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Cotton farmers in some Indian villages are busily buying Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy( ) drinks kills pests. 

Farmers say scientists advised them to mix pesticides with a sugary juice to control pests, and they found the mixture cheaper and more effective than pure chemicals-- although soft drink makers and scientists dismissed the remarks. N. Hamunayya, who has become a famous person in his village in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, said his crop survived an attack of pests which had resisted other pesticides. "We found that all the colas had uniform effect on pests. The pests became dead and fell to the ground, "he said. He said the drinks had all the elements they needed : they were cheaper, sticky, fizzy, and attracted ants, which ate the young of the pests. But Thinupathi Reddy, assistant director of the Regional Agri-Research Station, Guntur, says tests had proved such results wrong. "We conducted some field trials on cotton crop at our research station. There was no obvious productivity or destruction of pests, "he says. 

Statements from Pepsi and Coca-Cola said there was " no scientific basis" for _ . But their dealers are enjoying increasing sales. Mantan Wall, who sells soft drinks in 17 villages in the region, said sales rose up, thanks to the farmers. " For the 10 days between August and September I had successful business. Instead of just 30 cases( each containing a dozen one-litre bottles) of cola, I started selling almost 200 cases, "he said. " We expected the sales to drop after the news over pesticide residues( ) in the cola drinks. Now I have to keep extra supply for the cotton farmers, "he said. 

In February, an Indian environment group made a report saying drinks made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi contained pesticides and called for tougher safety standards. The U. S firms strongly rejected the findings of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment and said their products were safe.
1. What did an Indian report claim about cola products?
2. Who are the makers of these products?
3. What kind of organization made the report?
4. When
5. What is the name of the group?
6. Who is refuting those claims?
7. Where are they based?
8. Who is stocking up on cola products?
9. Where?
10. What are they using it for?
11. What were they told to combine pesticides with?
12. Who told them that?
13. Why are they using pop?
14. What does the cola attract?
15. What doe the ants consume?
16. Whose crop made it through a pest attack with the help of cola?
17. Had he tried other things?
18. What?
19. When is there a bump in sales?
20. How many cases did one store sell during that period?

Numbered answers:
1. they contained pesticides
2. Coca-Cola and Pepsi
3. an environment group
4. In February
5. he New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment
6. Coca-Cola and Pepsi
7. The U. S
8. Cotton farmers
9. Indian villages
10. to kill pests
11. a sugary juice
12. scientists
13. it's cheaper
14. ants
15. the pest's young
16. N. Hamunayya's
17. yes
18. other pesticides
19. August and September
20. 300


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Vivi Mac, an amazing artist from France, can use nearly any kind of food to create detailed celebrity portraits .Although she has yet to _ her short-lived work of arts in a proper art gallery, Vivi Mac has already made a name for herself online. 

We've seen some amazing food artists in the past, but none are quite like this one .Karen Eland is a master coffee painter, Elisabetta Rogai uses wine as her medium ,Kelly McCollam uses food colouring to recreat classic paintings, but the self-taught Vivi Mac can take anything from chewing gum to milk and turn it into a fantastic portrait When working with liquids, Mac uses a simple plastic straw and her hands to guide the unusual .mediums around a plastic plate which acts as a painting. Just how she manages to capture the finest facial features is still a mistery to me, and I've seen videos of her doing it many times, 

Vivi Mac has never attended art school. She only used online resources like blogs and facebook to learn the basics of drawing and painting. She started out working with pens and paper, but soon realized drawing wasn't just creative enough for her. She got into speed painting and body painting, posting videos of her works on You Tube, but it wasn't until she began experimenting with different kinds of foods that her art got serious coverage. Photos and videos of her eatable celebrity portraits, like Bruce Lee in milk Ice Cube in crushed ice or Amy Winehouse in wine, became popular on the French inter-webs and changed Vivi Mac into an online celebrity.
1. Where was Vic Mac from?
2. Whatis it she is know for?
3. Who is considered a Master coffee painter?
4. Dis Mac ever attend art school?
5. Where did she make her name for herself?
6. What does Kelly Mccollam use to recreate classic paintings?
7. How did Vivi Mac learn the basics of drawing and painting?
8. Does she do celebrity portraits?
9. Who has she painted?
10. Has her works ever been in a proper art gallery?

Numbered answers:
1. France
2. using food to create  portraits
3. Karen Eland
4. no
5. online.
6. food colouring
7. online resources
8. yes
9. Bruce Lee
10. no


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CHAPTER XIII. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL 

There was a little unfailing spring, always icy cold and crystal pure, in a certain birch-screened hollow of Rainbow Valley in the lower corner near the marsh. Not a great many people knew of its existence. The manse and Ingleside children knew, of course, as they knew everything else about the magic valley. Occasionally they went there to get a drink, and it figured in many of their plays as a fountain of old romance. Anne knew of it and loved it because it somehow reminded her of the beloved Dryad's Bubble at Green Gables. Rosemary West knew of it; it was her fountain of romance, too. Eighteen years ago she had sat behind it one spring twilight and heard young Martin Crawford stammer out a confession of fervent, boyish love. She had whispered her own secret in return, and they had kissed and promised by the wild wood spring. They had never stood together by it again--Martin had sailed on his fatal voyage soon after; but to Rosemary West it was always a sacred spot, hallowed by that immortal hour of youth and love. Whenever she passed near it she turned aside to hold a secret tryst with an old dream--a dream from which the pain had long gone, leaving only its unforgettable sweetness. 

The spring was a hidden thing. You might have passed within ten feet of it and never have suspected its existence. Two generations past a huge old pine had fallen almost across it. Nothing was left of the tree but its crumbling trunk out of which the ferns grew thickly, making a green roof and a lacy screen for the water. A maple-tree grew beside it with a curiously gnarled and twisted trunk, creeping along the ground for a little way before shooting up into the air, and so forming a quaint seat; and September had flung a scarf of pale smoke-blue asters around the hollow. 
1. who kissed Rosemary?
2. where did they kiss?
3. where did Martin go after?
4. did he survive it?
5. Did Rosemary ever see him again?
6. Did many people know of the spring?
7. who knew about it?
8. was it a place of romance to them?
9. why did Anne love it?
10. how long ago was it that Martin Crawford professed his love?
11. was the spring out in the open?
12. how close to it would you have to be to know about it?
13. what kind of tree grew by it?
14. what color were the asters?
15. where were they located?


Numbered answers:
1. Martin Crawford
2. by the wild wood spring.
3. on a voyage
4. no
5. no
6. Not a great many
7. The manse and Ingleside children
8. yes
9. because it reminded her of the beloved Dryad's Bubble
10. Eighteen years ago
11. no
12. within ten feet of it
13. A maple-tree
14. smoke-blue
15. around the hollow