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17-year-old Tibetan boy climbs 40 meters up a tall tree only to get some honey as an ingredient for a traditional local drink. The money he makes from selling the honey will be used to pay for his younger brother's tuition fee . This is only a scene from the first episode of CCTV's new documentary, A Bite of China 2(2), which appeared on April 18, 2014. But they are enough reasons for viewers to spend an hour every Friday until June 6 enjoying in front of their television sets. Viewers have had to wait a long time since A Bite of China 1 came out in 2012. Back then, the seven-episode documentary was considered the best one ever produced by CCTV, with its good effects and rich food culture. A famous foreigner praised it, saying "it's the best TV show I've ever seen about food. I'm sure it's the best one ever made. " The new season includes eight episodes, covering 300 types of food. According to CCTV, every minute of the show was edited out of 150 minutes of footage . Finding their subjects was often the hardest part of the film team's job. It took them six months to film a beekeeping couple , which included a journey of more than 2,000 kilometers. Food is a personal thing, in that no dish suits all tastes. However, the program has still managed to move all sorts of viewers. "Compared with A Bite of China 1, the new season has a more human touch, which makes viewers cover some tears while their mouths are watering," said Sina Entertainment. As always, the people are the most interesting part. A Bite of China 2 shows a greater dream--through homemade food, it tells the joys and _ of common Chinese in changing times, according to director Chen Xiaoqing of the documentary series . "I was moved by the people in each simple story," said Li Weifang, 17, of Beijing No 3 High School. "Their work helps enrich China's food culture. " In fact, that is exactly what the new season hopes to deliver . Through the program, "the listeners will see the characteristics of the Chinese people: save and tenacity ," Chen told Xinhua Internet. ,,. (2,10)
1. How old was the boy?
2. What does he sell?
3. What is the name of the documentary?
4. What night does it air?
5. What day of the week is that?
6. When did first come out?
7. How long did it take to find beekeepers?
8. How many types of food did they feature?
9. What country is featured?
10. How high is the Tree the boy climbs?
11. Where is he from?

Numbered answers:
1. 17 years old.
2. Honey
3. A Bite of China
4. April 18, 2014.
5. Friday
6. 2012.
7. Six months
8. 300
9. China.
10. 40 meters
11. Tibet

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(CNN) -- When plans were announced to build a giant new transoceanic canal across Nicaragua, the young Hong Kong businessman leading the project acknowledged the widespread skepticism. "We don't want it to become an international joke," said Wang Jing, a 40-year-old with no significant engineering experience and a background he described as "very normal."

That was in June 2013, when the Nicaraguan legislature, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, had just allowed Wang to move forward with his five-year project .

It is not certain that the canal, which would be one of the most ambitious and expensive engineering projects on Earth, will ever get built. But it looks set to move forward, and even some of the most determined doubters are starting to reconsider.

Last Thursday, the government and Wang's company, Nicaragua Canal Development Investment, announced that construction will start on Dec. 22.

The development's estimated price tag -- $50 billion -- is four times the size of the entire Nicaraguan economy. The canal itself would be deeper, wider and longer than the Panama Canal, just a few hundred miles to the south. The Panama Canal's expansion is almost ready, which raises the question of why another costly canal is needed.

The Nicaraguan opposition has called the project the biggest scam in the country's history, and engineering experts are divided over whether the project is feasible.

Pedro Alvarez, chairman of civil engineering at Rice University, has expressed doubts that it will ever be completed. He worries that it will be abandoned. His greatest concern is severe damage to Lake Nicaragua, the largest freshwater reservoir in Latin America.
1. what happened last thursday?
2. when?
3. who said they dont want to become a joke?
4. who is he?
5. from where?
6. what is the project he's in charge of?
7. where?
8. who told him to move forward in June?
9. how much will the project cost?
10. is that bigger than the economy there?
11. by how much?
12. why are some saying this isnt needed?
13. which canal will be bigger?
14. who is Pedro Alvarez?
15. how far away is the other canal?
16. is Alvarez supportive of the canal?
17. what is his concern?

Numbered answers:
1. it was announced that construction will start
2. Dec. 22.
3. Wang Jing
4. a businessman
5. Hong Kong
6. building a canal
7. across Nicaragua
8. the Nicaraguan legislature
9. $50 billion
10. yes
11. four times
12. The Panama Canal expansion
13. the new one
14. chairman of civil engineering at Rice University
15. a few hundred miles
16. no
17. damage to Lake Nicaragua

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The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mulhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on 4 January 1798. Alsace is frequently mentioned with and as part of Lorraine and the former duchy of Lorraine, since it was a vital part of the duchy, and later because German possession as the imperial province (Alsace-Lorraine, 18711918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries; France and Germany exchanged control of parts of Lorraine (including Alsace) four times in 75 years.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts. The part known as Lotharingia, or Lorraine, was given to Lothar's son. The rest was shared between Lothar's brothers Charles the Bald (ruler of the West Frankish realm) and Louis the German (ruler of the East Frankish realm). The Kingdom of Lotharingia was short-lived, however, becoming the stem duchy of Lorraine in Eastern Francia after the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia.
1. What Region was a part of the Holy Roman Empire?
2. Who annexed it?
3. when?
4. and what did it become?
5. What became of Mulhouse?
6. how?
7. by who?
8. when?
9. what had it been known as?
10. was Alsace part of Lorraine?
11. what was contested?
12. when?
13. How many times was control of Lorraine shifted?
14. between who?
15. over how many years?
Numbered answers:
1. Lorraine
2. France
3. the 17th centuary
4. a trench province
5. b4ecame part of Alsace
6. a vote
7. it's citizens
8. 4 January 1798.
9. as part of Lorraine
10. yes
11. German possession
12. the 19th and 20th centuries;
13. Four
14. France and Germany
15. 75 years