Problem: Linda and Betty were both twenty years old. They studied in the same medical college. In June, after a school year was over, they decided to take a vacation in the country. They went to several towns and villages, and visited some places of interest, saw and heard a lot of interesting things. They enjoyed themselves very much. One afternoon, they were going to stay overnight in a small town. It was too hot to go further and they wished they could find a river and swim in the cool water. They were driving the car slowly while they were looking around. Suddenly Linda saw a lake not far away. They drove there fast and stopped the car by the lake. They looked around and found a man was sitting on a stone and fishing there. When they took their clothes and were going to jump into the water, the man came up to them and shouted," Sorry, Madams' swimming is not allowed in the lake!" "Why didn't you tell us about it before we took off our clothes?" Betty said angrily. "But it isn't to take off clothes by the lake," said the man.
1. How hold were the two women?
2. When did school end?
3. According the the man, was disrobing allowed?
4. What wasn't?
5. How did Betty feel about what happened at the lake?
6. Did the woman attend the same school?
7. What type of school did they attend together?
8. Did they wish to extend their stay in the small town?
9. By how long?
10. What did want to do at the town?
11. What body of water did the find?
12. Where was the lake?
13. Which one of the women's noticed it?
14. What was the man doing when they approached?
15. What was he sorry about?
Answer: 1. twenty
2. In June
3. yes
4. swimming
5. angry
6. yes
7. medical college
8. yes
9. overnight
10. find a river and swim in the cool water
11. a lake
12. not far away
13. Linda
14. fishing
15. swimming is not allowed in the lake

Problem: On a stormy day last August, Tim heard someone shouting. Looking at the sea carefully, he saw that two kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea. Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, had rowed out in a boat to _ a football. Once they'd rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The boys were terrified and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for _ and the boat was out of control. Tim knew that it would soon be swallowed by the waves. "Everything went quiet in my head," Tim recalls. "I'm trying to figure out how to swim to the boys in a straight line." Tim took off his clothes and jumped into the water. Every 500 yards or so, he raised his head to judge his progress. "At one point, I considered turning back," he says. "I wondered if I was putting my life at risk." After 30 minutes of struggling, he was close enough to shout to the boys, "Take down the umbrella!" "Let's aim for the pier ," Jack said. Tim turned the boat toward it. Soon afterward, waves crashed over the boat, and it began to sink. "Can you swim?" he cried. "A little bit," the boys said. Once they were in the water, Tim decided it would be safer and faster for him to pull the boys toward the pier. Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and floated on their backs. Tim swam toward land as water washed over the boys' faces. "Are we almost there?" they asked again and again. "Yes," Tim told them each time. After 30 minutes, they reached the pier. ,.
1. How old were the boys who went out to sea?
2. What were there names?
3. Who heard them shouting?
4. What was caught in the wind and pulled the boat out?
5. What did Tim do before he jumped in the ocean?
6. Did he turn back?
7. What did he wonder?
8. Did he struggle for 60 minutes?
9. What did he do after 30 minutes?
10. What did he tell them to do?
11. Could the boys swim?
12. Where did Tim pull the boys toward?
13. Did they only have one life jacket?
14. What did they ask over and over?
15. Did it take them 45 minutes to get back?
16. How long did it take them?
Answer: 1. 12
2. Christian and Jack
3. Tim
4. a beach umbrella
5. took off his clothes
6. no
7. if he was putting his life at risk
8. no
9. he shouted to the boys
10. Take down the umbrella
11. A little bit
12. the pier
13. no
14. Are we almost there?
15. no
16. 30 minutes

Problem: The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1787 after the American Revolutionary War, it was founded on the edge of the American frontier as the Pittsburgh Academy. It developed and was renamed as Western University of Pennsylvania by a change to its charter in 1819. After surviving two devastating fires and various relocations within the area, the school moved to its current location in the Oakland neighborhood of the city; it was renamed as the University of Pittsburgh in 1908. For most of its history, Pitt was a private institution, until 1966 when it became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.

The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges located at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the university's central administration and 28,766 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. The university also includes four undergraduate schools located at campuses within Western Pennsylvania: Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville. The 132-acre Pittsburgh campus has multiple contributing historic buildings of the Schenley Farms Historic District, most notably its 42-story Gothic revival centerpiece, the Cathedral of Learning. The campus is situated adjacent to the flagship medical facilities of its closely affiliated University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), as well as the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Schenley Park, and Carnegie Mellon University.
1. What institution was created in 1787?
2. What was its original name?
3. it was then changed to what?
4. what year did that happen?
5. was its location always the same?
6. what catastrophe happened to it more than once?
7. what is its nickname?
8. where did it finally move to?
9. is it still there?
10. what year did it take its current name?
11. has it always been a public uni?
12. what year did that change?
13. when it became a part of what system?
14. how big is the campus?
15. what is the location of those schools?
16. how many people are enrolled there?
17. what is its most notable central building?
18. how tall is that?
Answer:
1. University of Pittsburgh
2. Pittsburgh Academy
3. Western University of Pennsylvania
4. 1819
5. no
6. fires
7. Pitt
8. Oakland neighborhood of the city
9. yes
10. 1908
11. no
12. 1966
13. Commonwealth System of Higher Education.
14. 17 schools and college
15. urban Pittsburgh campus
16. 28,766
17. the Cathedral of Learning
18. 42-story