Q: Olympic torch relay planned route Beijing, April 27--The Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will cover the greatest area and include the largest number of people. The plans were announced on Thursday night. The planned route would last 130 days and travel 137 000 km. First Nobel Prize winner to donate to Hope School Chinanews, Beijing, May 10--Professor Dannel Chee Tsui, in the USA, signed the agreement to donate 350 000yuan to his home town to build a Hope Primary School in China. Bill Gates receives Tsinghua honorary doctorate Beijing,April 20--Bill Gates, chairman of global IT giant Microsoft, received an honorary doctorate when he visited China's famous Tsinghua University on Thursday. Big Shaolin kung fu center to be built in Russia Chinanews, Beijing, April 27--China and Russia have signed a letter of intent ( )on the building of a Shaolin kung fu center in Russia. It will be the first of its kind in Russia,and also the biggest overseas kung fu center when it is completed.

Answer the following questions:
1. when is the Olympic torch relay planned ?
2. where ?
3. what will it cover ?
4. and incluse ?
5. when was it anounced ?
6. how many days will it last ?
7. and travel ?
8. what did bill gates receive ?
9. who signed a letter of intent ?
10. when ?
11. what country ?
12. will it be the first of its kind ?
A: 1. April 27
2. Beijing
3. greatest area
4. largest number of people
5. Thursday night
6. 130 days
7. 137 000 km.
8. Tsinghua honorary doctorate
9. China and Russia
10. April 27
11. Russia
12. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER VI

AN OPPORTUNE ARRIVAL

With his feet to the sea, and his head pillowed by many cushions, Rowan lay in a long invalid chair at the edge of the little strip of shingle which separated the tower of Rakney from the sea. Every limb was at rest, every nerve seemed lulled into quiescence. The sun and wind had left their traces upon his hollow cheeks. It seemed, indeed, as though Death had lifted her hand from his forehead. It was only when one looked closer that one realized his terrible weakness, realized how slender, indeed, the thread was by which he held on to life. There was scarcely a breath of wind stirring. The sun was high in the heavens, and the whole country seemed lulled into a state of almost unnatural repose. The distant trees were motionless, as though, indeed, they were simply painted things against that background of deep blue sky. The smoke from the little cluster of cottages crept upwards, straight as a ruled line. The cattle in the fields seemed all asleep, exhausted by the unexpected heat. The sea was like a lake, unruffled, almost unrippled.

The man dozed, and Winifred sat by his side, with her eyes fixed steadily and yet absently upon the distant horizon. A week, at most, the doctor had given him, and after that--what? She looked backwards to the window,--the window through which she had entered on that wild night earlier in the year. She looked away again uneasily. She was afraid of such moments as these. It was to escape from them that she had protested so vehemently against their accepting Deane's offer of his cottage.

1. who was in a chair?
2. what kind of chair?
3. where at?
4. was he relaxed?
5. where were his feet?
6. were the trees moving?
7. where was the sun?
8. what was in the fields?
9. doing what?
10. why?
11. from what?
12. who was with him?
13. was Rowan ill?
14. what did the Dr say?
15. how did Winifred feel?
16. what did she protest?
17. for what?
18. what was she looking at?
19. what did she look back to?
20. and why did she look away?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Rowan
2. an invalid chair
3. at the edge of the little strip of shingle
4. yes
5. to the sea
6. no
7. high in the heavens
8. cattle
9. sleeping
10. they were exhausted
11. the unexpected heat
12. Winifred
13. yes
14. that he had a week, at most
15. afraid
16. their accepting Deane's offer
17. his cottage
18. the distant horizon
19. the window
20. she was uneasy

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXV.

THE BANKER AND HIS DAUGHTER.

Tom and Elsley are safe at Whitbury at last; and Tom, ere he has seen his father, has packed Elsley safe away in lodgings with an old dame whom he can trust. Then he asks his way to his father's new abode; a small old-fashioned house, with low bay windows jutting out upon the narrow pavement.

Tom stops, and looks in the window. His father is sitting close to it, in his arm-chair, his hands upon his knees, his face lifted to the sunlight, with chin slightly outstretched, and his pale eyes feeling for the light. The expression would have been painful, but for its perfect sweetness and resignation. His countenance is not, perhaps, a strong one; but its delicacy, and calm, and the high forehead, and the long white locks, are most venerable. With a blind man's exquisite sense, he feels Tom's shadow fall on him, and starts, and calls him by name; for he has been expecting him, and thinking of nothing else all the morning, and takes for granted that it must be he.

In another moment Tom is at his father's side. What need to describe the sacred joy of those first few minutes, even if it were possible? But unrestrained tenderness between man and man, rare as it is, and, as it were, unaccustomed to itself, has no passionate fluency, no metaphor or poetry, such as man pours out to woman, and woman again to man. All its language lies in the tones, the looks, the little half-concealed gestures, hints which pass themselves off modestly in jest; and such was Tom's first interview with his father; till the old Isaac, having felt Tom's head and hands again and again, to be sure whether it were his very son or no, made him sit down by him, holding him still fast, and began--

1. could his father see?
2. what was his dad sitting on?
3. Who is safe?
4. and?
5. where are they?
6. Who did he leave Elsey with?
7. Does his father have short hair?
8. What color is it?
9. How does he know Tom is there?
10. he is blind, so how does he sense Tom?
11. what is he sitting next to?
12. did Tom know where his dad's house is?
13. does his father live in a big home?
14. please describe it.
15. what is his dad's name?
16. how does he make sure it's his child?
17. does he trust the person he left Else with?
18. Is it possible to explain the happiness felt?
19. what kind of windows does the house have?
20. can the relationship be compare to a man to woman relationship?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. No.
2. His arm-chair.
3. Elsley.
4. Tom.
5. Whitbury.
6. An old dame.
7. No.
8. White.
9. He has been expecting him.
10. He feels Tom's shadow fall on him.
11. The window.
12. No.
13. No.
14. Small old-fashioned house.
15. Isaac.
16. Felt Tom's head and hands again and again.
17. Yes.
18. No.
19. Low bay windows.
20. No.