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Toyota is the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric vehicles, and one of the largest companies to encourage the mass-market adoption of hybrid vehicles across the globe. Cumulative global sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrid passenger car models achieved the 10million milestone in January 2017. Its Prius family is the world's top selling hybrid nameplate with over 6million units sold worldwide .

The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937, as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and its first passenger car in 1936, the Toyota AA. Toyota Motor Corporation produces vehicles under five brands, including the Toyota brand, Hino, Lexus, Ranz, and Daihatsu. It also holds a 16.66% stake in Subaru Corporation, a 5.9% stake in Isuzu, as well as joint-ventures with two in China (GAC Toyota and Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor), one in India (Toyota Kirloskar), one in the Czech Republic (TPCA), along with several "nonautomotive" companies. TMC is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.

Toyota is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi. The main headquarters of Toyota is located in a 4-storey building in Toyota. As of 2006, the head office has the "Toyopet" Toyota logo and the words "Toyota Motor". The Toyota Technical Center, a 14-story building, and the Honsha plant, Toyota's second plant engaging in mass production and formerly named the Koromo plant, are adjacent to one another in a location near the headquarters. Vinod Jacob from "The Hindu" described the main headquarters building as "modest". In 2013, company head Akio Toyoda reported that it had difficulties retaining foreign employees at the headquarters due to the lack of amenities in the city.

1. Where is Toyota's headquarters?
2. What city?
3. Are its offices in a skyscraper?
4. What is taller, its headquarters or technical center?
5. By how much?
6. What is that next to?
7. What did that used to be called?
8. Are those buildings far from the headquarters?
9. Is the headquarters often described as impressive?
10. What did Vinod Jacob call them?
11. Why do they have a hard time keeping foreign workers there?
12. How many car companies sell more hybrid vehicles than Toyota?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Aichi
2. Toyota City
3. No
4. technical center
5. 10 stories
6. Honsha plant
7. Koromo plant
8. No
9. No
10. "modest".
11. lack of amenities in the city
12. zero

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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

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Do you want to know something about children in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here: Education School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or exercise books even though they don't have to pay for school. For those lucky enough to go to school , they have a lot to learn. Some take two language classes: English or French, and their first language. There is also math, science, history, social studies and geography. _ take up much of children's time after school. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day. Also there's cleaning , washing and helping Mum with the meal. Daily fun It's not all work and no play. Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs ( )and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string ( ). They play in the country and the streets of old towns. There're many football teams for teenagers in Africa. Internet It's really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600yuan. This is more than the average monthly pay per person. Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet. Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home.

1. Is education costly for African children?
2. Can all families afford to go to school?
3. What kinds of classes do they take?
4. What other kind of classes do they take?
5. What else do they have to do?
6. What other kinds of chores do they have?
7. Do they get to have any fun?
8. What do they make the goals with?
9. Where do they play?
10. How much does it cost for internet?

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A:
1. Education School is expensive
2. Lots of families can't afford school
3. Some take two language classes
4. math, science, history, social studies and geography
5. They have to get water and firewood for the family every day
6. cleaning , washing and helping Mum with the meal
7. Sports are very popular
8. with twigs
9. in the country and the streets of old towns
10. surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600yuan