Q: CHAPTER I

ON THE HOUSEBOAT

"Say, Tom, what's that big thing coming down the river?"

"I'm sure I don't know, Sam. It's big enough to be a house." replied Tom Rover.

"Maybe it is a house," came from Dick Rover, who was standing beside his brothers on the rear deck of the houseboat which was taking them down the Mississippi River.

"A house?" broke in a distinctly German voice. "Did you mean to said dere vos a house floating der rifer town, Dick Rofer?"

"Why not, Hansy, my boy?" replied fun-loving Tom Rover, before his big brother could answer. "Hasn't a house got a right to take a float if it wants to? Perhaps it's out for its health."

"Ach, you vos choking, Tom!" cried Hans Mueller. "Of a house been der rifer on, dere peen somedings wrong mit him alretty."

"It's a lumber raft, Hans," said Dick. "And a whopping big one, too," he added, as he took another look at the object that was approaching the houseboat.

"Hope it doesn't give us such a close shave as that raft we met two days ago," said Sam anxiously. "I was almost certain they were going to run into us."

"They have got no business to run so close to this houseboat," grumbled Tom. "They know well enough that we can't turn out of our course very well. I think some of those lumbermen are the toughest kind of citizens."

"If they get too close, I'll shout a warning through the megaphone," went on Dick, after a brief pause. "It certainly does look as if they intended to crowd us," he continued anxiously.

1. A lumber raft.
2. A house
3. A houseboat
4. the Mississippi River.
5. Tom Rover
6. Dick Rover
7. Yes
8. Hansy
9. His brother.
10. unknown
11. Anxious.
12. He feared they would run in to them.
13. Dick

Numbered questions:
1. What was it they saw in the disatance
2. What did they think it was?
3. What were they on when they saw it?
4. And where was it?
5. Who was first to suggest what it might be?
6. Who was first to agree with him?
7. Did anyone doubt the were right?
8. Who disagreed?
9. What was Tom's relation to Dick?
10. Who was older?
11. What was Sam's mood?
12. Why ?
13. Who tried to calm his fears?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Three friends, Tom, David and John, came to New York for their holiday. They stayed in a very large hotel. Their room was on the 45thfloor. In the evening, the three men went to the cinema and came back to the hotel very late. "I'm very sorry," said the man of the hotel, "but our lifts do not work tonight. If you don't want to walk up to your room, I'll make beds for you in the hall . " "No, thanks," said Tom, "we don't want to sleep in the hall. We will walk up to the 45thfloor. But I know how to make it easier. On the way to our room, I'll tell you some jokes. Then you, David, will sing us some songs. Then you, John, will tell us some stories, all right?" So they began to walk upstairs. Tom told them many jokes. David sang them some songs. At last they came to the 34thfloor. They were tired and had a rest. "Well," said Tom. "Now it's your turn, John. After all these jokes and songs, tell us a long and interesting story with a sad ending. " "OK, I'll tell a sad story," said John, "It's not long but very sad. I forgot to bring the key to our room with me. It's still in the hall. " 1. How many friends were there?
2. What were there names?
3. Where did they go?
4. Where did they stay?
5. Did they go to a restaurant?
6. Where did they go?
7. Did they get back early?
8. What wasn
9. Sorry, that was supposed to ask, what wasn't operational?
10. Did they want to camp out in the hallway?
11. What did they decide to do?
12. What did Tom suggest?
13. What did he want David to do?
14. And John?
15. What did they forget to bring?
numbered_answers: 1. 3 friends
2. David, Tom and John
3. New York
4. In a hotel
5. No
6. The cinema
7. No
8. They were very late.
9. The lifts
10. No
11. Walk to the 45th floor
12. To tell some jokes.
13. Sing some songs.
14. Tell some stories.
15. The key.

(CNN) -- Malaysia's opposition leader has urged his supporters to wear black at a rally to be held in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday to protest Sunday's vote, which he claims "was marred with unprecedented election fraud."

"Our conscience cannot allow us to accept election results conjured through frauds and cheating. A fight for clean and fair election remains the single most important fight that any Malaysian should relate to," Anwar Ibrahim said in a statement released Monday.

Prime Minister Najib Razak, the leader of the Barisan Nasional coalition that has ruled for 56 years, took his oath of office on Monday after winning 133 out of 222 parliamentary seats, Malaysia's national news agency Bernama reported.

Anwar's Pakatan Rakyat coalition won 89 seats, handing Barisan Nasional its worst ever electoral showing.

A government spokesperson said on Tuesday that allegations of fraud in the election process were "unsubstantiated" and the government's victory was in line with independent polling.

"Anwar claimed the only way he could possibly lose was if there was 'massive fraud'," the spokesperson said in a statement.

"This is entirely contrary to pre-election opinion polls, including those by Pew Research and the Merdeka Center, which showed significant support for both the Prime Minister and his ruling party and suggested they were on track for a victory."

The weeks leading up to Sunday's election saw reports of firebombs, texted death threats and beatings and there were widespread reports that indelible ink used to mark the fingers of advance voters was washing off. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is being encouraged to wear a certain colored clothing?
2. What color?
3. Where it at what location?
4. How many seats did Anwar's Pakatan Rakyat coalition win?
5. Whose worst defeat was it?
6. What did Anwar think the way the could not win was?
7. When did someone announce the accusations weren't true?
8. Were the election results consistent with what the polls said?
9. When did the reports begin of violence?
10. What types of stuff?
Answer:
1. people who support Malaysia's opposition
2. black
3. Kuala Lumpur
4. 89
5. Barisan Nasional
6. if there was 'massive fraud'
7. unknown
8. No
9. in the weeks leading up to Sunday's election
10. reports of firebombs, texted death threats and beatings