Q: Mr. Smith works in a factory. There he drives a truck. He's tired all the time. When he comes back, he's always busy and doesn't want to do any housework. His wife is a doctor and likes to keep all the things clean. So she has to do all at home. She usually goes to work from Monday to Friday and has to do all on weekends. All her friends know about it and sometimes they come to help her. It's Saturday today. Mrs Smith tells her husband to help her do some housework, but he says he has something to do and goes out early in the morning. He leaves a lot of dirty clothes at home. Mrs Smith doesn't go to work but she doesn't feel well. So she doesn't want to do any housework. After breakfast, Jo, one of her friends, comes to see her when she's sitting on a chair. The girl finds the rooms are dirty and she asks, "Don't you clean your rooms today, Mrs Smith?" "No, I don't."says the doctor. "Why don't you wear your glasses?" "Then I will think the rooms are still clean."

Answer the following questions:
1. Where does the man work?
2. How does he get there?
3. How does he feel most days?
4. What doesn't he enjoy doing?
5. What does Mrs. Smith do for work?
6. What days?
7. So when does that leave time for cleaning?
8. What day is it today?
9. What did Mr. Smith leave a lot of when he left for the day?
10. who came by after the morning meal?
11. Named what?
12. Where was Mrs. Smith when she came by?
A: 1. in a factory
2. unknown
3. tired
4. housework
5. she's a doctor
6. Monday to Friday
7. weekends
8. Saturday
9. dirty clothes
10. one of her friends
11. Jo
12. sitting on a chair

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Bringing a giraffe into the world is _ . A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life. In his book,A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."

1. Who is Gary Richmond?
2. who wrote what?
3. which is about what?
4. What does a baby giraffe need to learn in the wild?
5. why?
6. who teaches them this lesson?
7. What does she do when the baby is forst born?
8. Is the baby born small?
9. how big?
10. Once the mother looks at the baby, what does she do next?
11. and then?
12. why?
13. does it learn right away?
14. what happens when it doesnt learn?
15. who is the giraffes struggle compared to?
16. any other men?
17. Did these men seem to have anything in common?
18. what is one?
19. and what happens to them?
20. what happens at the end?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. An author.
2. A View from the Zoo.
3. How a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
4. Get up as quickly as possible.
5. To stay with its group.
6. The mother.
7. Lowers her head long enough to take a quick look.
8. No.
9. Ten feet high.
10. She puts herself directly over her child.
11. Kicks her baby.
12. She wants it to remember how it got up.
13. No.
14. The process is repeated again and again.
15. Michelangelo,
16. Vincent van Gogh.
17. Yes.
18. Sometime in their life have a dream of something.
19. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
20. They've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Chapter XXXV

The Hidden Dread

IT was a busy time for Adam--the time between the beginning of November and the beginning of February, and he could see little of Hetty, except on Sundays. But a happy time, nevertheless, for it was taking him nearer and nearer to March, when they were to be married, and all the little preparations for their new housekeeping marked the progress towards the longed-for day. Two new rooms had been "run up" to the old house, for his mother and Seth were to live with them after all. Lisbeth had cried so piteously at the thought of leaving Adam that he had gone to Hetty and asked her if, for the love of him, she would put up with his mother's ways and consent to live with her. To his great delight, Hetty said, "Yes; I'd as soon she lived with us as not." Hetty's mind was oppressed at that moment with a worse difficulty than poor Lisbeth's ways; she could not care about them. So Adam was consoled for the disappointment he had felt when Seth had come back from his visit to Snowfield and said "it was no use--Dinah's heart wasna turned towards marrying." For when he told his mother that Hetty was willing they should all live together and there was no more need of them to think of parting, she said, in a more contented tone than he had heard her speak in since it had been settled that he was to be married, "Eh, my lad, I'll be as still as th' ould tabby, an' ne'er want to do aught but th' offal work, as she wonna like t' do. An' then we needna part the platters an' things, as ha' stood on the shelf together sin' afore thee wast born."

1. What time of year was it?
2. What had been added to the house?
3. Why?
4. Who was let down about something?
5. What about?
6. Who was upset over the new roomates?
7. What did she do?
8. Did Adam have an open schedule?
9. Why not?
10. Was a special event coming up?
11. What was that?
12. To Whom?
13. When is the wedding?
14. Were they together all of the time?
15. Why not?
16. When did they see one another?
17. Where had Seth returned from?
18. Did he see anyone special while he was away?
19. Who did he see?
20. Was his wedding happy news for his mother?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. The time between November and February
2. Two new rooms
3. His mother and Seth were to live there
4. Adam?
5. Dinah did not want to marry
6. Lisbeth
7. She had cried
8. No
9. IT was a busy time
10. Yes.
11. He was to be married
12. Hetty
13. March
14. No
15. IT was a busy time
16. On Sundays
17. Snowfield
18. Yes
19. Dinah
20. She was content.