Problem: Henry was an office worker in a big city. He worked very hard and enjoyed traveling in his holidays. He usually went to the seaside, but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper. "Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at west hill farm. good food., fresh air, horse riding,Walking,fishing, cheap and interesting." "This sounds a good idea," He thought. "I'll spend a month at west hill farm. I think I can enjoy horse riding, walking and fishing. They'll make a change from sitting by the seaside and swimming." He wrote to the farmer. In the letter he said that he would like to spend all of July there. Then on the first of July, he left for west hill farm.But four days later, he returned home. "What was wrong with west hill farm?" His best friend, Ed, asked him. "Didn't you enjoy country life?" "Country life was very good," Henry said. "But there was another problem." "Oh. what?" "Well," he said, "The first day I was there a sheep died, and we had roast mutton for dinner." "What's wrong with that?" Ed asked. "Fresh meat is the best." "I know, but on the second day a cow died, and we had roast beef for dinner." "Lucky you!" "You don't understand," Henry said. "On the third day a pig died and we had roast pork for dinner." "A different meat every day," Ed said loudly, " And you are ing!" "Let me finish," Henry said. "On the fourth day the farmer died, and i didn't dare stay for dinner!"
1. who is the main character?
2. Did he take a trip?
3. where did he go?
4. did he normally go to the countryside on holiday?
5. where did he normally go?
6. what did the generally do on holiday?
7. what was there to do in the countryside?
8. who was his pal?
9. was he a casual acquaintance?
10. how close were they?
11. when did the main character go on holiday?
12. did he plan a short trip?
13. how long was the trip supposed to be?
14. was he cut his holiday short?
15. how long was his trip?
16. what did he eat for his main meal on the first day?
17. and the second?
18. and the third?
19. did he eat a main meal on the fourth day?
20. why not?
Answer: 1. Henry
2. Yes
3. to west hill farm
4. No
5. the seaside
6. sit by the seaside and swim
7. horse riding,Walking,fishing
8. Ed
9. No
10. Ed was his best friend
11. on the first of July
12. No
13. a month
14. yes
15. four days
16. roast mutton
17. roast beef
18. roast pork
19. No
20. the farmer died

Problem: In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most Indian and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

To feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand or a lit candle in front of one's mouth, and say pin [pn] and then spin [spn]. One should either feel a puff of air or see a flicker of the candle flame with pin that one does not get with spin. In most dialects of English, the initial consonant is aspirated in pin and unaspirated in spin.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), aspirated consonants are written using the symbols for voiceless consonants followed by the aspiration modifier letter , a superscript form of the symbol for the voiceless glottal fricative h. For instance, p represents the voiceless bilabial stop, and p represents the aspirated bilabial stop.
1. How can you tell an aspirated sound from an unaspirated one?
2. what is one way to do that?
3. Is there another way?
4. what are two words you can speak to notice the difference?
5. which is aspirated?
6. what is the definition of aspiration?
7. what happens to a candle when one speaks an aspirated sound near it?
8. What does IPA stand for?
9. How are aspirated sounds noted?
10. Where is the modifier placed?
Answer: 1. test for a puff of air
2. put a candle in front of your mouth
3. put your hand in front of your mouth
4. pin and spin
5. pin
6. the strong burst of breath
7. there will be a flicker in the candle flame.
8. International Phonetic Alphabet
9. by voiceless consonants followed by an aspiration modifier
10. as a superscript

Problem: (CNN) -- For Clem Pellett, tracking down his grandfather's killer was not his original mission.

"I was just putting together an old family story ... and these serendipitous events happened, and we accidentally caught him," Pellett, of Bellevue, Washington, told CNN in a phone interview Wednesday.

That "old family story" focuses on two men: Clarence Pellet -- a grandfather that Clem Pellett never knew -- and a drifter named Frank Dryman.

According to the Montana Department of Corrections, on April 4, 1951, Clarence Pellett picked up a hitchhiker near Shelby, Montana. The hitchhiker was Dryman, then a 19-year-old drifter who was carrying a loaded gun that, according to the state, he used to shoot and kill Clarence Pellett on the side of windswept Montana road.

Dryman took the car and drove to Canada, where he was later arrested for the murder, according to the Montana Department of Corrections.

After several trials and appeals, Dryman was convicted in Montana and sentenced to life in prison, then paroled in 1969, according to state records. Less than two years after his parole, Dryman was listed by the Montana Department of Corrections as "absconded." He had disappeared.

And that is where the "old family story" stopped for nearly 40 years, until last year when Clem Pellett came across some old newspapers clippings of the murder, which had occurred two years before he was born.

"So what I knew of it (was) 'never pick up a hitchhiker,' and 'your grandfather died begging for his life,'" he said.
1. What was Clem Pellet doing?
2. What did he find?
3. Where did he live?
4. Who did he do an interview with?
5. What did he learn?
6. When did his grandfather die?
7. What was his name?
8. What did he do?
9. Whose name was what?
10. How old was he?
11. What was he?
12. where did he escape to?
13. Was he caught?
14. Was he convicted?
15. Was there one trial?
16. What was the sentence?
17. Did he stay in prison?
18. what happened?
19. What happened then?
20. When his grandfather was killed how old was Clem?
Answer:
1. putting together an old family story
2. his grandfather's killer
3. Bellevue, Washington
4. CNN
5. never pick up a hitchhiker
6. April 4, 1951
7. Clarence Pellett
8. Picked up a hitchhiker
9. Frank Dryman
10. 19
11. a drifter
12. Canada,
13. yes
14. yes
15. At least
16. life in prison,
17. no
18. He was paroled
19. He was listed as absconded
20. He had not been born yet.