Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate with the fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity. Soviet aircraft carriers now in use by Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers, these ships while sized in the range of large fleet carriers were designed to deploy alone or with escorts and provide both strong defensive weaponry and heavy offensive missiles equivalent to a guided missile cruiser in addition to supporting fighters and helicopters.
1. who is the fleet carrier meant to work with
2. what do they provide
3. what were escort carriers made for?
4. what are the ones used by Russia called?
5. what were they designed for?
6. what did they support?
7. which is the fastest?
8. why do the light aircrafts of a smaller size?
9. who uses the Soviet carriers now?
10. what is added on top?

Numbered answers:
1. main fleet
2. an offensive capability.
3. to provide defense for convoys of ships.
4. called heavy aviation cruisers
5. were designed to deploy alone or with escorts
6. fighters and helicopters.
7. A fleet carrier
8. reduced aircraft capacity
9. Russia
10. flight deck

Question:
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CHAPTER IX. MONSIEUR LE BARON

The sun beat down mercilessly on thatch and terrace, the yellow walls flung back the quivering heat, as Madame la Vicomtesse and I walked through the empty streets towards the Governor's house. We were followed by Andre and Madame's maid. The sleepy orderly started up from under the archway at our approach, bowed profoundly to Madame, looked askance at me, and declared, with a thousand regrets, that Monsieur le Baron was having his siesta.

"Then you will wake him," said Madame la Vicomtesse.

Wake Monsieur le Baron! Bueno Dios, did Madame understand what it meant to wake his Excellency? His Excellency would at first be angry, no doubt. Angry? As an Andalusian bull, Madame. Once, when his Excellency had first come to the province, he, the orderly, had presumed to awake him.

"Assez!" said Madame, so suddenly that the man straightened and looked at her again. "You will wake Monsieur le Baron, and tell him that Madame la Vicomtesse d'Ivry-le-Tour has something of importance to say to him."

Madame had the air, and a title carried with a Spanish soldier in New Orleans in those days. The orderly fairly swept the ground and led us through a court where the sun drew bewildering hot odors from the fruits and flowers, into a darkened room which was the Baron's cabinet. I remember it vaguely, for my head was hot and throbbing from my exertions in such a climate. It was a new room,--the hotel being newly built,--with white walls, a picture of his Catholic Majesty and the royal arms of Spain, a map of Louisiana, another of New Orleans fortified, some walnut chairs, a desk with ink and sand and a seal, and a window, the closed lattice shutters of which showed streaks of light green light. These doubtless opened on the Royal Road and looked across the levee esplanade on the waters of the Mississippi. Madame la Vicomtesse seated herself, and with a gesture which was an order bade me do likewise.
1. What is the Madame called?
2. Was the Baron's room light and sunny?
3. Was it painted white?
4. How many years old was it?
5. How many items wereinside it?
6. Is Lafayette a street it overlooked?
7. What street was it?
8. Outside, was it sunny?
9. What color were structures outside?
10. How many people strolled along outside?
11. Were roads empty outside?

Numbered answers:
1. la Vicomtesse
2. no
3. yes
4. It was new.
5. Six
6. no
7. the Royal Road
8. yes
9. yellow
10. none
11. yes

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXVIII.

TELL IT NOT IN OATH.

As they sat silent in that little sitting-room after supper, a double knock at the door suddenly announced the arrival of a telegram for Ernest. He opened it with trembling lingers. It was from Lancaster:--'Come down to the office at once. Schurz has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and we want a leader about him for to-morrow.' The telegram roused Ernest at once from his stupefied lethargy. Here was a chance at last of doing something for Max Schurz and for the cause of freedom! Here was a chance of waking up all England to a sense of the horrible crime it had just committed through the voice of its duly accredited judicial mouthpiece! The country was trembling on the brink of an abyss, and he, Ernest Le Breton, might just be in time to save it. The Home Secretary must be compelled by the unanimous clamour of thirty millions of free working people to redress the gross injustice of the law in sending Max Sohurz, the greatest, noblest, and purest-minded of mankind, to a common felon's prison! Nothing else on earth could have moved Ernest, jaded and dispirited as he was at that moment, to the painful exertion of writing a newspaper leader after the day's fatigues and excitements, except the thought that by doing so he might not only blot out this national disgrace, as he considered it, but might also help to release the martyr of the people's rights from his incredible, unspeakable punishment. Flushed and feverish though he was, he rose straight up from the table, handed the telegram to Edie without a word, and started off alone to hail a hansom cab and drive down immediately to the office. Arthur Berkeley, fearful of what might happen to him in his present excited state, stole out after him quietly, and followed him unperceived in another hansom at a little distance.
1. Where did the telegram come from?
2. Who was it for?
3. How long had Schurz been sentenced for?
4. What was Schurz's first name?
5. And what was Ernest's last name?
6. What's the title of the chapter?
7. What number is it?
8. Who followed after Ernest in another hansom at a distance?
9. What kind of prison was max Schurz sentenced to?
10. Who did Ernest hand the telegram to?
11. Where was he taking a hansom cab to?
12. Where were they sitting when there was a knock on the door?
13. What were his hands doing when he opened it?
14. Did Ernest not want to go?
15. What was it a chance to do?
16. What was England trembling upon?
17. Who needed to be compelled to redress the injustice?
18. Was there anything else that could have moved Ernest?
19. Where was he when he handed the telegram to Edie?
20. Was he yelling when he handed it to Edie?
Numbered answers:
1. Lancaster:
2. Ernest
3. A year.
4. Max
5. Le Breton
6. TELL IT NOT IN OATH.
7. CHAPTER XXVIII.
8. Arthur Berkeley
9. A common felon's prison
10. Edie
11. The office.
12. A little sitting-room
13. trembling
14. No, he wanted to.
15. Save the country.
16. The brink of an abyss
17. The Home Secretary
18. No
19. Flushed and feverish.
20. No, he didn't say a word.