Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Guardian Centers may be a place to practice how to respond to a disaster, but that doesn't mean real danger is nonexistent.

When we headed over to see its mock subway station, complete with eight cars donated from Washington's Metro system, we were told we had a limited window to view it. The reason -- they were going to be pumping actual toxic gas into the building to simulate a chemical attack.

As smoke rose from chunks of concrete representing an obliterated building, Chris Schaff put it this way: "As soon as you come in here, the pretend goes away."

He's a fire and rescue battalion chief with Fairfax County, Virginia, and his words carry a lot of weight. His elite team of urban search and rescue operatives has been deployed to numerous disasters, including Hurricane Sandy, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and the 2010 Haiti quake.

Luis Fernandez, a two-decades-plus veteran of disaster response, agreed the Perry, Georgia, facility passes muster.

"The temperature extremes, the building extremes, the noises, the environment, are incredibly lifelike," said Fernandez, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue chief of staff and.a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The brotherhood of Disaster City

From the aforementioned subway station, to a mock bridge with crushed cars, to a devastated structure made to look like the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, Guardian Centers' 830-acre site is designed to allow a variety of responders to do a variety of drills in one location.

This kind of "doomsday Disneyland" owes its vision to Geoff Burkart, a telecommunications executive who was in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. During Katrina, he saw "what was being done there, and what was not being done."
1. Who is a 20 year veteran?
2. veteran of what?
3. where is the center?
4. wher edoes he normally work?
5. what is fernandez spokesman for?
6. is real danger a possibility ?
7. Where did the subway cars come from?
8. how many are there?
9. what sort of gas will be pumped?
10. simulating what?
11. what did the concrete chuncks represent?
12. what's cominhg off them?
13. what goes away as soon as you enter?

Numbered answers:
1. Luis Fernandez
2. disaster response
3. Perry, Georgia
4. Geoff Burkart
5. Federal Emergency Management Agency
6. Yes.
7. Washington's Metro system
8. eight
9. toxic gas
10. a chemical attack
11. an obliterated building
12. smoke
13. pretending

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER III THE LIBERTY GIRLS

An hour later six girls met at the home of Alora Jones, who lived with her father in a fine mansion across the street from Colonel Hathaway's residence. These girls were prepared to work, and work diligently, under the leadership of Mary Louise, for they had been planning and discussing this event for several days, patiently awaiting the word to start their campaign.

"Some girls," said Mary Louise, "are knitting, and that's a good thing to do, in a way. Others are making pajamas and pillows for the Red Cross, and that's also an admirable thing to do. But our duty lies on a higher plane, for we're going to get money to enable Uncle Sam to take care of our soldier boys."

"Do--do you think we can make people buy bonds?" asked little Laura Hilton, with a trace of doubt in her voice.

Mary Louise gave her a severe look.

"We not only can, but we _shall_ make people buy," she replied. "We shall ask them very prettily, and they cannot refuse us. We've all been loaded to the brim with arguments, if arguments are necessary, but we haven't time to gossip with folks. A whole lot of money must be raised, and there's a short time to do it in."

"Seems to me," remarked Edna Barlow, earnestly, "we're wasting time just now. Let's get busy."

"Well, get on your costumes, girls," suggested Alora Jones. "They are all here, in this big box, and the banners are standing in the hall. It's after nine, now, and by ten o'clock we must all be at work."
1. What are the girls trying to get money for?
2. Whose house are they meeting at?
3. Who does she live with?
4. Who lives across the street?
5. How many girls met there?
6. What were they ready to do?
7. Who was in charge?
8. What are some girls doing?
9. What are others making?
10. What else?
11. For what organization?
12. Who are they wanting to help be able to take care of the soldiers?
13. Who said they were wasting time?
14. Who much money do they need to raise?
15. Do they have a long time to do it?
16. What did Alora tell the girls to put on?
17. Where are they?
18. What else is in the hall?
19. What time does she tell them this?
20. What time do they need to be working?
Numbered answers:
1. their soldier boys
2. Alora Jones
3. her father
4. Colonel Hathaway
5. six
6. work
7. Mary Louise
8. knitting
9. pajamas
10. pillows
11. the Red Cross
12. Uncle Sam
13. Edna Barlow
14. A whole lot
15. no
16. their costumes
17. in a big box
18. the banners
19. after nine
20. by ten o'clock