input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. While Americans feel worried about how to look after their children and help them grow, French parents are raising happy, well-behaved children without all the anxiety.

Pamela Druckerman, an American mother living in Paris, watched carefully as to why French children seem to behave so much better than American children. Let's listen to what she said.

While eating at the restaurants in Paris, I noticed the French kids were either sitting in their chairs waiting for their food or eating fish and even vegetables, happy and satisfied. There was no shouting or crying, and there were no pieces of food around their tables. However, my 2-year-old daughter, Beth, took a brief interest in the food. She even threw food everywhere. She couldn't keep herself in her chair and ran around the table. Though by that time I'd live in France for a few months, I couldn't explain it.

After surveying French parents, I realized that they aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that do work. French parents seem to have different ideas about raising kids. One of the keys to this education is the simple act of learning how to wait. It is why the French babies I have encountered mostly sleep throughout the night from two or three months old. Their parents don't pick them up the moment they start crying, allowing the babies to learn how to fall back asleep. It is also why French kids will sit happily at a restaurant. Rather than snacking all day like American children, they mostly have to wait until mealtime to eat. French kids always have three meals a day and one snack at about 4:00 pm. 1. Do French parents have secrets?
2. Can you give an example?
3. How do they teach this?
4. Do they allow their offspring to consume candy all day?
5. What schedule do they have for this?
6. What do they eat for a snack?
7. How many people are mentioned by name in the story?
8. What was her name?
9. Did she have any observations?
10. What were they?
11. Does she have any offspring?
12. How old?
numbered_answers: 1. Yes.
2. Learning how to wait.
3. Their parents don't pick them up the moment they start crying,
4. No.
5. Three meals a day and one snack at about 4:00 pm.
6. One snack at about 4:00 pm, don't know what.
7. One.
8. Pamela Druckerman.
9. Yes.
10. French parents aren't perfect.
11. Yes.
12. Two.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXIX.

THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE.

44--33.

The murderers of Csar had expected the Romans to hail them as deliverers from a tyrant, but his great friend Marcus Antonius, who was, together with him, consul for that year, made a speech over his body as it lay on a couch of gold and ivory in the Forum ready for the funeral. Antonius read aloud Csar's will, and showed what benefits he had intended for his fellow-citizens, and how he loved them, so that love for him and wrath against his enemies filled every hearer. The army, of course, were furious against the murderers; the Senate was terrified, and granted everything Antonius chose to ask, provided he would protect them, whereupon he begged for a guard for himself that he might be saved from Csar's fate, and this they gave him; while the fifteen murderers fled secretly, mostly to Cisalpine Gaul, of which Decimus Brutus was governor.

Csar had no child but the Julia who had been wife to Pompeius, and his heir was his young cousin Caius Octavius, who changed his name to Caius Julius Csar Octavianus, and, coming to Rome, demanded his inheritance, which Antonius had seized, declaring that it was public money; but Octavianus, though only eighteen, showed so much prudence and fairness that many of the Senate were drawn towards him rather than Antonius, who had always been known as a bad, untrustworthy man; but the first thing to be done was to put down the murderers--Decimus Brutus was in Gaul, Marcus Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia, and Sextus Pompeius had also raised an army in Spain. 1. What did the murderers of Caesar expect?
2. Who read Caesar's will?
3. What was his body laying on?
4. What did the will show?
5. Did he have children?
6. Did someone demand an inheritance?
7. Who?
8. How old was he?
9. What relation was he?
10. Had the inheritance been seized?
11. By whom?
12. Why?
13. What did the Senate think?
14. Why?
15. How was Antonious known?
16. Who were Caesar's murderers?
numbered_answers: 1. Romans to hail them as deliverers from a tyrant
2. Antonius
3. couch of gold and ivory
4. benefits he had intended for his fellow-citizens
5. No
6. Yes
7. Caius Octavius
8. eighteen
9. his young cousin
10. Yes
11. Antonius
12. it was public money
13. they were drawn towards Octavius
14. he showed prudence and fairness
15. a bad, untrustworthy man
16. Decimus Brutus, Marcus Brutus, Cassius, and Sextus Pompeius

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Donald was shaken by thunder on the bed before he could count "one thousand one". Then he heard the smoke alarm go off. He went downstairs quickly to investigate. When he opened the door to the basement , flames exploded out.

Donald fled back upstairs to call 911 but the phone didn't work. When he tried to go downstairs, he was stopped by a wall of flames. He had to use a towel to cover his mouth. His house was three miles off the main road and so well hidden by trees that Donald knew calling for help would be useless. Actually, he didn't even try to do that.

About one mile away lived Donald's closest neighbor, Jeremie. When he heard some sounds, Jeremie jumped out of bed, holding a phone and a flashlight, and went towards the noise. He dialed 911 the instant he saw the flames. When he came close to the house, Jeremie knew he'd better wait until rescuers came. But he didn't want Donald to die in the fire.

Without hesitation , he rushed into the house. He shouted, "Donald, where are you?" Then he had to run outside to catch his breath. After one more attempt , he gave up and circled around back. He saw Donald on the second-floor balcony, but there was no way to get to him. Suddenly, he noticed a ladder. He dragged it over to the balcony and pulled Donald down just when the second floor fell down.

Within the year, Donald built a new two-story wood house at the site of the fire. Jeremie and Donald don't run into each other regularly, but Donald knows that if he ever needs help, Jeremie will be there. 1. Who was Donald's nearest neighbor?
2. What did Jeremie do after hearing the noises?
3. Who did he call?
4. Why didn't he want to wait?
5. Did he stay outside?
6. What did he do?
7. Did he yell to Donald?
8. How was he able to pull him down?
9. What woke up Donald before the smoke alarm?
10. Did he go back to sleep?
11. Where did he go?
12. What did he find?
13. Did he try calling 911?
14. Did he try yelling for help?
15. why not?
16. What did he use over his mouth?
17. Who did call 911?
18. After the incident, did the 2 neighbors see each other a lot?
19. Where did Donald live after the fire?
20. What did he know about Jeremie?
numbered_answers:
1. Jeremie
2. jumped out of bed, holding a phone and a flashlight, and went towards the noise
3. 911
4. he didn't want Donald to die in the fire
5. no
6. he rushed into the house
7. yes
8. he dragge over a ladder to the balcony
9. thunder on the bed
10. no
11. downstairs
12. flames exploding out the door
13. yes
14. no
15. his house was three miles off the main road
16. a towel
17. Jeremie
18. no
19. a new two-story wood house
20. Jeremie will be there