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

A GENEROUS OFFER

It was late in the afternoon of the next day when Harry and I sat figuring in our shanty, while Johnston lay on a heap of cedar twigs sucking at his pipe and encouraging us languidly.

"I never could stand figures, and that's perhaps why I'm poor," he said. "Go on, you are doing famously, and, though Ralph can't add up correctly to save his life, I'll take your word for it."

He formed a characteristic picture of the free lance as he lay there, bronzed and blonde-bearded, with his massy limbs disposed in an attitude of easy grace, awaiting the result with a careless unconcern until Harry flung a long boot at him as a signal for silence.

"As the surveyor told you, Ralph, we can't well lose money on this last venture, even if we wanted to," said Harry at length. "You'll observe I'm almost getting superstitious. Now, on cashing the order, we can repay your loan, keeping back sufficient to meet emergencies, while with the rest one of us could return to Fairmead and plough every available acre for next spring's sowing. Many things suggest that you are the one to go. Johnston and I with the others could get the timber out during the winter--we have worked in the snow before--and I would join you in the spring. That, however, again raises a point that must be settled once for all. Are we to hold on to our first ambition, or turn contractors?" 1. When were they in the shanty?
2. of what day?
3. and who was doing math?
numbered_answers: 1. in the afternoon
2. of the next day
3. unknown

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. LOS ANGELES - Jesus Ibarra was puzzled by the elderly man.

He was obviously much older than other students at prefix = st1 /CentralAultHigh School. And he was an Anglo on a campus where most students are Latins, Blacks, and Asian - Americans.

"I asked myself what he was doing here," said Ibarra, 21, of Los Angeles. "I thought he was a visitor. The first time I talked to him, I asked a question in English, and he answered in Spanish. I thought he was white and Jewish. I never imagined that he would speak Spanish."

Jacob Blitzstein surprised his fellow students all the time. He isn't some _ man, though he wears his neat gray beard and conservative (traditional) clothes.

Blitzstein is warm and gregarious (enjoys being with others). He likes to hear a good joke and loves to tell a good story. He is determined, especially when it comes to realizing his dream.

Recently, that dream came true. At a graduation ceremony attended by two of his children and three grandchildren, Blitzstein, 81, graduated from high school.

After Principal Lanny Nelms handed him the diploma and announced his age, Blitzstein waved to the audience and cried.

And why not? He's probably the oldest CentralHigh Schoolgraduate since the school opened in 1974. According to theLos Angelesdistrict spokesman, although no records of such things are kept, Blitzstein is the oldest graduate he's ever heard of.

Earning his diploma took 10 years, during which the retired store owner suffered heart attack and ill health, and lost his wife and two brothers.

He kept to his task for a reason. "School is the best medicine you can have," he said. "You have something on your mind - a goal."

With his diploma in hand, Blitzstein states that _ .

"You know something ? I'm going to college," He told a visitor recently. He has checked out West Los Angeles and Santa Monicacommunity colleges and hopes to move from there to a four-year school.

"It's not a joke," he said. "If I live to the year 2008, maybe I'll be a doctor." 1. Who puzzled Jesus Ibarra?
2. Why?
3. Who old is Jesus?
4. Where is he from?
5. What is the elderly man's name?
6. What language does he speak?
7. And?
8. What heritage did Jesus think Jacob had?
9. Does Jacob have facial hair?
10. What kind?
11. Is Jacob a social person?
12. How old is he?
13. What accomplishment did he recently attain?
14. Who attended his graduation?
15. Anyone else?
16. Who was his principal?
17. What was Jacob's reaction after receiving his diploma?
18. How long did it take for Jacob to earn his diploma?
19. Who did he lose while working on his diploma?
20. And?
numbered_answers: 1. the elderly man
2. he was an Anglo on a campus where most students are Latins, Blacks, and Asian-Americans
3. 21
4. Los Angeles
5. Jacob Blitzstein
6. English
7. Spanish
8. Jewish
9. yes
10. beard
11. yes
12. 81
13. graduated from high school
14. two of his children
15. three grandchildren
16. Lanny Nelms
17. waved to the audience and cried
18. 10 years
19. his wife
20. two brothers

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

A further account of Glubbdubdrib. Ancient and modern history corrected.

Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose. I proposed that Homer and Aristotle might appear at the head of all their commentators; but these were so numerous, that some hundreds were forced to attend in the court, and outward rooms of the palace. I knew, and could distinguish those two heroes, at first sight, not only from the crowd, but from each other. Homer was the taller and comelier person of the two, walked very erect for one of his age, and his eyes were the most quick and piercing I ever beheld. Aristotle stooped much, and made use of a staff. His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow. I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had never seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, "that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity." I introduced Didymus and Eustathius to Homer, and prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved, for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter into the spirit of a poet. But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him; and he asked them, "whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves?" 1. What is it a more full telling of?
2. what is being righted?
3. Who did he think might show up at the front of the commentators?
4. Who else/
5. How many were forced to go?
6. How was Homer different from Aristotle?
7. How else?
8. How did he walk?
9. His eyes?
10. How was Aristotle different?
11. What did he use?
12. What was his hair like?
13. His voice?
14. Who did the narrator introduce to Homer?
15. Who else?
16. Who whispered to the narrator?
17. Did the two know the rest of the company?
18. Did he know the ghost's name?
numbered_answers:
1. Glubbdubdrib
2. Ancient and modern history
3. Homer
4. Aristotle
5. hundreds
6. taller
7. comelier
8. very erect for one of his age
9. quick and piercing
10. stooped much
11. a staff
12. lank and thin
13. hollow
14. Didymus
15. Eustathius
16. ghost
17. No
18. No