Q: Jamaica () is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles. The island, in area, lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Jamaica is the fourth-largest island country in the Caribbean, by area.

Inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taino peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people died of disease, and the Spanish imported African slaves as labourers. Named "", the island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it and renamed it Jamaica. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with its plantation economy highly dependent on slaves forcibly transported from Africa. The British fully emancipated all slaves in 1838, and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations. Beginning in the 1840s, the British imported Chinese and Indian indentured labour to work on plantations. The island achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962.

With /1e6 round 1 million people, Jamaica is the third-most populous Anglophone country in the Americas (after the United States and Canada), and the fourth-most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city, with a population of 937,700. Jamaicans predominately have African ancestry, with significant European, Chinese, Indian, and mixed-race minorities. Due to a high rate of emigration for work since the 1960s, Jamaica has a large diaspora around the world, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Answer the following questions:
1. How many Anglophone countries in the Americas have more people than Jamaica?
2. Is Mexico one of those?
3. What countries then?
4. How many more populous countries exist in the Caribbean?
5. Is there over 500,000 people in Jamaica?
6. What's the biggest city?
7. What about its capital?
8. How many people live in the city?
9. What is their main ancestry?
10. Did a lot of people leave the country in the 1960s?
11. Why?
12. Are there many Jamaicans in the UK?
13. Where else?
14. Is it in the Mediterranean Sea?
15. Which sea?
16. What island is north of it?
17. Who arrived in the fifteenth century?
18. What are the native people called?
19. Who named it Jamaica?
20. What does it export?
A: 1. Two
2. no
3. United States and Canada
4. Three
5. yes
6. Kingston
7. Kingston
8. 937,700
9. African
10. yes
11. high rate of emigration for work
12. yes
13. Canada and the United States
14. no
15. Caribbean
16. Cuba
17. Christopher Columbus
18. Arawak and Taino peoples
19. England
20. sugar
Q: Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry.

Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father's lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries.

He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.

Answer the following questions:
1. When did Alfred Nobel die?
2. Who was his father?
3. What did he invent?
4. Where was Alfred birthed?
5. In what year?
6. Where did his family move?
7. When did that happen?
8. What kind of profession did his dad do?
9. Did his father make a good amount of money?
10. Did he lose it at some point?
11. When did they go back to their home country?
12. What profession was Nobel the son?
13. What did he work on?
14. Did he have a high education experience?
15. What languages could he speak?
16. How many companies did he build?
17. Where these companies in multiple cities?
18. In how many countries?
19. Was finding the purpose of life important to him?
20. Where did he die?
21. What does his will fund?
22. Will he be remembered?
A: 1. 1896
2. Immanuel Nobel
3. landmine
4. Stockholm
5. 1833
6. Russia
7. in 1842
8. engineering
9. yes
10. yes
11. 1859
12. an inventor
13. explosives
14. no
15. Swedish, Russian, German, French and English
16. 80
17. 20 different
18. 20
19. yes
20. Italy
21. physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace
22. yes
Q: It was a cold day when John made up his mind to go outside and check the fence. There had been things missing from the back yard, and he was starting to think there was a criminal at work. He put on his coat and started walking through the snow back to the long metal fence at the back of the yard. It seemed like a lot longer walk than last summer when it was hot.

Sure enough, he found how the crook had gotten in. A tree, weighted down by the snow, had fallen on the fence on a windy day and broken a section. He got out his toolbox, and with a tool, cut some sections of wire. He used the wires to fix the fence.

Now, it was time to catch the crook. Sure enough, he saw tracks heading to and from the fence. But they weren't a crook's footprints. It had been a raccoon that had been stealing things from his yard.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was the weather?
2. Who was the crook?
3. What fell on the fence?
4. What did John put on?
5. What type of fence was it?
6. Did the walk seem long?
7. What did he use to fix the fence?
8. What did he use to cut that?
9. From where?
10. What did he see heading to and from the fence?
11. Where were things missing from?
A:
1. It was a cold day
2. a raccoon
3. a tree
4. his coat
5. metal
6. yes
7. wires
8. a tool
9. his toolbox
10. tracks
11. the back yard