Q: There once was a doggy named Jack that was really bored. One day he was sitting on the sofa he thought to himself, "Maybe I'll go for a ride." The dog put on his shoes and hat and walked out of the door. He began riding down the street and he saw a lot of funny things. He saw a pumpkin name Sue using toothpaste, a cat name Walt watching a movie and a bear name Phil cooking on a grill. On his drive back home he saw a rat name Randy, and a lion name Leo riding a bike. When the doggy got back home he wanted to write a book about all of the things that he saw. He went into his office and gathered the pen and paper, sat down and began writing. After hours of writing he felt that his leg was hurting from being bent under the table so long. He wrote his last sentence and got up to walk off the pain. The doggy cooked his dinner, ate, then went to bed and the next day he woke up and read his story and liked what he wrote so much that he thought he would write another story later that day.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was bored?
2. What kind of animal was he?
3. what did he decide to do>
4. what had he been doing before that?
5. Did he put on anything before he left?
6. What did he put on his head?
7. What about on his feet?
8. Who did he see first?
9. What was she?
10. What was she doing that was unusual?
11. What did he observe next?
12. What was he doing?
13. What animal did he encounter next?
14. What was it's name?
15. What was he doing?
16. What did the dog want to do when he arrived again at his house?
17. What room did he want to accomplish this in?
18. Did he work on his project for an extended time?
19. for how long?
20. What did he do after he finished?
A: 1. Jack
2. a dog
3. go for a ride.
4. sitting on the sofa
5. yes
6. hat
7. shoes
8. Sue
9. a pumpkin
10. using toothpaste
11. a cat name Walt
12. watching a movie
13. a bear
14. Phil
15. cooking on a grill
16. to write a book about all of the things that he saw
17. office
18. yes
19. hours
20. cooked dinner

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

BICYCLING AND ITS OCCASIONAL RESULTS.

It is pleasant to turn from the smoke and turmoil of the city to the fresh air and quiet of the country.

To the man who spends most of his time in the heart of London, going into the country--even for a short distance--is like passing into the fields of Elysium. This was, at all events, the opinion of Stephen Welland; and Stephen must have been a good judge, for he tried the change frequently, being exceedingly fond of bicycling, and occasionally taking what he termed long spins on that remarkable instrument.

One morning, early in the summer-time, young Welland, (he was only eighteen), mounted his iron horse in the neighbourhood of Kensington, and glided away at a leisurely pace through the crowded streets. Arrived in the suburbs of London he got up steam, to use his own phrase, and went at a rapid pace until he met a "chum," by appointment. This chum was also mounted on a bicycle, and was none other than our friend Samuel Twitter, Junior--known at home as Sammy, and by his companions as Sam.

"Isn't it a glorious day, Sam?" said Welland as he rode up and sprang off his steed.

"Magnificent!" answered his friend, also dismounting and shaking hands. "Why, Stephen, what an enormous machine you ride!"

"Yes, it's pretty high--48 inches. My legs are long, you see. Well, where are we to run to-day?"

"Wherever you like," said Sam, "only let it be a short run, not more than forty miles, for I've got an appointment this afternoon with my old dad which I can't get off."

1. How old was Welland?
2. How tall was his horse?
3. Who was he with?
4. Was Sam on a horse?
5. What was his ride?
6. What was Sam also called?
7. What was his real name?
8. Did Stephen enjoy bikes?
9. Did Sam say he wanted a long ride?
10. How many miles did he want?
11. What time of year was this?
12. Was it night time?
13. What neighborhood were they in?
14. What city?
15. Were there many people out?
16. Where did Sam need to go later?
17. What was the country compared to?
18. What kind of day did Sam say it was?
19. What did Stephen say about the day?
20. Was Stephen traveling slow?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. he was only eighteen
2. 48 inches.
3. Sam
4. no
5. a bicycle
6. Sammy
7. Samuel Twitter
8. yes
9. no
10. less than forty miles
11. summer
12. no
13. Kensington
14. London
15. yes
16. an appointment with his dad
17. the city
18. Magnificent
19. it's glorious
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.

Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.

The veteran Pennsylvania politician had overcome numerous serious illnesses over the past two decades, including a brain tumor. He had been in the public eye since serving as a member of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Specter was elected to the Senate in 1980 and represented Pennsylvania for 30 years, longer than anyone in the state's history. His politically moderate image fit hand-in-glove in the politically blue Northeast, both with its Democratic centrists and its liberal Republicans.

He was also one of America's most prominent Jewish politicians, a rare Republican in a category dominated by Democrats over the decades. And his name is synonymous with Pennsylvania, an idiosyncratic state that pushes and pulls between the two parties, and his home, the staunchly Democratic city of Philadelphia.

In 2006, Philadelphia magazine called him "one of the few true wild cards of Washington politics ... reviled by those on both the right and the left."

"Charming and churlish, brilliant and pedantic, he can be fiercely independent, entertainingly eccentric and simply maddening," the profile read.

Former Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, called Specter "a mentor, colleague and a political institution" who "did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin." And Pat Toomey, the Republican who now holds Specter's old Senate seat, praised him as "a man of sharp intelligence and dogged determination."

1. Who is Arlen Specter?
2. What happened to him?
3. What did he die of?
4. How old was he?
5. Where did he die?
6. In Washington D.C.?
7. Where?
8. Was he a conservative republican?
9. What kind was he?
10. When did he first enter the public's eye?
11. What was the purpose of that?
12. Who has Specter's old Senate seat now?
13. What did he say about him?
14. Who said that quote?
15. When was Specter first elected?
16. Which state did he represent?
17. Was he loved by both democrats and republicans?
18. What city did he live in?
19. Was he catholic?
20. What was his religion?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Former U.S. Senator
2. he died
3. complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
4. 82
5. at his home
6. no
7. Philadelphia
8. no
9. Democrat
10. since serving as a member of the Warren Commission
11. investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
12. Pat Toomey
13. did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin
14. Pat Toomey
15. 1980
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Philadelphia
19. no
20. Jewish