Question: Our village carpenter , John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill for the job.

My wife said to me quietly, "It's his ninth cup of tea today." But she said in a loud voice, "It is a beautiful table, dear, isn't it?"

"I will decide about that when I see the bill, " I read:

One dining table, 10 November, 1989.

Cost of wood: $17.00

Paint: $1.50

Work: 8 hours ($1 an hour) $8.00

Total: $36.50

When I was looking at the bill, John said, "It's been a fine day, hasn't it? Quite sunny." "Yes," I said, "I'm glad it is only the 10thof November."

"Me, too," said John. "You wait. It'll be a lot colder by the end of the month."

"Yes, colder.... And more expensive! Dining tables will be $20 more expensive on November 30th, won't they, John?" John looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? I gave his bill back to him.

"If it isn't too much trouble, John," I said, "Please add it up again and you can forget the date."

I paid him $26.50and he was happy to get it. 1. How much did he pay for the table?
2. Was the carpenter angry about that?
3. Was it less than he billed?
4. By how much?
5. Was there an addition error?
6. What did the carpenter mistakenly add to the priuce?
7. What day of the month was it?
8. What did the man joke would be different at the end of the month?
9. On which date?
10. If that were true, how much more would a table be on the 20th?
11. Does the carpenter have green eyes?
12. What color?
13. What's the carpenter's name?
14. Who was the table for?
15. Why couldn't they just buy any table from a store?
16. Did the husband come home in the afternoon?
17. How many beverages did the worker partake in that day?
18. How much does the carpenter bill for labor?
19. What cost $17?
20. And how much for the paint? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. $26.50
2. No
3. Yes
4. $10.00
5. Yes
6. Too many man hours
7. The 10th
8. $20 more expensive
9. on November 30th
10. $10.00
11. No
12. blue
13. John Hill
14. The wife
15. They wanted it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows.
16. No
17. Nine
18. $1 an hour
19. wood
20. $1.50

Q: (CNN) -- Syrian state TV aired Saturday what it said was a confession by citizen journalist Ali Mahmoud Othman, who activists say was arrested in March after he helped foreign journalists escape from the besieged city of Homs.

Othman helped run a media center in Baba Amr area of Homs, which provided information to international news media during a months-long crackdown on the civilian neighborhood by government forces.

Reporters Without Borders, the journalist watchdog group, said last month it was "extremely concerned" for the life of Othman after his detention.

Othman was transferred to Damascus two days after his arrest by the intelligence services in Aleppo on March 28, the group said.

Activists fear he may have been subjected to torture in detention.

Rafiq Lutf, described as a Syrian media researcher, told the state TV program he had spoken to Othman for seven hours uninterrupted, all of it videotaped.

His subject states his name is "Ali Othman aka Al-Jid from Baba Amr of Homs. I work as photography director and live streaming with Khalid Abu Salah at the media center. I communicate with the satellite channels, on top of them Al Jazeera, Arabiya, CNN, BBC, Sky News and Turkish channel TRT."

In the interview Othman describes how the media operation was set up in Baba Amr, and talks about demonstrations and the role of armed groups.

It is unclear under what circumstances the interview was taped.

But Heather Blake, UK representative for Reporters Without Borders, said: "Research by our organization and many other organizations indicates that many human rights defenders who are detained have been shown to give false confessions under much duress and torture.

1. citizen journalist
2. helped foreign journalists escape from the besieged city of Homs.
3. helped run a media center in Baba Amr area of Homs
4. provided information to international news media
5. transferred to Damascus two days after his arres
6. intelligence services
7. March 28
8. unknown
9. a Syrian media researcher
10. told the state TV program he had spoken to Othman for seven hours uninterrupted
11. describes how the media operation was set up in Baba Amr
12. and talks about demonstrations and the role of armed groups.
13. seven hours
14. yes
15. yes
16. state TV program

Numbered questions:
1. What profession was Ali Mahmoud Othman?
2. Why was he arrested?
3. What kind of journalism did he do?
4. What did they do?
5. What happened after Ali Mahmoud was arrested?
6. By whom?
7. When was that?
8. Was anyone able to contact him?
9. Who was Rafiq Lutf?
10. What did he do?
11. What was discussed during their talk?
12. Is that all?
13. How long was the interview?
14. Was it videotaped?
15. Do people suspect he was tortured?
16. What channels was the interview broadcast on?

input: CHAPTER XXXVI.

DESERTED.

That was almost the last thing Granville Kelmscott knew. Some strange shadowy dreams, to be sure, disturbed the lethargy into which he fell soon after; but they were intermittent and indefinite. He was vaguely aware of being lifted with gentle care into somebody's arms, and of the somebody staggering along with him, not without considerable difficulty, over the rough stony ground of that South African plateau. He remembered also, as in a trance, some sound of angry voices--a loud expostulation--a hasty palaver--a long slow pause--a gradual sense of reconciliation and friendliness--during all which, as far as he could recover the circumstances afterwards, he must have been extended on the earth, with his back propped against a great ledge of jutting rock, and his head hanging listless on his sinking breast. Thenceforward all was blank, or just dimly perceived at long intervals between delirium and unconsciousness. He was ill for many days, where or how he knew not.

In some half dreamy way, he was aware too, now and again, of strange voices by his side, strange faces tending him. But they were black faces, all, and the voices spoke in deep guttural tones, unlike even the clicks and harsh Bantu jerks with which he had grown so familiar in eighteen months among the Barolong. This that he heard now, or seemed to hear in his delirium, like distant sounds of water, was a wholly different and very much harsher tongue--the tongue of the Namaquas, in fact, though Granville was far too ill and too drowsy just then to think of reasoning about it or classifying it in any way. All he knew for the moment was that sometimes, when he turned round feebly on his bed of straw, and asked for drink or help in a faltering voice, no white man appeared to answer his summons. Black, faces all--black, black, and unfamiliar. Very intermittently he was conscious of a faint sense of loneliness. He knew not why. But he thought he could guess. Guy Waring had deserted him! 1. Did someone almost die?
2. Who?
3. Was he saved?
4. Who?
5. Did he know his saviors?
6. Did someone desert him?
7. Who?
8. Why?
9. Was there any noise?
10. What? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Yes
2. Granville Kelmscott
3. Yes
4. Unknown black faces
5. No
6. Yes
7. Guy Waring
8. unknown
9. Yes
10. The sound of angry voices