question: Mirth Pham was born in Vietnam. He left his native country when he was 21 years old. Minh has been in America for almost two years. There is still much he does not understand about America.

Once Minh was in a supermarket. He saw an old man and an old woman. They wanted a box of cereal .The box was on a high shelf. The man and the woman couldn't reach it. Minh saw a ladder. He got on the ladder and got the box. He handed it to the elderly couple. They thanked him.

"Where are your children?" asked Minh. "Why don' t they help you buy food?"

"Our children have their own lives," said the man and the woman. "We like to be independent." Mirth doesn't think this is right. In his country, .children help their parents. Minh gave the elderly couple his phone number. He told them to call him if they needed help. One night they asked Mirth to dinner, but they never asked him for help.

One day, Minh was walking with a Vietnamese friend. The two were going to a movie. Minh wanted to go to a restaurant first. Minh took his friend's hand. He pulled him toward the restaurant. People on the street stared at Minh. In Vietnam, friends often hold hands. Minh found out that people in America are not used to holding hands.

Minh Pham is going through a process known as re-socialization. Socialization is the process in which a person learns to live in a society. Everyone goes through this process. Minh went through it when he lived in Vietnam. But the Vietnamese way of life is much different from the American way of life. When Mirth came to America, he had to learn a new way of life. He had to learn how to live in a new society.

Minh has learned a lot about American life in two years. He still has a lot to learn. The process of re-socialization can take many years.
1. Who is this story about?
2. Where's he from?
3. How long has he be in the US?
4. How old is he?
5. What were elderly couple in the store wanting to buy?
6. Did he help them?
7. Did the couple have kids?
8. Where was he and his friend going, on foot?
9. Do friends normally hold hands where he's from?
10. Is the way of life there the same as the in the US?
11. What did he go through to learn to live in a new country?
12. How long can it take?
13. Did the elderly couple have a way to contact him?
14. Did they?
15. For help?
16. For what?
17. Where did Minh want to go before seeing the film?
18. Did his friend pull him towards a place to eat?
19. Do people in the US hold hands much?
20. Does Minh have more to learn about the US?
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answer: 1. Mirth Pham
2. Vietnam
3. almost two years
4. 23
5. a box of cereal
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. to a movie
9. Yes
10. No
11. the process of re-socialization
12. many years
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. No
16. to dinner
17. a restaurant
18. No
19. No
20. Yes

question: Francois Hollande, the newly-inaugurated President of France, may be as notable for what he has not done as for what he has.

He has never held national elective office despite being at the center of French politics for more than a decade, and he has never been married despite a three-decade relationship and four children with Segolene Royale, another of the country's top Socialist politicians.

Hollande led the Socialist Party for 11 years and was leader when Royale ran unsuccessfully for president against Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.

Hollande and Royale split up a month before that election, and he is now seeing journalist Valerie Trierweiler, who appeared, smiling with him, as he celebrated his victory Sunday.

He immediately spooked markets, and Germany, France's key ally in the European Union, with his victory speech.

"Austerity can no longer be something that is inevitable," he said, apparently undercutting the belt-tightening that his predecessor and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have urged on European countries beset by debt.

Hollande emerged as his party's candidate for president after the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was once considered the Socialist favorite to defeat Sarkozy.

But Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 after a New York hotel maid alleged that he tried to rape her. Charges against the former IMF chief were later dropped in the United States, but he has been warned he could be investigated in France over accusations he participated in a prostitution ring.

But Hollande was not an accidental candidate despite the way he has come to power, one commentator said.
1. Who is the Newly inaugurated President of France?
2. What is he notable for not doing?
3. how long has he lead the Socialist party?
4. What did he do the the Markets in Germany?
5. What did he say that undercut what his predicessor and the German Chancellor whated the EU countries to do?
6. Who's downfall lead to him emerging as his party's canidate?
7. Who unsuccessfully ran for president against Nicolas Sarkozy?
8. How long has Hollande been the center of French Politics?
9. Would he be considered an Accidental Canidate?
10. Who appeared with him celebrating his victor?
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answer: 1. Francois Hollande
2. He has never held national elective office
3. for 11 years
4. He immediately spooked them with his victory speech
5. "Austerity can no longer be something that is inevitable,
6. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
7. Segolene Royale
8. for more than a decade
9. no
10. Valerie Trierweiler

question: CHAPTER III.

In a very few days, Kate had been settled into the ways of the household in Bruton Street; and found one day so like another, that she sometimes asked herself whether she had not been living there years instead of days.

She was always to be ready by half-past seven. Her French maid, Josephine, used to come in at seven, and wash and dress her quietly, for if there were any noise Aunt Barbara would knock and be displeased. Aunt Barbara rose long before that time, but she feared lest Aunt Jane should be disturbed in her morning's sleep; and Kate thought she had the ears of a dragon for the least sound of voice or laugh.

At half-past seven, Kate met Mrs. Lacy in the school-room, read the Psalms and Second Lesson, and learnt some answers to questions on the Catechism, to be repeated to Lady Barbara on a Sunday. For so far from playing at cards in a bird-of-paradise turban all Sunday, the aunts were quite as particular about these things as Mr. Wardour-- more inconveniently so, the countess thought; for he always let her answer his examinations out of her own head, and never gave her answers to learn by heart; "Answers that I know before quite well," said Kate, "only not made tiresome with fine words."

"That is not a right way of talking, Lady Caergwent," gravely said Mrs. Lacy; and Kate gave herself an ill-tempered wriggle, and felt cross and rebellious.

It was a trial; but if Kate had taken it humbly, she would have found that even the stiff hard words and set phrases gave accuracy to her ideas; and the learning of the texts quoted would have been clear gain, if she had been in a meeker spirit.
1. What street did Kate move into?
2. How long did she live there?
3. Did it seem like longer?
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answer:
1. Bruton Street
2. Only days.
3. Yes