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Many American presidents in the 19thcentury were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little education . Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln once did jobs of a worker, shopkeeper and post officer in his early years. A large number of U. S. presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school--West Point Military Academy . One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined because he broke the rules of the school. The jobs of U. S. presidents are tiring. He must _ anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, "When you grow up, you should not be president. It's a tiring job."

1. In what century were there many Presidents from poor families?
2. Where did they spend their childhood?
3. Name two presidents who were self-taught.
4. Which presidents graduated from the same school?
5. What President was fined for breaking rules?
6. Which college do some Presidents have in common?
7. Which President did Thaft once visit when young?
8. From which country are these Presidents?
9. In what military branch were many Presidents?
10. What did Thaft say to Roosevelt?
11. In what was was Grant a general?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the 19th century
2. in little wooden rooms
3. Washington and Lincoln
4. Grant and Eisenhower
5. Eisenhower
6. West Point Military Academy
7. Franklin Roosevelt
8. America
9. the army
10. "When you grow up, you should not be president. It's a tiring job."
11. the American Civil War

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CHAPTER XVII.

AN ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.

When Wulf met the armourer next morning in the cathedral close he was accompanied by Beorn, who said, laughing, to the latter, "You have beaten me fairly, friend Ulred, and it is well that I had no wager with you on the race. But it was not by much, for I rode in here as the bells were chiming eleven. I was glad to hear from Wulf when I roused him up that he had learnt all the news from you, for indeed I was sore weary, and was right pleased to wrap myself in my cloak and go straight to sleep instead of having to sit up for an hour expounding my story."

"We have resolved in the first place, Ulred, to say nought of this matter to the king," began Wulf. "He will have enough to occupy all his thoughts in the affairs of the kingdom, and in the second place his nature is so open that he will refuse to believe in such villainy unless upon strong proof, and of actual proof we have none. Beorn's appearance here will excite no surprise. He will say that having nought in particular to occupy him he had ridden north to be at the wedding, and finding that he was too late, would at any rate ride back with the king. With him and me and Osgod ever on the watch, methinks there will be little fear of a surprise; and it is by surprise only that they can succeed, for Harold himself is a match for any four or five ordinary men if he has but time to draw his sword. I will, however, on some excuse have half a score of Harold's housecarls placed under my orders, and sleeping or waking the king shall never be a moment unguarded.

1. Was he accompanied?
2. By who?
3. Who was?
4. Who did he meet?
5. when?
6. Where?
7. Was Beorn laughing?
8. Who beat him?
9. Did he beat him fairly?
10. Was the victory by a large margin
11. What were the bells chiming?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. yes
2. Beorn
3. Wulf
4. the armourer
5. the next morning
6. in the cathedral
7. yes
8. Ulred
9. yes
10. no
11. eleven

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Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Senora Santa Maria del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.

The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.

1. What is the capital of Argentina?
2. Do a lot of people live there?
3. What does Buenos Aires mean?
4. How many people live in Buenos Aires?
5. What cities in Argentina are bigger?
6. What kind of district does the city lie in?
7. When was it given autonomy?
8. Does the city have a more formal name?
9. What is it?
10. What does that mean?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Buenos Aires
2. yes
3. "fair winds" or "good airs"
4. around 17 million.
5. none
6. several Buenos Aires Province districts
7. 1994
8. yes
9. Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
10. Autonomous City of Buenos Aires