question: Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world with a population of more than 24 million . It is a global financial centre and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta, it sits on the south edge of the estuary of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the East China coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.

As a major administrative, shipping and trading city, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to trade and recognition of its favourable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five treaty ports forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War. The subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession. The city then flourished as a centre of commerce between China and other parts of the world (predominantly Western countries), and became the primary financial hub of the Asia-Pacific region in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was limited to other socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.
1. What is next to Shanghai on the east?
2. And one of the provinces on the the other sides?
3. And another?
4. What is its population?
5. What river is close to it?
6. After what event was it open to foreign trade?
7. Were there some treaties after that?
8. What was one of them?
9. And another?
10. When did the Communist Party come in?
11. What happened to international trade then?
12. Did it ever have a resurgence?
13. When?
14. Who was in charge then?
15. In the first place, what was one of the reasons for its growht?
16. How many ports had to open after the Opium War?
17. What did Deng Xiaoping do that let to better trade?
18. Can you name one thing that those two treaties we mentioned allowed?
19. Name another?
20. When did Shanghai become the most important financial center in its area?
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answer: 1. East China Sea.
2. Jiangsu
3. Zhejiang
4. more than 24 million
5. Yangtze
6. The British defeated China in the First Opium War
7. yes
8. the 1842 Treaty of Nanking
9. 1844 Treaty of Whampoa
10. 1949
11. it was limited
12. yes
13. in the 1990s
14. Deng Xiaoping
15. it had a favorable port location and economic potential
16. Five
17. economic reforms
18. the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement
19. the French Concession
20. the 1930s

question: CHAPTER III.

"Nice customs curt'sy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country's fashion. We are the makers of manners; and the liberty that follows our places, stops the mouths of all fault-finders."--Henry V.

Notwithstanding her high resolution, habitual firmness, and a serenity of mind, that seemed to pervade the moral system of Isabella, like a deep, quiet current of enthusiasm, but which it were truer to assign to the high and fixed principles that guided all her actions, her heart beat tumultuously, and her native reserve, which almost amounted to shyness, troubled her sorely, as the hour arrived when she was first to behold the prince she had accepted for a husband. Castilian etiquette, no less than the magnitude of the political interests involved in the intended union, had drawn out the preliminary negotiations several days; the bridegroom being left, all that time, to curb his impatience to behold the princess, as best he might.

On the evening of the 15th of October, 1469, however, every obstacle being at length removed, Don Fernando threw himself into the saddle, and, accompanied by only four attendants, among whom was Andres de Cabrera, he quietly took his way, without any of the usual accompaniments of his high rank, toward the palace of John of Vivero, in the city of Valladolid. The Archbishop of Toledo was of the faction of the princess, and this prelate, a warlike and active partisan, was in readiness to receive the accepted suitor, and to conduct him to the presence of his mistress.
1. When did Don leave?
2. In what year?
3. Who was he going see?
4. Where?
5. Did Don go alone?
6. How many people went with him?
7. Who was one of the people?
8. Did Don have a high ranking?
9. Did the people accompanying him have high ranking?
10. Did John live in a nice home?
11. Who had accepted a husband?
12. Was the man she accepted royalty?
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answer: 1. 15th of October
2. 1469
3. John of Vivero
4. Valladolid
5. no
6. four
7. Andres de Cabrera
8. yes
9. no
10. yes
11. Isabella
12. yes

question: Connie Lau hates smoking. "It smells awful, and it's so bad for you. It breaks my heart to see my friends smoking. I try to get them to give up smoking." She says.

So why does Connie walk into convenience stores and try to buy cigarettes? She is testing to see if stores will sell cigarettes to a kid who is younger than 18. "You have to be 18 to purchase cigarettes, and I'm 16, so if they sell to me, they're breaking the law," Connie says.

Connie isn't a vigilante ; She works with local police in her town of Castro Valley, California. Officers drive her to stores, and she goes in alone to try to buy cigarettes. If the person behind the counter sells her a pack, an officer comes in and writes the business a ticket for breaking the law.

Most stores obey the law and don't sell her cigarettes. The law requires that customers show ID if store employees ask them to. "When they ask your age, you can't lie," Connie says. "Most stores don't sell to me. In a year, we've visited almost 150 stores and had only 15 sales."

Working undercover can be scary, even with police nearby. Connie said one cashier refused to sell her cigarettes and then got angry when he found out her age. He threatened to call the authorities. "To calm him down, the police went in to explain that I was undercover," she says.

Most teens wouldn't think of going undercover for the police. What's Connie's motivation ? For starters, she can't stand smoking. But she also believes it's important for young people like her to try to make a real impact in their communities. In her view, teens can do more than get good grades in school, do chores at home, and do well in out-of-class activities.

Every time she stops the sale of cigarettes to children, she's helping to uphold the law. "A single teenager can make a big difference," Connie says. "For the most part, when stores get caught, they learn their lesson and don't do it again."
1. Who hates smoking?
2. Why?
3. How old is she?
4. Does she try to buy cigarettes?
5. Who does she work with?
6. Where?
7. Where?
8. Do most stores sell her cigarettes?
9. How many stores have they visited in the last year?
10. How many sales happened at those stores?
11. Has she ever been scared?
12. Why?
13. Did he call?
14. Why does she do what she does?
15. Are there any other reasons?
16. What are they?
17. What are they?
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answer:
1. Connie Lau
2. It smells awful
3. 16
4. yes
5. local police
6. in her town
7. Castro Valley, California
8. no
9. 150
10. 15
11. yes
12. one cashier refused to sell her cigarettes and then got angry when he found out her age. He threatened to call the authorities.
13. no
14. she can't stand smoking
15. yes
16. believes it's important for young people like her to try to make a real impact in their communities
17. believes it's important for young people like her to try to make a real impact in their communities