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

THE WRECK

The night was calm, but now and then a faint, hot wind blew from the shadowy coast, and rippling the water, brought a strange, sour smell. Lister did not know the smell; Brown knew and frowned, for he had been broken by the malaria that haunts West African river mouths. Heavy dew dripped from the awnings on _Terrier's_ bridge and in places trickled through the material, since canvas burns in the African sun. Brown searched the dark coast with his glasses, trying to find the marks he had noted on the chart. Lister leaned against the rails and mused about the voyage.

They had ridden out a winter's gale in the Bay of Biscay and for a night had lost the hulk and the men on board. Then they went into Vigo, where Lister's firemen wrecked a wine shop and it cost him much in bribes to save them from jail. He had another taste of their quality at Las Palmas, where they made trouble with the port guards and Brown brawled in the cheap wine shops behind the cathedral. In fact, it was some relief when the captain fell off the steam tram that runs between town and port, and a cut on his head stopped his adventures.

Then they steamed for fourteen-hundred miles before the Northeast Trades, with a misty blue sky overhead and long, white-topped seas rolling up astern. The Trade breeze was cool and bracing, but they lost it near the coast, and now the air was hot and strangely heavy. One felt languid and cheerfulness cost an effort. The men had begun to grumble and Lister was glad the voyage was nearly over and it was time to get to work. 1. What type of weather did they just overcome?
2. Where?
3. Did they lose people during this?
4. Where did they go next?
5. Who wrecked a wine shop?
6. Did they go to jail?
7. What did he have to do to prevent that?
8. Had they caused trouble before?
9. Where?
10. What did they do?
11. Who got in a fight?
12. Where?
13. What were they behind?
14. Was this a stormy night now?
15. Was Brown sick?
16. What did he have?
17. What was he looking for?
18. How far did they travel before the Northeast Trades?
19. Was the wind hot?
20. What was Lister happy about?
numbered_answers: 1. a winter's gale
2. in the Bay of Biscay
3. Yes
4. into Vigo
5. Lister's firemen
6. No
7. it cost him much in bribes
8. Yes
9. at Las Palmas,
10. made trouble with the port guards
11. Brown
12. in the cheap wine shops
13. the cathedral.
14. No
15. Yes
16. malaria
17. his glasses
18. 1400 miles
19. No
20. He was glad the voyage was nearly over

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Kuwait (; ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in Western Asia. Situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, it shares borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. , Kuwait has a population of 4.2 million people; 1.3 million are Kuwaitis and 2.9 million are expatriates. Expatriates account for 70% of the population.

Oil reserves were discovered in 1938. From 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization. In the 1980s, Kuwait experienced a period of geopolitical instability and an economic crisis following the stock market crash. In 1990, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. The Iraqi occupation came to an end in 1991 after military intervention by coalition forces. At the end of the war, there were extensive efforts to revive the economy and rebuild national infrastructure.

Kuwait is a constitutional state with a semi-democratic political system. It has a high income economy backed by the world's sixth largest oil reserves. The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest valued currency in the world. According to the World Bank, the country has the fourth highest per capita income in the world. The Constitution was promulgated in 1962. The Kuwait National Cultural District is a member of the Global Cultural Districts Network. 1. Where is Kuwait?
numbered_answers: 1. Western Asia.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or which the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critic's fame, stature, and volume of reviews.

Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, and a classmate from the University of Southern California law school, Jason Dietz. Rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005. CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation.

Nick Wingfield of "The Wall Street Journal" wrote in September 2004: "Mr. Doyle, 36, is now a senior product manager at CNET but he also acts as games editor of Metacritic". Speaking of video games, Doyle said: "A site like ours helps people cut through...unobjective promotional language". "By giving consumers, and web users specifically, early information on the objective quality of a game, not only are they more educated about their choices, but it forces publishers to demand more from their developers, license owners to demand more from their licensees, and eventually, hopefully, the games get better". He added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. 1. When did Metacritic begin?
2. What month?
3. How many people helped design it?
4. Who are they?
5. What is it?
6. What is it a collection of?
7. Of What?
8. What does it do with the reviews scores?
9. What kind of average?
10. What is the review changed into?
11. Who bought Metacritic?
12. When?
13. Who owns it now?
14. Do they also own CNET?
15. Who is the games editor?
16. What is his other duty?
17. How old is he?
18. Who works for The Wall Street Journal?
19. What does he do there?
20. When did he write about Metacritic?
numbered_answers:
1. 1999
2. July
3. Three
4. Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts
5. a website
6. reviews
7. media products
8. averages them?
9. weighted
10. a percentage
11. CNET
12. 2005
13. the CBS Corporation
14. yes
15. Mr. Doyle
16. senior product manager
17. 36
18. Nick Wingfield
19. writes
20. September 2004