Q: Elizabeth's many historic visits and meetings include a state visit to the Republic of Ireland and reciprocal visits to and from the Pope. She has seen major constitutional changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the decolonisation of Africa. She has also reigned through various wars and conflicts involving many of her realms. She is the world's oldest reigning monarch as well as Britain's longest-lived. In 2015, she surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, to become the longest-reigning British head of state and the longest-reigning queen regnant in world history.

During the war, plans were drawn up to quell Welsh nationalism by affiliating Elizabeth more closely with Wales. Proposals, such as appointing her Constable of Caernarfon Castle or a patron of Urdd Gobaith Cymru (the Welsh League of Youth), were abandoned for various reasons, which included a fear of associating Elizabeth with conscientious objectors in the Urdd, at a time when Britain was at war. Welsh politicians suggested that she be made Princess of Wales on her 18th birthday. Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison supported the idea, but the King rejected it because he felt such a title belonged solely to the wife of a Prince of Wales and the Prince of Wales had always been the heir apparent. In 1946, she was inducted into the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where did Elizabeth visit?
2. Anywhere else?
3. Where?
4. What kind of political changes has she witnessed?
5. What else?
6. What else has she witnessed in her time?
7. Was there ever problems during her reign?
8. What were they?
9. Has she been around for long?
10. How long?
11. Who was Queen before her?
12. What was her name?
13. Has she made any records?
14. What was it?
15. Were there ever other titles suggested?
16. How many?
17. What was the first one?
18. The second?
19. The third?
20. Any others?
21. What was it?
22. When?
23. Where?
A: 1. Ireland
2. Yes
3. visits to and from the Pope.
4. devolution in the United Kingdom
5. Canadian patriation
6. the decolonisation of Africa
7. yes
8. various wars and conflicts involving many of her realms
9. Yes
10. She is the world's oldest reigning monarch as well as Britain's longest-lived
11. her great-great-grandmother
12. Queen Victoria
13. yes
14. the longest-reigning British head of state and the longest-reigning queen regnant in world history
15. Yes
16. Many
17. Constable of Caernarfon Castle
18. a patron of Urdd Gobaith Cymru
19. Princess of Wales
20. Yes
21. Welsh Gorsedd of Bards
22. In 1946
23. the National Eisteddfod of Wales
Q: Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Burma.

Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys as much as . Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.

The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, with local control exercised by warlords until the 1930s. From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the Southwestern frontier, with 2 major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of majority Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.

Answer the following questions:
1. About how many species of higher plants does Yunnan have?
2. How many total are there in China?
3. What is Yunnan?
4. In what country?
5. What is its capital?
6. What was Kunming known as before?
7. How many people are there?
8. As of which year?
9. Which empire first recorded relations with Yunnan?
10. When was that?
11. What was Nanzhao?
12. What kind of area is Yunnan located in
13. Where do most of the people live?
14. Does it have a lot of natural resources?
15. What are two of its reserves?
16. Which are the largest reserves in China?
17. What other major reserves does it have?
18. When did the Mongols conquer it?
19. With local control by warlords, until when?
20. How many waves of migration were there?
A:
1. 17,000 or more
2. approximately 30,000
3. a province
4. People's Republic of China
5. Kunming
6. Yunnan
7. 45.7 million
8. 2009
9. The Han Empire
10. end of 2nd century BC
11. a kingdom
12. a mountainous area
13. the eastern part
14. Yes
15. aluminium and lead
16. aluminium, lead, zinc and tin
17. copper and nickel
18. the 13th century
19. 1930s
20. Two