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

STARTLING NEWS

It was noon on the day after Wandle's flight, and Jernyngham was sitting with his friends in a room of the Leslie homestead when Muriel, looking out of the window, saw Prescott's hired man ride up at a gallop. His haste and his anxious expression when he dismounted alarmed her, but her companions had not noticed him, and she waited, listening to the murmur of voices that presently reached her from an adjoining room. They ceased in a few minutes, she saw the man ride away as fast as he had come, and soon afterward Leslie opened the door. He was a talkative person and looked as if he had something of importance to relate.

"Svendsen has been over to ask if I saw Prescott when I was in at the settlement yesterday," he said. "When I told him that I hadn't, he seemed mighty disturbed."

Muriel's heart throbbed painfully, but she waited for one of the others to speak, and Jernyngham, laying down his paper, glanced up sharply.

"Why?" he asked.

This was all the encouragement Leslie needed.

"I'll tell you, so far as I've got the hang of the thing; I thought you'd like to know. It seems Prescott has been away somewhere for a few days and should have got home last night. He came in on the train in the evening, and Harper drove him out and dropped him at Wandle's trail; Prescott said he wanted to see the man. Well, he didn't get home, and Svendsen, who'd been to Harper's this morning, found Wandle gone and three of his horses missing. Then he found out from Watson, who stayed at the hotel last night, that Curtis rode in on a played-out horse before it was light, and kept the night operator busy for a while with the wires. Seems to me the thing has a curious look." 1. Who took a flight?
2. What time did he sit with friends the next day?
3. Did Leslie like to chat?
4. Whose heart hurt?
5. Who's been away for awhile?
6. In what room did the friends chat?
7. How did the hired man travel?
8. Did all the friends see him arrive?
9. Did the hired man hang around?
10. Who opened the door?
11. Did he look anxious?
12. Who hadn't been seen the day before?
13. Who was worried about that?
14. Who put their reading down?
15. When was Prescott supposed to return?
16. How was he traveling?
17. Where did he get left at?
18. What time of day?
19. What was also missing?
20. Who spent the night at a paid room?
21. Who had a very tired animal?
22. What did he keep the clerk busy with?
23. Where were the low voices coming from?
numbered_answers: 1. Wandle.
2. Noon.
3. Yes.
4. Muriel's.
5. Prescot.
6. At the Leslie homestead.
7. On a horse.
8. No.
9. No.
10. Leslie.
11. Yes.
12. Prescott.
13. Svendsen.
14. Jernyngham.
15. Last night.
16. Train.
17. Wandle's trail.
18. Evening.
19. Horses.
20. Watson.
21. Curtis.
22. Wires.
23. An adjoining room.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Johnny wakes up early this morning. He is so happy. Today Daddy is taking him to the aquarium. Johnny wants to see blue fish, red fish, yellow fish, and green fish. He also wants to see really big fish.

Daddy and Johnny are at the aquarium.

"Look!" Johnny says. "There's a big red fish!" The fish swims away. A small yellow fish swims up to the glass and looks at Johnny.

"A yellow fish!" says Johnny, "He's tiny."

Lots of blue fish swim by behind the yellow fish.

"Look at all of those blue fish!" says Johnny. "They stay together."

Daddy points at a long fish and says "That one is as big as me!"

Johnny laughs. He still wants to find a green fish. He sees a lot of fish, but none of them are green.

"Daddy, I can't find a green fish. I want to see a green fish."

Daddy laughs. "Let's go to the next window and look."

Johnny looks through the next window and sees lots of fish, but none of them are green fish.

"I still don't see any green fish," says Johnny.

"Look there," Daddy tells him. Johnny sees a green sea turtle! It's a lot bigger than a fish.

After looking at all the fish, Daddy and Johnny go home again. 1. When di Johnny wake up?
2. Where is he going?
3. Who is taking him there?
4. what fish looked at johnny?
5. What the yellow fish big?
6. Where there other fish swimming behind the yellow fish?
7. What did his dad say when he saw the long fish?
8. What did johnny do because of this?
9. Did johnny see a turtle?
10. Was it bigger than the fish?
11. Did he want to see a really big fish going there?
12. What did they do after they saw all the fish?
numbered_answers: 1. early this morning
2. to the aquarium.
3. His dad
4. Yes
5. No
6. Lots of blue fish swim by behind the yellow fish
7. That one is as big as me
8. laughs
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. They went home

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. There once was a little monkey who lived in a zoo. He was a tiny brown monkey, smaller than all of the others. He was quieter than the others too. He was so quiet, in fact, that his mommy monkey made him wear a small blue bell around his neck so that she could find him. Even when the little monkey was very quiet, whenever he moved, the bell would jingle and his mother could find him.

One day, this little monkey had been running around under the yellow sun for a long time, with his bell going "jingle jingle." He started to feel tired. But the other monkeys were still having fun and making a lot of noise. They were yelling and banging things together. The little monkey wanted to find somewhere quiet.

Finally, he knew what to do: he took off his blue bell. He hung it on a branch. Then he sneaked out of his cage in the zoo. He waited. He was very quiet and small. He waited until a young girl came walking through the zoo. She was with her mother and father. Then he jumped into her red backpack. He was so small that she didn't know he was there. The girl and her mother and father got in their car and went home.

When the girl got home, she set down her backpack. Her brother thought he saw her backpack moving. Her sister thought she heard something. But nobody knew that a tiny, sleepy monkey had come home from the zoo. He was happily sleeping in the girl's backpack in her quiet house, away from all the other noisy monkeys. 1. What color was the monkey?
2. Where did he live?
3. Was he the same size as the other monkeys?
4. What did his mother make him wear?
5. Where?
6. Why did she make him wear it?
7. Why was he hard to find?
8. Why did the small monkey want to get away from the other monkeys?
9. Where did he put his bell?
10. What did the girl have on?
11. Who else was with the girl at the zoo?
12. Did any of them see the monkey hop into the backpack?
13. Did they take him home?
14. Who noticed movement in the backpack?
15. Was the monkey awake when they discovered him?
numbered_answers:
1. brown
2. a zoo
3. No
4. small blue bell
5. his neck
6. so that she could find him
7. He was so quiet
8. wanted to find somewhere quiet
9. on a branch
10. red backpack
11. her mother and father
12. No
13. Yes
14. Her brother
15. No