11. Why couldn't the ant reach the side when she fell in the river?

　　12. What did the ant do when she was too tired?

　　13. What does "We often need help ourselves." mean?

　　14. Why does the writer tell the story?

　　Passage Two

　　There is a place on our earth were hot water and steam come from under the ground.

　　It is a large island in the Pacific Ocean.

　　The island is North Island, in New Zealand.

　　The planet on which we live is a ball of very hot rock.

　　It is a good thing for us that the outside shell is cold.

　　The earth's shell has cracks in it in some place.

　　In New Zealand this shell seems to have more cracks than in other places on the earth.

　　In some places, hot water goes up into the air from time to time.

　　At other points, you can see steam coming from pools of hot water.

　　The people who live in these places make use of the heat that comes from inside the earth.

　　Some of them cook in the hot pool.

　　They put food into a basket and place it in the water.

　　Many people bring the hot water from below the earth into their home.

　　They do this by putting a pipe a hundred feet or more into the ground.

　　in this way they get hot water and steam for cooking and washing.

　　and heating their homes.

　　For most of us.

　　the heat under our feet is too far away to us.

　　We must make our heat by burning coal, oil or gas.

　　15. Where do we live?

　　16. In how many places does the island have heat coming from under the ground?

　　17. Which of the following gives the heat to the pools in New Zealand ?

　　Passage Three

　　About three hundred words in the English language come from the names of people

　　Many of these words are technical words.

　　When there is a new invention or discover

　　a new word may be created after the inventor or scientist.

　　It is interesting to observe how many common words have found their way.

　　into the language from the names of people.

　　Lord Sandwich who lived from 1718--1792

　　used to sit at the gambling table eating slices of bread with meat in between.

　　As the Lord was the only one among his friends who ate bread in that way

　　his friends began to call the bread "sandwich" for fun.

　　Later on the word became part of the English language.

　　The word "boycott" means to refuse to have anything with somebody or something.

　　It comes from a man called capitonboycott. he was a land agent in 1880 and he collected rents and taxes for an English landowner in Ireland.

　　But the Captain was a very hard man.

　　He treated his poor tenants very badly.

　　His tenants decided not to speak to him at all.

　　Eventually word got back to the landowner and the Captain was removed.

　　The word "boycott" became popular and was used by everyone to meal

　　the kind of treatment that was received by Captain Boycott.

　　18. What was Lord Sandwich fond of?

　　19. What is the word "Sandwich" created by?

　　20. When the landowner found out that the tenants were boycotting his land agent,what did he do.