Q: Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population. The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to 620,602 as of July 2014. As of 2014, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,322,429, and the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,459,758 (Chamber of Commerce) residents, making it Oklahoma's largest metropolitan area. Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural (watershed). The city ranks as the eighth-largest city in the United States by land area (including consolidated city-counties; it is the largest city in the United States by land area whose government is not consolidated with that of a county or borough).

1. Oklahoma City
2. 27th
3. largest
4. Oklahoma
5. eighth-largest
6. growing
7. increased to 620,602 as of July 2014
8. 2010 Census
9. 1,459,758
10. Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties
11. suburban or rural

Numbered questions:
1. What city is featured in this article?
2. In terms of size, what is it ranked in the US?
3. In terms of land mass, how is it ranked?
4. In what state?
5. What about in the US?
6. Is it a growing city or a dying city?
7. How do you know?
8. Where did you get your statistics?
9. What did the Chamber of Commerce say the population was?
10. Where do the city limits extend?
11. What kind of areas are these?

Q: Mark Twain, the famous American writer, was traveling in France. Once he was going by train to Dijon. That afternoon he was very tired and wanted to sleep, so he asked the conductor to wake him up when they came to Dijon. But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. "I'll probably protest loudly when you try to wake me up," he said to the conductor, "but do not take any notice, just put me off the train anyway." Then Mark Twain went to sleep. Later, when he woke up, it was night-time and the train was in Paris already. He realized at once that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up at Dijon. He was very angry. He ran up to the conductor and began to shout at him."I have never been so angry in all my life," Mark Twain said. The conductor looked at him calmly. "You are not half so angry as the American whom I put off at Dijon," he said.

1. Dijon
2. by train
3. the conductor
4. Mark Twain
5. No
6. afternoon
7. America
8. France
9. No
10. a very heavy sleeper
11. No
12. protest loudly
13. No
14. put me off the train anyway
15. No
16. in Paris
17. angry
18. the conductor
19. the American whom I put off at Dijon
20. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. Where was the stop he wanted off at?
2. what kind of vehicle was he in?
3. whom did he ask to awaken him?
4. who is this sleepy person?
5. was he traveling by night?
6. what time of day?
7. where is Twain from?
8. what country is he in now?
9. is he a light sleeper?
10. what kind is he?
11. does he wake up silently?
12. what does he think he'll do when he is awoken?
13. does he want the conductor to be concerned with that?
14. what does he want him to do?
15. does the conductor do this?
16. where does Twain awaken?
17. how does he feel about this?
18. who does he yell at?
19. who is angrier than Twain?
20. was the conductor calm about this?

Q: CHAPTER XI

Newman, on his return to Paris, had not resumed the study of French conversation with M. Nioche; he found that he had too many other uses for his time. M. Nioche, however, came to see him very promptly, having learned his whereabouts by a mysterious process to which his patron never obtained the key. The shrunken little capitalist repeated his visit more than once. He seemed oppressed by a humiliating sense of having been overpaid, and wished apparently to redeem his debt by the offer of grammatical and statistical information in small installments. He wore the same decently melancholy aspect as a few months before; a few months more or less of brushing could make little difference in the antique lustre of his coat and hat. But the poor old man's spirit was a trifle more threadbare; it seemed to have received some hard rubs during the summer. Newman inquired with interest about Mademoiselle Noemie; and M. Nioche, at first, for answer, simply looked at him in lachrymose silence.

"Don't ask me, sir," he said at last. "I sit and watch her, but I can do nothing."

"Do you mean that she misconducts herself?"

"I don't know, I am sure. I can't follow her. I don't understand her. She has something in her head; I don't know what she is trying to do. She is too deep for me."

"Does she continue to go to the Louvre? Has she made any of those copies for me?"

"She goes to the Louvre, but I see nothing of the copies. She has something on her easel; I suppose it is one of the pictures you ordered. Such a magnificent order ought to give her fairy-fingers. But she is not in earnest. I can't say anything to her; I am afraid of her. One evening, last summer, when I took her to walk in the Champs Elysees, she said some things to me that frightened me."

1. Newman
2. no
3. he had other uses for his time
4. French conversation
5. no
6. M. Nioche
7. yes
8. Champs Elysees
9. no
10. no

Numbered questions:
1. who returned to Paris?
2. did he continue his studies?
3. why not?
4. what was he supposed to be studying?
5. alone?
6. with who?
7. did she visit him?
8. where did someone talk a walk?
9. in the morning?
10. in the winter?

Q: Tamil is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and also by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians. Tamil is an official language of two countries, Sri Lanka and Singapore. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. It is also used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia, along with English, Malay and Mandarin. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.

Tamil is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world. It is also stated as 20th in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide. Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions from 500 BC have been found on Adichanallur and 2,200-year-old Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions have been found on Samanamalai. It has been described as "the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past." The variety and quality of classical Tamil literature has led to it being described as "one of the great classical traditions and literatures of the world".

1. It is a Dravidian language
2. India and Sri Lanka
3. Yes
4. Two countries
5. Yes
6. At least 2,200 year old
7. Yes
8. NO
9. 22
10. . Quite often as its also used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia
11. In Sri Lanka and Signapore

Numbered questions:
1. What is Tamil?
2. spoken where?
3. Is it the official language of any countries?
4. How many?
5. Is it an old language?
6. How old?
7. It is spoken a lot
8. Is it in the top 10 languages spoken?
9. What number is it?
10. How is it used in Malaysia?
11. Where are the two countries where it is official?