input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Robert and Peter study in the same university. They do everything together and help each other. But they often play jokes on each other. The school year was over last month and they decided to travel through the country in America. They drove a car and could stop wherever they were interested in and started whenever they wanted. Of course they enjoyed themselves. It was very hot one day and they were both hungry and thirsty. They stopped in front of a restaurant by the road. They came in, sat down at a table and ordered some dishes. Robert looked around and found there was a small bowl on the table. He thought there was some ice cream in it and took a spoonful of it and put it into his mouth. Immediately he knew it was mustard ,but it was too late. Tears ran down his face, but he pretended nothing had happened. The other young man, seeing his friend crying, asked, "What are you crying about, Robert?" "I'm thinking of my father who was hanged twenty years ago," was his reply.

After a while, Peter made the same mistake. Tears ran down his cheeks, too. And his friend asked him why.

"I wonder why your father hadn't been hanged before he got married!" 1. Why was Robert crying?
2. Who asked him why?
3. Are they friends?
4. What do they have in common?
5. Are they always serious with each other?
6. What did they do when school ended?
7. Did they do it on foot?
8. How did they do it?
9. Did they have fun?
10. What did Robert think was in the dish?
11. And where was this?
numbered_answers: 1. mustard
2. Peter
3. yes
4. same university
5. no
6. travel
7. no
8. by car
9. yes
10. ice cream
11. a restaurant

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Hetty Robinson learnt all about money when very young. As a child, she read the financial pages of the newspaper to her rich father. Her father died when Hetty was 30, and she inherited $1 million. When she herself died in 1916, she left almost $100 million to her two children.

Hetty made her money on the New York stock exchange. She was a financial genius. She made money so easily that people called her the Witch of Wall Street. But although she was one of the richest women in the world, she counted every cent and spent as little as possible. She didn't own a house, because she didn't want to pay taxes. So she and her children lived in cheap hotels. She spent almost nothing on clothes, and always wore the same long black dress. She washed it herself, but to save soap she only washed the bottom of the dress, where it touched the ground. Other people had their own offices, but Hetty used a desk in the bank where she kept her money, because it didn't cost anything. She sat in the bank and ate her sandwiches while she bought and sold stocks and shares. If the bank complained, she just moved all her money to another bank.

Hetty's family paid the price for her meanness. When she was 33 she married a millionaire, Edward Green, and they had two children. But Green lost all his money, so she left him. When her son, Ned, injured his knee, Hetty didn't want to pay for a doctor, so she took him to a free hospital for poor people. Unfortunately the doctor knew Hetty was rich and he asked for money. Hetty refused and took the boy away. His leg got worse and two years later doctors removed it.

But eventually Ned got his revenge . At the age of 81, Hetty had an argument with a shop assistant about the price of a bottle of milk. She became so angry that she had a heart attack and died. So Hetty's meanness finally killed her. Ned inherited half his mother's fortune, and he spent it all on parties, holidays and expensive jewellery. 1. How old was Hetty when her dad died?
2. What did people call her?
3. Was she poor?
4. Was she a spendthrift?
5. Who did she marry?
6. Did they have children?
7. How many?
8. What happened to her son?
9. Did she take him to the best hospital?
10. Did the doctor ask for money?
11. Did she pay?
12. What happened to her son as a result?
13. How old was she when she died?
14. What did she die of?
15. What did Ned inherit?
16. What did he spend the money on?
17. Where did she make all her money?
18. Where did she and her children live?
19. What did she always wear?
20. Did she take the dress to the cleaners?
numbered_answers: 1. 30
2. the Witch of Wall Street.
3. no
4. she spent as little as possible
5. Edward Green
6. yes
7. two
8. he injured his knee
9. no
10. yeds
11. no
12. he lost his leg
13. 81
14. heart attack
15. half his mother's fortune,
16. on parties, holidays and jewellery
17. New York stock exchange.
18. cheap hotels
19. a black dress
20. no

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as "Regione Siciliana".

Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula, from which it is separated by the narrow Strait of Messina. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, and one of the most active in the world, currently high. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate.

The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the island dates from as early as 12,000 BC. By around 750 BC, Sicily had three Phoenician and a dozen Greek colonies and, for the next 600 years, it was the site of the Sicilian Wars and the Punic Wars. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Sicily was ruled during the Early Middle Ages by the Vandals, the Ostrogoths, the Byzantine Empire, and the Emirate of Sicily. The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which was subsequently ruled by the Hohenstaufen, the Capetian House of Anjou, Spain, the House of Habsburg, It was finally unified under the House of Bourbon with the Kingdom of Naples as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It became part of Italy in 1860 following the Expedition of the Thousand, a revolt led by Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Italian unification, and a plebiscite. Sicily was given special status as an autonomous region after the Italian constitutional referendum of 1946. 1. what area is the topic of the article?
2. where is it located?
3. is it above or below the Italian Peninsula?
4. is it landlocked?
5. what is it's official name?
6. in what era did people start inhabiteding it?
7. what separates it from Italy?
8. who were it's rulers in the early middle ages?
9. what gave them autonomy?
10. what is the weather like?
numbered_answers:
1. Sicily
2. in the Mediterranean Sea
3. below
4. no
5. "Regione Siciliana"
6. as early as 12,000 BC
7. the Strait of Messina
8. the Vandals, the Ostrogoths, the Byzantine Empire, and the Emirate of Sicily
9. the Italian constitutional referendum of 1946
10. a typical Mediterranean climate