Q: CHAPTER III.

BUILDING THE MOLE.

Caleb sat down upon the step of the door, eating a piece of bread, while Dwight and David returned to their work of building the mole. They got the wheelbarrow, and loaded it with stones.

Caleb sat a few minutes more at the door, and then he went into the house, and got his little rocking chair, and brought it out under the elm, and sat down there, looking towards the boys, who were at work near the water. At last, David spied him sitting there, and said,

"There is Caleb, sitting under the great tree."

Dwight looked around, and then, throwing down the stone that he had in his hands, he said,

"I mean to go and get him to come here."

So he ran towards him, and said,

"Come, Caleb, come down here, and help us make our mole."

"No," said Caleb, shaking his head, and, turning away a little; "I don't want to go."

"O, do come, Caleb," said Dwight; "I won't trouble you any more."

"No," said Caleb: "I am tired, and I had rather stay here in my little chair."

"But I will carry your chair down to the brook; and there is a beautiful place there to sit and see us tumble in the stones."

So Caleb got up, and Dwight took his chair, and they walked together down to the shore of the brook. Dwight found a little spot so smooth and level, that the rocking-chair would stand very even upon it, though it would not rock very well, for the ground was not hard, like a floor. Caleb rested his elbow upon the arm of his chair, and his pale cheek in his little slender hand, and watched the stones, as, one after another, they fell into the brook.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was Caleb eating?
2. where?
3. Who else was there?
4. what were they doing?
5. what did they use?
6. what did they put in it?
7. Why did Caleb go inside?
8. Did he sit in it?
9. where?
10. doing what?
11. who was he watching?
12. Did one of them see him?
13. who?
14. what did he do when he saw him?
15. Did he want Caleb to help?
16. Did Caleb want to?
17. why?
18. What did Dwight offer?
19. where?
20. Did Caleb agree?
A: 1. a piece of bread,
2. the step of the door,
3. Dwight and David
4. building the mole
5. wheelbarrow
6. stones.
7. to get his little rocking chair
8. yes
9. under the elm
10. watching the stones
11. Dwight and David
12. yes
13. David
14. ran towards him
15. yes
16. no
17. he was tired
18. to carry his chair
19. to the brook
20. yes
Q: (CNN) -- BP reported problems controlling the undersea well at the heart of the largest oil spill in U.S. history and won a delay in testing a critical piece of equipment in March, according to documents released Sunday.

"We are in the midst of a well control situation on MC 252 #001 and have stuck pipe. We are bringing out equipment to begin operations to sever the drillpipe, plugback the well and bypass," Scherie Douglas, a BP regulatory advisor, told the district engineer for the U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service in a March 10 e-mail.

In a follow-up e-mail to the district engineer, Frank Patton, Douglas reported the company wanted to get a plug set in the well before testing the blowout preventer, the massive device used to shut down the well in case of an emergency.

"With the give and take of the well and hole behavior we would feel much more comfortable getting at least one of the two plugs set in order to fully secure the well prior to testing BOPs," she wrote.

When Patton told BP he could not delay a test any longer than it took to bring the well under control, the company won a postponement from David Trocquet, the MMS district manager in New Orleans, Louisiana, the documents show. Trocquet ordered BP to make sure its cement plug was set up and to verify its placement, according to his reply. The messages do not indicate how long the test was postponed.

The exchange was among the documents released Sunday by leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is looking into the disaster that killed 11 workers aboard the drilling platform Deepwater Horizon and uncapped a gusher that is now fouling the northern Gulf of Mexico. BP has been unable to activate the well's blowout preventer since the explosion, resulting in up to 19,000 barrels (798,000 gallons) spewing into the Gulf every day.

Answer the following questions:
1. who is Frank Patton?
2. who sent him an email?
3. what did it say?
4. what is BP having problems with?
5. what is a blowout preventer?
6. who gave BP more time?
7. what is the House Energy and Commerce Committee looking into?
8. did anyone die?
9. how many?
10. how much oil has spilled?
11. where is this happening?
12. why hasnt it been stopped?
A: 1. district engineer
2. Douglas
3. the company wanted to get a plug set in the well
4. controlling the undersea well
5. the massive device used to shut down the well in an emergency
6. David Trocque
7. the disaster
8. Yes
9. 11
10. 798,000 gallons every day
11. the Gulf
12. BP has been unable to activate the well's blowout preventer
Q: John is six years old. He can read and write well. But he can't tell the time. His mother, Mrs Brown teaches him many times, but he still can't tell. He would say "breakfast time" "lunchtime" and "teatime" instead of saying eight o'clock, twelve o'clock and four o'clock in the afternoon. His mother doesn't know how to help him One day, John's aunt, Mary, comes to see his mother. His mother tells her about that. His aunt says, "Let me help you. I think I can help him." When John comes home after school, Mary begins to teach him. "Can you _ , John?" she asks. "Yes. One, two, three, four..." John says. "That's fine. Now I put the long hand on twelve and the short hand on one-that is one o'clock If I put the short hand on two, what is the time?" "Two o'clock " "Good. And on three?" "Three o'clock. " Then it is four o'clock in the afternoon, and John's aunt asks him, "What time is it now, John?" "Teatime, Aunt, and I am very hungry ," John looks at the clock and answers.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is John's mother?
2. Can she help John?
3. How old is John?
4. Can he read and write?
5. Can he count?
6. Who tries to teach him?
7. Who else?
8. How is she related to him?
9. Did he tell the time after she taught him?
10. Did he want food at four o'clock?
A:
1. Mrs Brown
2. No
3. six
4. Yes
5. No
6. Mrs Brown
7. Mary
8. His Aunt
9. Yes
10. Yes