Q: Hellen Keller was born in 1880 in the USA. When she was about 19 months old, she got very ill. After many weeks, the doctor told her parents, "Your daughter is better, but now she can't see and she can't hear." Her mother and her father were very sad. After a few years , things got worse. There was no way for Helen to speak to other people. She heard nothing. She didn't understand anything. Then one day a teacher came. Her name was Anne Sullivan. She lived with Helen and her family. The teacher helped Helen learn words. Helen was a very bright child and soon she learned to spell her first word. When she was older, she went to college . Helen was a very old woman when she died. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see and hear. It helped many people in the world.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where was Helen Keller born?
2. When?
3. What happened when she was a baby?
4. What did that cause?
5. Could she comprehend?
6. How did her parents feel?
7. What did they decide to do?
8. What was her name?
9. Did Helen have a low IQ?
10. Did she have a formal education?
11. Did she die young?
12. Is she famous ?
A: 1. in the USA
2. 1880
3. she got very ill
4. blindness and deafness
5. yes
6. very sad
7. get her a teacher
8. Anne Sullivan
9. no
10. yes
11. no
12. yes
Q: CHAPTER XVI

THE RUSE

Cliffe and his daughter were landed at Kingston, and three weeks later Grahame put into a Central-American port. The propeller was not running well, and Macallister, suspecting it was working loose on the shaft, declared that he must put the vessel on a beach where she would dry at low-water. Grahame had a few days to spare, for he could not land his cargo before the time Don Martin had fixed; but as the arms were on board he would have preferred to wait at sea, outside the regular steamers' track.

It happened that there was no repair-shop in the town, but while Macallister thought over the difficulty a tramp steamer dropped anchor, and he went off to her, remarking that he might find a friend on board. In an hour or two the gig came back, and Grahame, hearing _My boat rocks at the pier o' Leith_ sung discordantly, saw that Macallister's expectations had been fulfilled. This did not surprise him, for the Scots engineer is ubiquitous and to have "wrought" at Clydebank or Fairfield is a passport to his affection.

Macallister's face was flushed and his air jaunty, but the tall, gaunt man who accompanied him looked woodenly solemn. He began by emptying a basket of greasy tools on the _Enchantress's_ white deck with the disregard for the navigating officers' feelings which the engine-room mechanic often displays. After this, he went down a rope and sat on the sand under the boat's counter, studying the loose screw while he smoked several pipes of rank tobacco, but without making any remark. Then he got up and slowly stretched his lanky frame.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who arrived at Kingston?
2. Where was the repair shop?
A: 1. Cliffe and his daughter
2. in a Central-American port.
Q: Anna's parents told her they were going to have a new baby brother. She had never had a brother before. She was not sure what to think about it.

"What if he cries?" asked Anna.

"If he cries we hold him until he is quiet," said Anna's dad.

"What if he makes a mess in his diaper?" asked Anna.

"Diapers smell but we clean them up," said Anna's mom.

Anna thought about having a baby brother. Her mom and dad would take care of him. They bought a high chair for him to eat in. They brought out her old crib for him to sleep in. What could she do to help? Anna wanted to help the baby play. She thought it would be fun to play with him. Anna saved up her money. She had two whole dollars. She went to the store to pick out a present for the baby. She bought a rattle. It cost all the money she had, but Anna was happy. She could give a gift to the new baby.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who told Anna something?
2. And what was that?
3. Had she ever had one before?
4. How'd that make her feel?
5. What was she wondering?
6. How did her father respond?
7. What else worried her?
8. And how did her parents answer that?
9. Who would take care of the baby?
10. What'd the get him?
11. For what?
12. What else did they get?
13. Why?
14. Did Anna want to help?
15. To do what?
16. Why?
17. So what'd she do?
18. How much did she have?
19. So where'd she go?
20. Why?
21. What'd she get?
A:
1. Anna's parents
2. they were going to have a new baby brother.
3. No
4. She was not sure what to think about it.
5. What if he cries?
6. If he cries we hold him until he is quiet
7. What if he makes a mess in his diaper?
8. "Diapers smell but we clean them up,"
9. Her mom and dad
10. a high chair
11. for him to eat in.
12. her old crib
13. for him to sleep in
14. Yes
15. play
16. She thought it would be fun to play with him
17. Anna saved up her money
18. two whole dollars
19. to the store
20. to pick out a present for the baby
21. a rattle