question: Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an Octave. The traditional Christmas narrative, the Nativity of Jesus, delineated in the New Testament says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies; when Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaiming this news to shepherds who then disseminated the message furthermore. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated religiously by the vast majority of Christians, as well as culturally by a number of non-Christian people, and is an integral part of the holiday season, while some Christian groups reject the celebration. In several countries, celebrating Christmas Eve on December 24 has the main focus rather than December 25, with gift-giving and sharing a traditional meal with the family.
1. what holiday occurs on Dec 25?
2. whose birth is celebrated?
3. is there a story about him?
4. where can it be found?
5. where does it say he was born?
6. was his birth foreseen?
7. who are his parents?
8. who celebrates christmas?
9. any one else?
10. how long does the celebration last in the west?
11. is there a feast?
12. what is it the beginning of?
13. what season is it?
14. does it sometimes include an octave?
15. what is the typical story of Jesus called?
16. when his parents arrived in bethlehem, where did they go?
17. were rooms available for them?
18. where was jesus born?
19. do people celebrate christmas eve too?
20. when does it occur?
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answer: 1. Christmas
2. Jesus Christ
3. Yes
4. in the New Testament
5. Bethlehem
6. Yes
7. Joseph and Mary
8. Christians
9. non-Christian people as well
10. 12 days
11. Yes
12. Advent
13. Christmastide
14. Yes
15. the Nativity of Jesus
16. First, to an inn
17. No
18. In a stable
19. Yes
20. December 24

question: Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula CHO. Glucose circulates in the blood of animals as blood sugar. It is made during photosynthesis from water and carbon dioxide, using energy from sunlight. It is the most important source of energy for cellular respiration. Glucose is stored as a polymer, in plants as starch and in animals as glycogen.

With 6 carbon atoms, it is classed as a hexose, a subcategory of the monosaccharides. -Glucose is one of the 16 aldohexose stereoisomers. The -isomer, -glucose, also known as dextrose, occurs widely in nature, but the -isomer, -glucose, does not. Glucose can be obtained by hydrolysis of carbohydrates such as milk sugar, cane sugar, maltose, cellulose, glycogen, etc. It is commonly commercially manufactured from cornstarch by hydrolysis via pressurized steaming at controlled pH in a jet followed by further enzymatic depolymerization. In 1747, Andreas Marggraf was the first to isolate glucose. Glucose is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system. The name glucose derives through the French from the Greek , which means "sweet," in reference to must, the sweet, first press of grapes in the making of wine. The suffix "-ose" is a chemical classifier, denoting a carbohydrate.
1. Is glucose simple or complex?
2. what is it molecular makeup?
3. What is it in animals?
4. What is one of the components it is made from?
5. They other?
6. Using what?
7. From what?
8. Who was the first to discover glucose?
9. When?
10. What important list is glucose on?
11. Who creates the list?
12. Where does the name come from?
13. What does it mean?
14. What does "ose" mean?
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answer: 1. simple
2. CHO
3. blood sugar
4. water
5. carbon dioxide
6. energy
7. sunlight
8. Andreas Marggraf
9. 1747
10. List of Essential Medicines
11. the World Health Organization
12. from Greek
13. "sweet"
14. a carbohydrate

question: CHAPTER XX

A LESSON IN PICQUET

Lord Dreever, meanwhile, having left the waterside, lighted a cigarette, and proceeded to make a reflective tour of the grounds. He felt aggrieved with the world. Molly's desertion in the canoe with Jimmy did not trouble him: he had other sorrows. One is never at one's best and sunniest when one has been forced by a ruthless uncle into abandoning the girl one loves and becoming engaged to another, to whom one is indifferent. Something of a jaundiced tinge stains one's outlook on life in such circumstances. Moreover, Lord Dreever was not by nature an introspective young man, but, examining his position as he walked along, he found himself wondering whether it was not a little unheroic. He came to the conclusion that perhaps it was. Of course, Uncle Thomas could make it deucedly unpleasant for him if he kicked. That was the trouble. If only he had even--say, a couple of thousands a year of his own--he might make a fight for it. But, dash it, Uncle Tom could cut off supplies to such a frightful extent, if there was trouble, that he would have to go on living at Dreever indefinitely, without so much as a fearful quid to call his own.

Imagination boggled at the prospect. In the summer and autumn, when there was shooting, his lordship was not indisposed to a stay at the home of his fathers. But all the year round! Better a broken heart inside the radius than a sound one in the country in the winter.
1. Who left waterside
2. does he smoke?
3. where did he go?
4. was he old?
5. who could take away supplies?
6. Why?
7. was Uncle Tom liked?
8. where did he live if trouble happened?
9. did he call it his home?
10. when was there a shooting
11. where did he stay after
12. was there another season of shooting?
13. when?
14. who left on a canoe?
15. who did she leave with?
16. was this troublesome?
17. was someone engaged?
18. was The lord a hero?
19. where was the stain?
20. who was abandoned?
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answer:
1. Lord Dreever
2. Yes.
3. On a tour.
4. Yes.
5. Uncle Tom
6. if there was trouble
7. No.
8. Dreever
9. No.
10. autumn
11. home of his fathers
12. YEs.
13. winter
14. Molly
15. Jimmy
16. No.
17. Yes.
18. He did not think so.
19. one's outlook on life
20. the girl one loves