The passage discusses various places, objects, and concepts related to ancient cities, distant locations, guards, shiny reflections, embedded objects, flowing water, tiring activities, and erosion. Specifically, it asks questions about an ancient city or country read about, a distant place to visit, places with sentries, what might cause a lake to glisten at night, a bad thing to find in chocolate, whether a pond or waterfall has more cascading water, an activity that has made one feel weary, and if an eroding hillside would get bigger or smaller over time.

2. Which is one ancient city or country you have read about? Something ancient is very, very old.

3. What distant place would you most like to visit? Something distant is very far away.

4. Which place might have sentries – a fort or a hospital? Sentries are people who stand as guards around a camp, building, or other area.

5. What might cause a lake to glisten at night? Something that glistens looks wet and shiny.

6. What would be a bad thing to find embedded in a chocolate bar? If an object is embedded in something, it is stuck firmly in it.

7. Which would have more cascading water – a pond or a waterfall? Cascading water falls or rushes downward very fast.

8. What is one activity that has made you feel weary? If you are weary, you are very tired from working hard at something and you want to stop.

9. Would a hillside this eroding become bigger or smaller over time? Why? Something that is eroding is being slowly scraped away a little at a time, often by the force of moving water or strong wind.