I left him in Vancouver the doctor told him it would be a month before he could wear a boot again." 1. What did Mrs. Acton usually do?
2. Where does the story take place?
3. Who was Violet speaking with?
4. was it a female?
5. What was the man doing there?
6. Was he there alone?
7. Who was he with?
8. Were they still up in the mountains?
9. why not?
10. how?
11. where?
12. was it cold?
13. will he be okay?
14. how long?
15. who told him this?
16. from where?
17. Was the Englishman in Bona vista for long?
18. Did the drawing room have rugs?
19. what was in the fireplace?
20. did the room have an aroma?
numbered_answers: 1. Gathered guests around her
2. Bonavista.
3. One of the guests
4. No
5. Gone there for amusement
6. No
7. Jardine
8. No
9. Jardine got hurt
10. He got one of his feet nipped
11. On a high ledge
12. Yes
13. At some point.
14. A month
15. A doctor
16. Vancouver
17. two weeks
18. Yes
19. A fire
20. Yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XI

VON BEHRLING'S FATE

It seemed to Louise that she had scarcely been in bed an hour when the more confidential of her maids--Annette, the Frenchwoman--woke her with a light touch of the arm. She sat up in bed sleepily.

"What is it, Annette?" she asked. "Surely it is not mid-day yet? Why do you disturb me?"

"It is barely nine o'clock, Mademoiselle, but Monsieur Bellamy--Mademoiselle told me that she wished to receive him whenever he came. He is in the boudoir now, and very impatient."

"Did he send any message?"

"Only that his business was of the most urgent," the maid replied.

Louise sighed,--she was really very sleepy. Then, as the thoughts began to crowd into her brain, she began also to remember. Some part of the excitement of a few hours ago returned.

"My bath, Annette, and a dressing-gown," she ordered. "Tell Monsieur Bellamy that I hurry. I will be with him in twenty minutes."

To Bellamy, the twenty minutes were minutes of purgatory. She came at last, however, fresh and eager; her hair tied up with ribbon, she herself clad in a pink dressing-gown and pink slippers.

"David!" she cried,--"my dear David--!"

Then she broke off.

"What is it?" she asked, in a different tone.

He showed her the headlines of the newspaper he was carrying.

"Tragedy!" he answered hoarsely. "Von Behrling was true, after all,--at least, it seems so."

"What has happened?" she demanded.

Bellamy pointed once more to the newspaper.

"He was murdered last night, within fifty yards of the place of our rendezvous." 1. Whose fate are we likely to learn of?
2. Did someone wake Louise by hitting her over the head?
3. How, then?
4. By who?
5. What country is she from?
6. Was Louise still very sleepy?
7. Had she been excited some hours ago?
8. What did she want Annette to fix for her immediately?
9. And what did she want after that?
10. Who did she want Annette to deliver a message to?
11. Where was he waiting?
12. Did Louise wish to convey she was taking her time, or hurrying?
13. How long did she say she'd be with him in?
14. What's Bellamy's first name?
15. Did the twenty minutes he spent waiting feel very long to him?
16. Was his business urgent?
17. What time in the morning is it?
18. What color gown did Louise end up wearing?
19. What did she wear to match it?
20. What had David brought to show her?
numbered_answers: 1. VON BEHRLING'S
2. no
3. a touch on the arm
4. Annette
5. France
6. yes
7. yes
8. her bath
9. a dressing-gown
10. Monsieur Bellamy
11. the boudoir
12. hurrying
13. twenty minutes.
14. David
15. yes
16. yes
17. nine o'clock
18. pink
19. slippers
20. a newspaper

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Who needs guard dogs when you have wolves , right? That's probably what Kazakh villagers in the Almaty region though when they decided to replace their dogs with the fierce forest dwelling beasts. According to local news reports, taming wolves is now the latest trend and a sort of hobby among rural Kazakhs.

Nurseit Zhylkyshybay, a farmer from the south-eastern Almaty region, told reporters that he purchased a wolf cub from hunters three years ago, and the animal is now perfectly tamed.

Kurtka, Nurseit's pet wolf, lives in the family's yard and takes long walks through the village with his master. "He's never _ ," Nurseit insisted. "I rarely put him on a chain and do take him for regular walks around the village. Our family and neighbors aren't scared of him at all."

But wolf expert Almas Zhaparov said that the animals are 'far too dangerous' to keep at home. "A wolf is like a ticking bomb, it can go off at any moment," he warned. "If nothing is done, the fashion could spread to the wealthy Kazakhs, who might try to keep wolves in the grounds of their houses, with possibly deadly consequences." Social media users also expressed worry about the trend, accusing the government for failing to limit the practice.

Nevertheless, the wolves don't seem to be posing an immediate threat. If visuals from news reports are anything to go by, the beasts look pretty happy with their new lifestyle, and appear quite fond of their new masters, not unlike dogs. 1. how purchased a wolf cub?
2. what does he do for a living?
3. is this a new trend?
4. where is it a trend?
5. who did Nurseit purchase the cub from?
6. who says that wolves are a ticking time bomb?
7. what do social media users want?
8. do the wolves seem like a threat?
9. how do the wolves see to look?
10. do they like their masters?
numbered_answers:
1. Nurseit Zhylkyshybay
2. A farmer
3. Yes
4. the Almaty region
5. hunters
6. Almas Zhaparov
7. the government to limit the practice.
8. No
9. happy with their new lifestyle
10. Yes