Question:
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Several years ago, Kevin Stephan, then aged 11, was playing baseball when a player accidentally hit him with a bat. Kevin fell down and his heart stopped. Penny Brown, the mother of another player, was watching the game.Penny usually worked in the evenings as a nurse, but luckily that evening she wasn't working. Penny ran to helped Kevin and saved his life. Nearly seven years later, Kevin was washing up in the kitchen of the Hillview Restaurant in Buffalo, New York State. Normally, 18-year-old Kevin had school in the afternoon, but that week there were exams and he didn't have any class. At about 2 p.m., Penny Brown was having lunch with her family in the restaurant. She was eating when some food got stuck in her throat. She was very frightened because she couldn't breathe. Kevin was a volunteer firefighter in his free time and he ran to help. A waitress tried to help her, but the food was still stuck in Penny's throat. Kevin pulled his hands quickly into her stomach and saved Penny's life. He didn't know it was Penny, but his mother, Lorraine Stephan, was also having lunch in the restaurant. She realized that Penny was the woman who saved Kevin's life, seven years before, at the baseball game. Both Penny and Kevin were completely amazed by the coincidence !
1. What did Penny Brown do for a living?
2. Who's life did she save?
3. How old was he then?
4. Why did he fall down?
5. What happened when he fell down?
6. Where was Kevin washing up years later?
7. How old was he then?
8. Why wasn't he in school?
9. What did he volunteer at in his free time?
10. Who else was having lunch with her family there?
11. What happened to her?
12. Who tried helping at first?
13. Did Kevin know who he was helping?
14. Was his mother's name Tonya Stephan?
15. What was it?
16. How many years ago did Penny save Kevin's life?
17. Where was that?
18. What did Kevin do to save Penny?

Numbered answers:
1. she was a nurse
2. Kevin Stephan
3. 11
4. a player hit him with a bat.
5. his heart stopped.
6. in the kitchen of the Hillview Restaurant
7. 18
8. there were exams and he didn't have any class
9. as a firefighter
10. Penny Brown
11. some food got stuck in her throat
12. A waitress
13. no
14. no
15. Lorraine Stephan
16. seven
17. at the baseball game
18. he pulled his hands quickly into her stomach

Question:
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A new genius in physics like Einstein will emerge , scientists say. But it may take a long time .After, more than 200 yeas separated Einstein from his nearest rival , Isaac Newton. Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn't been yet, or is a baby now.

And researchers say there are many factors working against another Einstein emerging anytime soon. For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein's day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare. Education is different, too. One essential aspect of Einstein's training that is overlooked is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager--Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others, It taught him how to think independently and abstractly about space and time. Einstein was also an accomplished musician. The interplay between music and math is well known. Einstein would furiously play his violin as a way to think through a knotty physics problem. Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical and rewarding efforts.

"Maybe there is an Einstein out there today," said Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, "but it would be a lot harder for him to be heard." Especially considering what Einstein was promoting. "The actual structure of space and time bending? My God, what an idea!" Greene said at a recent gathering at the Aspen Institute. "It takes a certain type of person who will knock his head against the wall because you believe you'll find the solution." Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of 1905. These" thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physik by an unknown.What might happen to such a submission today? "We all get papers like those in the mail," Greene said. "We put them in the junk file."
1. Who was Einstein's rival?
2. Who will be the next?
3. What did he study?
4. like who?
5. like who?
6. what did he learn?
7. did he have any other influences?
8. did he have any other influences?
9. did he do anything else?
10. what did he play?
11. what did he work in?

Numbered answers:
1. Isaac Newton
2. We don't know yet.
3. Philosophy
4. Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza
5. Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza
6. To think independently and abstractly about space and time
7. unknown
8. unknown
9. He was a musician
10. The violin
11. Physics

Question:
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CHAPTER XIII.

MINO

The days went by, and she received no sign. Was he going to ignore her, was he going to take no further notice of her secret? A dreary weight of anxiety and acrid bitterness settled on her. And yet Ursula knew she was only deceiving herself, and that he would proceed. She said no word to anybody.

Then, sure enough, there came a note from him, asking if she would come to tea with Gudrun, to his rooms in town.

'Why does he ask Gudrun as well?' she asked herself at once. 'Does he want to protect himself, or does he think I would not go alone?' She was tormented by the thought that he wanted to protect himself. But at the end of all, she only said to herself:

'I don't want Gudrun to be there, because I want him to say something more to me. So I shan't tell Gudrun anything about it, and I shall go alone. Then I shall know.'

She found herself sitting on the tram-car, mounting up the hill going out of the town, to the place where he had his lodging. She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality. She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe. What had it all to do with her? She was palpitating and formless within the flux of the ghost life. She could not consider any more, what anybody would say of her or think about her. People had passed out of her range, she was absolved. She had fallen strange and dim, out of the sheath of the material life, as a berry falls from the only world it has ever known, down out of the sheath on to the real unknown.
1. what was she waiting for?
2. what did she think he might be doing?
3. what was she wondering if he would notice?
4. how was she feeling?
5. what is her name?
6. was she being honest with herself?
7. who did she tell?
8. what did she receive?
9. was the not an invitation?
10. for what?
Numbered answers:
1. a sign
2. ignoring her
3. her secret
4. anxious
5. Ursula
6. No
7. nobody
8. a note
9. Yes
10. to tea