question: "Hi, Jenny!" "Hi, Brian! What class do you have next?" "I have art next," says Brian. "It's my favourite. I draw six pictures every week." "You are a good painter ," says Jenny. "I see some of your pictures. They are beautiful. I like art too, but I am not good at it. I am not going to be a painter when I am older!" "I tell you, Jenny," says Brian. "Art is interesting for everyone. You don't need to be good at it." "You are right, Brian," says Jenny. "And I like our art teacher. He teaches us a lot. I am much better at art this year. "Yes. Mr. Smith is good. He looks like a great painter too, with his long hair and big beard ." "When do you have art lesson, Jenny?" asks Brian. Jenny looks at her timetable. "I have art tomorrow morning," she says. "What class are you going to now?" asks Brian. "I'm going to music class. It's one of my favourites! We are learning a new song this week. I love to sing. What's the time, please?" Brian looks at his watch. "Oh, no! It's 2:13! There are only two minutes!" "Hurry, Brian!" says Jenny. "We don't want to be late for class! See you later." "Okay. I am going to art class. See you after school!"
1. Who wants to be a painter?
2. When does Jenny have art class?
3. Who is the art instructor?
4. What other class did Brian have?
5. Does Mr. Smith have a beard?
6. How does Jenny keep track of her schedule?
7. How many drawings does Brian make weekly?
8. Does Brian dislike singing?
9. How does he tell time?
10. Did Brian say that Jenny should be a better artist?
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answer: 1. Brian
2. In the morning
3. Mr. Smith
4. music class
5. Yes
6. her timetable
7. siz
8. No
9. with a watch
10. No

question: CHAPTER XI. THE ASHBURNS

Gregory Ashburn pushed back his chair and made shift to rise from the table at which he and his brother had but dined.

He was a tall, heavily built man, with a coarse, florid countenance set in a frame of reddish hair that hung straight and limp. In the colour of their hair lay the only point of resemblance between the brothers. For the rest Joseph was spare and of middle weight, pale of face, thin-lipped, and owning a cunning expression that was rendered very evil by virtue of the slight cast in his colourless eyes.

In earlier life Gregory had not been unhandsome; debauchery and sloth had puffed and coarsened him. Joseph, on the other hand, had never been aught but ill-favoured.

"Tis a week since Worcester field was fought," grumbled Gregory, looking lazily sideways at the mullioned windows as he spoke, "and never a word from the lad."

Joseph shrugged his narrow shoulders and sneered. It was Joseph's habit to sneer when he spoke, and his words were wont to fit the sneer.

"Doth the lack of news trouble you?" he asked, glancing across the table at his brother.

Gregory rose without meeting that glance.

"Truth to tell it does trouble me," he muttered.

"And yet," quoth Joseph, "tis a natural thing enough. When battles are fought it is not uncommon for men to die."

Gregory crossed slowly to the window, and stared out at the trees of the park which autumn was fast stripping.
1. What color was Gregory's hair?
2. Was it curly?
3. What did it look like, then?
4. True or False: Joseph had not always been unattractive.
5. What about Gregory?
6. Who is worried by the lack of news?
7. True or False: Gregory and Joseph were father and son.
8. How were they related?
9. What does Joseph say often happens in battles?
10. What season was it?
11. And the month?
12. Did Joseph have brown eyes?
13. How did they look, then?
14. What had the brothers just finished doing?
15. What kind of window did Gregory look out of?
16. What does the window overlook?
17. Which brother is more heavily built?
18. What was the only physical feature they shared?
19. What did Joseph often do when speaking?
20. What had made Gregory unhandsome?
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answer: 1. reddish
2. no
3. it hung straight and limp
4. False.
5. No, not always.
6. Gregory
7. False.
8. They were brothers.
9. men die
10. autumn
11. unknown
12. No.
13. colourless
14. dining
15. mullioned windows
16. the trees of the park
17. Gregory
18. the colour of their hair
19. he would sneer
20. debauchery and sloth

question: Reading Oliver James'Affluenza, I thought about what often happens at home. My 12-year-old daughter is in tears."I have so take a test tomorrow. I don't understand any of it," she cries out. After shouting and shutting her door, she calms down enough to go through her notes. The following dry I ask her how the test went and the just says "OK,I got a nine". "Wow. well done!" I say, before she finishes with "But I never get a ten!" According to James, this _ with getting top marks has been a bad development, which encourages people to think of education in terms of work and money. To test this, I asked my daughter why she was so worried about her tests. She looked at me as if I was thick. "Well, if I don't get good grades, I won't be able to afford nice things like a car and stuff." I was quite surprised, because I don't consider myself a pushy parent. But James suggests and it leaves students feeling failures even if they are very bright. He points to the Danish system of education as a better model. Creating happy citizens who have good social skills is seen as more important than high achievements at school or the needs of business. For me, I cannot remember the last time I had to work out the area of a circle, recite a Shakespeare poem or grammar rules, yet I have lived a happy life. What I really needed to learn at school was how to make polite conversations, or how to avoid getting into debt or how to develop good personality. This is in fact similar to what Oliver James really has in mind. And he is looking for schools where students are encouraged to find and follow their own interests, something more like Tongjon. Tongjon has been developed in some Korean private schools. It is quite different from the more rigid system of learning things by heart that is used in Korea, and indeed in many other school systems around the world. As the Russian poet Pushkin said," Inspiration is needed in geometry just as much as in poetry ",and inspiration does not come from endlessly revising for tests or getting worried about them .
1. What book did Oliver James write?
2. How old is the author's daughter?
3. What does his daughter think good grades will get her?
4. Like name one?
5. What was her test score?
6. That was out of how manypossible points?
7. Was she pleased with the score?
8. James thinks people now think of education as what?
9. So James thinks this system leaves students thinking of themselves as what?
10. Even when they are smart?
11. What country does he think has a better system?
12. Does the author frequently have to recite a Shakespeare poem?
13. So does he feel he really needed to learn that in school?
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answer:
1. Affluenza
2. 12 years old
3. Nice things
4. A car
5. Nine
6. Ten
7. No
8. As work and money
9. As failures
10. Yes
11. Denmark
12. No
13. Good social skills