question: CHAPTER IX 

Sunday morning Saxon was beforehand in getting ready, and on her return to the kitchen from her second journey to peep through the front windows, Sarah began her customary attack. 

"It's a shame an' a disgrace the way some people can afford silk stockings," she began. "Look at me, a-toilin' and a-stewin' day an' night, and I never get silk stockings--nor shoes, three pairs of them all at one time. But there's a just God in heaven, and there'll be some mighty big surprises for some when the end comes and folks get passed out what's comin' to them." 

Tom, smoking his pipe and cuddling his youngest-born on his knees, dropped an eyelid surreptitiously on his cheek in token that Sarah was in a tantrum. Saxon devoted herself to tying a ribbon in the hair of one of the little girls. Sarah lumbered heavily about the kitchen, washing and putting away the breakfast dishes. She straightened her back from the sink with a groan and glared at Saxon with fresh hostility. 

"You ain't sayin' anything, eh? An' why don't you? Because I guess you still got some natural shame in you a-runnin' with a prizefighter. Oh, I've heard about your goings-on with Bill Roberts. A nice specimen he is. But just you wait till Charley Long gets his hands on him, that's all." 

"Oh, I don't know," Tom intervened. "Bill Roberts is a pretty good boy from what I hear." 

Saxon smiled with superior knowledge, and Sarah, catching her, was infuriated. 
1. What day is it?
2. What was Saxon complaining about
3. what else was she complaining about?
4. Who is smoking a pipe?
5. What is he hugging?
6. What is Saxon tying?
7. Who is in the kitchen?
8. What's she doing?
9. washing what?
10. Was she puttinng them away too?
11. Was she mad at Saxton?
12. What does  Tom think of Bill Roberts?
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answer: 1. Sunday morning
2. the way some people can afford silk stockings
3. a-toilin' and a-stewin' day an' night
4. Tom
5. his youngest-born
6. a ribbon
7. Sarah
8. washing
9. breakfast dishes
10. yes
11. yes
12. he's a pretty good boy

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. 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?
numbered_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