Q: Dear Grace, How are you? Thank you for your last e-mail. You want to know about my school clubs, right ? Well, it's time for us to join the school clubs now. There are many clubs in my school, like the English club, the art club, the music club and the sports club. I have two good friends, Jack and Lisa. We all want to join the school clubs. I want to join the music club, because I can play the guitar. I can't speak English well, but I also want to join the English club. Jack likes sports. He can play soccer and basketball. He is in the school soccer team . He wants to join the sports club. He can play the guitar, too. But he doesn't want to join the music club. Lisa likes drawing. She wants to join the art club. She also speaks English very well. I think she can be in the English club. But she can't be in the music club. She can't play any instruments . Are there any clubs in your school? What club are you in? Please write an e--mail and tell me about your school clubs. Yours, Jane

Answer the following questions:
1. Who wrote a letter?
2. To whom?
3. What about?
4. How many did she mention?
5. What club does she like?
6. Why?
7. Who likes to draw?
8. Is there a club for that?
9. What language does she speak well?
10. Can she join the music club also?
11. Why not?
12. Does Jack like any clubs?
13. Which one?
14. Does he like any sports best?
15. Does he play any instruments?
16. Which one?
17. Does he want to join music club?
18. What does Jane ask grace to write her about?
19. How should she send it?
20. How many good friends does Jane have?
A: 1. Jane
2. Grace
3. Janeschool clubs
4. Four
5. The music club
6. Because Jane can play the guitar.
7. Lisa
8. The art club
9. English
10. No
11. She can't play any instruments
12. Yes
13. The sports club
14. Soccer
15. Yes
16. The guitar
17. No
18. Her school clubs.
19. An email
20. Two
Q: Department stores today have sections that sell the following: clothing, furniture, home appliances, toys, cosmetics, gardening, toiletries, sporting goods, do it yourself, paint, and hardware and additionally select other lines of products such as food, books, jewelry, electronics, stationery, photographic equipment, baby products, and products for pets. Customers check out near the front of the store or, alternatively, at sales counters within each department. Some are part of a retail chain of many stores, while others may be independent retailers. In the 1970s, they came under heavy pressure from discounters. Since 2010, they have come under even heavier pressure from online stores such as Amazon.

The origins of the department store lay in the growth of the conspicuous consumer society at the turn of the 19th century. As the Industrial Revolution accelerated economy expansion, the affluent middle-class grew in size and wealth. This urbanized social group, sharing a culture of consumption and changing fashion, was the catalyst for the retail revolution. As rising prosperity and social mobility increased the number of people, especially women (who found they could shop unaccompanied at department stores without damaging their reputation), with disposable income in the late Georgian period, window shopping was transformed into a leisure activity and entrepreneurs, like the potter Josiah Wedgwood, pioneered the use of marketing techniques to influence the prevailing tastes and preferences of society.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was the potter?
2. What did he pioneer?
3. why?
4. What?
5. What type of business has lots of different sections?
6. Where do customers pay?
7. Or where else?
8. Do they get competition from discount outfits?
9. When did that start?
10. Have conditions improved?
11. WHo is the modern competition?
12. What kind of business is that?
13. When did they start?
14. What revolution spurred the growth?
15. Which social group flourished?
16. Did they cause the changes?
17. Which sex primarily caused this?
18. What could they do that didn't harm their reputation?
A: 1. Josiah Wedgwood
2. marketing techniques
3. to influence
4. prevailing tastes and preferences of society.
5. Department
6. near the front of the store
7. at sales counters within each department
8. Yes
9. In the 1970s
10. No
11. Amazon
12. online stores
13. at the turn of the 19th century
14. Industrial
15. middle-class
16. Yes
17. women
18. shop unaccompanied
Q: The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and leads the country in foreign policy issues. Equivalent to the foreign ministry of other countries, the State Department is responsible for the international relations of the United States, negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign entities, and represents the United States at the United Nations. The Department was created in 1789 and was the first executive department established.

The Department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building located at 2201 C Street, NW, a few blocks away from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Department operates the diplomatic missions of the United States abroad and is responsible for implementing the foreign policy of the United States and U.S. diplomacy efforts. The Department is also the depository for more than 200 multilateral treaties.

The Department is led by the Secretary of State, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Secretary of State is Rex Tillerson, beginning 1 February 2017. The Secretary of State is the first Cabinet official in the order of precedence and in the presidential line of succession, after the President pro tempore of the Senate.

Answer the following questions:
1. What neighborhood is the DOS in?
2. Is it close to the White House?
3. Which former President is its building named for?
4. Is it in charge of foreign policy?
5. What is something else that it does?
6. Would one find any mulilateral treaties there?
7. What else is the Department of State called?
8. Which branch of government is it in?
9. Is it in communication with the President?
10. What might the department be called in another country?
11. When was it first established?
12. Who does it represent at the UN?
13. Who is the head of the department?
14. What is his official title?
15. Who nominates this position?
16. Does the House of Representatives have a say?
17. What about the Senate?
18. Who is the first cabinet official in the presidential line of succession?
19. Who is just before them?
20. When did Tillerson first take the position?
A:
1. in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
2. yes
3. Harry S Truman
4. yes
5. it negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign entities
6. unknown
7. the State Department
8. the executive
9. yes
10. the foreign ministry
11. in 1789
12. the United States
13. Rex Tillerson
14. Secretary of State
15. the President
16. no
17. yes
18. the Secretary of State
19. President pro tempore of the Senate
20. 1 February 2017