South Asia or Southern Asia is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east. Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian Plate, which rises above sea level as Nepal and northern parts of India situated south of the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush. South Asia is bounded on the south by the Indian Ocean and on land (clockwise, from west) by West Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

The current territories of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka form South Asia. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic cooperation organisation in the region which was established in 1985 and includes all eight nations comprising South Asia.

South Asia covers about 5.1 million km (1.9 million mi), which is 11.51% of the Asian continent or 3.4% of the world's land surface area. The population of South Asia is about 1.749 billion or about one fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world. Overall, it accounts for about 39.49% of Asia's population, over 24% of the world's population, and is home to a vast array of peoples. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What ocean bounds South Asia?
2. How many terms are used for the southern region of Asia?
3. What is the first?
4. Where does the Indian Plate rise?
5. How many sections bound South Asia on land?
6. What is the first one?
7. And the second?
8. And the last two?
9. How many km does South Asia span?
10. How many miles?
11. What percentage of the world's land area is this?
12. What percentage of the continent of Asia?
13. What's the population of South Asia?
14. How much of the world's population is that?
15. What does SAARC stand for?
16. What kind of organisation is it?
17. what year was it founded?
18. How many nations does it include?
Answer: 1. the Indian Ocean
2. Two
3. South Asia
4. above sea level
5. Four
6. West Asia
7. Central Asia
8. East Asia and Southeast Asia.
9. about 5.1 million km
10. 1.9 million
11. 3.4%
12. 11.51%
13. about 1.749 billion
14. about one fourth
15. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
16. an economic cooperation organisation
17. 1985
18. eight

Problem: Li Siyi, a student from Jinan Foreign Language School, takes up a new habit. She refuses to believe everything that she reads. "Not everything in books is true," she said. Many other students in her school think the same thing as Li. They learned this through finding a mistake in their Chinese textbook. They learned a Tang poem, Ci Beigu Shanxia, last year. There was a picture that showed a boat in full sail on a river. "But according to the famous line from the poem, feng zheng yifan xuan, the sail shouldn't be spread ," said Zhang Jiayi, Li's classmate. To get the right answer, the students turned to their Chinese teacher, Liu Yan. Liu and the students looked up books, searched on the Internet and made sure that the People's Education Press had really made a mistake about the picture. The students wrote a letter to them about the mistake. "I think my students did a right thing but I never expected a reply," said Liu. "I took it as a way of letting them know the importance of spirit of questioning." To their surprise, one month later, they got the reply from Gu Zhenbiao, the expert of Chinese textbooks in middle schools. Gu said sorry for the mistake and he also said he really thinks the students are very great. When Liu read the letter loudly to all the students, everyone was excited. "We are very happy we have our own ideas!" said Li.
1. what is Li Siyi ?
2. from ?
3. what did ithey take ?
4. did she find a mistake ?
5. who did they turn too ?
6. what did they learn ?
7. did they write a letter ?
8. who is Gu Zhenbiao ?
9. how long did they wait for a reply?
10. who reasd the letter loudly ?
Answer: 1. a student
2. Jinan Foreign Language School,
3. a new habit
4. yes
5. Liu Yan. Liu
6. a Tang poem
7. yes
8. the expert of Chinese textbooks
9. one month
10. Liu

question: Charlie Bell became chief executive of McDonald's in April. Within a month doctors told him that he had color1ectal cancer. After stock market hours on November 22nd, the fast-food firm said he had resigned; it would need a third boss in under a year. Yet when the market opened, its share price barely dipped then edged higher. After all, McDonald's had, again, shown how to act swiftly and decisively in appointing a new boss.

Mr. Bell himself got the top job when Jim Cantalupo died of a heart attack hours before he was due to address a convention of McDonald's franchisees . Mr. Cantalupo was a McDonald's veteran brought out of retirement in January 2003 to help remodel the firm after sales began falling because of dirty restaurants, indifferent service and growing concern about junk food. He devised a recovery plan, backed by massive marketing, and promoted Mr. Bell to chief operating officer. When Mr. Cantalupo died, a rapidly convened board confirmed Mr. Bell, a 44-year-old Australian already widely seen as his heir apparent, in the top job. The convention got its promised chief executive's address, from the firm's first non-American leader.

Yet within weeks executives had to think about what to do if Mr. Bell became too ill to continue. Perhaps Mr. Bell had the same thing on his mind: he usually introduced Jim Skinner, the 60-year-old vice-chairman, to visitors as the "steady hand at the wheel". Now Mr. Skinner, an expert on the firm's overseas operations, becomes chief executive, and Mike Roberts, head of its American operations, joins the board as chief operating officer.

Is Mr. Roberts now the new heir apparent? Maybe. McDonald's has brought in supposedly healthier choices such as salads and toasted sandwiches worldwide and, instead of relying for most of its growth on opening new restaurants, has turned to upgrading its 31,000 existing ones. America has done best at this; under Mr. Roberts, like-for-like sales there were up by 7. 5% in October on a year earlier.

The new team's task is to keep the revitalization plan on course, especially overseas, where some American brands are said to face political hostility from consumers. This is a big challenge. Is an in-house succession(, ) the best way to tackle it? Mr. Skinner and Mr. Roberts are both company veterans, having joined in the 1970s. Some recent academic studies find that the planned succession of a new boss from within, such as Mr. Bell and now (arguably) Mr. Roberts, produces better results than looking hastily, or outside, for one. McDonald's smooth handling of its serial misfortunes at the top certainly seems to prove the point. Even so, everyone at McDonald's must be hoping that it will be a long time before the firm faces yet another such emergency.
1. What fast food chain is the article in reference to?
2. Who are veterans of the company?
3. Who was the first non american CEO?
4. Who died while being CEO?
5. and his successor was?
6. Who joined the team in the 70's?
7. Who resigned from the company in November?
8. How old was he when he became CEO
9. Who is assumed to be the new lead of the corporation?
10. Has the company been doing well under his guidance?
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answer:
1. McDonald's
2. .Jim Cantalupo and Charlie Bell
3. unknown
4. Jim Cantalupo
5. Charlie Bell
6. Mr. Skinner and Mr. Roberts
7. unknown
8. 44
9. Mike Roberts
10. yes