Q: We spent a few days in Paris last week. We visit the famous city quite regularly. After all, it only takes three hours from London to Pairs. It's always a pleasure visiting places we really like, exploring areas we've never been. The only unlucky thing this time was the weather. As soon as we got there the temperature reached almost 35 degrees C (which lasted until we left). It was so hot that Matthew just couldn't _ it -- for him, it wasn't the most enjoyable trip. I felt sorry for him because every time we go there he has to put up with my endless shopping spree ... Because of the heat, we ended up just having lots of ice-cream and drinks most of the time, although we managed to pay a few visits to the new Herme shop on rue de Vaugirard at least. It's not as busy as the shop on rue Bonaparte so you can choose whatever you like without worrying about a queue behind you! I really enjoyed his bread this time as well as the cakes. And I must say that his Croissant aux Amandes and Bostock were simply the best I've ever had.

1. Croissant aux Amandes and Bostock.
2. New Herme shop.
3. Onn rue de Vaugirard.
4. On rue Bonaparte.
5. Matthew.
6. The temperature reached almost 35 degrees C.
7. Lots of ice-cream and drinks.
8. He has to put up with endless shopping spree.
9. Yes.
10. Paris.
11. London.
12. Three hours.
13. Yes.
14. Quite regularly.
15. Yes.
16. Exploring areas we've never been.
17. As soon as they got there.
18. A few days.
19. Last week.
20. Yes.

Numbered questions:
1. What did the author have the was the best she'd ever eaten?
2. Where did it come from?
3. Where is that located?
4. Where are the shops busier?
5. Who didn't enjoy the trip?
6. Why?
7. What did they do to keep cool?
8. Why did she feel bad for him?
9. Can you take your time in the Herme shop without a line of people behind you waiting?
10. Where we they visiting?
11. Where were they from?
12. How far is Paris from London?
13. Do they go there very often?
14. How often?
15. Do they usually enjoy it?
16. What do they like doing there?
17. When did it got hot there?
18. How long did they stay there?
19. When did they go?
20. Did it stay hot during the entire visit?

Q: Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.

Diving is one of the most popular Olympic sports with spectators. Competitors possess many of the same characteristics as gymnasts and dancers, including strength, flexibility, kinaesthetic judgment and air awareness. Some professional divers were originally gymnasts or dancers as both the sports have similar characteristics to diving. Dmitri Sautin holds the record for most Olympic diving medals won, by winning eight medals in total between 1992 and 2008.

Although diving has been a popular pastime across the world since ancient times, the first modern diving competitions were held in England in the 1880s. The exact origins of the sport are unclear, though it likely derives from the act of diving at the start of swimming races. The 1904 book "Swimming" by Ralph Thomas notes English reports of plunging records dating back to at least 1865. The 1877 edition to "British Rural Sports" by John Henry Walsh makes note of a "Mr. Young" plunging 56 feet in 1870, and also states that 25 years prior, a swimmer named Drake could cover 53 feet.

1. Diving
2. no
3. since ancient times
4. first modern diving competitions were held
5. England
6. gymnasts and dancers
7. Four
8. strength, flexibility
9. record for most Olympic diving medals won
10. No
11. eight
12. 1992
13. 2008
14. 1880s

Numbered questions:
1. What is the topic of the passage?
2. Is it unpopular in the Olympics?
3. How long has it been popular?
4. What happened in the 1880's
5. Where did it originate?
6. What other sports does it share traits with?
7. How many traits are listed?
8. What are two of them?
9. Who is Dmitri Sautin?
10. Did he win 5 medals?
11. How many did he win?
12. When did he win the first?
13. And the last?
14. When did the fist modern version of the sport begin?

Q: Chapter III

WHO WAS IT?

Who had taken it? This question tormented Treherne all that sleepless night. He suspected three persons, for only these had approached the fire after the note was hidden. He had kept his eye on it, he thought, till the stir of breaking up. In that moment it must have been removed by the major, Frank Annon, or my lady; Sir Jasper was out of the question, for he never touched an ornament in the drawing room since he had awkwardly demolished a whole _etagere_ of costly trifles, to his mother's and sister's great grief. The major evidently suspected something, Annon was jealous, and my lady would be glad of a pretext to remove her daughter from his reach. Trusting to his skill in reading faces, he waited impatiently for morning, resolving to say nothing to anyone but Mrs. Snowdon, and from her merely to inquire what the note contained.

Treherne usually was invisible till lunch, often till dinner; therefore, fearing to excite suspicion by unwonted activity, he did not appear till noon. The mailbag had just been opened, and everyone was busy over their letters, but all looked up to exchange a word with the newcomer, and Octavia impulsively turned to meet him, then checked herself and hid her suddenly crimsoned face behind a newspaper. Treherne's eye took in everything, and saw at once in the unusually late arrival of the mail a pretext for discovering the pilferer of the note.

"All have letters but me, yet I expected one last night. Major, have you got it among yours?" And as he spoke, Treherne fixed his penetrating eyes full on the person he addressed.

1. three persons
2. an ornament
3. in the drawing room
4. yes
5. His lady
6. , Frank Annon
7. the major
8. Treherne
9. till dinner
10. Just now
11. Yes
12. yes
13. Octavia

Numbered questions:
1. How many were suspected in the theft?
2. What was stolen?
3. Wher
4. Was any female a suspect?
5. Who?
6. Who's another?
7. And the last?
8. Who was away until lunch?
9. How late was she other times?
10. How long ago had the bag of mail been opened?
11. Were there others there?
12. Did they greet the person who arrived?
13. Who blushed after seeing him?