Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter , and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened inside him.

Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer from that big industry was "No".

Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately, his teachers said there weren't any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that, he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn't get his idea accepted.

Paul later got married but his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote, "It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges." Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.

And every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against _ . Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.

Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.

1. Who went to college?
2. Where did he grow up?
3. Was he a single man?
4. Where was his childhood residence by?
5. Was it good for the surroundings?
6. What was his dream?
7. Was he encouraged to do so?
8. What did he major in at school?
9. What did the smelter destroy?
10. What did he sneak around and do under the cover of darkness?
11. How many acres was it?
12. Did animal life start to appear?
13. Was he acknowledged for his tasks?
14. Was he a young man when he achieved it?
15. In his younger years was he ever violent?
16. What did he do?
17. why?
18. Who wrote the quote that encouraged him?
19. Did he gain employment for the cause he was trying to achieve?
20. Was the legal system every involved?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Paul
2. Utah
3. Yes, in college
4. a copper smelter
5. no
6. to try to bring the trees back
7. No
8. the science of plants.
9. a beautiful forest
10. started planting
11. fourteen thousand
12. yes
13. yes
14. no
15. yes
16. he knocked someone down
17. he called the wasteland an awful area
18. Samuel Johnson
19. yes
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XX

THE LAST NIGHT

"Juist another sax nichts, Jamie," Jess would say, sadly. "Juist fower nichts noo, an' you'll be awa." Even as she spoke seemed to come the last night.

The last night! Reserve slipped unheeded to the floor. Hendry wandered ben and but the house, and Jamie sat at the window holding his mother's hand. You must walk softly now if you would cross that humble threshold. I stop at the door. Then, as now, I was a lonely man, and when the last night came the attic was the place for me.

This family affection, how good and beautiful it is. Men and maids love, and after many years they may rise to this. It is the grand proof of the goodness in human nature, for it means, that the more we see of each other the more we find that is lovable. If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart.

Leeby had no longer any excuse for bustling about. Everything was ready--too soon. Hendry had been to the fish-cadger in the square to get a bervie for Jamie's supper, and Jamie had eaten it, trying to look as if it made him happier. His little box was packed and strapped, and stood terribly conspicuous against the dresser. Jess had packed it herself.

"Ye mauna trachle (trouble) yersel, mother," Jamie said, when she had the empty box pulled toward her.

Leeby was wiser.

"Let her do't," she whispered, "it'll keep her frae broodin'."

1. How long did Jamie have to wait?
2. Did the end come quickly?
3. What was he doing that night?
4. Did they get along?
5. Where did I sleep?
6. How long does it take to be like that family?
7. Does it prove that people are bad?
8. How do start to like someone?
9. Was it a proud home?
10. Who went somewhere?
11. Where?
12. To buy what?
13. For what?
14. Did he eat it?
15. Was he happy?
16. Who didn't go anywhere?
17. Who else?
18. Was he dumb?
19. Did he encourage something?
20. Where they prepared?
21. What was ready to go?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Sax nichts.
2. Yes.
3. Holding his mother's hand.
4. Yes.
5. The attic.
6. Many years.
7. No.
8. Get nearer his heart.
9. Yes.
10. Hendry.
11. To see the fish-cadger.
12. A bervie.
13. Jamie's supper.
14. Yes.
15. No.
16. Hendry
17. Leeby.
18. No.
19. Yes.
20. The house?
21. Everything.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Baby sign language is a growing movement. Pointing to a color1ful flower, Campbell lifts her baby's soft hand, and rapidly moves it from one side of his nose to the other as she sniffs ."Flower!" she says loudly. Gregory smiles and looks carefully. It could be a year before Gregory, 4 months old, can speak, but now his mother hopes to communicate with her baby through sign language.

Like others around the world, Campbell is part of a growing movement of parents teaching hearing babies simple signs to communicate before they can talk. The baby sign language has been more popular in recent years. The movie,"Meet the Fockers",where the main character teaches his young grandson to sign, makes it well developed.

Babies generally begin to talk between 12 and 15 months, but babies can use sign language to communicate before they learn how to speak.

"We know they are learning language faster than they are able to show you with their speech production because that system takes a long time to develop." says McRoberts, director of developmental research at the Haskins Laboratories.

"They are understanding words before they are able to say them. From around 16 to 18 months, they might say 50 words but understand 200.They understand short sentences well." says McRoberts.

Studies have shown deaf children learn to use sign language earlier than hearing children learn to speak meaningfully. As to whether hearing babies can communicate earlier with sign language, McRoberts says,"I think that's still unknown. It may not. I'm very interested in that very question."

1. when do babies begin to talk?
2. do they understand words before saying them?
3. by when may they say 50?
4. and understand how many?
5. what is the article about?
6. what is the mothers name?
7. how old is her baby?
8. who is doing the research?
9. where does he work?
10. as?
11. what made the language popular?
12. how?
13. what is the baby's name here?
14. what does mother show him?
15. what does she hope to achieve?
16. are babies learning faster?
17. what do studies show about babies who can't hear?
18. does mother speak while teaching signs?
19. what does she say?
20. how long before Gregory can speak?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. between 12 and 15 months
2. yes
3. around 16 to 18 months
4. 200
5. Baby sign language
6. Campbell
7. 4 months
8. McRoberts
9. Haskins Laboratories
10. director of developmental research
11. Meet the Fockers
12. the main character teaches his young grandson to sign
13. Gregory
14. a colorful flower
15. to communicate with her baby through sign language
16. yes
17. deaf children learn to use sign language earlier than hearing children learn to speak meaningfully
18. yes
19. "Flower!"
20. It could be a year