Problem: Nova Scotia (; Latin for "New Scotland"; ; ) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces which form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second smallest of Canada's ten provinces, with an area of , including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2016, the population was 923,598. Nova Scotia is the second most-densely populated province in Canada with .

"Nova Scotia" means "New Scotland" in Latin and is the recognized English language name for the province. In Scottish Gaelic, the province is called ", which also simply means "New Scotland". The province was first named in the 1621 Royal Charter granting the right to settle lands including modern Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and the Gaspe Peninsula to Sir William Alexander in 1632.

Nova Scotia is Canada's smallest province in area after Prince Edward Island. The province's mainland is the Nova Scotia peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries. Nowhere in Nova Scotia is more than from the ocean. Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately from the province's southern coast.
1. What is an example of a province?
2. What does that mean?
3. In what language?
4. Is it a Maritime province?
5. Is it the smallest?
6. What country is it in?
7. How many provinces does Canada have?
8. How many are Maritime?
9. What is the population of Nova Scotia?
10. As of when?
11. Is the province the most densely populated?
12. Where does it rank in that category?
13. When was the province first named
14. in what?
15. Who was granted the right to settle these lands
16. When could he start
17. What is the smallest province?
18. Is Cape Breton an island?
19. is it large?
20. What direction is it from Nova Scotia
Answer: 1. Nova Scotia
2. New Scotland
3. Latin
4. yes
5. no
6. Canada
7. ten
8. three
9. 923,598
10. 2016
11. no
12. second
13. 1621
14. the Royal Charter
15. Sir William Alexander
16. 1632
17. Nova Scotia
18. yes
19. yes
20. the northeast

Problem: Kelly Christopher, a student at Lutheran High School in California, US, loves oranges. One day last week, she used a pole to pick oranges off trees and collect them in baskets. It's the first time in her 15 years she's picked fruit from trees. "This is quite different from buying oranges in the supermarket," said Christopher. "Every time I eat an orange, I'll remember this experience." Christopher was one of the 30 student volunteers at Soil Born Farms. She volunteered as part of a project which was set up in 2009 to help homeowners in South Land Park pick oranges and other fruits out of their backyards. Before, the fruit would rot on the ground or get eaten by animals. Now the fruit is donated to those who need it. "It is good for many people", said Randy Stannard, who works for the project. "The homeowner gets fruit picked and more people can have healthy food." "Two harvests ( ) were organized in 2009 and volunteers picked 3,000 pounds (1,360kg) of fruit", Stannard said. In 2010, the number was 20,000. This year, Soil Born Farms hopes to get 40,000 pounds. They will harvest every weekend from January to April. Shannon Galloway, Christopher's science teacher, brought her students into the project this year. "You're making use of a _ that might be wasted," she said. "I think it's meaningful to everyone." Donato Frazier, 15, always climbs up a ladder and gets on the top of the tree. "Standing on the treetop is pretty cool," Frazier said. "I can see clearly that many baskets are filled up, and even see that many people are eating healthy fruit because of our volunteer work."
1. Did Kelly pick apples?
2. Has she done it before?
3. Where did students volunteer?
4. How many volunteered?
5. How many pounds were harvested in 2009?
6. What about 2010?
7. Will they harvest in September this year?
8. When will they?
9. Does Donato get on top of a house?
10. What can he see from there?
11. Are they trying to harvest 30,000 pounds this year?
12. How many pounds are they thinking of?
13. How did the students learn about the project?
14. Does Donato think the treetop is frightening?
15. What does he think about it?
16. Who gets the fruit after it is harvested?
17. What school do the students attend?
18. Where is that?
19. What happens to fruit on the ground?
20. Who is Shannon Galloway?
Answer: 1. she used a pole to pick oranges off trees and collect
2. yes
3. Soil Born Farms.
4. 30
5. 3000
6. 20,000
7. no
8. Every weekend from January to April.
9. Donato Frazier, 15, always climbs up a ladder and gets on the top of the tree.
10. baskets filling up
11. no
12. 40,000 pounds.
13. their teacher
14. no
15. iy
16. those who need it.
17. Lutheran High School
18. California
19. the fruit is donated to those who need it.
20. Christopher's science teacher

Problem: CHAPTER III

Philip was not very fond of taking walks with his father, since he found that in nine cases out of ten they afforded opportunities for inculcation of facts of the driest description with reference to estate management, or to the narration by his parent of little histories of which his conduct upon some recent occasion would adorn the moral. On this particular occasion the prospect was particularly unpleasant, for his father would, he was well aware, overflow with awful politeness, indeed, after the scene of the morning, it could not be otherwise. Oh, how much rather would he have spent that lovely afternoon with Maria Lee! Dear Maria, he would go and see her again the very next day.

When he arrived, some ten minutes after time in the antler-hung hall of the Abbey House, he found his father standing, watch in hand, exactly under the big clock, as though he was determined to make a note by double entry of every passing second.

"When I asked you to walk with me this afternoon, Philip, I, if my memory does not deceive me, was careful to say that I had no wish to interfere with any prior engagement. I was aware how little interest, compared to your cousin George, you take in the estate, and I had no wish to impose an uncongenial task. But, as you kindly volunteered to accompany me, I regret that you did not find it convenient to be punctual to the time you fixed. I have now waited for you for seventeen minutes, and let me tell you that at my time of life I cannot afford to lose seventeen minutes. May I ask what has delayed you?"
1. Who disliked walks?
2. With whom?
3. Who would he have preferred to be spending time with?
4. Did he plan to visit with her?
5. When?
6. Why did he dislike the trips with dad?
7. Regarding what financial topic?
8. Did his dad also tell stories?
9. Related to whose behavior?
10. Did he especially dread this particular stroll with dad?
11. Did he expect dad to be rude?
12. Where did their encounter begin?
13. In which room?
14. What was it decorated with?
15. Where did his dad stand?
16. What was he holding?
17. What did his dad claim he was careful not to do?
18. Who did he compare Philip to?
19. What was their relationship?
20. Did he admit Philip had to be there?
Answer:
1. Philip
2. his father
3. Maria Lee
4. Yes.
5. the very next day.
6. they afforded opportunities for inculcation of facts of the driest description
7. estate management
8. Yes.
9. Philip's.
10. Yes.
11. No.
12. the Abbey House
13. the hall
14. antlers
15. under the big clock
16. his watch
17. interfere with any prior engagement
18. George
19. cousins
20. No.