Problem: Hello Sandy, We have just returned form our holiday. We went with our friends,Edward Smith and his wife Tina, to the Yorkshire Moors. It is a beautiful natural park. There are lots of places to walk on the tops of the hills,miles of grassland with no people,just sheep and birds. Edward had just come out of hospital and he could not walk as far as before. However, this meant that we walked in the mornings, and then stopped at a restaurant for lunch each day before returning to the place we lived in. Edward and I slept in front of the fire all afternoon, while the ladies went for another walk. Very pleasant! I took lots of photos from the place we lived in, across the valley below us, of the morning sunrise, and the mist in the valley. Also, in England, the old steam-powered trains are very popular. I took many photos of the train. Yesterday we had the first snow of this winter. It is very early. We usually have snow in January. It rained all day, then snowed in the evening .Today we have bright sunshine! Both Jenny and I are well. I don't know if I told you, in the last e-mail , that Jenny is now working in a hotel. Although she has to work hard, people there are nice, and she is enjoying the work. Please write to us to tell us your news. Yours, Victor
1. Who is this letter addressed to?
2. And who is it from?
3. Where did Victor vacation to?
4. Did he go alone?
5. Who was he with?
6. What is the Yorkshire Moors?
7. What can you do there?
8. Is it crowded?
9. What kinds of animals are there?
10. Did Edward do a lot of walking?
11. Why not?
12. What did they do in the morning?
13. And in the afternoon?
14. Where?
15. Aside from walking, what other hobby did Victor partake in?
16. What did he photograph?
17. Anything else?
18. What kind of train was it?
19. What kind of weather did they have yesterday?
20. What about today?
Answer: 1. Sandy.
2. Victor.
3. The Yorkshire Moors.
4. No.
5. Edward Smith and his wife Tina.
6. A beautiful natural park.
7. There are lots of places to walk.
8. No.
9. Sheep and birds
10. He could not walk as far as before.
11. Edward had just come out of hospital.
12. They walked.
13. They slept.
14. In front of the fire.
15. Took photos
16. The sunrise.
17. The train.
18. Old steam-powered.
19. It snowed.
20. Sunshine!

Problem: Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission is urging would-be voters to turn out for the scheduled voter registration session in January, in hopes for a "free fair and credible elections in 2011," a Commission spokesman said Thursday. 

"This reassurance is necessary against the backdrop of the theft of some Direct Data Capture machines at the Lagos airport, " said Kayode Robert Idowu, a Commission spokesman in a press statement. 

On Tuesday, 20 voting machines were stolen at the Lagos airport, out of a total of 6,000 brought into the country by Zinox Technologies Ltd., Idowu said. Sixteen machines have been recovered so far and security agents are investigating the case, he said. 

The equipment, meant for registering voters for the upcoming election in Nigeria, is comprised of laptops and webcams. It was stolen from a clearing point at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, said Idowu. 

The equipment was the first consignment ordered to help register voters for the 2011 elections. 

The presidential election is expected to take place in April 9. 

President Goodluck Jonathan, who became president after the death of Umaru Yar'Adua earlier this year, is running for election to the office. He will be challenged in the primaries by another former vice president of Nigeria. 

Atiku Abubakar is the consensus candidate put forward by a bloc of leaders from Nigeria's influential Northern Political Leaders Forum, which announced in September that it would name someone to take on Jonathan in the presidential primaries for the People's Democratic Party. 
1. Who is urging voters?
2. Are they would-be voters?
3. Why they are addressed?
4. When?
5. What was stolen?
6. Where?
7. How many?
8. Out of how many?
9. How many been recovered?
10. Which company imported those machines?
11. Is anyone investigating?
12. Who?
13. Who is the current president?
14. Is he on the ballot?
15. Who will be his contender?
16. What is his name?
17. Who are supporting him?
18. When they announced that?
19. Who was the previous president?
20. What happened to him?
Answer: 1. Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission
2. yes
3. They want a free and credible election
4. 2011
5. voting machines
6. Lagos airport
7. , 20 voting machines
8. 6,000
9. Sixteen machines
10. Zinox Technologies Ltd
11. yes
12. security agents
13. Goodluck Jonathan
14. yes
15. another former vice president of Nigeria.
16. Atiku Abubakar
17. Northern Political Leaders Forum
18. September
19. Umaru Yar'Adua
20. He died

Problem: CHAPTER XV 

AN AUTOMOBILING ADVENTURE 

"What did you run over?" asked Sam. 

"Look for yourself," returned his big brother. "This is an outrage! I wish I could catch the party responsible for it," he added bitterly. 

Dick had stopped the touring car in the midst of a quantity of broken glass bottles. The glass covered the road from side to side, and had evidently been put there on purpose. 

"Say, do you think that chauffeur had anything to do with this?" demanded Tom. 

"Hardly," answered Dick. "If his story about the fire was not true he'd know he'd be found out." 

"Maybe it was done by some country fellow who is running an auto repair shop," suggested Sam. "I've heard of such things being done--when business was dull." 

"Well, we'll have to fix the tire, that is all there is to it," said the oldest Rover. "Might as well get out while we are doing it," he added to the girls. 

"Lucky you stopped when you did," said Tom as he walked around the machine. "If you hadn't we might have had all four tires busted." 

"What a contemptible trick to play," said Dora as she alighted, 

"Can you mend the tire?" asked Nellie as she, too, got out, followed by her sister. 

"Oh, yes, we can mend it--or rather put on another," said Dick. "But we'll examine all the tires first," he added, taking off a lamp for that purpose. 

It was found that each tire had some glass in it, and the bits were picked out with care. While this was going on Dick suddenly swung the lamp around so that its rays struck through the trees and bushes lining the roadway. 
1. Is Sam an only child?
2. Does he have a sister?
3. Does he have a brother?
4. What's his name?
5. Why did the car stop?
6. Why were they in the road?
7. Do they know who did it?
8. Who do they suspect?
9. Are all of the tires destroyed?
10. Any of them?
11. Was there glass in more than one tire?
12. How many?
13. What did they do about that?
14. How does Dick feel when he runs over the glass?
15. What does he yearn to do?
16. What did the chauffeur tell a story about?
17. When might an repair store owner do it?
18. Are there girls in the car?
19. What are their names?
20. What does Nellie want to know?
Answer:
1. No
2. unknown
3. Yes
4. Dick
5. They ran over broken glass bottles.
6. They were put there on purpose
7. No
8. An auto repair shop owner
9. No
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. All of them
13. they picked out the glass
14. Angry
15. catch the party responsible
16. the fire
17. when business was dull
18. Yes
19. Dora and Nellie
20. If the tire can be mended