Q: To some, it's a dream job---eating delicious meals for free and then writing about them. But _

Karen Fernau, a food writer for The Arisona Republic, said when she first started her job -she began to gain weight. "I always looked forward to lunch before this job, then all of a sudden lunch was all day every day. " she says. Nine years later, keeping her weight steady and her health intact is a daily battle. If she knows she will be going to a tasting at a bakery or eating a four-course meal, she usually eats fruits or salads throughout the day. Now she is always keeping track of what's in the food she eats and she says most people don't even look at or consider it. At one tasting task alone, she says, upward of l,000 calories is often added to her day. That's about half of the recommended total calories per day for the average adult.

But even though she's thought of a special eating method, Fernau says sticking to it is a daily battle. And food editors, writers and critics across the country couldn't agree more. "When I'm at home or not eating for work, it's healthy food to the extreme," says Phil Vettel, who's been a restaurant critic for the Chicago Tribune for 19 years.

Vettle, who eats dinner at four restaurants each week, says unlike most professions, he has no right to choose. "If I'm going out to eat, I can't choose the healthiest thing on the menu, I have to eat when they're bringing me. " While Vettel exercises when he can, Joe Yonan, a food editor at The Washington Post, has strengthened his exercise habits since he started the job two years ago. Yonan says he realized early on that he was gaining weight and immediately hired a personal trainer to meet with three times a week, on top of his body training three to five times a week.

Still, it's a struggle that many Americans might envy. After all, it's one thing to get your calories from lobster tails or a delicate chocolate cookie and quite another to get them from sodas and fast-food burgers.

1. upward of l,000 calories
2. four times
3. when he can
4. The Washington Post
5. He's a food editor
6. two years
7. a personal trainer
8. he was gaining weight
9. body training
10. The Arisona Republic
11. Nine
12. lunch
13. fruits or salads
14. Yes
15. No
16. two years
17. Yes
18. Yes
19. food editors, writers and critics
20. across the country

Numbered questions:
1. How many calories can one tasting have?
2. How often does Vettle eat out weekly?
3. How much does he work out?
4. Where does Joe Yonan work?
5. What does he do there?
6. How long has he been doing that?
7. Who does he see three times a week?
8. Why did he hire him?
9. What else does he do several times a week?
10. Who does Karen Fernau work for?
11. For how many years?
12. What does she feel like is happening day in and day out?
13. On days she's scheduled to eat out, what does she snack on?
14. Does she find out the ingredients in those meals?
15. Does she think most people do the same?
16. How long has Vettle been a food critic?
17. To a selection of people, would eating free food and giving a review be a dream job?
18. Does Fernau struggle to stick to her daily goals?
19. Who agrees with her wholeheartedly?
20. From where?

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

Obedient to orders, Tom Brixton lay perfectly still on his back, just where he had fallen, wondering much whether the cord was really cut, for he did not feel much relaxation of it or abatement of the pain. He resolved, at any rate, to give no further cause for rough treatment, but to await the issue of events as patiently as he could.

True to his promise, the Irishman after supper sang several songs, which, if not characterised by sweetness of tone, were delivered with a degree of vigour that seemed to make full amends in the estimation of his hearers. After that he told a thrilling ghost story, which drew the entire band of men round him. Paddy had a natural gift in the way of relating ghost stories, for, besides the power of rapid and sustained discourse, without hesitation or redundancy of words, he possessed a vivid imagination, a rich fancy, a deep bass voice, an expressive countenance, and a pair of large coal-black eyes, which, as one of the Yankee diggers said, "would sartinly bore two holes in a blanket if he only looked at it long enough."

We do not intend to inflict that ghost story on the reader. It is sufficient to say that Paddy began it by exclaiming in a loud voice--"'Now or niver, boys--now or niver.' That's what the ghost said."

"What's that you say, Paddy?" asked Gashford, leaving his own separate and private fire, which he enjoyed with one or two chosen comrades, and approaching that round which the great body of the diggers were already assembled. 1. What chapter is this?
2. Who obeyed commands?
3. Was he standing?
4. Why?
5. What wasn't he feeling?
6. Who kept his word?
7. What was one thing he did after dinner?
8. Did he have a sweet voice?
9. What did he do to draw a crowd of men?
10. What color were his eyes?
11. What did a Yankee say they can do to a quilt?
12. What did Gashford have apart from the others?
numbered_answers: 1. CHAPTER THREE
2. Tom Brixton
3. no
4. he had fallen
5. much relaxation of it or abatement of the pain
6. Paddy
7. sang several songs
8. if not characterised by sweetness of tone, were delivered with a degree of vigour
9. he told a thrilling ghost story
10. coal-black
11. bore two holes
12. a separate and private fire

It was finally summer vacation, and Josh was excited to go to his favorite place. He was heading to Florida, to visit his Grandma and Grandpa. Josh spends every summer there, and this summer would be no different! In the mornings, Josh and Grandma would plant cucumbers, tomatoes, and carrots in the ground. After they would be planted, they would water and weed the garden every day. In the afternoons, Grandpa would take Josh out on the ocean in his sailboat which was named "Sea girl." Josh loved "Sea girl" and his favorite part was smelling the salty ocean air. Sometimes Josh and Grandpa would go to a beach and make sandcastles, or start digging until they found buried sea shells or other treasures. At night, Grandma and Grandpa would make dinner and they would eat outside by the pool. On special nights, Josh got to get ice cream for dessert. A lot of times, Grandma made dinner dishes that included the vegetables Josh and Grandma were growing. It was his favorite time of year. Josh couldn't wait to leave tomorrow morning! What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what was Josh's favorite place to go?
2. why?
3. when did he visit usually?
4. did he and his grandma do anything together?
5. what?
6. and after?
7. who was "sea girl"
8. when would they go out?
9. where would they go?
Answer:
1. Florida.
2. To visit his Grandma and Grandpa.
3. Summer.
4. Yes.
5. Plant cucumbers, tomatoes, and carrots in the ground.
6. They would water and weed the garden every day.
7. Grandpa's sailboat.
8. In the afternoons.
9. To a beach