question: Mark and his brother Jason both were looking at the shining new computer enviously. Jason was determined not to go against their father's wishes but Mark was more adventurous than his brother. He loved experimenting and his aim was to become a scientist like his father.

"Dad will be really mad if he finds out you've been playing with his new computer." Jason said, "He told us not to touch it."

"He won't find out." Mark said, "I'll just have a quick look and shut it down."

Mark had been scolded before for touching his father's equipment. But his curiosity was difficult to control and this new computer really puzzled him.

It was a strange-looking machine -one his dad had brought home from the laboratory where he worked. "It's an experimental model," his father had explained, "so don't touch it under any circumstances." But his warning only served to make Mark more curious. Without any further thought, Mark turned on the power switch. The computer burst into life and seconds later, the screen turned into color1s, shifting and changing and then two big white words appeared in the center of the screen: "SPACE TRANSPORTER."

"Yes!" Mark cried excitedly, "It's a computer game. I knew it! Dad's only been pretending to work. He's really been playing games instead." A new message appeared on the screen:

ENTER NAMES

VOYAGER 1: ... VOYAGER 2: ...

Mark's fingers flew across the keyboard as he typed in both of their names.

INPUT ACCEPTED. START TRANSPORT PROGRAM. AUTO-RETRIEVE INITIATED

The screen turned even brighter and a noise suddenly rose in volume.

"I think we'd better shut it off, Mark," Jason yelled, reaching for the power switch. He was really frightened.

But his hand never reached the switch. A single beam of dazzling white light burst out of the computer screen, wrapping the boys in its glow , until they themselves seemed to be glowing. Then it died down just as suddenly as it had burst into life. And the boys were no longer there. On the screen, the letters changed.

TRANSPORT SUCCESSFUL. DESTINATION: MARS. RETRIEVE DATE: 2025.
1. Who was going to be upset about something?
2. About what?
3. Did Jason encourage Mark to play with it?
4. What did he tell his brother?
5. Had Mark ever disobeyed before?
6. So why was he doing so again?
7. Did Dad buy the Computer at Best Buy?
8. Where did he get it?
9. What was on the screen when he turned it on?
10. Did the computer ask for any information?
11. What did it request?
12. Did Jason think it was a game?
13. Who did?
14. Did anything happen when the names were entered?
15. Did the room grow dark and quiet?
16. Was it loud?
17. Did this scare anyone?
18. Who?
19. What did he want to do?
20. WAs he able to do that?
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answer: 1. Dad
2. About the children playing with the computer
3. No
4. His dad told them not to touch it
5. Yes
6. His curiosity was difficult to control
7. No
8. From the laboratory where he worked
9. The words "SPACE TRANSPORTER."
10. Yes
11. Enter Names
12. No
13. Mark
14. A message of "INPUT ACCEPTED. START TRANSPORT PROGRAM. AUTO-RETRIEVE INITIATED" came on screen
15. No
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. Jason
19. To shut it off
20. No

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. True Manliness

"Please, mother, do sit down and let me try my hand,"said Fred Liscom, a bright active boy, twelve years old. Mrs. Liscom, looking pale and worn, was moving languidly about, trying to clear away the breakfast she had scarcely tasted.

She smiled and said, "You, Fred, you wash dishes?"

"Yes, indeed, mother," answered Fred. "I should be a poor scholar if I couldn't, when I've seen you do it so many times. Just try me."

A look of relief came over his mother's face as she seated herself in her low rocking chair. Fred washed the dishes and put them in the closet. He swept the kitchen, brought up the potatoes from the cellar for the dinner and washed them, and then set out for school.

Fred's father was away from home and as there was some cold meat in the pantry , Mrs. Liscom found it an easy task to prepare dinner. Fred hurried home from school, set the table, and again washed the dishes.

He kept on in this way for two or three days, until his mother was able to resume her usual work. He felt amply rewarded when the doctor, who happened in one day, said, "Well, madam, it's my opinion that you would have been very sick if you had not kept quiet."

The doctor did not know how the "quiet" had been secured, nor how the boy's heart bounded at his words. Fred had given up a great deal of what boys hold dear, for the purpose of helping his mother, coasting and skating being just at this time in perfection.

Besides this, his temper and his patience had been severely tried. He had been in the habit of going early to school and staying to play after it was dismissed.

The boys missed him and their curiosity was excited when he would give no other reason for not coming to school earlier, or staying after school, than that he was "Wanted at home."

"I'll tell you," said Tom Barton, "I'll find him out, boys-see if I don't!"

So, one morning on his way to school, he called on Fred. As he went around to the side door, he walked lightly and somewhat nearer the kitchen window than was ly needful. Looking in, he saw Fred standing at the table with a dishcloth in his hand.

Of course he reported this at school, and various were the greetings poor Fred received at recess ."Well, you're a brave one to stay at home washing dishes!""Girl boy!" "Pretty Bessie!""Lost your apron, haven't you, Polly!"

Fred was not wanting either in spirit or in courage, and he was strongly tempted to resent these insults and to fight some of his tormentors . But his consciousness of right and his love for his mother helped him.

While he was struggling for self-mastery, his teacher appeared at the door of the schoolhouse. Fred caught his eye, and it seemed to look, if it did not say, "Don't give up! Be really brave!" He knew the teacher had heard the insulting taunts of his thoughtless schoolmates.

The boys received notice during the day that Fred must not be taunted in any manner. They knew that the teacher meant what he said; and so the brave little boy had no further trouble. 1. What chores did Fred co for his mother?
2. Anything else?
3. How many days did he do the chores?
4. What effect did it have on his mom?
5. Did this make Fred happy?
6. Who found out what Fred was doing at home?
7. ?
8. What did the other boys say when Tom Barton told them what Fred was doing?
9. What else?
10. 'anything else?
11. What reason did Tom give fohis absence?
numbered_answers:
1. washed dishes
2. set the table
3. two or three days
4. she felt rested
5. yes
6. Tom Barton
7. unknown
8. Girl Boy
9. Pretty Bessie
10. Lost your apron, haven't you, Polly
11. unknown