Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Rome is the capital of Italy and a special comune (named "Comune di Roma Capitale"). Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region. With 2,877,215 residents in , it is also the country's most populated comune. It is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the center of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.

Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans and Sabines. Eventually, the city successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as the birthplace of Western civilisation and by some as the first ever metropolis. It was first called "The Eternal City" by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy. Rome is also called the "Caput Mundi" (Capital of the World).

1. What is the main subject?
2. How long does its history span?
3. And according to myth, it was around when?
4. Is it the capital city of where?
5. And what region?
6. What is the metro area's population?
7. What independent country is within its limits?
8. Is this normal?
9. Where did the population originate from?
10. The capital of where did it become in those days?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Rome
2. 2,500 years
3. 753 BC
4. Italy
5. Lazio region
6. 4.3 million
7. The Vatican City
8. Not really
9. T a mix of Latins, Etruscans and Sabines.
10. the Roman Kingdom

Question: CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

A DAY OF CALM FOLLOWED BY A NIGHT OF STORM.

A fine-toned manly voice was heard, as the boat approached the mission smack, singing one of the popular hymns which are now pretty well-known throughout the fishing fleets.

"No mistaking that voice," said David Bright turning an amused look on Billy; "Singin' Peter won't knock off till he's under the sod or under the sea."

"Then he'll never knock off at all," returned Billy, "for Luke there has bin tellin' me that we only begin to sing rightly a song of praise that will never end when we git into the next world."

"That depends, lad, on whether we goes up or down."

"Well, I s'pose it does. But tell me, daddy, ain't the hand very bad? I'm so awful sorry, you know."

"It might ha' bin worse, Billy, but don't you take on so, my boy. We'll be all right an' ship-shape when we gets it spliced or fixed up somehow, on board the mission-ship."

The hand was not however, so easily fixed up as David Bright seemed to expect.

"Come down an' let's have a look at it, David," said the skipper, when the vessel's deck was gained.

By that time Singing Peter had stopped his tune, or, rather, he had changed it into a note of earnest sympathy, for he was a very tender-hearted man, and on terms of warm friendship with the master of the _Evening Star_.

"It's a bad cut," said Peter, when the gaping gash in the poor man's palm was laid bare, and the blood began to flow afresh. "We'll have to try a little o' the surgeon's business here. You can take a stitch in human flesh I daresay, skipper? If you can't, I'll try." 1. What was heard
2. Who was it coming from
3. What was the boat approaching
4. What was Peter singing
5. Who recognized the voice?
6. What kind of look did he give
7. to who?
8. Who told Bill something
9. What did he tell him
10. What does it depend on?
11. Did Peter stop? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. A fine-toned manly voice
2. Singin' Peter
3. the mission smack
4. one of the popular hymns
5. David Bright
6. amused
7. Billy
8. Luke
9. that we only begin to sing rightly a song of praise that will never end when we git into the next world
10. whether we goes up or down.
11. he had changed it

Q: CHAPTER V

THE DEFEAT OF THE BULLY

"Go ahead, Jack! You've got to win!"

"Don't let 'em beat you, Bill. Put it all over those Rovers."

"Oh, Jack, don't let them get the best of you!" cried Ruth.

"You've got to win!" screamed Martha.

"Here is where Glutts shows 'em what the _Yellow Streak_ can do!"

So the cries ran on as the two bobsleds slowly gathered momentum and started down the long slope leading to Clearwater Lake.

At the beginning Glutts had a little the better of it, because the right side of the slide seemed to be more slippery than the other. He was the first to gain the top of the nearest rise and he shot over this while Jack's bobsled was still climbing the slope.

"Hurrah! Bill Glutts is ahead!"

"He said the _Yellow Streak_ could beat any thing in this vicinity."

"Oh, do you really think Glutts will win?" questioned Ruth anxiously, as she turned to Dan Soppinger.

"Well, I should hope not!" answered Dan.

"If he does win there will be no holding him down," put in Ned Lowe, another chum of the Rovers. "He'll crow to beat the band all winter."

Forward went the two bobsleds, each steersman doing his best to guide his sled where running might be the easiest.

Just as Jack topped the first rise and started to speed down on the other side, he saw Bill Glutts start to resume his old tactics. The bully was running close to the center of the course, and now he overlapped the other side by at least six inches.

1. what the _Yellow Streak_ can do
2. no
3. no
4. a bully
5. at least six inches
6. Jack
7. Just as he topped the first rise
8. as he sped down on the other side
9. Glutts start to resume his old tactics
10. easiest
11. guide their sleds
12. where running might be the easiest
13. no
14. THE DEFEAT OF THE BULLY
15. yes
16. unknown
17. Ned Lowe
18. "If he does win there will be no holding him down,
19. Glutts
20. because the right side of the slide seemed to be more slippery

Numbered questions:
1. What does Gluttts show them?
2. Does Dan want the Glutts to win?
3. Was Glutts nice?
4. What was he?
5. by how much did he take over the other side?
6. who noticed that?
7. when?
8. how?
9. what did he see?
10. were they trying to take difficult routes?
11. what were thy trying to do?
12. guide them where?
13. were they going backwards?
14. what was the chapter title?
15. was Glutts ever winning?
16. who won in the end?
17. who was another friend of the Rovers?
18. Was he yelling negative things?
19. Who had an advantage in the beginning?
20. how?