Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XVI 

Mr. William Hayter, in the solitude of his chambers at the Milan Court, was a very altered personage. He extended no welcoming salutation to his midnight visitor but simply motioned him to a chair. 

"Well," he began, "is your task finished that you are in London?" 

"My task," Lessingham replied, "might just as well never have been entered upon. The man you sent me to watch is nothing but an ordinary sport-loving Englishman." 

"Really! You have lived as his neighbour for nearly a month, and that is your impression of him?" 

"It is," Lessingham assented. "He has been away sea-fishing, half the time, but I have searched his house thoroughly." 

"Searched his papers, eh?" 

"Every one I could find, and hated the job. There are a good many charts of the coast, but they are all for the use of the fishermen." 

"Wonderful!" Hayter scoffed. "My young friend, you may yet find distinction in some other walk of life. Our secret service, I fancy, will very soon be able to dispense with your energies." 

"And I with your secret service," Lessingham agreed heartily. "I dare say there may be some branches of it in which existence is tolerable. That, however, does not apply to the task upon which I have been engaged." 

"You have been completely duped," Hayter told him calmly, "and the information you have sent us is valueless. Sir Henry Cranston, instead of being the type of man whom you have described, is one of the greatest experts upon coast defense and mine-laying, in the English Admiralty." 
1. What time is it?
2. Who is visiting?
3. Who is being visited?
4. Where are they?
5. Which is where?
6. Was it a warm welcome?
7. Who was being watched?
8. For how long?
9. Is he really good at anything?
10. Anything else?
11. Like what?
12. Did the watcher think this about him?
13. Where did he seem to spend a bunch of his time?
14. Doing what?
15. Was his home looked through?
16. What was found?
17. Of what?

Numbered answers:
1. midnight
2. Lessingham
3. William Hayter
4. Hayter's chambers
5. the Milan Court,
6. No
7. Sir Henry Cranston
8. nearly a month
9. coast defense
10. Yes
11. mine-laying,
12. he is an ordinary sport-loving Englishman
13. at sea
14. fishing
15. Yes
16. charts
17. the coast


Question:
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John H.Johnson was born in a family in Arkansas City in 1918.His father died in an accident when John was six.He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high schools for the blacks. 

Fortunately he has a strong-willed and caring mother.John remembers that his mother told him many times, "Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe." She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother."You have to earn success", said she, "all the people who work hard don't succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard." 

These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education.She also knew that believing and working hard don't mean everything.So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son to Chicago. 

Chicago in 1933 was not the Promised Land that black southerners were looking for.John's mother could not find work.But here John could go to school, and learned the power of words--as an editor of a newspaper.His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks. 

While others discouraged him, John's mother offered him more words to live by: " _ ." She also let him sell her furniture to get the 500 dollars he needed to start the Negro magazine. 

It's natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful.He always keeps his mother's words in mind."Son, failure is not in your dictionary." Now John H.Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America--worth 150 million dollars.
1. In what  year was John H. Johnson born?
2. Where?
3. How was her dad died?
4. What did her mother told him many times?
5. What was the education of her mom?
6. What was the occupation of her?
7. How long was she employed as a cook?
8. Where did she wanted to taker Her?
9. When did they reached their?
10. Was it a nice mover for her mom?
11. Why?

Numbered answers:
1. 1918
2. Arkansas City
3. six
4. , "Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe."
5. third grade
6. cook
7. two years
8. Chicago.
9. 1933
10. no
11. She couldn't find work


Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
White is the lightest (brightest) color; it is the color of objects that reflect and scatter all visible wavelengths of light without absorbing any, so it imparts no hue to the light, meaning it is achromatic like black (it's opposite) and the grays. It is the color of chalk and many bleached materials such as paper when they do not have added colorant. 

According to surveys in Europe and the United States, white is the color most often associated with perfection, the good, honesty, cleanliness, the beginning, the new, neutrality, and exactitude. White is an important color for almost all world religions. The Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has worn white since 1566, as a symbol of purity and sacrifice. In Islam, and in the Shinto religion of Japan, it is worn by pilgrims; and by the Brahmins in India. In Western cultures and in Japan, white is the most common color for wedding dresses, symbolizing purity and virginity. In many Asian cultures, white is also the color of mourning. 

In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore a white toga as a symbol of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the Kings of France, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th century, with the advent of neoclassical architecture, white became the most common color of new churches, capitols and other government buildings, especially in the United States. It was also widely used in 20th century modern architecture as a symbol of modernity and simplicity.
1. What color is the symbol of purity?
2. is this a really dark color?
3. What did a white toga symbolize in Rome?
4. What is another thing it is associated with in Western cultures?
5. Is it important for religion?
6. what well known leader wears this color?
7. from what year has he worn it?
8. In Japanese culture who wears it?
9. What about in Indian cuture?
10. what popular dress uses it?
11. And what does it symbolize?
12. anything else?
13. when would some people in Asia wear it?
14. what royalty wore it as their "color"?
15. Which opposition party wore it?
16. during what conflict?
17. what is an important structure that uses it on the outside?
18. what is a modern structure that uses it?
19. any other structures?
20. what does it symbolize in the twentieth century?


Numbered answers:
1. White.
2. No.
3. Citizenship.
4. Perfection.
5. Yes.
6. The Pope.
7. 1566.
8. Pilgrims.
9. The Brahmins.
10. Wedding dresses.
11. Purity.
12. Virginity.
13. During mourning.
14. The Kings of France.
15. The one that opposed the Bolsheviks.
16. The Russian Civil War.
17. Temples.
18. Government buildings.
19. Churches.
20. Modernity and simplicity.