question: CHAPTER VII

I experienced a great surprise a few mornings afterwards. I had risen quite early, and found the Celebrity's man superintending the hoisting of luggage on top of a van.

"Is your master leaving?" I asked.

"He's off to Mohair now, sir," said the valet, with a salute.

At that instant the Celebrity himself appeared.

"Yes, old chap, I'm off to Mohair," he explained. "There's more sport in a day up there than you get here in a season. Beastly slow place, this, unless one is a deacon or a doctor of divinity. Why don't you come up, Crocker? Cooke would like nothing better; he has told me so a dozen times."

"He is very good," I replied. I could not resist the temptation to add, "I had an idea Asquith rather suited your purposes just now."

"I don't quite understand," he said, jumping at the other half of my meaning.

"Oh, nothing. But you told me when you came here, if I am not mistaken, that you chose Asquith because of those very qualities for which you now condemn it."

"Magna est vis consuetudinis," he laughed; "I thought I could stand the life, but I can't. I am tired of their sects and synods and sermons. By the way," said he pulling at my sleeve, "what a deuced pretty girl that Miss Thorn is! Isn't she? Rollins, where's the cart? Well, good-bye, Crocker; see you soon."

He drove rapidly off as the clock struck six, and an uneasy glance he gave the upper windows did not escape me. When Farrar appeared, I told him what had happened.
1. Which chapter is this?
2. What emotion did they have?
3. When?
4. Did they wake up late?
5. Who did they find?
6. What exactly?
7. Where was someone going?
8. When?
9. Does he show up?
10. What is he excited about there?
11. Who does he invite?
12. Who would enjoy this?
13. How many times did he say so?
14. What would suit him more?
15. Does he get it?
16. What does he say in Latin?
17. Is he sad when he says it?
18. What is he tired of?
19. Who is nice to look at?
20. What does he do at 6?
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answer: 1. VII
2. a great surprise
3. a few mornings afterwards
4. no
5. the Celebrity's man superintending
6. hoisting of luggage on top of a van.
7. Mohair
8. that morning
9. yes
10. That there is more sport up there than here.
11. Crocker
12. Cooke
13. a dozen
14. Asquith
15. no
16. "Magna est vis consuetudinis
17. no
18. their sects and synods and sermons
19. Miss Thorn
20. drove rapidly off

question: The high school years are a key period. The things we learn during this time really shape our lives. Liu Changrning, principal of Beijing No. 4 High School made 18 suggestions for students just starting high school on how to get the best out of high school. Here are ten of them. 1) Read 50 books. But choose them from ten different fields. 2) Help a person. Look for a classmate, an elderly person, in fact anyone who could benefit from your help. You'll find you benefit too! 3) Research. Research a particular area, such as science, history or art. 4) Make a foreign friend. Try to be friend someone from a foreign country. It's an ideal way to learn about a foreign country. 5) Publish an article. Whether it appears in a newspaper, your school magazine or in your own blog, an article will be something to look back on in pride in later years. 6) Take up a new sport. Choose one you've never played before. If you find you like it, you'll have a hobby for life. 7) Join a club. Working hard in a club or other activities will give you a life outside of your studies. 8) Find a part-time job. Try and do the job for at least a month. 9) Find a person to learn from. Choose someone with unusual experience or special talent. Try to learn all you can from him or her. 10) Learn to cook four Chinese dishes. Learning how to cook is not only a practical skill but a way of building a bridge to other people.
1. What is the story about?
2. What about them?
3. Why is that?
4. Who thinks that?
5. Who is Liu?
6. What else did he say?
7. What is one of his suggestions?
8. Any kind?
9. What else did he say?
10. What will that do for you?
11. What is another idea of his?
12. What kind of area>
13. Does he have any other ideas?
14. What for example?
15. How will that benefit you?
16. What else should a student do?
17. Where should it be published?
18. What about non scholastic hobbies?
19. What else?
20. Why is that important?
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answer: 1. high school years
2. they are a key period.
3. they shape lives
4. Liu Changrning
5. principal of Beijing No. 4 High School
6. how to get the best out of high school.
7. Read 50 books.
8. choose from ten different fields
9. Help a person.
10. benefit students
11. Research a particular area
12. science, history or art.
13. yes
14. Make a foreign friend
15. it's a way to learn about a foreign country.
16. Publish an article
17. in a newspaper, school magazine or blog
18. a new sport.
19. Join a club
20. it will give you a life outside of your studies.

question: (CNN) -- Doug Skinner held up the pants in the tiny dressing room and shook his head. There's no way, he thought. No way I'm at a size 48.

This was 2004. Skinner was fresh out of college, recently married and just starting his career as a technology coordinator for a local school district. I refuse to go any bigger than 46, he thought vehemently.

"Unfortunately, that day I did have to buy those [pants]," Skinner remembers. "But I didn't go any higher than that."

Skinner always had an excuse for his obesity as a young adult. The self-described "stocky" man was just big-boned, he told himself. In reality, he weighed close to 300 pounds.

"It wasn't like we were stopping on the way home at McDonald's every night -- it was just portion sizes," Skinner says. "The easiest thing in the world [for me] is to eat. I'm a food guy. I love food. I love dessert."

But that day in a badly-lit discount clothing store in New Jersey, something clicked. He walked back over to his wife, Denise, who looked unhappy with her clothing selections as well. They decided right then to make a change. "We said, 'Look, this is it. Let's not kid around anymore."

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The couple went home and borrowed a few Weight Watchers books from a relative and began to eat less.

"The first month, I was starving," Skinner says. "After the first month it was easier. It's still not easy today, but it's easier."
1. What was Doug doing
2. was it going well
3. When was this
4. Did he purchase the bigger slacks
5. was he always overweight
6. why does he have this problem
7. did anything important happen to him this day
8. who was his wife
9. What did they do after that
10. was it easy to diet
11. was it always like that
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answer:
1. He was trying on pants
2. no
3. 2004
4. Yes
5. yes
6. He likes to eat
7. yes
8. Denise
9. Went on a diet
10. no
11. no