question: I have a good memory of my grandfather,Jack. He was sitting in his armchair in the front room.

I sat next to him. We were reading aloud,our heads bent over the page in front of us,a finger marking the words;separated by seven decades,brought together by words. It's a common scene in British families;however,in our case,the usual order of things is reversed .Granddad had been blind since I was tiny,so I was reading to him.When reading aloud,people usually read something that's of interest to the listener. So I didn't read children's books;I read the sorts of things Granddad liked to hear about. Much of the vocabulary in Granddad's reading material was far beyond me. When I met unfamiliar words,I'd spell them out.

Granddad would help me. It must have been painful for him to hear news;but he never hurried me along or complained. Our reading wasn't really about getting knowledge. It was a way for us to spend time together.

My grandfather wasn't always blind. He had been a good carpenter .The first Christmas of my parents' marriage,he built my mother a bookcase,which now belongs to my son Jonah,providing a link between four generations.

I was a fortunate child;I spent a lot of time with my grandfather,and he opened the world to me in a particular way. Reading was our way of building a relationship that has had a lasting effect on me. In the school holidays,I sometimes accompanied him on trips to the seaside with the local association for the blind. This might seem strange,but I felt that my personal value was realized because I could finally do something for Granddad.

A decade later,I found a position in a nursing home,which reminded me of my early experiences;reading to senior citizens was a connection back to Granddad. More than simple conversation,reading aloud is a connection between two individuals and it can have a big emotional effect on elderly people.
1. Could the author's grandfather see?
2. Had he always been blind?
3. What was his previous profession?
4. What is his name?
5. Where does the author work later in life?
6. Can reading to senior citizens have a positive effect?
7. What piece of furniture has been passed down for generations in the author's family?
8. How many generations?
9. Who owns it now?
10. Where did the author and Jack sometimes go on trips?
11. What group accompanied them?
12. Is reading together common in British households?
13. Did the author and Jack read kids books together?
14. Did his grandfather get annoyed with him?
15. What reminds the author of his Granddad?
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answer: 1. no
2. no
3. carpenter
4. Jack
5. nursing home
6. yes
7. a bookcase
8. four
9. Jonah
10. seaside
11. the local association for the blind
12. yes
13. no
14. no
15. reading to senior citizens

question: In 1790, the first federal population census was taken in the United States. Enumerators were instructed to classify free residents as white or "other." Only the heads of households were identified by name in the federal census until 1850. Native Americans were included among "Other;" in later censuses, they were included as "Free people of color" if they were not living on Indian reservations. Slaves were counted separately from free persons in all the censuses until the Civil War and end of slavery. In later censuses, people of African descent were classified by appearance as mulatto (which recognized visible European ancestry in addition to African) or black.

By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census, reflecting not only changing social ideas about ethnicity, but the wide variety of immigrants who had come to reside in the United States due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s. With a changing society, more citizens have begun to press for acknowledging multiracial ancestry. The Census Bureau changed its data collection by allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity. Some ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.
1. How many ways were people of African Descent classified in 1790?
2. What about free residents?
3. Unitil 1850 which group had their names included?
4. Who took the count?
5. When did the US start the census?
6. At first how were Native Americans classes?
7. and later?
8. How were people with African blood classed?
9. How many ways?
10. what were they?
11. How many African Americans choose to include more than one race?
12. What does federal assistance depend on?
13. Are people worried about this?
14. Which groups depend on this aid?
15. when did it include over 12 categories?
16. Does this suggest a shift in thinking?
17. about what?
18. What kind of laws could have contributed?
19. When were these laws from?
20. What country is this census from?
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answer: 1. Just one
2. Also only one classification
3. Heads of households
4. Enumerators
5. In 1790
6. "Other"
7. as "Free people of color"
8. By appearance
9. Two
10. Mulatto or black
11. 75%
12. On Census data
13. Yes
14. Historically underserved ones
15. By 1990
16. Yes
17. ethnicity
18. immigration
19. the 1960s
20. The United States

question: The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a members of the National League (NL) Central division; the team plays its home baseball games at Wrigley Field. The Cubs are also one of two active major league teams based in Chicago; the other is the Chicago White Sox, who are a member of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is currently owned by Thomas S. Ricketts, son of TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts.

The team played its first games in 1876 as a founding member of the National League (NL), eventually becoming known officially as the Chicago Cubs for the 1903 season. Officially, the Cubs are tied for the distinction of being the oldest currently active U.S. professional sports club, along with the Atlanta Braves, which also began play in the NL in 1876 as the Boston Red Stockings (Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players as a major league.)
1. Where are the Cubs from?
2. What do they play?
3. How many teams are from there?
4. Which stadium do the Cubs play in?
5. And in which division?
6. Which league?
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answer:
1. North Side of Chicago, Illinois
2. professional baseball
3. two
4. Wrigley Field.
5. Central
6. National