input: CHAPTER XII

FIRE

The light had got dim, and Carrie put down her sewing and looked about. A belt of yellow sky glimmered above the distant snow, but the valley was dark and the pines rolled in blurred masses up the hill. Thin mist crept out of the deep hollow and Carrie shivered when a cold wind shook the trees. She was beginning to know the wilds, and now and then their austerity daunted her. By and by a red twinkle in the distance drew her glance and she turned to Jim.

"What is that?"

Jim looked and frowned. "Ah," he said, "I'd begun to think our luck was too good!"

"But what is the light?"

"A bush fire."

Jake indicated the drift of the smoke from their cooking fire. As a rule, the valleys of British Columbia that open to the west form channels for the Chinook wind from the Pacific, but now and then a dry, cold current flows down them to the coast.

"It won't bother us unless the wind changes," he remarked. "In this country, however, the wind generally does change when you'd sooner it did not, and it's not safe to trust your luck much. Looks as if Nature had put up her shingle on the mountains, warning the white man off."

"But white men do live in the mountains," Carrie objected.

"Men who are strong enough. They must fight for a footing and then use the best tools other men can make to hold the ground they've won. We're scouts, carrying axes, saws, and giant-powder, but the main body must cooperate to defend its settlements with civilization's heavy machines. It's sure a hard country, and sometimes it gets me scared!" 1. Who is with Carrie?
2. What hobby was she working on?
3. What caught her eye?
4. What did Jim think it was?
5. Did he think they were in danger?
6. Unless what happened?
7. Which direction was the wind blowing?
8. Who did he believe Nature was trying to warn away?
9. Did this make sense to Carrie?
10. What tools does he mention?
11. Despite those tools, what was required for survival?
12. Was Carrie experienced in the wilderness?
13. What temperature was the breeze?
14. What purpose did their fire serve? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Jim.
2. sewing
3. a red twinkle in the distance
4. "A bush fire."
5. no
6. the wind changes
7. down to the coast.
8. the white man
9. no
10. axes, saws, and giant-powder
11. main body must cooperate
12. no
13. cold
14. cooking

input: A daughter's duty? Adult daughters are often expected to caregiver for older parents. In 2007, Jorjan Sarich and her dad moved from California to Idaho. It was where he wanted to live his rest time.

"I left my occupation, I left my friends; he did the same thing," said Sarich, who bought a house with her father, George Snyder, in the China Gardens neighborhood of Hailey after his health began to decline. Though a graduate student struggling to finish her dissertation , Sarich chose to be her dad's full-time caregiver.

"It's only now, several years later, that I'm realizing how much work it was. It's the kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn't cure," she said.

About 6 million Americans provide care to elderly relatives or friends living outside of nursing homes. Laurel Kennedy, author of "The Daughter Trap" (Thomas Dunne Books, $25.95), says that women bear a disproportionate share of the burden -- about 70 percent of hands-on care giving such as bathing.

"I want to be clear: Women don't hate this," Kennedy said. "What they hate is that everyone just assumes they'll do it."

Kennedy is calling for _ equal to the rise of affordable child care and day care: Employers should help working caregivers by offering accommodations. Men should step up more often. It's unfair that women are always chosen to provide care for an elderly family member.

Despite the hard work it took on Sarich -- interrupted sleep and the knowledge that his 2009 death was the end game, she would do it again. Since about half a century had gone by, she wasn't the person he remembered, and he wasn't the person she remembered either. Caring for her father changed how each saw the other. 1. What year did Jorjan move?
2. Who did she take with her?
3. Where did they move to?
4. And where did they come from?
5. What was her father's name?
6. Who was George's caregiver?
7. How many Americans are caregivers for elderly friends and relatives?
8. Who wrote The Daughter Trap?
9. How much of the caregiver duties are normally assigned to women?
10. What was the name of their neighborhood?
11. And what town was it in? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. 2007
2. Her dad
3. Idaho
4. California
5. George Snyder
6. Jorjan
7. 6 million
8. Laurel Kennedy
9. 70 percent
10. China Gardens
11. Hailey

input: Have you ever wanted to achieve something really amazing in life? Well, Greg Mortenson wanted to climb a mountain, but he ended up helping thousands of people to have a better life. Greg's story began with failure. In 1993, he set out to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain. But Greg never made it to the top. After five days, he stumbled into the village of Korphe in northern Pakistan, injured and hungry. The kind villagers there looked after him for several days. Greg saw that the villagers were very poor and hungry, and some of them were ill. Also, the village school didn't have a roof and the children wrote on the ground with sticks, Greg knew he wanted to do something to help. "I'll build you a school," he told the villagers. "I promise." Greg went back home to the USA to raise money for the school. He even lived in the car to save money! Finally he went back to Korphe and built the school. But _ was just the beginning of something bigger! Since then, Greg's organization has built around 80 schools and runs many others in Pakistan and other countries, too. Greg hasn't finished yet. He does many other things to help people in poor countries. He has got many prizes, but it's the smiles of the children he has helped that makes him happy! Greg has just written a best-selling book about his story called Three Cups of Tea. It's an interesting and exciting book which tells us what ordinary people can do with courage and determination . 1. What did Greg want to do initially?
2. What mountain?
3. Is it the second highest mountain in the world?
4. Did he make it to the top?
5. So did his story begin with failure?
6. What year was it when he went to climb the mountain?
7. What village did he end up?
8. Where exactly?
9. Was he injured?
10. Were the villagers hungry too?
11. Did they look after him?
12. What did Greg promise them?
13. Where did Greg raise the money?
14. What did he do to save the money?
15. did he build the school?
16. How many schools has his organization built?
17. What is Greg's book called? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Climb a mountain.
2. K2.
3. Yes.
4. No.
5. Yes.
6. 1993.
7. Korphe.
8. In northern Pakistan.
9. Yes.
10. Yes.
11. Yes.
12. "I'll build you a school,"
13. In the USA.
14. Lived in the car.
15. Yes.
16. Around 80 schools.
17. Three Cups of Tea.