Q: "How do you account for your remarkable achievements in life?" Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. "How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and deaf, you were able to achieve so much?" Ms. Keller's answer is a tribute to her dedicated teacher. "If it had not been for Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would have remained unknown." According to speaker Zig Ziglar, "Little Annie" Sullivan, as she was called when she was young, was no stranger to hardship. She was almost sightless herself (due to a childhood fever) and was, at one time, diagnosed as hopelessly "insane" by her by caregivers. She was locked in the basement of a mental institution outside of Boston. On occasion, Little Annie would violently attack anyone who came near. Most of the time she generally ignored everyone in her presence. An elderly nurse believed there was hope, however, and she made it her mission to show love to the child. Every day she visited Little Annie. For the most part, the child did not acknowledge the nurse's presence, but she still continued to visit. The kind woman left cookies for her and spoke words of love and encouragement. She believed Little Annie could recover, if only she were shown love. Eventually, doctors noticed a change in the girl. Where they once witnessed anger and hostility , they now noted an emerging gentleness and love. They moved her upstairs where she continued to improve. Then the day finally came when this seemingly "hopeless" child was released. Anne Sullivan grew into a young woman with a desire to help others as she, herself, was helped by the kindly nurse. It was she who saw the great potential in Helen Keller. She loved her, disciplined her, played with her, pushed her and worked with her until the flickering candle that was her life became a beacon of light to the world. Anne Sullivan worked wonders in Helen's life, but it was a loving nurse who first believed in Little Annie and lovingly transformed an uncommunicative child into a _ teacher. "If it had not been for Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would have remained unknown." But if it had not been for a kind and dedicated nurse, the name of Anne Sullivan would have remained unknown. And so it goes. Just how far back does the chain of redemption extend? And how for forward will it lead? Those you have sought to reach, whether they be in your family or elsewhere, are part of a chain of love that can extend through the generations. Your influence on their lives, whether or not you see results, is immeasurable. Your legacy of dedicated kindness and caring can transform lost and hopeless lives for years to come.

1. Anne Sullivan
2. Helen Keller
3. She was blind
4. deaf
5. Yes
6. She was almost sightless
7. A childhood fever
8. An elderly nurse
9. Yes
10. She visited every day
11. She left cookies for her
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. She saw great potential
15. a desire to help as she was helped
16. A legacy of kindness can transform hopeless lives

Numbered questions:
1. who is the story about?
2. Who did she teach?
3. What was wrong with Helen Keller?
4. and?
5. Did Anne Sullivan have any issues?
6. What was one of them?
7. Why?
8. Who helped her?
9. was Annie acting violent too?
10. how did the elderly nurse help her?
11. and what else?
12. Did she talk to her and show her love and encouragement?
13. were the doctors surprised that Annie got better?
14. Why did she want to help Helen Keller?
15. and what else?
16. so what was the moral of the story?

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

Presently we left him. Dirk was going home to dinner, and I proposed to find a doctor and bring him to see Strickland; but when we got down into the street, fresh after the stuffy attic, the Dutchman begged me to go immediately to his studio. He had something in mind which he would not tell me, but he insisted that it was very necessary for me to accompany him. Since I did not think a doctor could at the moment do any more than we had done, I consented. We found Blanche Stroeve laying the table for dinner. Dirk went up to her, and took both her hands.

"Dear one, I want you to do something for me," he said.

She looked at him with the grave cheerfulness which was one of her charms. His red face was shining with sweat, and he had a look of comic agitation, but there was in his round, surprised eyes an eager light.

"Strickland is very ill. He may be dying. He is alone in a filthy attic, and there is not a soul to look after him. I want you to let me bring him here."

She withdrew her hands quickly, I had never seen her make so rapid a movement; and her cheeks flushed.

"Oh no."

"Oh, my dear one, don't refuse. I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him."

"I have no objection to your nursing him."

Her voice was cold and distant. 1. Who is sick?
2. Where is he?
3. What is another name for him?
4. Did they send for a doctor?
5. Who did they go to see?
6. Who did Dirk speak to?
7. Are they close?
8. What does he tell her?
9. Does she like what he says?
10. Does she make him stay?
numbered_answers: 1. Strickland
2. alone
3. unknown
4. Yes
5. the Dutchman
6. Blanche Stroeve
7. Yes
8. I want you to do something for me,
9. no
10. yes

CHAPTER XI

THE BAT'S EXIT

_Columbine_ rolled heavily on the broken swell and the lamp that swung from a beam threw a puzzling light about the cabin. Now and then water splashed on the deck and the slack sails flapped. The fresh breeze had dropped, although the sea had not yet gone down, and Marston had set the topsail and the balloon jib. The light canvas would chafe and was not of much use, but he must reach Kingston as soon as possible. He was exhausted by physical effort and anxious watching, and when Rupert replaced the bandage on his comrade's face he leaned back slackly on the locker seat.

Wyndham lay in an upper berth, in the faint draught that came down through the open skylight. A wet cloth covered his face and the cabin smelt of drugs. He did not move and had not been altogether conscious for some time. Rupert wore Harry's white clothes and looked, in the unsteady light, like a rather haggard and jaundiced Englishman. Marston had noted his firm touch when he fixed the bandage and now he was methodically putting back some bottles in the medicine chest. When he finished he bent over the berth for a moment, as if he listened to Wyndham's breathing.

"I think he will live," he said. "Although he is very weak, we have got the fever down, and the wound is not as septic as it was. Anyhow, you must get him into hospital at Kingston soon."

Marston remembered afterwards that Rupert had said _you_, not we, and thought it significant. Now, however, he was dully pondering something else. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. whose face was covered with a wet cloth?
2. where were they going to?
3. what had chafed?
4. what is the name of the boat?
5. do they think he will live?
6. was Rupert wearing his own clothes?
7. then whose?
8. was the wound still as septic?
9. did he check to see if Wyndham was still alive?
10. how?
11. who was exhausted?
12. who was exhausted by physcial effort?
13. what did Marston set up?
14. and?
15. what did the cabin smell of?
16. was Wyndham strong?
17. had he been conscious?
18. who replaced the bandage?
19. who put the medicine bottles back?
20. what were they going to to in Kingston?
Answer:
1. Wyndham
2. Kingston
3. The light canvas
4. Columbine
5. yes
6. no
7. Harry
8. no
9. yes
10. listening to his breathing
11. Wyndham
12. Marston
13. topsail
14. the balloon jib
15. drugs
16. no
17. no
18. Marston
19. Marston
20. getting him into a hospital