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The International Bureau of Weights and Measures () is an intergovernmental organization, one of three such organisations established to maintain the International System of Units (SI) under the terms of the Metre Convention ("Convention du Metre"). The organisation is usually referred to by its French initialism, BIPM.

The BIPM reports to the International Committee for Weights and Measures (), which is in turn overseen by periodic meetings of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (). These organizations are also commonly referred to by their French initialisms.

The BIPM was created on 20 May 1875, following the signing of the Metre Convention, a treaty among 51 nations (). It is based at the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sevres, France, a site (originally ) granted to the Bureau by the French Government in 1876, where it enjoys extraterritorial status, a status that was clarified by the French decree No 70-820 of 9 September 1970.

Under the authority of the Metric Convention, the BIPM helps to ensure uniformity of SI weights and measures around the world. It does so through a series of consultative committees, whose members are the national metrology laboratories of the Convention's member states, and through its own laboratory work.

1. What organization is this passage talking about?
2. What does it do?
3. Under which terms?
4. Where does the BIPM report?
5. and that is overseen by what?
6. Is BIPM a French initialism?
7. When was it created?
8. What month and day?
9. By the signing of who?
10. Which was a treaty that was between how many nations?
11. Where is it located?
12. Where exactly?
13. Who granted them this site?
14. In what year?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures
2. maintains the International System of Units
3. the Metre Convention
4. to the International Committee for Weights and Measures
5. the General Conference on Weights and Measures
6. yes
7. 1875
8. 20 May
9. the Metre Convention
10. 51
11. the Pavillon de Breteuil
12. in Sevres, France
13. the French Government
14. 1876

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One day Frank was walking with his mother when they came to a pretty garden. Frank looked in, and saw that it had clean gravel walks and beautiful flowers.

He called to his mother and said, "Mum, come and look at this pretty garden. I wish I might open the gate, and walk in."

The gardener heard what Frank said, and kindly invited him and his mother to come into the garden.

Frank's mother thanked the man. Then she said to her son, "Frank, if I take you to walk in this garden, you must take care not to meddle with anything in it."

Frank walked along the tidy gravel walks, and looked at everything, but touched nothing that he saw.

He did not step on any of the borders , and was careful that his clothes should not brush the tops of the flowers so that he might not break them.

The gardener was much pleased with Frank, because he was so careful to behave well. He showed him the seeds, and told him the name of many of the flowers and plants.

While Frank was admiring the beauty of a flower, a little boy came to the gate, and finding it locked. He shook it hard, but it would not open. Then he said, "Let me in. Let me in. Will you not let me in this garden?"

"No," said the gardener, "1 will not let you in, Tom. When I let you in yesterday, you meddled with my flowers, and pulled some of my fruit. I do not choose to let a boy into my garden who meddles with the plants."

Tom looked ashamed, and when he found that the gardener would not let him in, he went slowly away.

Frank saw and felt how much happier a boy may be by not meddling with what does not belong to him.

He and his mother then continued their walk in the garden, and enjoyed the day very much. Before they left, the gardener gave each of them some pretty flowers.

1. Who was Frank walking with?
2. what did they see?
3. Who overheard them admiring it?
4. what did he do?
5. Did Frank behave well?
6. Did his mother warn him about behaving?
7. was the caretaker impressed with Frank?
8. Did he break any of the flowers?
9. who is Tom?
10. did he have good manners??
11. what was something he did?
12. did he try to open the gate?
13. was he allowed entrance?
14. did he look ashamed?
15. what did the caretaked give Frank before they left?
16. was he glad he behaved?
17. What things did the gardener show him?
18. what did he teach him about the plants?
19. did Frank enjoy his day?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. his mother
2. clean gravel walks and beautiful flowers
3. The gardener
4. invited him and his mother
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Frank didn't, but Tom did
9. a little boy
10. No
11. He meddled with the flowers and pulled some of the fruit.
12. Yes
13. No
14. Yes
15. flowers
16. Yes
17. the seeds
18. the names
19. Yes

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My heart went out to Barb Dunn the moment her 16-year-old son, Daniel, answered my question.

Once he gets his license in June, would he text and drive? That's what I asked during a kitchen table conversation in their Roxbury, New Jersey, home.

As you can see in the video above, his answer was not the one his mom expected.

"I'm taking a deep breath," said Dunn, who recently purchased visor clips for Daniel's friends who have already gotten their licenses that say "Stay alive. Don't text and drive."

"I wouldn't even mind if he said, 'I'm at a red light and I picked up the phone for a minute to read something and put it back down,' but that moving and texting freaks me out. It's not acceptable."

Daniel's mom might have wanted to slam her head against the counter but still she told me she appreciated her son's candor and realized in that moment how difficult it is to persuade teens, who text nearly all day long, not to do it while behind the wheel.

"Even a well-meaning teen is going to have trouble saying no when they get that buzz" from an incoming text or status update, said David Teater, senior director for the National Safety Council. "It's almost a Pavlovian response."

Teater sadly knows all too well what can go wrong with distracted driving. Ten years ago, a 20-year-old woman who had been talking on a cell phone ran a red light and killed his then 12-year-old son, Joe. Since then, he's dedicated his life to raising awareness about the dangers of talking on a cell phone while behind the wheel. A newer concern: how to eliminate driving while texting.

1. Who answered the interviewer's question?
2. Who was with him?
3. How old is he?
4. When is he able to drive?
5. Who else has their licenses?
6. What did she buy for them?
7. What do they say?
8. What is she afraid of him doing?
9. Who believe kids have problems leaving there phones alone while driving?
10. What does he call their actions?
11. Where does he work?
12. What is his job title?
13. Did anything happen to make him chose this job?
14. When did it happen?
15. What was the driver doing?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Daniel
2. his mom
3. 16
4. in June
5. Daniel's friends
6. visor clips
7. "Stay alive. Don't text and drive."
8. moving and texting
9. David Teater
10. a Pavlovian response
11. the National Safety Council
12. senior director
13. His son was killed
14. Ten years ago
15. talking on a cell phone