Pierre is a 25-year-old penguin at the California Academy of Sciences.Due to his old age,he was going bald,which made him feel too cold to swim in the pool.Therefore,biologists at the academy had a wetsuit created for this penguin to help him get back in the swimming pool.

Unlike marine mammals,which have a layer of blubber to keep them warm,penguins depend on their waterproof feathers.Without them,Pierre was unwilling to jump into the swimming pool and ended up trembling on the side of the pool while his 19 peers played in the water.

"He was cold:he would shake,"said Pam Schaller,a senior biologist.Schaller first tried a heat lamp to keep Pierre warm.Then she got another idea:if wetsuits keep humans warm in the cold Pacific,why not make one for Pierre?

Schaller designed the suit,which covered Pierre's body and had small openings for his flippers.

"I would walk behind him and look at where there were any gaps.and cut and refit until it looked like it was extremely suitable."she said.

One concern was that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new suit,but in fact,they accepted his new look.He swam freely and got along with others well,although he was the only penguin with a black stomach.

Schaller couldn't say for sure whether the wetsuit allowed Pierre to recover his fine feathers,but" certainly we were able to keep him comfortable during a period of time that would have been very difficult for him to stay comfortable".

Pierre will take off his suit after his new feathers grow back. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was the senior biologist's name?
2. What animals was she working with?
3. Which particular one was she concerned about?
4. How old is he?
5. What was the his problem?
6. Why was this a problem?
7. What solutions did Pam try?
8. What was her next attempt?
9. Who designed the suit?
10. Did it work?
11. Were there any concerns about the suit?
12. What was it?
13. Did they?
14. Was Pierre able to live normally?
15. Was there any noticeable difference after he put it on?
16. What?
17. How many other penguins were there?
18. Does the biologist think his feathers will grow back?
19. When will Pierre ever be able to remove the suit?
20. Does it cover his whole body right now?
21. Where doesn't it cover?
Answer: 1. Pam Schaller
2. penguins
3. Pierre
4. 25-years-old
5. he was going bald
6. it made him feel too cold to swim in the pool
7. she first tried a heat lamp
8. a wetsuit
9. Schaller
10. yes
11. yes
12. that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new suit
13. no
14. yes
15. yes
16. he was the only penguin with a black stomach
17. 19
18. she couldn't say for sure
19. after his new feathers grow back
20. no
21. his flippers.

Problem: Chuck was thirteen when he came home from the hospital. He came home not because he was getting better but because he wanted to be with people he knew and loved when he died. I came by the house to visit him and his family several times a week during his treatment. On most of my visits, Chuck was very weak. But the last time I saw him alive, he was awake. "I have got something for you." He pulled out a piece of crumpled paper from under his pillow. "I want you to give this to my mom and dad after I die. You'll know when it's right, I guess, won't you?"

"What is it?" I asked. "It's a list of all the fun we had, and all the happy time when we laughed." I almost gasped in great surprise.

"Like what?" I asked quietly, trying to regain my calmness.

"Like the time when Mom, Dad, Chrissie, Linda and me were dressed up as fruits and Dad was driving us to a costume party. Dad was a bunch of grapes and I was an apple, and the others were different things like bananas and pears."

And a policewoman _ for speeding. When the policewoman came up to the car, she looked and started laughing so hard that she could hardly stand up. And we all started laughing and she said, "Where are you all heading -- a salad bar?" Dad said he was sorry to be speeding, but his kids were getting so ripe that they were starting to draw flies. And she laughed till she had to take off her dark glasses and wiped tears from her eyes."

Chuck laughed and so did I. The list was full of laughing and fun. What a wonderful gift, I thought.
1. How old was Chuck when he came home from the hospital?
2. Why did he want to come home?
3. What did he give the person in the story?
4. What was written on the paper?
5. What was on the list?
6. What was one of the times he had fun with his family?
7. Why did his family get pulled over?
8. What was the policewoman's reaction to the costumes?
9. What joke did she tell?
10. Why did his dad say they were speeding?
Answer: 1. thirteen
2. to die
3. a piece of crumpled paper
4. a list
5. all the fun he had with his family
6. when they dressed up as fruits
7. speeding
8. she laughed
9. "Where are you all heading -- a salad bar?"
10. because his kids were getting so ripe that they were starting to draw flies

question: Chapter II

Harry Clavering Chooses His Profession

Harry Clavering might not be an usher, but, nevertheless, he was home for the holidays. And who can say where the usher ends and the school-master begins? He, perhaps, may properly be called an usher, who is hired by a private schoolmaster to assist himself in his private occupation, whereas Harry Clavering had been selected by a public body out of a hundred candidates, with much real or pretended reference to certificates of qualification. He was certainly not an usher, as he was paid three hundred a year for his work--which is quite beyond the mark of ushers. So much was certain; but yet the word stuck in his throat and made him uncomfortable. He did not like to reflect that he was home for the holidays.

But he had determined that he would never come home for the holidays again. At Christmas he would leave the school at which he had won his appointment with so much trouble, and go into an open profession. Indeed he had chosen his profession, and his mode of entering it. He would become a civil engineer, and perhaps a land surveyor, and with this view he would enter himself as a pupil in the great house of Beilby & Burton. The terms even had been settled. He was to pay a premium of five hundred pounds and join Mr. Burton, who was settled in the town of Stratton, for twelve months before he placed himself in Mr. Beilby's office in London. Stratton was less than twenty miles from Clavering. It was a comfort to him to think that he could pay this five hundred pounds out of his own earnings, without troubling his father. It was a comfort, even though he had earned that money by "ushering" for the last two years.
1. how many candidates was Harry picked out of?
2. what was his job?
3. had he been hired by public school?
4. did he want to return home for the holidays?
5. what did he want to become?
6. what was he home for?
7. how far away was Stratton from Henry?
8. who was he meeting there?
9. for how long?
10. when was he going to leave school?
11. what was he planning to do?
12. what place did he want to become a pupil of?
13. who had he been hired by?
14. how much would he be paid?
15. is that more than a regular usher?
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answer:
1. out of a hundred
2. an usher
3. no
4. no
5. a civil engineer
6. the holidays.
7. less than twenty miles
8. Mr. Burton
9. twelve months
10. At Christmas
11. go into an open profession
12. the great house of Beilby & Burton
13. a private schoolmaster
14. three hundred a year
15. yes