input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER IV: AN ARRANGEMENT

"That is serious," said Dick, more intellectually than he had spoken for a long time.

The truth was that Geoffrey knew nothing about his daughter's continued walks and meetings with Dick. When a hint that there were symptoms of an attachment between them had first reached Geoffrey's ears, he stated so emphatically that he must think the matter over before any such thing could be allowed that, rather unwisely on Dick's part, whatever it might have been on the lady's, the lovers were careful to be seen together no more in public; and Geoffrey, forgetting the report, did not think over the matter at all. So Mr. Shiner resumed his old position in Geoffrey's brain by mere flux of time. Even Shiner began to believe that Dick existed for Fancy no more,--though that remarkably easy-going man had taken no active steps on his own account as yet.

"And father has not only told Mr. Shiner that," continued Fancy, "but he has written me a letter, to say he should wish me to encourage Mr. Shiner, if 'twas convenient!"

"I must start off and see your father at once!" said Dick, taking two or three vehement steps to the south, recollecting that Mr. Day lived to the north, and coming back again.

"I think we had better see him together. Not tell him what you come for, or anything of the kind, until he likes you, and so win his brain through his heart, which is always the way to manage people. I mean in this way: I am going home on Saturday week to help them in the honey-taking. You might come there to me, have something to eat and drink, and let him guess what your coming signifies, without saying it in so many words." 1. Who took two to three purposeful steps to the south?
2. Was he going to see someone?
3. Who?
4. Was it urgent?
5. What's her father's name?
6. Does he live to the south?
7. Then where?
8. Does Fancy think Dick should go alone?
9. Does Geoffery Day know anything about Dick wooing his daughter?
10. What do Fancy and Dick like to do together?
11. What was the first thing that Mr. Day said when he heard they liked each other?
12. Was he pretty emphatic about that?
13. What did the two lovers make sure no one saw them do, from then on?
14. Who then got all up in Geoffrey's brain after that?
15. Had he actually taken any steps to woo Fancy?
16. What does Fancy's father want her to do to Mr. Shiner?
17. But only if what?
18. How did he tell her that?
19. Did he also tell Mr. Shiner?
20. When will Fancy go home?
numbered_answers: 1. Dick
2. Yes.
3. Fancy's father
4. Yes.
5. Mr. Day
6. No.
7. to the north
8. No.
9. No.
10. walks and meetings
11. he must think the matter over
12. Yes.
13. be seen together in public;
14. Mr. Shiner
15. No.
16. encourage him.
17. if 'twas convenient
18. he has written her a letter
19. yes
20. Saturday week

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

THE TRAIL OF THE TOURING CAR

All started in astonishment at the footprints before them. What Tom had said was true--the prints were altogether too large to have been made by their own feet in walking through the woods.

"How could I have made such a mistake!" murmured Dick.

"I wonder where you got mixed up?" said Sam. "I looked at the prints down by the swamp. They seemed to be O. K. there."

"Then that is where I must have gotten mixed up--maybe after we pulled Tom from the mud."

"We'll have to go back," came from Tom. "Too bad! But it can't be helped. I don't blame you, Dick," he added, hastily.

"Neither do I," put in Sam. "Anybody might make such a mistake, with nothing but that smoky lantern to guide him."

They turned back, and after a while reached the edge of the swamp. Here, after a long search, they found their own footprints.

"Now we are all right!" cried Sam. "Come on!"

"Yes, and let us be careful that we don't make another mistake," added Tom.

"I don't know about this," said Dick, hesitatingly. "Somehow, it doesn't look altogether right to me."

"Why not?" queried his two brothers.

"It doesn't seem to be the right direction. But they are our footprints, so we may as well follow them."

They went on and proceeded for several hundred feet in silence. Then Tom uttered a cry of dismay.

"Well, this beats the Dutch!" he gasped.

"What's wrong now?" asked Dick. 1. What did Tom say?
2. Were the prints too large?
3. Did tom say something that was true?
4. Did Dick make a mistake?
5. What did Sam look at?
6. Where?
7. Did Dick get mixed up?
8. When?
9. Did Tom want to go back?
10. Did they turn back?
11. What did they reach?
12. When?
13. What did they find?
numbered_answers: 1. "We'll have to go back,"
2. yes
3. yes
4. yes
5. the prints
6. down by the swamp
7. yes
8. after they pulled Tom from the mud
9. yes
10. yes
11. the edge of the swamp
12. after a while
13. their own footprints

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. A UN report said that around 60 million people across the world are drinking polluted water. Some 4,500 children die every day because of polluted water. A report showed that environmental problems kill 3 million children under five years old each year, making them one of the key contributors in more than 10 million child deaths each year. Dangerous factors include indoor and outdoor air pollution, water pollution. Another study showed that parents and scientists from seven countries including the United States and India think pollution is the biggest threat to children's living environment. Mrs Green tries to teach her daughter Susan by setting a personal example. She picks out recyclable waste and uses the water from the washing machine to wash the toilet. Chinese children mostly learn about environmental protection in school. Some non-governmental organizations and child centres also teach kids to protect the environment. "More parents have known about it. Family is now playing a more important role," says a Chinese official. Vera Lehmann, a German scientist says many Chinese now think more of pollution. "I was surprised to find many schools in China are willing to educate the children on environment," Lehmann said. "There has been a big change between now and ten years ago when I first travelled here." 1. What kind of water are millions of people drinking?
2. How many people are drinking it?
3. How many children pass daily because of it?
4. How many children younger than 3 die from environmental problems yearly?
5. What is one of the dangerous factors?
6. And another?
7. Who thinks that pollution is the biggest problem for children worldwide?
8. From where?
9. What is one country?
10. And another?
numbered_answers:
1. polluted
2. 60 million people
3. 4,500
4. 3 million children
5. indoor and outdoor air pollution
6. water pollution
7. parents and scientists
8. from seven countries
9. United States
10. India