input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. When this story happened, they were working around a very large house. Their job was to do the cleaning. It was not a difficult job, but sometimes it was a little dangerous, because they had to walk below where workmen were working. Often these workmen dropped something from the top of the house many meters high to the ground. One morning Joe was working near the house with a cigarette behind one of his ears. Suddenly somebody on the top shouted, "Look out!" But Joe did not "look out". He looked up. And as he did so, a long knife missed Joe's head, but it cut off one of his ears. At once he put his hand to one side of his head and cried out, "I've lost an ear. Help! Help!" Jeff ran up to help his friend. "Look for my ear," Joe told him. "It must be on the ground somewhere." Jeff looked everywhere for the missing ear. At last he found an ear on the ground. He picked it up and carried it to Joe. "Here you are," he said, "I've found it." Joe looked at it. "No, that's not my ear." he said, "Mine had a cigarette behind it." 1. What were they doing?
2. Doing what?
3. Was it easy?
4. Why?
5. What would happen?
6. Where was Joe?
7. What did he hear?
8. What did he do instead?
9. What went by his face?
10. What did it do?
11. What did he do next?
12. Who helped him?
13. Where did they search?
14. Did they find it?
15. But did he think it was his?
16. Why?
numbered_answers: 1. working on a house
2. Cleaning
3. Yes, but a bit dangerous
4. They had to walk under the workmen
5. The workmen would drop things from the top of the house
6. Joe was close to the house
7. A shout of "look out"
8. Joe looked up
9. A long knife
10. The knife cut off one of his ears.
11. He put his hand to his head and cried out
12. Jeff
13. On the ground first, then everywhere
14. Yes
15. No
16. His had a cigarette behind it

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER VIII

A TIME OF WAITING

Dinah woke two minutes before one o'clock, and Nat at once lay down and, resolutely refusing to allow himself to think any more of the situation, was soon fast asleep.

"It am jess beginning to get light, Marse Glober," the negress said when, as it seemed to him, he had not been five minutes asleep. However, he jumped up at once.

"It is very dark, still, Dinah."

"It am dark, sah, but not so dark as it was. Bes' be off at once. Must get well away before dem black fellows wake up."

"How is Madame Duchesne?"

"She sleep, sah; she no wake for another tree or four hours. Dinah give pretty strong dose. Bes' dat she should know noting about it till we get to a safe place."

"But is there any safe place, Dinah?"

"Yes, massa; me take you where dey neber tink of searching, but good way off in hills."

Myra by this time was on her feet also.

"Have you slept well, Myra?"

"Yes, I have slept pretty well, but in spite of the two blankets under us it was awfully hard, and I feel stiff all over now."

"How shall we divide the things, Dinah?"

"Well, sah, do you tink you can take de head of de barrow? Dat pretty heaby weight."

"Oh, nonsense!" Nat said. "Madame Duchesne is a light weight, and if I could get her comfortably on my back I could carry her any distance."

"Dat bery well before starting, Marse Glober, you tell anoder story before we gone very far." 1. Who was asleep?
2. Who had just woken?
3. When did Dinah wake up?
4. Was Madame Duchesne still asleep?
5. How much longer did they think she would be asleep for?
6. Why were they so sure?
7. What were they plotting to do while she slept?
8. What skin color were they?
9. Where were they going?
10. Was it light out?
numbered_answers: 1. Nat
2. Dinah
3. two minutes before one o'clock
4. yes
5. three or four hours.
6. gave a strong dose
7. leave
8. black
9. a safe place
10. no

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Hefei, China (CNN) -- The murder trial of Gu Kailai, the wife of a recently deposed top official in the Chinese Communist Party, has begun in the eastern China city of Hefei, local officials said Thursday.

Gu and a family aide, Zhang Xiaojun, are accused of poisoning Neil Heywood, a British businessman who was found dead in the southwestern Chinese metropolis of Chongqing in November.

The trial is the latest phase in the fall from grace of the prominent family of Bo Xilai, Gu's husband, who until earlier this year had appeared destined to join the elite committee of leaders at the top of China's ruling party.

The saga has become the most sensational Chinese political scandal in recent years, creating an extraordinary set of challenges for the central government as it prepares for a once-in-a-decade leadership transition later this year.

Heywood, a 41-year-old British citizen, was found dead in a hotel in Chongqing, the city where Bo was the Communist Party chief. But the trial is taking place in Hefei, in Anhui province, more than 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of Chongqing, where lingering support for Bo and his family remains.

"This is definitely more than a criminal trial," said Wenran Jiang, a professor of political science at the University of Alberta. He added that the process is being closely watched for signs of what might happen to Bo, who is being investigated for "serious discipline violations" after being removed from his Chongqing and party posts.

Gu's family had wanted to hire two prominent Beijing lawyers to represent her, but Chinese authorities have chosen two local attorneys to form her defense team, a family friend told CNN on Wednesday. 1. Where was Heywood found?
2. In a gas station?
3. Where?
4. How old was he?
5. Which country was he a citizen of?
6. What is Wenran Jiang do for a job?
7. Of what?
8. AT a high school?
9. College?
10. Where is Gu Kailai's murder trial taking place?
11. Was she married?
12. To whom?
13. From a particular party?
14. Which one?
15. Does she use a family aide?
numbered_answers:
1. Chongqing
2. no
3. hotel
4. 41
5. Great Britain
6. professor
7. political science
8. no
9. University of Alberta.
10. Hefei
11. Yes
12. top official
13. Yes
14. Chinese Communist Party
15. Yes