Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

City farms are gaining popularity in cities and towns around the United States.

City Farms in Edmonston, Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a working-class community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets.

Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. Alston Clark thinks his experience very valuable. "I like coming out here, "he says, "You know, you connect with the earth, where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more. "

Margaret Morgan-Hubbard started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. "Growing food in a community and showing that you can have farms even in the city is helpful to strengthen the relationship in that community and brings people together, "she continues, "Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have a sustainable community. "she says. From the Eco City Farms people come to know that they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste. Sixteen wooden bins are filled with worms. Their job is to eat the food waste and help make it into compost.

Eco City Farms is an experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local electricity networks but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the greenhouses are heated using a geothermal system.

Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bicycle to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest.

"I like eating the vegetables, "says five-year-old Owen Moss.

1. Who started Eco City Farms?
2. Where does it get its power from?
3. How is it heated in the winter?
4. How many bins are filled with worms?
5. Who is Marcy Clark?
6. Does she have 5 children?
7. How many does she have?
8. What does she do with them?
9. Where did she take them for a lesson?
10. Can vegetable be grown for only half the year?
11. How long can they be grown?
12. What did Owen Moss say?
13. How old is he?
14. What do the worms in the bins do?
15. For how many years has City Farms in Edmonston attracted volunteers?
16. Who thinks his experience is extremely valuable?
17. What kind of an operation is Eco City Farms?
18. How do Chris Moss and her kids get to the farm?
19. How does Margaret Morgan-Hubbard think of the farm?
20. What does it strengthen?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Margaret Morgan-Hubbard
2. the sun
3. a geothermal system.
4. Sixteen
5. a volunteer
6. No
7. four
8. she teaches them
9. to Eco City Farms
10. No
11. all year
12. I like eating the vegetables
13. five
14. make compost
15. two
16. Alston Clark
17. experimental
18. bicycle
19. as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives
20. the relationship in that community

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

New Yorkoften called New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a partis the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.

Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of New York State. The five boroughs Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. By 2014 census estimates, the New York City metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.1 million residents) and the Combined Statistical Area (23.6 million residents). In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly US$1.39 trillion, while in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only twelve and eleven countries, respectively.

1. how many boroughs make up the city?
2. when were they consolidated?
3. what are their names?
4. how much impact does NYC have?
5. how many differenet areas does the article say it impacts?
6. is food one of them?
7. is a new york minute slow?
8. what does it mean?
9. which international organisation is based there?
10. how many people live there?
11. in what size area?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. five
2. 1898
3. Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island
4. significant
5. Nine
6. No
7. No
8. its a fast pace
9. the United Nations
10. 8,491,079
11. 305 square miles