input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Alaska (i/lsk/) is a U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the Americas. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east while Russia has a maritime border with the state to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. To the south and southwest is the Pacific Ocean. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.

Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the eastern hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about 500 miles (800 km) of British Columbia (Canada) separates Alaska from Washington. It is technically part of the continental U.S., but is sometimes not included in colloquial use; Alaska is not part of the contiguous U.S., often called "the Lower 48". The capital city, Juneau, is situated on the mainland of the North American continent but is not connected by road to the rest of the North American highway system. 1. What is the state with that is least densely populated?
2. Where does it rank in population>
3. What about land area?
4. Where does half of it's people reside?
5. How many is that?
6. Where does that number come from?
7. What country has a maritime border with it?
8. Where is it?
9. What does the border run across?
10. What contributes to a large part of the economy?
11. Are they in danger of running out of those?
12. How far is it to Washington?
13. What is in that area?
14. What is the capital?
15. Where is it?
16. Can you take a road from there to a North american highway?
17. Is it the the furthest north state?
18. What about the farthest west?
19. What is partly in the eastern hemisphere?
20. Do they have a military base?
numbered_answers: 1. Alaska
2. 3rd least
3. the largest
4. Anchorage metropolitan area
5. 738,432
6. the Census Bureau
7. Russia
8. to the west
9. the Bering Strait
10. fishing, natural gas, and oil
11. no
12. about 500 miles
13. Canada
14. . Juneau
15. on the mainland
16. no
17. yes
18. yes
19. the Aleutian Islands
20. yes

input: Jane was good at basketball but she liked soccer more. She played forward for her soccer team on Saturday morning. A man in a black and white striped shirt blew his whistle to start the game. It was hot so Jane's coach handed out orange slices for the players to eat at half time. Jane's team was winning but she was more excited for what she would do in the afternoon. Her father was going to take her to watch a baseball game. When the soccer game was over, Jane took off her soccer shoes and put them next to her father's running shoes in the back of his car. Jane and her father drove to the baseball game. After buying their tickets, they went to find their seats. A man in a green shirt stood at the top of the stairs in their section. He showed them where their seats were. Jane saw a lot of empty peanut shells on the ground near their seats. A man in a blue shirt was yelling for people to buy some cotton candy. Jane's father bought them hot dogs to eat instead. Jane put ketchup and mustard on hers. The home team was named the Cardinals and they wore red. The pitcher threw the first pitch and everyone cheered. 1. Who was good at basketball?
2. What did she like more?
3. when did she play?
4. What position did she play?
5. Who signaled that the game was starting?
6. was it cold?
7. What was she going to do that afternoon?
8. Who was she going with? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Jane.
2. Soccer.
3. Saturday morning.
4. Forward.
5. A man in a black and white striped shirt.
6. No.
7. Watch a baseball game.
8. Her father.

Q: Robert Burns, the son of a hard-working and intelligent farmer, was the oldest of seven children. Although always hard pressed financially, their father encouraged his sons with their education. As a result, Burns not only read the Scottish poetry of Ramsay and the collections by Hailes and Herd, but also the works of Pope, Locke, and Shakespeare.

By 1781, Burns had tried his hand at several agricultural jobs without success. Although he had begun writing, and his poems were spread widely in manuscript , none were published until 1786, when Burns published Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), which was an immediate success. Later Burns brought out a second edition of his poems at Edinburgh in 1787, and for two winters he was socially active in the Scottish city. In 1788 he retired to a farm at Ellis land. By 1791 Burns had failed as a farmer, and he moved to Dumfries, where he held a position as a tax collector. He died of illness at 37.

Burns's art is at its best in songs such as My Heart's in the Highlands. Some of his songs, such as Auld Lang Syne and Comin' thro' the Rye, are among the most familiar and best-loved songs in the English language. But his talent was not limited to songs; two descriptive pieces, Tam o' Shanter and The Jolly Beggars, are among his masterpieces.

Burns had a fine sense of humor, which was reflected in his satirical , descriptive, and playful poems. His great popularity with the Scots lay in his ability to describe the life of his fellow rural Scots. His use of dialect brought an energetic, much-needed freshness into English poetry.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Robert Burns?
2. Was he a middle child?
3. How many kids were there?
4. Were they rich?
5. How did there father encourage them?
6. What did he read?
7. What else?
8. anything else?
9. What kind of jobs did Burns try?
10. Did he succeed?
11. When were his first works published?
12. What did he publish?
13. Was that successful?
14. When did he retire?
15. Where?
16. What songs were his works in?
17. Name 2 others?
18. Are they popular?
19. What are his best pieces?
20. What age did he die?
A:
1. the son of a hard-working and intelligent farmer,
2. No
3. Seven
4. No
5. with their education
6. Scottish poetry of Ramsay
7. the collections by Hailes and Herd
8. the works of Pope, Locke, and Shakespeare.
9. several agricultural jobs
10. no
11. 1786
12. published Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
13. Yes
14. In 1788
15. to a farm at Ellis land.
16. My Heart's in the Highlands
17. Auld Lang Syne and Comin' thro' the Rye,
18. Yes
19. Tam o' Shanter and The Jolly Beggars,
20. 37