Question:
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Harry was a good hamster. He would run on the wheel in his cage every day. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and on the weekends, his master would even put him a plastic ball that allowed him to run all across the house, as long as he stayed in the ball. Harry loved the plastic ball, and he even liked his master, but Harry wanted to see the outside of the orange house he had lived in for as long as he could remember. He wanted to feel the rain on his fur, wanted to eat wild seeds that fell from the tree. He wanted to be free! He would watch the flowers come up in the spring from his window, and the snow fall in the winters, always wanting to know what the seasons felt like. ab

One Tuesday morning in the summer, Harry woke up to the sun shining down into his cage in the middle of the room that he stayed in. "Today is the day I see the world!" Harry yelled to himself. He waited for his master to put him in his plastic ball. He thought as long as he could make it to the door, he would be free. His master soon came into the room, slowly picked Harry out of the cage, put Harry inside his ball, and closed the lid. Just to put on a show, Harry walked around the room in his ball until his master had left. As soon as his master shut the door, Harry took off towards the outside! He ran towards the door, slipped through the doggy door, and rolled himself outside. He was free! He could see the large trees, and the high grass. Harry looked around, and knew he had found his place in the world.
1. Who enjoyed running in their cage?
2. what kind of animal was he?
3. how often would he do this?
4. What else could he run in?
5. who would put him in it?
6. how often would he do that?
7. did Harry enjoy this?
8. what color home did they live in?
9. how long had he been there?
10. what did he want to feel?
11. on what?
12. what did he want to consume?
13. where did they come from?
14. On what day did Harry finally get outdoors?
15. What season was it?
16. Why did the day of the week matter for his escape?
17. Through what did he eventually roll out of?
18. What large things could he see once he was outdoors?

Numbered answers:
1. Harry
2. hamster
3. every day
4. a plastic ball
5. his master
6. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and on the weekends
7. yes
8. orange
9. as long as he could remember
10. the rain
11. his fur
12. wild seeds
13. from the tree
14. a Tuesday
15. summer
16. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and on the weekends, his master would even put him a plastic ball
17. the doggy door
18. trees

Question:
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Michael Jackson's sudden death really astonished his fans, but soon they are glad to find another younger "King of Pop" has appeared. Wang Yiming, who is known as Xiao Bao, has already been popular across the world with his wonderful dance moves. He once appeared on U.S. television show "Ellen" and performed successfully at the World Expo 2010. About seven years ago, Xiao Bao was born prematurely , which made his mother really worried. He was so weak. What could he do? Doctors suggested that moving his body to music would help make him strong, but soon his parents were surprised by how quickly Xiao Bao fell in love with music! "When he was young, we just started playing music to him and he started moving around like this. But we didn't think that he had such a strong feeling for music. When he was just several months old, we would let him listen to music and he would stop crying and calm down at once," the proud mother once said. So far, Xiao Bao has learned the moonwalk and other Jackson's moves well. His fans are crazy about his wonderful shows. He has drawn more people's attention. He is fast becoming internationally popular. There are lots of problems waiting for him, but Xiao Bao will never give up. He is serious about his dancing career . Where there is a will, there is a way. We are sure that Xiao Bao's dream will come true one day.
1. Who is the younger King of Pop that's recently appeared?
2. What is he also called?
3. Why did he learn to move himself to song?
4. Who decided he should move himself to song?
5. What daytime program was he on?
6. Was he delivered later than expected as a baby?
7. Was he seven years old when he found his affection for song?
8. How old was he?
9. Does he struggle with Jackson's dances?
10. What are his followers crazy about?
11. Did he once perform at the European Exposition in 2010?
12. Where he did perform in 2010?

Numbered answers:
1. Wang Yiming
2. Xiao Bao
3. unknown
4. Doctors
5. Ellen
6. No
7. No
8. Several months old
9. No
10. His shows
11. No
12. At the World Expo

Question:
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A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole. Every system is delineated by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.

The term "system" comes from the Latin word "systema", in turn from Greek "systema": "whole concept made of several parts or members, system", literary "composition".

According to Marshall McLuhan,

"System" means "something to look at". You must have a very high visual gradient to have systematization. But in philosophy, prior to Descartes, there was no "system". Plato had no "system". Aristotle had no "system". In the 19th century the French physicist Sadi Carnot, who studied thermodynamics, pioneered the development of the concept of a "system" in the natural sciences. In 1824 he studied the system which he called the "working substance" (typically a body of water vapor) in steam engines, in regards to the system's ability to do work when heat is applied to it. The working substance could be put in contact with either a boiler, a cold reservoir (a stream of cold water), or a piston (to which the working body could do work by pushing on it). In 1850, the German physicist Rudolf Clausius generalized this picture to include the concept of the surroundings and began to use the term "working body" when referring to the system.
1. What is the Latin word for system?
2. What about in Greek?
3. Who came up with the idea of a system in the natural sciences?
4. When did he do this?
5. What did he do for a living?
6. His specialty?
7. What is his nationality?
8. When was his idea generalized?
9. By who?
10. What kind of work did he do?
11. Was he French too?
12. What was he?
13. What did he refer to the system as?
Numbered answers:
1. Tsystema
2. systema
3. Sadi Carnot
4. 19th century
5. he was a physicist
6. thermodynamics
7. French
8. 1850
9. Rudolf Clausius
10. he was a physicist
11. no
12. German
13. "working body"