Q: A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply. Electrification has many advantages but requires significant capital expenditure. Selection of an electrification system is based on economics of energy supply, maintenance, and capital cost compared to the revenue obtained for freight and passenger traffic. Different systems are used for urban and intercity areas; some electric locomotives can switch to different supply voltages to allow flexibility in operation.

Electric railways use electric locomotives to haul passengers or freight in separate cars or electric multiple units, passenger cars with their own motors. Electricity is typically generated in large and relatively efficient generating stations, transmitted to the railway network and distributed to the trains. Some electric railways have their own dedicated generating stations and transmission lines but most purchase power from an electric utility. The railway usually provides its own distribution lines, switches and transformers.

Answer the following questions:
1. What supplies electric power to railway trains and trams?
2. What does it not have?
3. What carries passengers?
4. Do they share motors?
5. Where is the power generated from?
6. Do some stations have their own?
7. What do most do though?
8. What is capital amount compared to?
9. Do urban and intercity use the same systems?
10. What allows flexibility in operations?
11. What does the railway provide?
A: 1. A railway electrification system
2. An on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.
3. Electric locomotives
4. No
5. Generating stations
6. Yes
7. Purchase power from an electric utility.
8. The revenue obtained for freight and passenger traffic
9. No
10. The ability to switch to different supply voltage
11. Electric power to railway trains and trams
Q: Once there was a girl named Ruth, who loved to play outside whenever she could. One day, she was running around outside with a friend, but she tripped and scraped her knee very badly. She doubled over in pain, screaming for her father "DADDY!!!" she yelled, until he ran outside to help. "Thank goodness that only the skin on your knee was hurt!" he said, as he picked her up to bring her inside. "We need to cover your cut, and it looks like it was about to start raining anyway," he said. He brought her into the restroom, so he could wash the cut, then put on medicine and a large bandage. "That medicine hurt..." Ruth said, but her cut was feeling better than it did before. "Well, at least now you don't have to worry about it getting worse," her father said. "Hopefully it won't take long for your cut to get better, then you can go back to playing outside again - be careful from now on!"

Answer the following questions:
1. Who liked to play outside when ever she could?
2. Who was she running around with?
3. Did she have an accident?
4. What happened?
5. Who did she scream for?
6. What did he put on the cut?
7. Did he pick her up to bring her inside?
8. What did the weather do?
9. Did the meidicne help her feel better?
10. What did ruth do to get her fathers attention after she got hurt?
11. What did her father tell her to do from now on?
12. After it got better would he let her go outside and play again?
A: 1. Ruth
2. a friend
3. yes
4. she tripped and scraped her knee
5. her father
6. medicine and a large bandage
7. yes
8. start raining
9. yes
10. scream
11. be careful
12. yes
Q: Switzerland (/swtsrlnd/), officially the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, hence its abbreviation CH), is a country in Europe. While still named the "Swiss Confederation" for historical reasons, modern Switzerland is a federal directorial republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities, called Bundesstadt ("federal city").[note 3] The country is situated in Western and Central Europe,[note 4] and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global and economic centres, Zurich and Geneva.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is to the west and north of Switzerland?
2. What divides Switzerland?
3. what is there population?
4. 2 economic centres?
5. what other countries surround its boarders?
6. What is their historical name?
7. where are the largest cities found?
8. what are the names of the 2 economic centres found there?
9. Geographically where is the country situated?
10. how many cantons are there in Switzerland?
11. What are the countries federal city?
12. what country is to the west?
13. What kind of republic is it?
14. What is its Latin abbreviation?
15. how many nations surround its boarders?
16. how big are the alps?
17. how large is the area spanning Jura?
18. what is Bundesstadt considered?
19. Does the mountain span a large part of Switzerland?
20. Where do many of the people live?
A:
1. France to the west and Germany to the north
2. the Alps
3. 8 million
4. yes
5. Italy France Germany Austria and Liechtenstein
6. Swiss Confederation
7. the Plateau
8. Zurich and Geneva
9. the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura
10. 26
11. Bundesstadt
12. France
13. a federal directorial republic
14. CH
15. five
16. unknown
17. 41,285 km2
18. the seat of the federal authorities
19. yes
20. on the Plateau