input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. The Sahara (Arabic: , as-sahra al-kubra, 'the Greatest Desert') is the largest hot desert in the world. It is the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its surface area of 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi)[citation needed]including the Libyan Desertis comparable to the respective land areas of China or the United States. The desert comprises much of the land found within North Africa, excluding the fertile coastal region situated against the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north, to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually transitions to a coastal plain. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and Sudan Region of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Air Mountains, the Tenere desert, and the Libyan Desert. Its name is derived from the plural Arabic language word for desert ( sahara [sr]). 1. What is the passage about?
2. Is it a Gaelic word?
3. What is it known for being?
4. How many areas can it be classifieded into?
5. Does it include any fertile ground?
6. Is it 10,000,000 sq km?
7. How large is it?
8. What is it's ranking among all the world's deserts?
9. What are the other 2?
10. Are they considered hot?
11. What mass is the hot one considered comparable to?
12. How far east does it reach?
13. Are there any other notable borders?
numbered_answers: 1. The Sahara
2. unknown
3. the largest hot desert in the world
4. several regions
5. No
6. No
7. 9,400,000 square kilometres
8. third largest
9. Antarctica and the Arctic
10. No
11. the respective land area of China
12. from the Red Sea
13. Yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Beijing, China (CNN) -- A court in eastern China sentenced a man to death Saturday for attacking 29 kindergarten students and three teachers with a knife, state-run media said.

The Taixing Intermediate People's Court found Xu Yuyuan, 47, guilty of intentional homicide after a half-day trial, Xinhua news agency said.

Xu told the court that his rage against society motivated him in the April 29 attacks, according to Xinhua. But he appealed the death sentence, arguing that the punishment was too severe since no one died in the attacks, Xinhua said.

Chinese penal code says a person can be convicted of intentional homicide for acting on an intent to kill, the news agency reported.

A police probe found Xu had been unemployed since 2001, when he was fired by a local insurance company. He told police he carried out the attack because he was angry about a series of business and personal humiliations, Xinhua said.

About 300 people attended Saturday's open trial, according to Xinhua.

Xu's sentence was the second death penalty conviction after a recent spate of school attacks that have prompted public outrage across China.

Zheng Minsheng, 42, was sentenced to death and executed on April 28 for attacking students in front of an elementary school in Fujian province, killing eight and wounding several others. Zheng also used a knife in the attacks, Xinhua reported.

Authorities said Zheng carried out the attack because he was frustrated at "failures in his romantic life," the news agency said.

At least four other such attacks on school children in China have been reported since March. 1. How old was the defendant?
2. What was his nationality?
3. Was he found guilty?
4. of what?
5. How long was the proceeding?
6. Who published the information?
7. How many victims were there?
8. was Xu employed?
9. Did anyone perish in the incident?
10. What punitive measures were sought by the prosecutors?
11. What was the assailant's motive?
12. about what?
13. Have there been other similar crimes commited recently?
14. What became of the other criminal?
15. How many lives did he take?
16. and his motivation?
17. with what?
18. How many crimes of this nature have been reported this year?
numbered_answers: 1. 47
2. Chinese
3. yes
4. intentional homicide
5. a half-day
6. CNN
7. 32
8. no
9. no
10. the death penalty
11. he was angry
12. business and personal humiliations
13. yes
14. he was executed
15. eight
16. he was frustrated
17. failures in his romantic life
18. four

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

In the little dining-room of the cottage at the Green Sulphur Springs sat that evening Lawrence Croft, a perturbed and angry, but a resolute man. He had been quite a long time coming to the conclusion to propose to Roberta March, and now that he had made up his mind to do so, even in spite of certain convictions, it naturally aroused his indignation to find himself suddenly stopped short by such an insignificant person as Mr Brandon, a gentleman to whom, in this affair, he had given no consideration whatever. The fact that the lady wished to see him added much to his annoyance and discomfiture. He had no idea what reason she had for desiring an interview with him, but, whatever she should say to him, he intended to follow by a declaration of his sentiments. He had not the slightest notion in the world of giving up the prosecution of his suit; but, having been requested not to come to Midbranch, what was he to do? He might write to Miss March, but that would not suit him. In a matter like this he would wish to adapt his words and his manner to the moods and disposition of the lady, and he could not do this in a letter. When he wooed a woman, he must see her and speak to her. To any clandestine approach, any whispered conversation beneath her window, he would give no thought. Having been asked by the master of the house not to go there, he would not go; but he would see her, and tell his love. And, more than that, he would win her. 1. Who was at the cottage?
2. Where was it?
3. What part of the cottage was he in?
4. Was he happy?
5. Why?
6. At what?
7. By who?
8. What had he decided to do?
9. to who?
10. Who wanted an interview?
11. Was he thinking about giving up?
12. Where could he not go?
13. Who lived there?
14. What did he not want to do?
15. Why?
16. What was his plan?
17. And after that, what was he planning?
18. Had he decided to propose in a short time?
19. Had he thought about a different approach?
numbered_answers:
1. Lawrence Croft
2. Green Sulphur Springs
3. The dining-room.
4. No.
5. He was perturbed and angry.
6. He had been stopped short.
7. Mr Brandon
8. Propose.
9. Roberta March.
10. Miss March.
11. No.
12. Midbranch
13. Miss March.
14. Write to her.
15. He wanted to adapt his words to her mood.
16. To see her.
17. Tell oer of his love.
18. No.
19. No.