question: Pedro Rossi is happy--he is very,very happy! He won $500,000! He won the lottery ! Pedro is happy for only a few days. Then he remembers his lottery ticket! He throws it in the garbage _ ! Pedro runs to the garbage can and looks in it. The garbage can is not over there at all! "The garbage is gone,"his wife says. "The garbage truck comes in the morning." The garbage truck takes the garbage can to the garbage dump ! Pedro runs to the dump. He looks for it for two days. But he can't find it. Pedro lives in town in Brazil. Pedro tells the people in the town,"Look for my lottery ticket at the dump. If you find it,I can give you half the money." Everyday hundreds of people go to the dump to look for the ticket. Five days later,a man finds it. Pedro gives the man $250,000. Pedro won $500,000 in the lottery. Now he won only 250,000. But he is not sad. "Before,one man was happy,"Pedro says. "Now two men are happy!"
1. Why was Pedro so happy?
2. Did his happiness last long?
3. What happened take make his happiness so short lived?
4. Where was it?
5. Was he able to find it in the garbage can?
6. Why not?
7. When did the garbage truck pick it up?
8. Where does the city's garbage end up?
9. Why were so many people headed towards the garbage dump?
10. What was their incentive to do this?
11. Did anyone find the ticket?
12. Who?
13. Was Pedro happy for the man who found the ticket?
14. How long did it take for someone to find the ticket?
15. Where does Pedro live?
16. Who reminded him that the garbage had been taken out already?
17. How did he get to the dump?
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answer: 1. he won $500,000
2. no
3. he remembered where the ticket is
4. in the garbage
5. no
6. The garbage is gone,
7. in the morning
8. the garbage dump
9. to look for the ticket
10. getting half the money
11. yes
12. a man
13. yes
14. Five days
15. Brazil
16. his wife
17. he ran

question: Many American presidents in the 19thcentury were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little education . Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln once did jobs of a worker, shopkeeper and post officer in his early years. A large number of U. S. presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school--West Point Military Academy . One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined because he broke the rules of the school. The jobs of U. S. presidents are tiring. He must _ anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, "When you grow up, you should not be president. It's a tiring job."
1. In what century were there many Presidents from poor families?
2. Where did they spend their childhood?
3. Name two presidents who were self-taught.
4. Which presidents graduated from the same school?
5. What President was fined for breaking rules?
6. Which college do some Presidents have in common?
7. Which President did Thaft once visit when young?
8. From which country are these Presidents?
9. In what military branch were many Presidents?
10. What did Thaft say to Roosevelt?
11. In what was was Grant a general?
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answer: 1. the 19th century
2. in little wooden rooms
3. Washington and Lincoln
4. Grant and Eisenhower
5. Eisenhower
6. West Point Military Academy
7. Franklin Roosevelt
8. America
9. the army
10. "When you grow up, you should not be president. It's a tiring job."
11. the American Civil War

question: CHAPTER IV

"Which of them is it?" asked Longueville of his friend, after they had bidden good-night to the three ladies and to Captain Lovelock, who went off to begin, as he said, the evening. They stood, when they had turned away from the door of Mrs. Vivian's lodgings, in the little, rough-paved German street.

"Which of them is what?" Gordon asked, staring at his companion.

"Oh, come," said Longueville, "you are not going to begin to play at modesty at this hour! Did n't you write to me that you had been making violent love?"

"Violent? No."

"The more shame to you! Has your love-making been feeble?"

His friend looked at him a moment rather soberly.

"I suppose you thought it a queer document--that letter I wrote you."

"I thought it characteristic," said Longueville smiling.

"Is n't that the same thing?"

"Not in the least. I have never thought you a man of oddities." Gordon stood there looking at him with a serious eye, half appealing, half questioning; but at these last words he glanced away. Even a very modest man may wince a little at hearing himself denied the distinction of a few variations from the common type. Longueville made this reflection, and it struck him, also, that his companion was in a graver mood than he had expected; though why, after all, should he have been in a state of exhilaration? "Your letter was a very natural, interesting one," Bernard added.

"Well, you see," said Gordon, facing his companion again, "I have been a good deal preoccupied."
1. who ask to come to them ?
2. who was he talking to ?
3. did someone bid good morning ?
4. to how many ladies ?
5. were they making sweet love ?
6. what kind of love ?
7. whos quarters did they leave from ?
8. on what street ?
9. was it a smooth street ?
10. what kind ?
11. how did the friend look at him ?
12. for how long ?
13. what could be the same thing ?
14. what did he think it was ?
15. querr what ?
16. how was gordan looking at the person ?
17. anything else ?
18. anymore ?
19. was his letter a boring one ?
20. what was it ?
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answer:
1. Longueville
2. Gordon
3. good-night
4. three
5. no
6. feeble
7. Mrs. Vivian's
8. German
9. no
10. rough
11. soberly
12. a moment
13. that letter
14. queer
15. document
16. serious
17. half appealing
18. half questioning
19. no
20. interesting