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Our school life is very interesting! My friends and I study hard at school. And we are good at our lessons. We are very happy. We have lots of time for our hobbies. My classmates all want to go to different clubs. Helen wants to join the Reading Club. She loves reading books. The Reading Club meets every Wednesday at three thirty. Lily enjoys dancing. She wants to join the Dancing Club. It meets on Mondays at four thirty. There's also an Art Club. It meets on Fridays at four o'clock. Nick doesn't want to join the Art Club. He doesn't like drawing. He thinks it is too difficult for him . Nick likes playing computer games. He wants to join the Computer Club. It meets every Thursday at three forty-five. Mike loves sports. He wants to join the football team. They play football every Monday at three thirty. I want to join the Music Club. I like listening to music with my friends. The Music Club meets on Tuesday at three fifteen. ,:

1. What club does Helen like?
2. How many friends does the story teller describe?
3. Are you and your friends smart?
4. Do they have any free time?
5. What do they desire to do during their free time?
6. Like what?
7. Whose interest includes reading?
8. How will she pursue that?
9. When?
10. What is another activity at the school?
11. Who does that?
12. How will she pursue her love of that?
13. When
14. Are there activities for artists?
15. What is it?
16. When can you attend that?
17. Do you have any athletic friends?
18. Who?
19. What kind of athlete is he?
20. How does he participate?
21. When?
22. What do you like to do?
23. How do you enjoy it?
24. When?
25. Do you know anyone that doesn't like the activities offered?
26. Who?
27. What is that?
28. Why not?
29. Why not?
30. Is there anything he excels in?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Helen likes the reading club.
2. I have four friends.
3. unknown
4. yes
5. different things
6. Like reading, dancing, art, computer games, sports, and music.
7. Helen
8. She will go to the reading club
9. Wednesdays at 3:30
10. dancing.
11. Lily
12. by going to the dance club
13. Mondays at four thirty
14. yes
15. Art Club
16. Fridays at four
17. yes
18. Mike
19. He likes football
20. playing football
21. Mondays at 3:30
22. listen to music
23. going to the music club
24. on Tuesdays at 3:15
25. yes
26. Nick
27. the Art Club
28. he doesn't like to draw
29. it's too hard
30. unknown

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Baghdad is the capital of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, , is approximately 8,765,000, making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran).

Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception, Baghdad evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center for the Islamic world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions (e.g., House of Wisdom), garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the "Centre of Learning".

For five centuries from its founding Baghdad was the largest city of the Middle Ages, peaking at a population of more than a million. The city was largely destroyed at the hands of the Mongol Empire in 1258, resulting in a decline that would linger through many centuries due to frequent plagues and multiple successive empires. With the recognition of Iraq as an independent state (formerly the British Mandate of Mesopotamia) in 1938, Baghdad gradually regained some of its former prominence as a significant center of Arab culture.

In contemporary times, the city has often faced severe infrastructural damage, most recently due to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent Iraq War that lasted until December 2011. In recent years, the city has been frequently subjected to insurgency attacks. , Baghdad was listed as one of the least hospitable places in the world to live, and was ranked by Mercer as the worst of 221 major cities as measured by quality-of-life.

1. Who built Baghdad?
2. When?
3. Who sacked it?
4. When?
5. Who led the Mongols at that time?
6. Did they completely destroy the city?
7. Did the city frequently change hands?
8. What liberated Iraq?
9. What medieval power made Baghdad their capital?
10. What modern power uses it as their capital?
11. Is it a good place to live today?
12. How many military conflicts are mentioned in the article?
13. The most recent?
14. What was the city famous as in medieval times?
15. What's the largest city in Arabia?
16. In western Asia?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the Abbasid Caliphate
2. the 8th century
3. the Mongol Empire
4. 1258
5. unknown
6. no
7. yes
8. recognition as an independent state
9. the Abbasid Caliphate
10. Iraq
11. no
12. Three
13. insurgency attacks
14. a cultural, commercial, and intellectual center
15. Cairo
16. Tehran

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a measurement standards laboratory, and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness.

NIST's activities are organized into laboratory programs that include Nanoscale Science and Technology, Engineering, Information Technology, Neutron Research, Material Measurement, and Physical Measurement.

The Articles of Confederation, ratified by the colonies in 1781, contained the clause, "The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective statesfixing the standards of weights and measures throughout the United States". Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States (1789), transferred this power to Congress; "The Congress shall have power...To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures".

In January 1790, President George Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report. On October 25, 1791, Washington appealed a third time to Congress, "A uniformity of the weights and measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the Constitution and if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to the public council than conducive to the public convenience", but it was not until 1838, that a uniform set of standards was worked out.

1. What does NIST stand for?
2. What kind of lab is it?
3. What kind of agency?
4. What government organization does it belong to?
5. What is its goal?
6. What is one of the agency's programs?
7. And another?
8. Do they have any others?
9. How many are mentioned?
10. When were the Articles of Confederation passed?
11. When was their ability to regulate currency passed to Congress?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. The National Institute of Standards and Technology
2. measurement standards
3. non-regulatory
4. the United States Department of Commerce
5. promote innovation and industrial competitiveness
6. Nanoscale Science and Technology
7. Information Technology
8. yes, many
9. Six
10. 1781
11. 1789