input: CHAPTER VIII

AN UNUSUAL COMPACT

"He'll do it--he is bound to do it!" cried Ben, as he and Phil hurried down to the dining-room.

"I think so myself, Ben," answered the shipowner's son. But, for some reason, he did not seem as joyful over the outcome of the interview as might have been expected.

"He won't dare let this news become public property," went on the other student. "He is too afraid of public opinion."

"Ben, he thinks we got that lawyer to take the case up."

"You told him we hadn't."

"But he didn't believe it--I could tell that by his manner. And, Ben, do you know, after all, this looks to me as if we had, somehow, bribed him to be easy on us," continued Phil, with added concern.

"Oh, don't bother your head about that, Phil. We only asked for what is fair, didn't we?"

"Yes, but----" And then the shipowner's son did not finish, because he did not know what to say. In some manner, Phil's conscience troubled him, and he wondered what Dave and Roger would say when they heard of what had occurred.

During the meal that followed but little was said by any of the boys. Once or twice our hero looked at Phil, but the latter avoided his gaze. As soon as the repast was over, Phil rushed outside, followed by Ben; and that was the last seen of the pair until it was time to go to bed.

"They have been up to something, that is certain," was the comment of the senator's son. 1. where were they rushing to?
2. who was?
3. why is Ben insisting that someone will do something?
4. does Ben think someone will do it because he is bound to it?
5. who agreed with him?
6. was he overly joyous about it?
7. what does Ben say that the person is assuming?
8. Does he say that the person assumes they got an attorney?
9. why would they need an attorney?
10. had they told him they got an attorney?
11. what did Ben say they asked for?
12. who is the shipowner's son?
13. who was conflicted? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. to the dining-room.
2. Ben and Phil
3. unknown
4. yes
5. the shipowner's son
6. no
7. unknown
8. Phil says that, yes.
9. to take on the case
10. no
11. what is fair
12. Phil
13. Phil

input: Editor's note: This story originally appeared on CNN.com on October 20. Barack Obama mentioned Ann Nixon Cooper on Tuesday in his presidential victory speech.

Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, lived during a time when blacks and women did not have the right to vote.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, has seen presidents come and go in her lifetime and has outlived most of them. On a sunny fall morning, she left her weathered but well-kept Tudor home in Atlanta, Georgia, to vote early -- this time for Barack Obama.

The African-American centenarian remembers a time not long ago when she was barred from voting because of her race. Now she hopes to see the day that Obama is elected as the nation's first black president.

"I ain't got time to die," Cooper said with a smile.

"Even if he didn't win, I was happy for him just to be nominated," said the former socialite. "The first black president -- isn't that something, at 106 years old?" Watch Obama say 'Yes we can' "

At the Fulton County government center, Cooper was greeted by Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.

"I thought that I would accompany her today to support her, but also to say to all people that this is a choice we have," Franklin said.

"As all Americans, we should cherish the right to vote and take every opportunity we have to vote our opinions. She is an inspiration to me personally, but she is also quite an inspiration to all Atlanta." Watch Cooper talk about her life and experiences " 1. where did this story originally appear?
2. when?
3. who mention ann nixon cooper?
4. during what speech?
5. when?
6. what day of the week?
7. how old was ann nixon cooper?
8. why was she stopped from voting?
9. what did ann say she does not have time for?
10. would she have been happy if Obama did not win?
11. where was cooper greeted by the mayor?
12. in what city?
13. what is the mayor's name? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. CNN.com
2. October 20
3. Barack Obama
4. presidential victory speech.
5. October 20
6. Tuesday
7. 106 years old
8. lived during a time when blacks and women did not have the right to vote.
9. to die
10. Yes, she was happy for him just to be nominated,
11. Fulton County government center
12. Atlanta
13. Shirley Franklin

input: "Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, " some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home. " But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century,and Americans had already created lightning-bug .But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug,that is,"to install an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversations. Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant" to cheat" , and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a _ in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as"little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison" had been up the two previous nights discovering' a bug' in his invented record player." 1. what is the article mostly about?
2. what can a bug refer to?
3. who wrote bugs in his diary?
4. what year?
5. Do Englishmen still use the word?
6. what other things can a bug be besides a person or an insect?
7. like what for example?
8. what is a small eaves-dropping instrument called?
9. what are bugs in the context of computers?
10. what inventor explained it that way? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. bugs
2. it could be a person
3. George Washington
4. 1785
5. no
6. a machine or an object
7. a bug-shaped car.
8. a bug!
9. little problems and difficulties
10. Thomas Edison