Tony was riding his bike home from school. Then he saw Cindy riding her bike in front of him.

Tony yelled, "Hey, Cindy!" Then he rode faster to catch up with her.

Cindy said, "Tony! Hey! Where are you going?"

"I'm going to the empty lot on Maple Street to ride my bike. The other kids are going to be there. Do you want to come?"

"Sure," said Cindy.

Tony and Cindy rode to Maple Street, to the empty lot. The empty lot did not have a house on it. Instead, it had big hills of dirt, and it had trees cut down on the ground. There was a low part that became a pond after it rained. The lot had been empty for a couple of years, because times were bad and the builder couldn't find a buyer for another house. The kids had ridden their bikes over the hills of dirt, around the cut trees, and through the muddy pond. There were bike trails all over the empty lot. There were even places where the kids could jump their bikes.

There were three other children riding their bikes at the empty lot when Tony and Cindy arrived: Lana, Billy and Chris.

Cindy said, "I am calling my mom to let her know that I'm here."

Tony said, "That's a good idea. Can I use your phone when you're done?"

Cindy said "Sure! Keep it for now. I'm going to go on the jump path. I was scared to try it last time. I don't want to break my phone if I fall. I'm leaving my backpack here, too."

"Okay." said Tony. "I'll watch. You'll do good." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who was riding their bike?
2. where was he going?
3. from where?
4. who did he see?
5. did he speak to her?
6. what did he say?
7. Did she speak back?
8. what did she say?
9. did they go somewhere together?
10. where?
11. were there others there?
12. how many others?
13. What were their names?
14. what were they doing there?
15. what did Cindy do?
16. did anyone else?
17. who?
18. Who's phone did they use?
19. did he give it back to her?
20. why not?
Answer: 1. Tony
2. home
3. school
4. Cindy
5. yes
6. "Hey, Cindy!
7. yes
8. "Tony! Hey! Where are you going?"
9. yes
10. an empty lot
11. yes
12. Three
13. Lana, Billy and Chris.
14. riding their bikes
15. called her mom
16. yes
17. Tony
18. Cindy's
19. no
20. she was going on the jump path

Problem: CHAPTER XXIII HOPE

"Faith, Madame!" said Sir Andrew, seeing that Marguerite seemed desirous to call her surly host back again, "I think we'd better leave him alone. We shall not get anything more out of him, and we might arouse his suspicions. One never knows what spies may be lurking around these God-forsaken places."

"What care I?" she replied lightly, "now I know that my husband is safe, and that I shall see him almost directly!"

"Hush!" he said in genuine alarm, for she had talked quite loudly, in the fulness of her glee, "the very walls have ears in France, these days."

He rose quickly from the table, and walked round the bare, squalid room, listening attentively at the door, through which Brogard has just disappeared, and whence only muttered oaths and shuffling footsteps could be heard. He also ran up the rickety steps that led to the attic, to assure himself that there were no spies of Chauvelin's about the place.

"Are we alone, Monsieur, my lacquey?" said Marguerite, gaily, as the young man once more sat down beside her. "May we talk?"

"As cautiously as possible!" he entreated.

"Faith, man! but you wear a glum face! As for me, I could dance with joy! Surely there is no longer any cause for fear. Our boat is on the beach, the FOAM CREST not two miles out at sea, and my husband will be here, under this very roof, within the next half hour perhaps. Sure! there is naught to hinder us. Chauvelin and his gang have not yet arrived."
1. Is Sir Andrew married?
2. who is Magurerite?
3. Were the walls paperthin?
4. Who was speaking loudly?
5. Who wanted her to be more quieter?
6. Why did Magureite wanted to know if they were alone?
7. Who was sad?
8. what was the boat's name?
9. when is her husband arriving
10. Did chavelin and his gang come yet?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. unknown
3. the walls have ears
4. Marguerite did
5. Sir Andrew
6. she wanted to talk
7. unknown
8. FOAM CREST
9. within the next half hour perhaps
10. no

question: Xu Caihou, a retired PLA general and former vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), was taken from his sick bed at 301 Military Hospital in Beijing on Saturday by dozens of armed policemen, the South China Morning Post reported, quoting unidentified sources.

Xu was detained the same day President Xi Jinping chaired a steering group tasked with reforming the military, the Post said.

If confirmed, Xu would become the highest-ranking military officer to be detained on suspicion of corruption.

Xu's critics claim that during his tenure, the buying and selling of military ranks was widespread in the defense establishment.

"I was told by an ex-PLA man I met on the train travelling to Guangzhou that he quit the military because so many people were buying positions and he did not want to play that game," said David Zweig, professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

"Telling me, a foreign professor, such dirt suggests that it is widespread and the anger that exists about this is also widespread."

Bribery scandal

Xu's detention may be connected with the corruption probe of Gu Junshan, the army's former deputy logistics chief and one of Xu's closest subordinates. Gu, who was in charge of the military's massive procurement and property portfolio, reportedly received bribes in cash and gifts. He has been under investigation since early 2012.

Xu, 71, was promoted to the CMC in 1999 and became its vice-chairman in 2004. He retired in March last year.

He has not been seen in public for several months until January 20, when the Chinese media showed him with President Xi greeting a group of retired military officials on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
1. Was Xu promoted?
2. What age?
3. When?
4. Was he liked?
5. Was he arrested?
6. When?
7. How?
8. For what?
9. Who bribed him?
10. Is he still working?
11. Did he resurface?
12. When?
13. Where?
14. For what?
15. Celebrating what?
16. What was bought?
17. By whom?
18. Was a game played?
19. Where?
20. Did he have people beneath him?
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answer:
1. yes
2. 71
3. in 1999
4. no
5. yes
6. Saturday
7. taken from bed by policemen
8. suspicion of corruption
9. Gu Junshan
10. no
11. yes
12. January 20
13. with President Xi
14. greeting military officials
15. Chinese Lunar New Year
16. military ranks
17. the defense
18. yes
19. the military
20. yes