input: "It's this time of year when the weather starts warming up and frogs start breeding - but they haven't been breeding," says John Wilkinson, research and monitoring officer at the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust (ARC). 

Amphibians are just one of the groups of animals that nature observers fear may have problems reproducing this year, as groundwater levels are even lower now than in the infamously dry summer of 1976, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). According to the UK's Centre for Hydrology and Ecology the average rainfall so far this winter has been the lowest since 1972. 

"If ponds dry up totally," says Mr. Wilkinson, "you could have lots of dead tadpoles." Drier and windier conditions could also make it more difficult for juvenile amphibians to survive their journeys between wet habitats. 

But Peter Brotherton, the biodiversity manager for Natural England, says that "drought is part of nature's cycle", and, at present, a lot of animals, plants and insects are still in hibernation. This means that the population picture is unclear. "However, when we get extreme events, we get animals dying," he says. "And what is worrying is that normally at this time of year we expect soil to be near saturation after winter." 

Charlie Kitchin, the RSPB's site manager of the Nene Washes in Cambridgeshire, says the 2,000-acre wetland and grassland area is now struggling following two winters with relatively little winter rain and no flooding. One species that could suffer, he says, is the black-tailed godwit . "There are only 50 breeding pairs in the country, and we have 40 of them, and everything is bone-dry," Mr Kitchin says. 

But one bad nesting season, he says, is "not the end of the world". "One of the features of flood plains is that they're _ anyway," he adds. "But if they fail to breed another year, the population is likely to dip again." 1. What is feared to have reproduction issues?
2. What specific species could fare worse?
3. When was the last time the average rainfall was this little?
4. What is usually saturated by this time of year?
5. What does the acronym Defra stand for?
6. What is the 2,000 - acre wetland in Cambridgeshire calles?
7. Who says drought is a part of nature's cycle?
8. His occupation?
9. for what company?
10. Who does Jon Wilkinson work for? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Amphibians
2. tadpoles
3. 1972.
4. the black-tailed godwit .
5. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
6. the Nene Washes
7. Peter Brotherton
8. the biodiversity manager
9. Natural England
10. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust


input: Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people have always been centered around the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople. Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of ancient Greek colonization. The cultural centers of the Greeks have included Athens, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople at various periods. 

The evolution of Proto-Greek should be considered within the context of an early Paleo-Balkan sprachbund that makes it difficult to delineate exact boundaries between individual languages. The characteristically Greek representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels is shared, for one, by the Armenian language, which also seems to share some other phonological and morphological peculiarities of Greek; this has led some linguists to propose a hypothetical closer relationship between Greek and Armenian, although evidence remains scant. 1. Where were the Greek people centered?
2. What is the 11th century empire associated with Greeks
3. What is one place where Greeks were distributed?
4. Another?
5. Is America one of these regions?
6. DId these regions coincide with anything?
7. Is Washington a cultural center?
8. What is an example of a Greek cultural center?
9. Any others?
10. Another?
11. Is Columbus one of these cultural centers?
12. Is Constantinople one?
13. Does the Greek language use prothetic vowels?
14. What other language is Greek speculated to be close to?
15. Is there clear and overwhelming evidence of this? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. around the Aegean and Ionian seas
2. Byzantine Empire
3. Greek peninsula
4. the western coast of Asia Minor
5. No
6. Yes
7. unknown
8. Athens
9. Thessalonica
10. Alexandria
11. No
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. Armenian
15. No


input: CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO 

TENDER TROUBLES 

"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth." 

"Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came." 

"It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits. I'm sure there is something on her mind, and I want you to discover what it is." 

"What makes you think so, Mother?" 

"She sits alone a good deal, and doesn't talk to her father as much as she used. I found her crying over the babies the other day. When she sings, the songs are always sad ones, and now and then I see a look in her face that I don't understand. This isn't like Beth, and it worries me." 

"Have you asked her about it?" 

"I have tried once or twice, but she either evaded my questions or looked so distressed that I stopped. I never force my children's confidence, and I seldom have to wait for long." 

Mrs. March glanced at Jo as she spoke, but the face opposite seemed quite unconscious of any secret disquietude but Beth's, and after sewing thoughtfully for a minute, Jo said, "I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. Why, Mother, Beth's eighteen, but we don't realize it, and treat her like a child, forgetting she's a woman." 

"So she is. Dear heart, how fast you do grow up," returned her mother with a sigh and a smile. 

"Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one. I promise never to hop very far, if that is any comfort to you."  1. Who had something bothering her?
2. Who was worried about her?
3. Who did she tell?
4. Why was she worried?
5. Was she laughing with her babies?
6. How old is she?
7. Who is Mrs. March?
8. Does she sing happy songs?
9. Is she ill?
10. Did she chat with her? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Beth
2. Her mother
3. Jo
4. She sits alone and doesn't talk to her father
5. no
6. eighteen
7. mother
8. No
9. no
10. no