Question:
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Xu Caihou, a retired PLA general and former vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), was taken from his sick bed at 301 Military Hospital in Beijing on Saturday by dozens of armed policemen, the South China Morning Post reported, quoting unidentified sources.

Xu was detained the same day President Xi Jinping chaired a steering group tasked with reforming the military, the Post said.

If confirmed, Xu would become the highest-ranking military officer to be detained on suspicion of corruption.

Xu's critics claim that during his tenure, the buying and selling of military ranks was widespread in the defense establishment.

"I was told by an ex-PLA man I met on the train travelling to Guangzhou that he quit the military because so many people were buying positions and he did not want to play that game," said David Zweig, professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

"Telling me, a foreign professor, such dirt suggests that it is widespread and the anger that exists about this is also widespread."

Bribery scandal

Xu's detention may be connected with the corruption probe of Gu Junshan, the army's former deputy logistics chief and one of Xu's closest subordinates. Gu, who was in charge of the military's massive procurement and property portfolio, reportedly received bribes in cash and gifts. He has been under investigation since early 2012.

Xu, 71, was promoted to the CMC in 1999 and became its vice-chairman in 2004. He retired in March last year.

He has not been seen in public for several months until January 20, when the Chinese media showed him with President Xi greeting a group of retired military officials on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
1. Was Xu promoted?
2. What age?
3. When?
4. Was he liked?
5. Was he arrested?
6. When?
7. How?
8. For what?
9. Who bribed him?
10. Is he still working?
11. Did he resurface?
12. When?
13. Where?
14. For what?
15. Celebrating what?
16. What was bought?
17. By whom?
18. Was a game played?
19. Where?
20. Did he have people beneath him?

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. 71
3. in 1999
4. no
5. yes
6. Saturday
7. taken from bed by policemen
8. suspicion of corruption
9. Gu Junshan
10. no
11. yes
12. January 20
13. with President Xi
14. greeting military officials
15. Chinese Lunar New Year
16. military ranks
17. the defense
18. yes
19. the military
20. yes

Question:
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Philosophical empiricists hold no knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced unless it is derived from one's sense-based experience. This view is commonly contrasted with rationalism, which states that knowledge may be derived from reason independently of the senses. For example, John Locke held that some knowledge (e.g. knowledge of God's existence) could be arrived at through intuition and reasoning alone. Similarly Robert Boyle, a prominent advocate of the experimental method, held that we have innate ideas. The main continental rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) were also advocates of the empirical "scientific method".

Aristotle's explanation of how this was possible was not strictly empiricist in a modern sense, but rather based on his theory of potentiality and actuality, and experience of sense perceptions still requires the help of the active nous. These notions contrasted with Platonic notions of the human mind as an entity that pre-existed somewhere in the heavens, before being sent down to join a body on Earth (see Plato's Phaedo and Apology, as well as others). Aristotle was considered to give a more important position to sense perception than Plato, and commentators in the Middle Ages summarized one of his positions as "nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu" (Latin for "nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses").
1. Where does their knowledge come from?
2. What is this generally contrasted with?
3. what is that?
4. what is Aristotle's explanation?
5. based on what?
6. was Plato's position more important?
7. how did commentators summarize this?
8. what is that in Latin?
9. what wasn't emipiricist?
10. who had knowledge of God's existence?

Numbered answers:
1. one's sense-based experience
2. rationalism
3. knowledge may be derived from reason independent of senses
4. experience of sense perceptions still requires the help of the active nous
5. his theory of potentiality and actuality
6. no
7. nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses
8. nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu
9. Aristotle's explanation
10. unknown

Question:
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Jack and Mike are on holiday in France. Mike loves visiting old buildings. Jack likes, too. In the village Jack and Mike see a beautiful old church, but when they come into the church, some people are there. They don't know what the people are doing. "Oh! Just sit quietly, and do like the others!" Mike says. Because they don't really know French, so they stand, kneel, and sit to follow other people. Then the priest says something. The man next to Jack and Mike stands up. "We should stand up, too!" Jack whispers to Mike. So, Jack and Mike stand up with the man. Suddenly, all the people smile! After that, Jack and Mike walk to the priest. "What's so funny?" Jack asks in English. With a smile on his face the priest says, "Boys, there is a new baby born, we ask the father to stand up." Mike smiles and says, "We should understand what people do before we do like them. "
1. what country is mentioned?
2. who is there?
3. are they there for work?
4. why are they there?
5. does they enjoy something?
6. what?
7. did the find one to visit?
8. was it unsightly?
9. what did it house?
10. was it empty?
11. who was there?
12. Is someone addressing the group?
13. who?
14. did everyone stay seated?
15. who stood?
16. anyone else?
17. did they speak the language?
18. why did the other gentleman stand?
19. who's dad was he?
Numbered answers:
1. France
2. Jack and Mike
3. No
4. they are on holiday
5. Yes
6. visiting old buildings
7. Yes
8. No
9. a church
10. No
11. some people
12. Yes
13. a priest
14. No
15. The man next to Jack and Mike
16. Jack and Mike
17. No
18. he was the father
19. the new baby