input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXVIII

FIRE AND HAIL

On the morning after her return from Winnipeg, Beatrice sat in her father's study, with Mowbray facing her across the table. He looked thoughtful, but not so shocked and indignant as she had expected.

"So you are determined to throw Harding over!"

"Yes," Beatrice said in a strained voice. "It seems impossible to do anything else."

"A broken engagement's a serious matter; we Mowbrays keep our word. I hope you're quite sure of your ground."

"What I heard left no room for doubt."

"Did you hear the man's defense?"

"I refused to listen," said Beatrice coldly. "That he should try to excuse himself only made it worse."

"I'm not sure that's very logical. I'll confess that Harding and I seldom agree, but one must be fair."

"Does that mean that one ought to be lenient?" Beatrice asked with an angry sparkle in her eyes.

Mowbray was conscious of some embarrassment. His ideas upon the subject were not sharply defined, but if it had not been his daughter who questioned him he could have expressed them better. Beatrice ought to have left her parents to deal with a delicate matter like this, but instead she had boldly taken it into her own hands. He had tried to bring up his children well, but the becoming modesty which characterized young women in his youth had gone.

"No," he answered; "not exactly lenient. But the thing may not be so bad as you think--and one must make allowances. Then, a broken engagement reflects upon both parties. Even if one of them has an unquestionable grievance, it proves that that person acted very rashly in making a promise in the first instance." 1. What had Beatrice broken?
2. with woh?
3. did her father and harding often agree?
4. Does he think she should have kept the engagement?
5. does he think she is being fair?
6. would she listen to her fiancee's excuses?
7. did she believe what she had heard about him?
8. Did her father think it made sense notto hear Harding's side of the story?
9. did he think she should have made the decision on her own?
10. who should have been involved?
11. did he think his daughter immodest?
12. did he see it as a parenting failure?
13. who does he feel looks bad in a broken engagement
14. what might it show>?
numbered_answers: 1. engagement
2. Harding
3. No
4. yes
5. No
6. No
7. Yes
8. No
9. No
10. her parents
11. yes
12. Yes
13. both parties.
14. person acted very rashly in making a promise in the first instance

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Every time Lionel Messi breaks a record, it seems appropriate to compare him to the legends that came before him.

In 2012, he rewrote soccer history on multiple occasions, and his latest record came when he scored his 86th goal of the calendar year, breaking Gerd Muller's previous mark, before wrapping up the year with 91 goals.

All statistics indicate that Messi is currently the best player in the world, and that he will go down in history as the top footballer of his generation. But when he is judged against all-time greats like Pele and Diego Maradona, he still has work to do.

We don't know whether the Barcelona striker will have another year in which he records more than 90 goals, but he must still sustain a similar level of production for the next several seasons.

Messi has already taken part in three of Barcelona's victorious Champions League campaigns, and he played an important role in two of them. In order to firmly establish himself as the greatest club football player in history, he must win the tournament a few more times.

Most importantly, the Argentine needs to win on the international stage. Regardless of what Messi does for Barcelona, his legacy will be incomplete if he cannot win the World Cup with Argentina.

Both Pele and Maradona led their countries to the top of international soccer during their careers, and Messi's performances for his country have been severely disappointing.

While he was still a teenager in 2006 --and his lackluster showing is excusable due to his youth--he cannot brush off the disappointment that characterized Argentina's performance in 2010.

But the 4-0 loss to Germany in the 2010 World Cup Quarter Final seems to have sparked Messi. He scored 12 times for Argentina last year, and the next World Cup could finally be Messi's breakout performance in blue and white stripes.

Due to all of his accomplishments, it is easy to forget that the extraordinary footballer is just 25 years old. If he can avoid injury or lengthy slumps until his speed and skills start to decline due to age, he may continue to break records and win trophies. 1. who is the story about?
2. what is his nationality?
3. what is his profession?
4. is he good at it?
5. in what decade was he in his teens?
6. who does he play for?
7. what is his position?
8. in what year did her score 91 points?
9. who is he compared to?
10. what is his current worldwide ranking?
11. how old is he?
numbered_answers: 1. Lionel Messi
2. Spanish
3. soccer player
4. Yes
5. 2000s
6. Barcelona
7. striker
8. In 2012
9. Pele and Diego Maradona
10. Messi is currently the best player in the world
11. 25

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of "movement" as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, "Impression, soleil levant" ("Impression, Sunrise"), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper "Le Charivari".

The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

Radicals in their time, early Impressionists violated the rules of academic painting. They constructed their pictures from freely brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours, following the example of painters such as Eugene Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner. They also painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often painted outdoors. Previously, still lifes and portraits as well as landscapes were usually painted in a studio. The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting "en plein air". They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short "broken" brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colournot blended smoothly or shaded, as was customaryto achieve an effect of intense colour vibration. 1. Was this form liked at first?
2. where does the name come from?
3. Which one?
4. Where did this form start?
5. When?
6. What does it consist of?
7. Why wasn't it liked?
8. Did it follow traditional rules?
9. What were they called because of that?
10. Who were they following?
11. What else did they do?
12. What came after this art form?
13. What kinds?
14. Before this, where was art created?
15. Inside or Outside?
16. What phrase describes where they painted?
17. Did they hide their strokes?
18. Why not?
19. What else could be shown?
20. Were they large?
numbered_answers:
1. No
2. the title of a Claude Monet work
3. "Impression, soleil levant"
4. Paris
5. 1870s and 1880s
6. small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition
7. unknown
8. No
9. Radicals
10. Eugene Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner
11. they would painted realistic scenes
12. analogous styles
13. impressionist music and impressionist literature
14. conventional art community in France
15. they were usually painted in a studio
16. "en plein air"
17. No
18. They wanted to achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.
19. they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight
20. No