Question:
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Lisa: My best teacher is my geography teacher in 10th grade. Why? Because we did school projects! Back then I wrote about India and never forgot what I had learned. He brought the culture to life by letting me become part of it. He also listened to us and was always ready with a kind word.

David: My best teacher is my high school social studies and history teacher, Thomas Ladenburg. He respected us, though we were just teenagers. His class was never boring because he often asked us to discuss in class. He used his own materials which made the class very interesting.

Henry: My best ever teacher is my biology teacher in high school. I really liked her class. She explained everything very clearly. She also checked our notebooks to make sure we had written down what she said. Now, many years later, I can still remember a large part of the things she taught!

Susan: The best teacher I have ever had is my 10th grade social studies teacher. She was always in a good mood and kept us laughing. She was really young, so she acted like us teenagers, which made learning fun. If we needed to talk to an adult about a problem, we would always come to her because we knew she could help us.

Tom: My favourite teacher is Mr. Yelle. He taught us math, science and music. He spoke to us "at eye level", and was very patient and kind. We did great projects for the science fairs. Forty years later, I still remember his lessons very well. By the way, though he was called Mr Yelle, he didn't yell .
1. Whose favorite instructor taught geography?
2. What grade?
3. WHy?
4. What country did she study?
5. Who is she talking to?
6. What instructor did David like best?
7. What was his name?
8. And Henry?
9. What did that instructor check?
10. What about Susan?
11. What grade?
12. Was the instructor old?
13. What about Tom?
14. What subject?
15. Did he like to scream at the students?

Numbered answers:
1. Lisa
2. 10th
3. school projects
4. India
5. her teacher
6. social studies and history teacher
7. Thomas Ladenburg
8. biology teacher
9. notebooks
10. social studies
11. 10th
12. no
13. Mr. Yelle
14. math, science and music.
15. no

Question:
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More than 40 years ago, John Williams gave away all of his belongings and went off to the mountains to live the way people lived 100 years ago. For food he traps wild animals, fishes in the rivers, and plants whatever he can. John lives in a cabin he made by hand, out of trees he chopped down with an ax. Though he has no s he knows of, he does have a deer he raised from a fawn. The deer lives in the house in the winter and goes with John when he goes into the forest for food. Nobody lives within fifty miles of his cabin in the mountains and John has not been out of the mountains during the entire forty years. One day last year I hiked in to see how John lives. It was like going back in time. There were no roads, no stores, no noise, no pollution, not even a post office.

Most notable of all, there were no people and that's just the way John Williams wants to keep his part of the world--without people. But there is a paradox in his story. John is an educated man. He has books and nobody knows how he got them. Mostly he reads about his world, the forest, the animals, the plants, and the mountains. He has seen airplanes flying overhead but does not want to know about them. For him, electricity is lightning, not light bulbs, refrigerators, televisions, or washing machines. John Williams is 85 years old and had not had a sick day in his life. He attributes his long life to the fact that it has nothing to do with people and in order that he might enjoy many more years of health, happiness, and solitude, I will not tell you where his kingdom lies. There is no room there for you or me.
1. Who gave away all his stuff
2. Why
3. What did he do for food
4. What else
5. Who made his house
6. What pet does he have
7. Where does it stay in winter
8. How far is the closest neighbor
9. How long has he lived there
10. Are there any roads or stores around
11. What does John have in his possession that confuses others
12. What does he read about
13. What does he not want to learn about
14. What does he compare lightning to
15. Has he ever seen an airplane
16. What does he want to stay away from more than anything
17. How old is John
18. Has he ever had a sick day
19. Why does he believe he's lived so long

Numbered answers:
1. John Williams
2. he went off to the mountains to live
3. he traps wild animals
4. he fishes in the rivers, and plants whatever he can
5. He did
6. a deer
7. in the house
8. unknown
9. More than 40 years
10. No
11. books
12. his world
13. airplanes
14. electricity
15. Yes
16. people
17. 85
18. No
19. the fact that it has nothing to do with people

Question:
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On 17 March 2003, Robin Cook, Leader of the House of Commons and former Foreign Secretary, resigned from the Cabinet in protest against the coming war in Iraq. His resignation speech inspired the first long applause in the history of the House and marked the end of the ministerial career of one of Labor's most brilliant politicians.

For the previous two years, Robin Cook kept a diary, a personal record of the life of Labor's second term, a diary that forms the center of the narrative . The Point of Departureis Robin Cook's plain account of this extraordinary period in our political history, the most important political publication of the decade. Though surprised by his abrupt dismissal as Foreign Secretary, he became determined to bring about some changes in Parliamentary democracy that he believed was essential if Parliament was to move into the 21stcentury. As Tony Blair told him, "This is the job for you."

Drawing on first-hand experiences in the Commons and the Cabinet, of encounters in conferences, and late night conversations, we follow his gathering disillusionment as the political compass of the government changes to directions which he believes to be completely mistaken: from its failure about Lords reform and its unwillingness to provide leadership for social change, to a foreign policy which has led us away from our responsibility in Europe, into closer relationship with the most right-wing government in American history, and participation in Bush's war on Iraq.

This is the story of a government in power and the tensions between those who govern. But above all it is a story of a politician who truly wanted to bring democracy closer to the people, but who saw a government increasingly separated from the values of himself and his party, and who developed a growing belief that on Iraq, its position was morally, diplomatically and politically wrong.

Robin Cook first entered Parliament as MP for Edinburgh Central in 1974. He held a number of senior positions in Opposition -- Shadow Foreign Secretary, Shadow Health and Social Services Secretary -- before becoming Foreign Secretary in 1997. In 2001 he was appointed Leader of the House of Commons, a position from which he resigned in March 2003 in protest against the coming war in Iraq.
1. Who quit?
2. What did he quit?
3. where?
4. What country was he from?
5. What did he do in his last two years of being in the cabinet?
6. What was he protesting?
7. what did he believe?
8. What happened in the House when he spoke his resignation speech?
9. When did he start working for the Parliment
10. What did Tony Blair say?
Numbered answers:
1. Robin Cook
2. Foreign Secretary
3. Cabinet
4. unknown
5. kept a diary
6. war in Iraq
7. peace
8. applause
9. 1974
10. This is the job for you.