input: In February 1907, the Royal Dutch Shell Group was created through the amalgamation of two rival companies: the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company of the Netherlands and the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdom. It was a move largely driven by the need to compete globally with Standard Oil. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company was a Dutch company founded in 1890 to develop an oilfield in Sumatra, and initially led by August Kessler, Hugo Loudon, and Henri Deterding. The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company (the quotation marks were part of the legal name) was a British company, founded in 1897 by Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted, and his brother Samuel Samuel. Their father had owned an antique company in Houndsditch, London, which expanded in 1833 to import and sell sea-shells, after which the company "Shell" took its name.

Shell was vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It has minor renewable energy activities in the form of biofuels and wind. It has operations in over 90 countries, produces around 3.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000 service stations worldwide. Shell Oil Company, its subsidiary in the United States, is one of its largest businesses. 1. What company did Marcus Samuel form?
2. Was it an American company?
3. What then?
4. What year was it founded?
5. Did Marcus have a title?
6. What was it?
7. Did he have a sibling?
8. Brother or sister?
9. And his name?
10. How much oil does Shell produce per day?
11. How many of their services stations are there around the world?
12. In what year was the Shell Group founded?
13. Did Marcus Samuel's father own a company?
14. What sort?
15. In what city was it?
16. In what area of London?
17. What was the year of its expansion?
18. What did the company import?
19. Is this where Shell got its name?
20. Was Royal Dutch Shell Group formed from two different companies? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company
2. no
3. British
4. 1897
5. yes
6. 1st Viscount
7. yes
8. brother
9. Samuel Samuel
10. 3.1 million barrels
11. 44,000
12. 1897
13. yes
14. an antique company
15. London
16. Houndsditch
17. 1833
18. sea-shells
19. yes
20. yes

Question: Robinson Diaz lives in a small cottage high in the Andes Mountains of South America. Diaz is a "cable racer", and every morning he faces the difficult task of taking the local teacher to her school. To do this, he first walks for an hour up to a place the locals call Los Pinos, right at the edge of the 400-foot deep gorge of the Negro valley. Here, one end of a thick metal cable has been fixed to a wooden post. The cable stretches right across the deep valley to the other side, a kilometer away.

A metal hook is fixed to the cable, with leather straps hanging from it. Diaz fastens the straps around his shoulders and waist, does a quick safety check and then, without hesitating, throws himself off the edge of the mountain. Attached to the cable by only the metal hook, he rapidly picks up speed and soon he is racing through the air. Crossing the valley by wire takes him 30 seconds, instead of the two hours it would take him to walk down through the rain forest and climb up the steep muddy slopes on the other side.

As Diaz begins his trip, Diana Rios, a 23-year-old elementary teacher, is waiting on the other side of the gorge for the moment when he will come racing through the mist towards her at 100 mph. She will then return with him, hanging on to him as he goes back along the cable. Diana had no idea when she took the teaching job that just getting to work in the village school would be dangerous. "At first I wanted to cry," she says, clutching her hook as the metal cable starts to rattle violently at Diaz's approach. "But I soon got used to it." She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and dangerous crossing on her own.

For the inhabitants of Los Pinos, the wire cable is a lifeline. For more than 50 years, it has served the community as a form of transport to and from the rest of the world. Everything that comes arrives via the cable----bricks and wood for building, sacks of rice and corn. Pregnant mothers, who must get to the nearest clinic, cross the wire during the darkness of the night, returning with their newborn babies. It is dangerous, but they have no choice.

This time Robinson Diaz makes a perfect landing on Diana's side of the gorge. For him, the dangers of this daily journey are insignificant. "What I'm really scared of are snakes," he says. "This is nothing in comparison." Then Dianna straps herself into her harness and hooks herself up to the wire behind Diaz, holding on to him tightly. He turns, flashes her a smile, releases the brake and kicks away. Within seconds, the teacher and the cable-racer have disappeared back into the mist. 1. What kind of transportation does Diana take to work?
2. What is her job?
3. How old is she?
4. Was she aware of the transportation system when she accepted the job?
5. What lies between her and her job?
6. how long does the trip take?
7. How long would it take to walk?
8. What speed does it go?
9. Does someone pick her up?
10. who?
11. What is his job title?
12. Where does he live?
13. Where?
14. Where does he get on the cable?
15. How does he get there?
16. How long does that take
17. What attaches him to the cable?
18. How long is the cable?
19. Do expecting mothers use the cable?
20. What rides back with them? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. By wire
2. teacher
3. 23
4. No
5. a 400-foot deep gorge
6. 30 seconds
7. two hours
8. 100 mph
9. Yes
10. Diaz
11. cable racer
12. a small cottage
13. The Andes Mountains of South America
14. Los Pinos
15. walks
16. an hour
17. A metal hook
18. a kilometer
19. Yes
20. newborn babies