input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Can you write down a Chinese word being read to you? Sometimes it can be difficult when you find the word is not included in most dictionaries. Lu Jialei, 14, from Hangzhou Foreign Language School, won the CCTV Chinese Character Spelling Contest on Oct 18th, 2013. About 160 people competed. The host read a word to the contestant, explained its meaning and gave sample sentences. The contestant was required to write down the word. Winning the contest was a "surprise" to Lu. "I was not the smartest one," she said. "But I paid attention to details." To prepare for the contest, she and her teammates studied the Modern Chinese Dictionary for 10 days. There are more than 56,000 entries including characters, words and phrases in it. She also had a secret weapon. She studied how Chinese characters were formed. "When others paid attention to the plot of a story, she looked at how authors use words and sentences to express themselves," said Su Yunsheng, Lu's Chinese teacher. Su is happy to see students like Lu find the beauty of Chinese language. "Besides using something Chinese and having Chinese traditional festivals, learning to write Chinese characters is also an important part of inheriting Chinese culture," said Su. 1. Who won the spelling contest?
2. Was she surprised?
3. How many people entered?
4. Was she the smartest one?
5. What was her secret weapon?
6. Who is Su Yunsheng?
7. What does she say is important to her culture?
8. How many words and phrases were in the contest?
9. Was Lu required to spell the word?
10. What did she need to do to win?
11. What school did she attend?
12. Did she study alone?
13. Who was she with?
14. What did they study?
15. for how long?
16. When did the contest take place?
17. Was her teacher pleased?
numbered_answers: 1. Lu Jialei
2. Yes
3. About 160
4. No
5. she looked at how authors use words and sentences to express themselves
6. Lu's Chinese teacher
7. Several things
8. more than 56,000
9. No
10. write down the word
11. Hangzhou Foreign Language School
12. No
13. her teammates
14. the Modern Chinese Dictionary
15. 10 days
16. Oct 18th, 2013
17. Yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Chapter 9

Numa "El Adrea"

On the same day that Kadour ben Saden rode south the diligence from the north brought Tarzan a letter from D'Arnot which had been forwarded from Sidi-bel-Abbes. It opened the old wound that Tarzan would have been glad to have forgotten; yet he was not sorry that D'Arnot had written, for one at least of his subjects could never cease to interest the ape-man. Here is the letter:

MY DEAR JEAN:

Since last I wrote you I have been across to London on a matter of business. I was there but three days. The very first day I came upon an old friend of yours--quite unexpectedly--in Henrietta Street. Now you never in the world would guess whom. None other than Mr. Samuel T. Philander. But it is true. I can see your look of incredulity. Nor is this all. He insisted that I return to the hotel with him, and there I found the others--Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, Miss Porter, and that enormous black woman, Miss Porter's maid--Esmeralda, you will recall. While I was there Clayton came in. They are to be married soon, or rather sooner, for I rather suspect that we shall receive announcements almost any day. On account of his father's death it is to be a very quiet affair--only blood relatives.

While I was alone with Mr. Philander the old fellow became rather confidential. Said Miss Porter had already postponed the wedding on three different occasions. He confided that it appeared to him that she was not particularly anxious to marry Clayton at all; but this time it seems that it is quite likely to go through. 1. who brought a letter?
2. who was it for?
3. who had written him?
4. was he sorry?
5. could they interest somene?
6. who was interested?
7. who was it titled to?
8. where did they travel too?
9. who was ran into?
10. what race was the maid?
11. what was the old friends name?
12. whos father died?
13. who was to be wed?
14. who was invited to the wedding?
15. who was he alone with?
16. was he open during that time?
17. was the wedding post poned?
18. by who?
19. how many times?
20. did it appear she wanted to be wed?
numbered_answers: 1. Kadour ben Saden
2. Tarzan
3. D'Arnot
4. no
5. yes
6. ape-man
7. JEAN
8. London
9. old friend
10. black
11. Mr. Samuel T.
12. Clayton
13. Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, Miss Porter,
14. only blood relatives
15. Mr. Philander
16. yes
17. yes
18. Miss Porter
19. three
20. no

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Royal assent is sometimes associated with elaborate ceremonies. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the sovereign may appear personally in the House of Lords or may appoint Lords Commissioners, who announce that royal assent has been granted at a ceremony held at the Palace of Westminster. However, royal assent is usually granted less ceremonially by letters patent. In other nations, such as Australia, the governor-general merely signs the bill. In Canada, the governor general may give assent either in person at a ceremony held in the Senate or by a written declaration notifying parliament of his or her agreement to the bill.

Royal assent is the method by which a country's constitutional monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament, thus making it a law or letting it be promulgated as law. In the vast majority of contemporary monarchies, this act is considered to be little more than a formality; even in those nations which still permit their ruler to withhold the royal assent (such as the United Kingdom, Norway, and Liechtenstein), the monarch almost never does so, save in a dire political emergency or upon the advice of their government. While the power to withhold royal assent was once exercised often in European monarchies, it is exceedingly rare in the modern, democratic political atmosphere that has developed there since the 18th century. 1. How does a monarch approve an act of parliament?
2. What does that do?
3. Is this just a formality?
4. Is there a ceremony to go with it?
5. In the UK do they hold a ceremony?
6. where?
7. Who will announce it?
8. Where might the sovereign show up?
9. Does Canada hold a ceremony?
10. Where will it be?
11. Does someone give assent in person?
12. who?
13. What is the other way in Canada?
14. Who will that go to?
15. What does it tell them?
16. Is there a ceremony in Australia?
17. What happens there?
18. Who?
19. How often does the monarch not give assent?
20. When might they not give it?
numbered_answers:
1. through royal assent
2. makes it a law
3. yes
4. sometimes
5. yes
6. the Palace of Westminster
7. Lords Commissioners
8. in the House of Lords
9. sometimes
10. in the Senate
11. yes
12. the governor general
13. by a written declaration n
14. parliament
15. of the agreement to the bill.
16. no
17. the just sign the bill.
18. the governor-general
19. almost never
20. in a dire political emergency