Q: The New Testament (, "He Kaine Diatheke"; ) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible. The New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. Christians regard both the Old and New Testaments together as sacred scripture. The New Testament (in whole or in part) has frequently accompanied the spread of Christianity around the world. It reflects and serves as a source for Christian theology and morality. Both extended readings and phrases directly from the New Testament are also incorporated (along with readings from the Old Testament) into the various Christian liturgies. The New Testament has influenced religious, philosophical, and political movements in Christendom and left an indelible mark on literature, art, and music.

The New Testament is a collection of Christian works written in the common (Koine) Greek language of the first century, at different times by various writers, and the modern consensus is that it also provides important evidence regarding Judaism in the first century AD. In almost all Christian traditions today, the New Testament consists of 27 books. The original texts were written in the first and perhaps the second centuries of the Christian Era, in Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335323 BC) until the Muslim conquests in the 7th century AD. All the works that eventually became incorporated into the New Testament are believed to have been written no later than around 150 AD.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the topic of this article?
2. Is it the first part of the bible?
3. What is the first part?
4. What does it serve as?
5. How many books is it made of?
6. What language was it written in?
7. What does it provide regarding Judaism?
8. What is the new testament?
9. When was it written?
10. What was the old testament based on?
11. What has been the influence of the new testament?
12. What was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean during the 4th century?
A: 1. The New Testament
2. No
3. Old Testament
4. source for Christian theology
5. 27
6. Greek language
7. evidence
8. is the second part of the Christian biblical canon
9. first century
10. Hebrew Bible
11. Jesus
12. Greek

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

How much do you know about Albert Einstein? Albert Einstein, born on March 14, 1579 in Germany, was a great scientist in the world. He was strange because he hated haircuts and new clothes. He believed in peace. All his life, he hated war. However, his most famous idea, E=mc2, helped create the world's most dangerous weapon . Many people think he was the smartest person in the world. But Einstein said that _ What did he like? Einstein liked learning sailing . He sailed in small boats all his life. He once joked, "Sailing is the sport that takes the least energy!" When Einstein was a child, his mother made him take violin lessons. At first, he didn't like the violin. But then he learned to love music and became a good violinist. Later, he said, "Love is the best teacher." Why is the sky blue? In 1910, Einstein asked a question which many children often ask, "Why is the sky blue?" After his careful research, he answered the question like this: "It's because light is made up of many colors including blue. When light travels to Earth, gas particles spread the blue light all over the sky." His answer is true in physics.

1. Was Einstein born in America?
2. Where was he born?
3. Did he play any musical instruments?
4. Which instrument?
5. Did he voluntarily take lessons?
6. Did he stick with it?
7. Did he become a good player?
8. What did he say about the experience?
9. What was his most famous idea?
10. What did it help create?
11. Was he a pacifist or warmonger?
12. What else did he hate?
13. Did he like new clothes?
14. What did many people think about him?
15. Did he like any sports?
16. Which one?
17. Did he sail large boats?
18. Does sailing take a lot of energy?
19. What did he ask in 1910?
20. Did he answer that question?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. no
2. Germany
3. yes
4. violin
5. no
6. yes
7. yes
8. "Love is the best teacher."
9. E=mc2
10. the world's most dangerous weapon
11. pacifist
12. haircuts
13. no
14. he was the smartest person in the world
15. yes
16. sailing
17. no
18. no
19. "Why is the sky blue?"
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER III. SWEDENBORG AND THE SIBYL.

MY narrative may move on again from the point at which it paused in the first chapter.

Mary and I (as you may remember) had left the bailiff alone at the decoy, and had set forth on our way together to Dermody's cottage.

As we approached the garden gate, I saw a servant from the house waiting there. He carried a message from my mother--a message for me.

"My mistress wishes you to go home, Master George, as soon as you can. A letter has come by the coach. My master means to take a post-chaise from London, and sends word that we may expect him in the course of the day."

Mary's attentive face saddened when she heard those words.

"Must you really go away, George," she whispered, "before you see what I have got waiting for you at home?"

I remembered Mary's promised "surprise," the secret of which was only to be revealed to me when we got to the cottage. How could I disappoint her? My poor little lady-love looked ready to cry at the bare prospect of it.

I dismissed the servant with a message of the temporizing sort. My love to my mother--and I would be back at the house in half an hour.

We entered the cottage.

Dame Dermody was sitting in the light of the window, as usual, with one of the mystic books of Emanuel Swedenborg open on her lap. She solemnly lifted her hand on our appearance, signing to us to occupy our customary corner without speaking to her. It was an act of domestic high treason to interrupt the Sibyl at her books. We crept quietly into our places. Mary waited until she saw her grandmother's gray head bend down, and her grandmother's bushy eyebrows contract attentively, over her reading. Then, and then only, the discreet child rose on tiptoe, disappeared noiselessly in the direction of her bedchamber, and came back to me carrying something carefully wrapped up in her best cambric handkerchief.

1. Where the narrator was heading?
2. Where is it?
3. Who was with the narrator?
4. Who they had left?
5. Where?
6. What's the name of the narrator?
7. Who was living in the cottage?
8. How she is related to George?
9. Could they enter the cottage?
10. Who they met there?
11. Where she was seated?
12. What was she doing then?
13. What?
14. Did she acknowledge them?
15. How?
16. What she expected them to do then?
17. Was it okay to interrupt her reading?
18. Why?
19. Who was seated first?
20. Did get something from her at the end?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. garden gate
2. Dermody's cottage
3. Mary
4. bailiff
5. the decoy
6. George
7. Dame Dermody
8. She isn't
9. Yes
10. Dame Dermody
11. in the light of the window
12. reading
13. books of Emanuel Swedenborg
14. yes
15. lifted her hand
16. occupy our customary corner without speaking to her
17. No
18. It was an act of domestic high treason to interrupt the Sibyl at her books
19. George
20. yes