Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The big white bear walked over the ice. After he went a few feet, he pushed his paws down on the ice as hard as he could. The sheet of ice cracked, and the big bear learned that he still had to wait.

The big white bear was waiting to go out to the ice and hunt. He was getting thin after a long summer in the far north, and he was ready to catch a seal. In a few weeks, he could walk out on the ice, far from shore. There, he could find seals or other animals that he could catch. He would come back from the cold winter a lot fatter.

But for now, he would have to wait. In a few more days, the ice would be thick enough for him to go out and hunt. The cold winds were starting to make some of the ice very thick. But this spot was too thin, and he would have to wait.

1. What made the ice crack?
2. Was the bear little?
3. What color was it?
4. How did he crack the ice?
5. What did he learn from it?
6. For what?
7. Why did he want to go on the ice?
8. What did he want to hunt?
9. When would the ice be thick enough?
10. Where did he spend his summer?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the bear
2. no
3. white
4. he pushed his paws down on the ice as hard as he could
5. he still had to wait
6. the ice would be thick enough
7. to hunt
8. a seal
9. In a few more days
10. the far north

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably "Lithocarpus" (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as "Grevillea robusta" (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). The genus "Quercus" is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. North America contains the largest number of oak species, with approximately 90 occurring in the United States, while Mexico has 160 species of which 109 are endemic. The second greatest center of oak diversity is China, which contains approximately 100 species.

Oaks have spirally arranged leaves, with lobate margins in many species; some have serrated leaves or entire leaf with smooth margins. Also, the acorns contain tannic acid, as do the leaves, which helps to guard from fungi and insects. Many deciduous species are marcescent, not dropping dead leaves until spring. In spring, a single oak tree produces both male flowers (in the form of catkins) and small female flowers. The fruit is a nut called an acorn or oak nut borne in a cup-like structure known as a cupule; each acorn contains one seed (rarely two or three) and takes 618 months to mature, depending on their species. The live oaks are distinguished for being evergreen, but are not actually a distinct group and instead are dispersed across the genus.

1. What family is the oak in?
2. How many species are there?
3. How are their leaves arranged?
4. What is their "fruit"?
5. Called what
6. How many seeds are usually in an acorn?
7. Can there be more than one?
8. What chemical is in an acorn?
9. How does that help the tree?
10. Are all oaks deciduous?
11. Which species isn't?
12. Are they a distinct group?
13. Are there oaks in Australia?
14. How many types of oaks are in the US?
15. And in Mexico?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. beech family
2. 600
3. spirally arranged
4. a nut
5. acorn
6. One
7. Yes
8. tannic acid
9. helps to guard from fungi and insects
10. No
11. evergreen species
12. No
13. unknown
14. approximately 90
15. 160

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVI

"NON PROVEN"

"There is no doubt," continued the man in the corner, "that what little sympathy the young girl's terrible position had aroused in the public mind had died out the moment that David Graham left the witness-box on the second day of the trial. Whether Edith Crawford was guilty of murder or not, the callous way in which she had accepted a deformed lover, and then thrown him over, had set every one's mind against her.

"It was Mr. Graham himself who had been the first to put the Procurator Fiscal in possession of the fact that the accused had written to David from London, breaking off her engagement. This information had, no doubt, directed the attention of the Fiscal to Miss Crawford, and the police soon brought forward the evidence which had led to her arrest.

"We had a final sensation on the third day, when Mr. Campbell, jeweller, of High Street, gave his evidence. He said that on October 25th a lady came to his shop and offered to sell him a pair of diamond earrings. Trade had been very bad, and he had refused the bargain, although the lady seemed ready to part with the earrings for an extraordinarily low sum, considering the beauty of the stones.

"In fact it was because of this evident desire on the lady's part to sell at _any_ cost that he had looked at her more keenly than he otherwise would have done. He was now ready to swear that the lady that offered him the diamond earrings was the prisoner in the dock.

1. Who was in a terrible position?
2. Who had just left the witness box?
3. On what day of the trial?
4. Who had a lover?
5. How was the lover described?
6. Was Crawford being accused of murder?
7. Were a lot of people against her?
8. What profession was Mr. Campbell?
9. Of what street?
10. Did a man or woman come into his shop?
11. In what month?
12. On what day?
13. What did she offer to sell him?
14. Did he buy them?
15. What had been very bad for him lately?
16. What was he prepared to swear about the woman?
17. Were the stones in the earrings ugly?
18. What word was used to describe them?
19. What is the title of this chapter?
20. What is the number of it?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the young girl
2. David Graham
3. second
4. Edith Crawford
5. deformed
6. yes
7. yes
8. a jeweller
9. High Street
10. a lady
11. October
12. 25th
13. a pair of diamond earrings
14. no
15. Trade
16. that she was the prisoner in the dock
17. no
18. beauty
19. "NON PROVEN"
20. XVI