question: The corridor windows at the Hangzhou Entel Foreign Language School look a bit different from other schools. They are all decorated with beautiful paper cutting art. But they are not just for decoration. They are also to stop birds from flying into windows. Chen Zitong, 14, a Junior 3 student at the school came up with the idea. In early January, she wrote a letter to the headmaster and suggested this. She often saw birds fly into the clean windows and get hurt. After some online research, she found this solution. "Some people decorated windows with stickers or posters. Then I thought of replacing them with our traditional paper cutting art," Chen said. To Chen's surprise, the headmaster took her advice. The school organized a paper cutting art competition. Students' works that got awards were pasted on the corridor windows. In fact, there have been paper cutting art classes since 2011. "We have classes once a week for a month to teach paper cutting," said Fan Ming, an art teacher. The teaching building even has a display wall to show students' works. Through the class, Shi Jiawei, 14, fell in love with the art of paper cutting. "It's very fun. I can design my own patterns and present interesting things through it," she said. She created many works like bears and magpies . Paper cutting also helps students become more patient. Wang Yiyou, 12, was once an active boy. But now, he can carefully design a delicate paper cutting work with scissors and gravers . "I am so proud that I can make it look perfect," he said. (By Wu Qian, 21st Century Teens Staff)
1. How do they prevent birds from crashing into the windows?
2. Who came up with the idea?
3. Who is she?
4. How old is she?
5. What grade is she in?
6. What is the name of the school?
7. How were birds getting hurt?
8. Who witnessed this?
9. How did she come up with a solution?
10. What did she find?
11. What did other people put on their windows?
12. How do the get the artwork?
13. Which kids got their cuttings featured on the windows?
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answer: 1. with beautiful paper cutting art
2. Chen Zitong
3. student at the schoo
4. 14
5. Junior 3
6. Hangzhou Entel Foreign Language
7. flying into window
8. Chen Zitong
9. some online research
10. solution
11. stickers or posters
12. paper cutting art competition
13. Students' works that got awards

question: Chapter 9

Chivalry or Villainy

From her cabin port upon the Kincaid, Jane Clayton had seen her husband rowed to the verdure-clad shore of Jungle Island, and then the ship once more proceeded upon its way.

For several days she saw no one other than Sven Anderssen, the Kincaid's taciturn and repellent cook. She asked him the name of the shore upon which her husband had been set.

"Ay tank it blow purty soon purty hard," replied the Swede, and that was all that she could get out of him.

She had come to the conclusion that he spoke no other English, and so she ceased to importune him for information; but never did she forget to greet him pleasantly or to thank him for the hideous, nauseating meals he brought her.

Three days from the spot where Tarzan had been marooned the Kincaid came to anchor in the mouth of a great river, and presently Rokoff came to Jane Clayton's cabin.

"We have arrived, my dear," he said, with a sickening leer. "I have come to offer you safety, liberty, and ease. My heart has been softened toward you in your suffering, and I would make amends as best I may.

"Your husband was a brute--you know that best who found him naked in his native jungle, roaming wild with the savage beasts that were his fellows. Now I am a gentleman, not only born of noble blood, but raised gently as befits a man of quality.

"To you, dear Jane, I offer the love of a cultured man and association with one of culture and refinement, which you must have sorely missed in your relations with the poor ape that through your girlish infatuation you married so thoughtlessly. I love you, Jane. You have but to say the word and no further sorrows shall afflict you--even your baby shall be returned to you unharmed."
1. What will be returned without harm?
2. Who was the cook?
3. Did he talk much?
4. What was his nationality?
5. Did he speak English fluently?
6. Who was rowed ashore?
7. And his name?
8. What was the name of the boat?
9. Where was Tarzan abandoned?
10. Who visited Jane's room?
11. Did he want her?
12. Was he a commoner?
13. Did Jane like the food?
14. Was she courteous to him?
15. Where was the boat anchored?
16. Who was nude?
17. Who did he hang out with?
18. What was she offered?
19. what animal did he call Tarzan?
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answer: 1. Jane's baby.
2. Sven Anderssen
3. No.
4. Swedish.
5. No.
6. Her husband.
7. Tarzan.
8. Kincaid
9. Three days from the Jungle Island
10. Rokoff
11. Yes.
12. No.
13. No.
14. Yes.
15. The mouth of a great river
16. Tarzan.
17. Savage beasts.
18. The love of a cultured man
19. An ape.

question: The Korean language (, see below) is the official and national language of both Koreas: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), with different standardized official forms used in each territory. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and Changbai Korean Autonomous County of the People's Republic of China. Approximately 80 million people worldwide speak Korean.

Historical and modern linguists classify Korean as a language isolate; however, it does have a few extinct relatives, which together with Korean itself and the Jeju language (spoken in the Jeju Province and considered somewhat distinct) form the Koreanic language family. This implies that Korean is not an isolate, but a member of a small family. The idea that Korean belongs to the controversial Altaic language family is discredited in academic research. There is still debate about a relation to Dravidian languages and on whether Korean and Japanese are related to each other. The Korean language is agglutinative in its morphology and SOV in its syntax.

Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean, which in turn descends from Old Korean, which descends from the language spoken in Prehistoric Korea (labeled Proto-Korean), whose nature is debated, in part because Korean genetic origins are controversial. A relation of Korean (together with its extinct relatives which form the Koreanic family) with Japonic languages has been proposed by linguists such as William George Aston and Samuel Martin. Roy Andrew Miller and others suggested or supported the inclusion of Koreanic and Japonic languages in the purported Altaic family (a macro-family that would comprise Tungusic, Mongolian and Turkic families); the Altaic hypothesis has since been largely rejected by most linguistic specialists.
1. Where does modern Korean descend from?
2. And where does that descend from?
3. What do linguists classify Korean as?
4. What is the official and national language of both Koreas?
5. What is another name for The Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
6. And what is South Korea?
7. About how many people speak Korean worldwide?
8. What is William George Aston?
9. And Samuel Martin?
10. Do we know whether Korean and Japanese are related?
11. What is Korean in its morphology?
12. Where is it one of the two official languages?
13. Where is the Jeju language spoken?
14. What is discredited in academic research?
15. And what is there still debate about?
16. What is another name for the language spoken in Prehistoric Korea?
17. Why is its nature debated?
18. What form the Koreanic family?
19. What did Roy Andrew Miller suggest?
20. Was he alone in suggesting that?
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answer:
1. Middle Korean
2. Old Korean
3. a language isolate
4. Korean
5. North Korea
6. the Republic of Korea
7. 80 million
8. a linguist
9. a linguist
10. no
11. agglutinative
12. the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture
13. the Jeju Province
14. The idea that Korean belongs to the controversial Altaic language family
15. a relation to Dravidian languages
16. Proto-Korean
17. Korean genetic origins are controversial
18. Korean and its extinct relatives
19. the inclusion of Koreanic and Japonic languages in the purported Altaic family
20. no