Problem: In 1883. John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However, bridge building experts throughout the world thought this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea, but Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.

"We told them so." "Crazy men and their crazy dreams.'' "It's foolish to chase wild visions." Evcryone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap, Washington was never discouraged.

One day he was lying on his bed in hospital, seeing the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment with the sunlight streaming through the windows, and a gentle breeze bowing the flimsy white curtains apart when an idea hit him. He decided to make the best use of the only finger he could move. Thus, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.

He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.

For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm until the bridge was finally completed.
1. Who wanted to build a bridge?
Answer: 1. John Roebling

Q: CHAPTER FOUR.

DIVERS MATTERS.

Charles Hazlit, Esquire, was a merchant and a shipowner, a landed proprietor, a manager of banks, a member of numerous boards and committees, a guardian of the poor, a volunteer colonel, and a good-humoured man on the whole, but purse-proud and pompous. He was also the father of Aileen.

Behold him seated in an elegant drawing-room, in a splendid mansion at the "west end" (strange that all aristocratic ends would appear to be west ends!) of the seaport town which owned him. His blooming daughter sat beside him at a table, on which lay a small, peculiar, box. He doated on his daughter, and with good reason. Their attention was so exclusively taken up with the peculiar box that they had failed to observe the entrance, unannounced, of a man of rough exterior, who stood at the door, hat in hand, bowing and coughing attractively, but without success.

"My darling," said Mr Hazlit, stooping to kiss his child--his only child--who raised her pretty little three-cornered mouth to receive it, "this being your twenty-first birthday, I have at last brought myself to look once again on your sainted mother's jewel-case, in order that I may present it to you. I have not opened it since the day she died. It is now yours, my child."

Aileen opened her eyes in mute amazement. It would seem as though there had been some secret sympathy between her and the man at the door, for he did precisely the same thing. He also crushed his hat somewhat convulsively with both hands, but without doing it any damage, as it was a very hard sailor-like hat. He also did something to his lips with his tongue, which looked a little like licking them.

Answer the following questions:
1. Is Charles Hazlit a busy guy?
2. Does he participate in charity?
3. Does he have a daughter?
4. What is her name?
5. How old is she?
6. When is her birthday?
7. Does he have a gift for her?
8. What is it?
9. Whose was it?
10. What kind of box is it?
11. Has it be a while since it was open?
12. when was the last time?
13. What kind of house do they have?
14. Where is it?
15. Of what kind of town?
16. What room are they in?
17. Does he have other kids?
18. Is someone else around?
19. Who?
20. What is he holdnig?
A: 1. yes
2. yes
3. yes
4. Aileen
5. 21
6. today
7. yes
8. a small, peculiar, box
9. her mother's
10. a jewel-case
11. yes
12. the day her mother died
13. a mansion
14. at the "west end"
15. a seaport town
16. a drawing-room
17. no
18. yes
19. a man of rough exterior
20. his hat

Problem: Aristotle (; , , "Aristoteles"; 384322BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c.347BC). His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343BC.

Teaching Alexander the Great gave Aristotle many opportunities and an abundance of supplies. He established a library in the Lyceum which aided in the production of many of his hundreds of books, which were written on papyrus scrolls. The fact that Aristotle was a pupil of Plato contributed to his former views of Platonism, but, following Plato's death, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted from Platonism to empiricism. He believed all peoples' concepts and all of their knowledge was ultimately based on perception. Aristotle's views on natural sciences represent the groundwork underlying many of his works.
1. Who is the article about?
2. Who did he teach?
3. Which school did Aristotle go to?
4. Where was his library?
5. What are Plato's views called?
6. Did Aristotle follow Platonism all his life?
7. then what?
8. Upto what age was he at the school?
9. Who was his father?
10. Who was Aristotle?
11. What did he write his books on?
12. What age did he start school?
13. Who was his guardian?
14. What made him start studying empiricism?
15. Who requested he teach Alexander?
16. What are some subjects that he wrote about?
17. Where was he born?
18. where is that?
19. What does he believe knowledge is based on?
20. was his father alive when he was an adult?
Answer:
1. Aristotle
2. Alexander the Great
3. Plato's Academy
4. Lyceum
5. Platonism
6. No
7. empiricism
8. thirty-seven
9. Nicomachus
10. ancient Greek philosopher and scientist
11. papyrus scrolls
12. seventeen or eighteen
13. Proxenus of Atarneus
14. Plato's death
15. Philip II of Macedon
16. physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government
17. Stagira
18. Greece
19. perception
20. No