Q: CHAPTER XXXVIII

When parliament reassembled in February, the Neuchatels quitted Hainault for their London residence in Portland Place. Mrs. Neuchatel was sadly troubled at leaving her country home, which, notwithstanding its distressing splendour, had still some forms of compensatory innocence in its flowers and sylvan glades. Adriana sighed when she called to mind the manifold and mortifying snares and pitfalls that awaited her, and had even framed a highly practical and sensible scheme which would permit her parents to settle in town and allow Myra and herself to remain permanently in the country; but Myra brushed away the project like a fly, and Adriana yielding, embraced her with tearful eyes.

The Neuchatel mansion in Portland Place was one of the noblest in that comely quarter of the town, and replete with every charm and convenience that wealth and taste could provide. Myra, who, like her brother, had a tenacious memory, was interested in recalling as fully and as accurately as possible her previous experience of London life. She was then indeed only a child, but a child who was often admitted to brilliant circles, and had enjoyed opportunities of social observation which the very youthful seldom possess. Her retrospection was not as profitable as she could have desired, and she was astonished, after a severe analysis of the past, to find how entirely at that early age she appeared to have been engrossed with herself and with Endymion. Hill Street and Wimbledon, and all their various life, figured as shadowy scenes; she could realise nothing very definite for her present guidance; the past seemed a phantom of fine dresses, and bright equipages, and endless indulgence. All that had happened after their fall was distinct and full of meaning. It would seem that adversity had taught Myra to feel and think.

1. Portland Place
2. Yes
3. London
4. February
5. No
6. No
7. Adriana
8. Myra
9. no
10. No
11. yes

Numbered questions:
1. where was the Neuchatel mansion?
2. did Myra have a brother?
3. what city is the mansion in?
4. when did parliament reassemble?
5. did Mrs. Neuchatel want to leave her home?
6. was she happy?
7. who had schemed to try to remain?
8. who else was in on it?
9. did she go through with it?
10. was the mansion shabby?
11. was it noble?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. There seems to be a general assumption that brilliant people cannot stand routine ; that they need a varied , exciting life in order to do their best . It is also assumed that dull people are particularly suited for dull work . We are told that the reason the present-day young complain so loudly about the dullness of jobs is that they are better educated and brighter than the young of the past .

Actually , there is no evidence that people who achieve a lot desire , let alone live , colorful lives . The opposite is nearer the truth . Einstein worked out his theory of relativity while serving as a clerk in a Swiss patent office . Immanuel Kant's daily life was a dull routine . The housewives of Konigsberg set their clocks when they saw him pass , on his way to the university . He took the same walk each morning , rain or shine . The greatest distance Kant ever traveled was sixty miles from Konigsberg .

It may be true that work on the assembly line dulls the abilities and empties the mind , and the cure is only fewer hours of work at higher pay . But during fifty years as a workingman , I have found dull routine coexisting with an active mind . While doing dull , repetitive work by the water , I could talk with my partners and compose sentences in my mind , all at the same time . Chances are that had my work been too interesting I could not have done any thinking and composing at work or even on my own time after returning from work .

People who find dull jobs unbearable are often dull people who do not know what to do with themselves at leisure . Children and mature people will get used to dull routine , while the adolescent , who has lost the child's ability for concentration and is without the inner resources of the mature , needs excitement and novelty to get rid of boredom . 1. Who needs excitement and novelty?
2. What is the general assumption?
3. What else?
4. Do you think it is true?
5. What is true
6. Who is someone that proves this?
7. How?
8. How long did the author work?
9. What did he find out?
10. What could he do while working?
11. What else?
12. What does he say about people that find dull jobs bad?
13. Who can get use to it?
numbered_answers: 1. adolescent
2. brilliant people cannot stand routine
3. dull people are particularly suited for dull work
4. No
5. The opposite
6. Einstein
7. worked out his theory of relativity while serving as a clerk in a Swiss patent office
8. fifty years
9. dull routine coexists with an active mind
10. I could talk with my partners
11. compose sentences in my mind
12. dull people who do not know what to do with themselves at leisure
13. Children and mature people

For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

As Amy Paul choked on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help.

No one could explain their timely heroics.

Both pets were rescued by their owners in _ -----Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.

As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple's 14-year-old son was already unconscious. "Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound," Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.

Amy Paul's husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. "Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that's what caused me to choke," she recalled. "I couldn't breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life."

Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where was Toby thrown?
2. and winnie?
3. how old was she?
4. how did she feed?
5. by?
6. what award did they win?
7. Who choked?
8. what does she do for a job?
9. what did she do differntly?
10. why?
11. how did the dog help?
12. does he normally do that?
13. what was poisoning the Keeslings
14. what was the gas?
15. who was unconcious?
16. who did the cat wake?
17. how?
18. was she silent?
19. where do the Keeslings live?
20. how close to death were the family?
Answer:
1. He was thrown into a garbage bin
2. She was hiding under a barn
3. She was a week-old
4. She was fed with an eyedropper
5. By Cathy's husband, Eric
6. They won Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
7. Amy Paul
8. makes jewelry
9. She ate the skin
10. She read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients
11. he jumped on her
12. No
13. a gas-driven pump
14. carbon monoxide
15. the couple's 14-year-old son
16. Cathy Keesling
17. jumped on the bed and clawed her
18. No
19. Indiana
20. They were only minutes from death