Passage 3

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the. Following passage.

Willa Cather once said: When people ask me if writing has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the quotation, The end is nothing; the road is all.'

That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never faced the typewriter with the thought that one more chore had to be done.

Like most authors, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in writing them. Her works were, like her, sturdy and simple. They were full of the vigor of her pioneer days in Nebraska, where she grew from childhood to young womanhood.

Born near Winchester, Virginia, on December 7, 1873, Willa Cather moved with her family to Webster County, Nebraska, in 1883. There her father farmed for seven months before moving the family into neighboring Red Cloud, a fast developing town of 2,500 people. At Red Cloud, Mr. Cather gave up farming and opened an office dealing in farm loans and mortgages. Young Willa, with reddish-brown hair and blue eyes, lived in that small prairie town from 1883 to 1896.

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What measures did the United States take to solve the monetary problem when the Revolutionary War was over?

The prince had waited until Cinderella came, then immediately took her by the hand, and danced only with her.[ (63) When others came and asked her to dance. with them he said, She is my dance partner."][(64) When evening came she wanted to leave and the prince followed her wanting to see into which house she went .]But she ran away from him and into the garden behind the house. [(65) A beautiful tall tree stood there. on which hung the most magnificent pears.] She climbed as nimbly as a squirrel into the branches, and the prince did not know where she had gone. He waited until her father came, then said to him. [(66) The unknown girl has eluded me and I believe she has climbed up the pear tree."]

The father thought, Could it be Cinderella? [(67) He had an ax brought to him and cut down the tree, but no one was in it.]When they came to the kitchen,

Cinderella was lying there in the ashes as usual, for she had jumped down from the other side of the tree, had taken the beautiful dress back to the bird in the hazel tree, and had put on her gray smock.

(From Cinderella)

Why did England keep money out of American colonies? And what was the result?

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