Question:
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CHAPTER FIFTY THREE. 

ON SAN MINIATO. 

"I would speak with you," said Baldassarre, as Romola looked at him in silent expectation. It was plain that he had followed her, and had been waiting for her. She was going at last to know the secret about him. 

"Yes," she said, with the same sort of submission that she might have shown under an imposed penance. "But you wish to go where no one can hear us?" 

"Where _he_ will not come upon us," said Baldassarre, turning and glancing behind him timidly. "Out--in the air--away from the streets." 

"I sometimes go to San Miniato at this hour," said Romola. "If you like, I will go now, and you can follow me. It is far, but we can be solitary there." 

He nodded assent, and Romola set out. To some women it might have seemed an alarming risk to go to a comparatively solitary spot with a man who had some of the outward signs of that madness which Tito attributed to him. But Romola was not given to personal fears, and she was glad of the distance that interposed some delay before another blow fell on her. The afternoon was far advanced, and the sun was already low in the west, when she paused on some rough ground in the shadow of the cypress-trunks, and looked round for Baldassarre. He was not far off, but when he reached her, he was glad to sink down on an edge of stony earth. His thickset frame had no longer the sturdy vigour which belonged to it when he first appeared with the rope round him in the Duomo; and under the transient tremor caused by the exertion of walking up the hill, his eyes seemed to have a more helpless vagueness. 
1. Who is the first character to speak in the passage?
2. Who was he speaking to?
3. Did one of them follow the other?
4. Who followed whom?
5. Where do they decide to go next?
6. Why do they decide to go there?
7. Do they travel there together?
8. Has Romola been to San Miniato before?
9. And Baldassarre?
10. Who has a secret?
11. Is Romola easily frightened?
12. What time of day is it?
13. Was San Miniato nearby?
14. What kind of trees did they stop by?
15. Was Baldassarre in good shape?

Numbered answers:
1. Baldassarre
2. Romola
3. Yes
4. Baldassarre followed Romola
5. San Miniato
6. So no one could hear them.
7. No
8. Yes
9. unknown
10. Baldassarre
11. No
12. Late afternoon
13. No
14. Cypress-trunks
15. No


Question:
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CHAPTER XXIII. 

STRANGE DISCOVERIES. 

Frank Massanet was surprised and delighted to have Richard come to work again. 

"You have indeed a good friend in Mr. Joyce," he remarked when the boy had told him what the leather merchant had done. "One such is worth a thousand of the common sort." 

During the afternoon Earle Norris had occasion to come up to the stock- room. He started back upon seeing Richard at work. 

"Why, I thought you had taken a vacation!" he exclaimed. 

"So I did--for an hour," replied Richard, and without further words went on with his work. 

"Why, I thought--" began the shipping-clerk. 

"What did you think?" demanded Frank, coming forward. 

"Why I--I----" stammered Norris. "What business is it of _yours_?" he added rudely. 

"You thought he was discharged," went on Frank. "You've been trying your best to get him discharged." 

"Who says so?" demanded Norris, but he turned slightly pale as he uttered the words. "I say so. I don't understand your scheme, but that's what you are trying to do; and I warn you that you had better quit it." 

It was seldom that Frank Massanet spoke in such an arbitrary way, yet it was plain to see that he meant every word he said. 

"You're mistaken," returned Norris, hardly knowing how to reply. "But it's only natural that you should stick up for your mother's boarders. They help support the family, I suppose." 

And with this parting shot the shipping-clerk hurried below. 

In the middle of the afternoon Mr. Mann sent for Richard and asked the boy to accompany him to an office on lower Broadway. 
1. Who wanted to see Richard?
2. When?
3. What does he want Richard to do?
4. Where?
5. Whose mother has renters?
6. Who is one of them?
7. Who came back to work?
8. How does Frank feel about that?
9. Was Earle surprised to see him?
10. What did he claim he thought happened to Richard?
11. What did he really think?
12. Why?
13. Who accuses him of that?
14. Does he deny it?
15. what happens to his face?
16. Does Frank threaten Norris?
17. Does Frank always talk like that?
18. Who is Mr. Joyce?
19. Who says he's a good friend?
20. To who?

Numbered answers:
1. Mr. Mann
2. In the middle of the afternoon
3. accompany him to an office
4. on lower Broadway.
5. Frank Massanet
6. Richard
7. Richard
8. surprised and delighted
9. yes
10. "he had taken a vacation
11. he was discharged
12. he's been tryng to get him discharged
13. Frank
14. yes
15. it turned pale
16. yds
17. no
18. a leather merchant
19. Frank
20. Richard


Question:
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The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS, simplified Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; traditional Chinese: 北斗衛星導航系統; pinyin: Běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng) is a Chinese satellite navigation system. It consists of two separate satellite constellations – a limited test system that has been operating since 2000, and a full-scale global navigation system that is currently under construction. 

The first BeiDou system, officially called the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System (simplified Chinese: 北斗卫星导航试验系统; traditional Chinese: 北斗衛星導航試驗系統; pinyin: Běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng shìyàn xìtǒng) and also known as BeiDou-1, consists of three satellites and offers limited coverage and applications. It has been offering navigation services, mainly for customers in China and neighboring regions, since 2000. 

The second generation of the system, officially called the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) and also known as COMPASS or BeiDou-2, will be a global satellite navigation system consisting of 35 satellites, and is under construction as of January 2015[update]. It became operational in China in December 2011, with 10 satellites in use, and began offering services to customers in the Asia-Pacific region in December 2012. It is planned to begin serving global customers upon its completion in 2020.
1. When will it begin to serve globally?
2. What is the BDS?
3. What is BDS an acronym for?
4. What's the name in traditional Chinese?
5. What is the English translation of the Chinese characters?
6. How many constellations are there?
7. When did the limited constellation start working?
8. Is the full system working?
9. Why not?
10. Which one was first operational?
11. How many satellites?
12. Did it have full coverage?
13. Who were it's main clients?
14. What was the second one called?
15. Will it have a lot of satellites?
16. When did they start building?
17. How many satellites were up in 2011?
18. Who did those serve?
19. Where else?
20. Are there plans for global service?


Numbered answers:
1. upon its completion in 2020
2. a Chinese satellite navigation system.
3. BeiDou Navigation Satellite System
4. 北斗衛星導航系統
5. The English transliteration is Běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng
6. Two.
7. 2000
8. No.
9. It is under construction.
10. The BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System
11. Three
12. No.
13. customers in China and neighboring regions
14. The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), also known as COMPASS or BeiDou-2
15. If 35 is a lot, then yes.
16. January 2015
17. 10
18. China
19. Customers in the Asia-Pacific region, but not in 2011
20. Yes.