question: Peggy Hilt wanted to be a good mother. But day after day, she got out of bed feeling like a failure. No matter what she tried, she couldn't connect with Nina, the 2-year -old girl she'd adopted from Russia as an infant . The preschooler pulled away whenever Hilt tried to hug or kiss her. Nina was physically aggressive with her 4-year-old sister, who had been adopted from Ukraine, and had violent tantrums . Whenever Hilt wasn't watching, she destroyed the family's furniture and possessions. "Every day with Nina had become a struggle," she recalls now.

As the girl grew older, things got worse. Hilt fell into a deep depression. She started drinking heavily, something she'd never done before. Ashamed, she hid her problem from everyone, including her husband.

On the morning of July 1, 2005, Hilt was packing for a family vocation, all the while swallowing one beer after another and growing increasingly angry and impatient with Nina's deeds. "Everything she did just got to me," Hilt said. When Hilt caught her reaching into her diaper and smearing feces on the walls and furniture, "a year and a half of frustration came to a head," Hilt says. "I snapped . I felt this uncontrollable rage."

Then Hilt did something unthinkable. She grabbed Nina around the neck, shook her and then dropped her to the floor, where she kicked her repeatedly before dragging her up to her room, punching her as they went. "I had never hit a child before," she says. "I felt horrible and promised myself that this would never happen again." But _ . Nina woke up with a fever, and then started throwing up. The next day she stopped breathing. By the time the ambulance got the child to the hospital, she was dead.

Hilt is now serving a 19-year sentence for second-degree murder in a Virginia prison. She and her husband divorced, and he is raising their other daughter. She realizes the horror of her crime and says she isn't looking for sympathy. "There is no punishment severe enough for what I did," she told NEWSWEEK in an interview at the prison.
1. When did this event take place?
2. Who was packing for it?
3. What time of day was it?
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answer: 1. family vocation
2. Hilt was packing
3. morning

CHAPTER XVII.

But see! through the fast-flashing lightnings of war, What steed to the desert flies frantic and far? Campbell.

During the severe skirmish of which we have given the details, Morton, together with Cuddie and his mother, and the Reverend Gabriel Kettledrummle, remained on the brow of the hill, near to the small cairn, or barrow, beside which Claverhouse had held his preliminary council of war, so that they had a commanding view of the action which took place in the bottom. They were guarded by Corporal Inglis and four soldiers, who, as may readily be supposed, were much more intent on watching the fluctuating fortunes of the battle, than in attending to what passed among their prisoners.

"If you lads stand to their tackle," said Cuddie, "we'll hae some chance o' getting our necks out o' the brecham again; but I misdoubt them--they hae little skeel o' arms."

"Much is not necessary, Cuddie," answered Morton; "they have a strong position, and weapons in their hands, and are more than three times the number of their assailants. If they cannot fight for their freedom now, they and theirs deserve to lose it for ever."

"O, sirs," exclaimed Mause, "here's a goodly spectacle indeed! My spirit is like that of the blessed Elihu, it burns within me--my bowels are as wine which lacketh vent--they are ready to burst like new bottles. O, that He may look after His ain people in this day of judgment and deliverance!--And now, what ailest thou, precious Mr Gabriel Kettledrummle? I say, what ailest thou, that wert a Nazarite purer than snow, whiter than milk, more ruddy than sulphur," (meaning, perhaps, sapphires,)--"I say, what ails thee now, that thou art blacker than a coal, that thy beauty is departed, and thy loveliness withered like a dry potsherd? Surely it is time to be up and be doing, to cry loudly and to spare not, and to wrestle for the puir lads that are yonder testifying with their ain blude and that of their enemies." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who says his bowels are like wine?
2. Are they ready to burst?
3. What does Mause confuse sulphur with?
4. What does Mause say it is time to do?
5. Anything else?
6. And?
7. What are the lads doing?
8. Who travels fast and far?
9. Is Cuddie with his mother?
10. What is the Reverend's name?
11. First name?
12. Where did he stay?
13. Which was near to what?
14. What is another name for that?
15. What event had happened near there?
16. Who organized it?
17. Did the group have a good vantage point of the battle?
18. Were they guarded?
19. By whom?
20. Who else?
Answer: 1. Mause
2. yes
3. sapphires
4. to be up and be doing
5. to cry loudly
6. and to wrestle for the puir lads
7. testifying with their ain blude and that of their enemies
8. Campbell
9. yes
10. Kettledrummle
11. Gabriel
12. on the brow of the hill
13. the small cairn
14. barrow
15. council of war
16. Claverhouse
17. yes
18. yes
19. Corporal Inglis
20. four soldiers

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Soon it would be the holidays. But before that, there was the end of year exams. All the students worked hard for some time. If they didn't pass, they would have to take the exams in September again. Some students failed, but Kate decided not to be one of them. She worked hard all day, but just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister was worried about her. She was staying up too late . The night before the first exam, Barbala insisted that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised to wake her in the morning. As she was falling asleep, Kate was worried in case she over-slept. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of the pill, she fell asleep. she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper. She couldn't answer any of the questions. Everyone round her was writing pages and pages. However hard she thought, she couldn't find anything to write about. She kept looking at her watch. Time was running out. There was only one hour left. She started one question, wrote two sentences, gave up and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started crying. Her whole body shook(,). It shook so much that it woke her up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible dream. A minute later, Barbala called her name. 1. What was before the holidays?
2. What did Barbala insist?
3. Why was Kate worried trying to fall asleep?
4. Did she think she was doing well while working on the exam?
5. What happens if the students don't pass?
6. Could she think of anything to write about on her exam?
7. Did it seem like the other students were having problems?
8. What was Barbala in relation to Kate?
9. Was her exams real?
10. Did she work hard the day before the exams?
numbered_answers:
1. exams
2. that Kate have an early night and take a sleeping pill
3. in case she over-slept
4. no
5. they have to take the exams in September again
6. no
7. no
8. her sister
9. no
10. yes