Question: There once was a doggy named Jack that was really bored. One day he was sitting on the sofa he thought to himself, "Maybe I'll go for a ride." The dog put on his shoes and hat and walked out of the door. He began riding down the street and he saw a lot of funny things. He saw a pumpkin name Sue using toothpaste, a cat name Walt watching a movie and a bear name Phil cooking on a grill. On his drive back home he saw a rat name Randy, and a lion name Leo riding a bike. When the doggy got back home he wanted to write a book about all of the things that he saw. He went into his office and gathered the pen and paper, sat down and began writing. After hours of writing he felt that his leg was hurting from being bent under the table so long. He wrote his last sentence and got up to walk off the pain. The doggy cooked his dinner, ate, then went to bed and the next day he woke up and read his story and liked what he wrote so much that he thought he would write another story later that day. 1. Who was bored?
2. What kind of animal was he?
3. what did he decide to do>
4. what had he been doing before that?
5. Did he put on anything before he left?
6. What did he put on his head?
7. What about on his feet?
8. Who did he see first?
9. What was she?
10. What was she doing that was unusual?
11. What did he observe next?
12. What was he doing?
13. What animal did he encounter next?
14. What was it's name?
15. What was he doing?
16. What did the dog want to do when he arrived again at his house?
17. What room did he want to accomplish this in?
18. Did he work on his project for an extended time?
19. for how long?
20. What did he do after he finished? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Jack
2. a dog
3. go for a ride.
4. sitting on the sofa
5. yes
6. hat
7. shoes
8. Sue
9. a pumpkin
10. using toothpaste
11. a cat name Walt
12. watching a movie
13. a bear
14. Phil
15. cooking on a grill
16. to write a book about all of the things that he saw
17. office
18. yes
19. hours
20. cooked dinner

Question: Lying in the sun on a rock, the cougar saw Jeb and his son, Tom, before they saw it. Jeb put his bag down quickly and pulled his jacket open with both hands, making himself look big to the cougar. It worked. The cougar hesitated, ready to attack Jeb, but ready to forget the whole thing, too.

Jeb let go of his jacket, grasped Tom and held him across his body, making a cross. Now the cougar's enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.

"Tom, no!" shouted his father.

But Tom broke and ran and that's the last thing you do with a cougar. The second Tom broke free, Jeb threw himself on the cougar, just as it jumped from the rock. They hit each other in mid-air and both fell. The cougar was on Jeb in a flash, forgetting about Tom, which was what Jeb wanted.

Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined man stands a chance, even with just his fists. As the cougar's claws got into his left shoulder, Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard. The animal howled and put its head back. Jeb followed up with his other fist. Then out of the corner of his eye, Jeb saw Tom. The boy was running back to help his father.

"Knife, Tom" shouted Jeb.

The boy ran to his father's bag, while Jeb stated shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar's attention away from Tom. Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb. The cougar was moving its head in and out, trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms. Tom swung with the knife, into the cougar's back. It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.

The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds. 1. Was the animal hurt?
2. How?
3. How long did it take?
4. Who was attacked?
5. why?
6. Where did they collide?
7. And then?
8. Where was Jeb wounded?
9. Which one?
10. What did he swing?
11. Does he have a child?
12. Which gender?
13. And his name?
14. What weapon was used?
15. To where did it flee?
16. Did it make any noise?
17. What kind?
18. Where was it first seen?
19. Was it raining?
20. How many people were there? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Yes.
2. Knifed in the back.
3. Thirty seconds.
4. Jeb.
5. Jeb threw himself on the cougar.
6. In mid-air.
7. They both fell.
8. His shoulder.
9. Left.
10. His fist.
11. Yes.
12. Male.
13. Tom.
14. Knife.
15. Into the mountains.
16. Yes.
17. Howled.
18. On a rock.
19. No.
20. Two.

Question: Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints, and is a structural component of the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs, and many other body components. It is not as hard and rigid as bone, but it is much stiffer and much less flexible than muscle.

Because of its rigidity, cartilage often serves the purpose of holding tubes open in the body. Examples include the rings of the trachea, such as the cricoid cartilage and carina.

Cartilage is composed of specialized cells called chondrocytes that produce a large amount of collagenous extracellular matrix, abundant ground substance that is rich in proteoglycan and elastin fibers. Cartilage is classified in three types, "elastic cartilage", "hyaline cartilage" and "fibrocartilage", which differ in relative amounts of collagen and proteoglycan.

Cartilage does not contain blood vessels (it is avascular) or nerves (it is aneural). Nutrition is supplied to the chondrocytes by diffusion. The compression of the articular cartilage or flexion of the elastic cartilage generates fluid flow, which assists diffusion of nutrients to the chondrocytes. Compared to other connective tissues, cartilage has a very slow turnover of its extracellular matrix and does not repair. In embryogenesis, the skeletal system is derived from the mesoderm germ layer. Chondrification (also known as chondrogenesis) is the process by which cartilage is formed from condensed mesenchyme tissue, which differentiates into chondroblasts and begins secreting the molecules (aggrecan and collagen type II) that form the extracellular matrix. 1. What substance can cartilage be compared to?
2. Is it flexible or rigid?
3. Where is cartilage located in the body?
4. Anywhere else?
5. What is cartilage like compared to muscle?
6. What kinds of cells is cartilage made up of?
7. What are they called?
8. What do they produce?
9. How many types of cartilage are there?
10. How do they differ?
11. How do cartilage cells get nutrition?
12. How often does cartilage repair itself?
13. Does cartilage have blood vessels? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. other connective tissues
2. flexibl
3. , the ear,
4. the rib cage
5. stiffer
6. specialized cells
7. chondrocytes
8. matrix
9. three
10. in relative amounts of collagen and proteoglycan
11. diffusion
12. never
13. no