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On my eighth birthday, Dad bought me an accordion and said excitedly, "Once you learn to play, it'll stay with you for life." But I didn't want to play it. I just wanted to play games, But Dad asked me to take accordion lessons. One day, I found a box in a corner. When I opened it, I saw a beautiful violin. "It was your father's," Mum said. "His parents bought it for him. I guess he got too busy on the farm to learn to play it." I had to practice half an hour every day, and every day I tried to get out of it. But _ I asked why. He answered, "Because you can bring people joy. You can touch their hearts." He added softly, "Someday you'll have the chance I never had: you'll play beautiful music for your family. And you'll understand why you've worked so hard." I was speechless. The lessons stopped after I finished high school. When I grew up, I got married and moved into a new house. I put the accordion in the attic . One afternoon, my two children found the accordion by accident . They got very excited. "Play it. Play it," they laughed and said. I started to play some simple songs. I was surprised I could still remember them. Soon the kids were dancing. Even my wife was laughing and clapping to the beat. At that moment, my father's words came back to me, "Someday you'll have the chance I never had. And you'll understand." I finally knew why Dad had asked me to practice hard. Dad never learnt to play his violin. But I told my family, "This is my father's music."
1. What was found in a box in the corner?
2. Whose was it?
3. Why had it been neglected?
4. What other instrument was less exciting?
5. How long was practice?
6. Did the instruction stop after eighth grade?
7. When did they stop?
8. Where did the instrument end up?
9. Was that in the childhood home?
10. How many of the offspring discovered it?
11. Did they find it boring?
12. What were the titles of the melodies that were played?
13. Did the spouse like the instrument?
14. What did she do?
15. What was the instrument supposed to give to others?
16. On which year of birth was the instrument given as a gift?
17. Was the other, more beautiful instrument ever learned?

Numbered answers:
1. a beautiful violin
2. your father's
3. he got too busy on the farm
4. an accordion
5. half an hour every day
6. no
7. after I finished high schoo
8. in the attic
9. no
10. two children
11. no
12. unknown
13. yes
14. laughing and clapping to the beat
15. joy
16. On my eighth birthday
17. no

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A new camera made by a company named Netatmo has facial recognition software that can tell parents at work that their children have returned from school, or that a package has been taken to their home. It can also tell them if a stranger has entered their home. Janina Mattausch is a product marketing manager for Netatmo. "The common security cameras at present are not that smart. So, they can tell you if something is moving but they don't necessarily know if it's a human being or, ah, if it's your kids --they don't know the difference, so they will warn you all the time. " When family members enter a home, the new camera "recognizes" ( ) them and sends information to the owner's smartphone. The owner can choose to see the video then or latcr. But if an unknown person enters a home, the camera will send the owner a warning that will cause an alarm to sound on the owner's smartphone. That is what happened recently to a smart home camera owncr named Darrmen. He lives in Paris. "On a Friday I was at work,atending a big monthly meeting when my phone warned. At first I told myself 'Oh, it must be a mistake, maybe I have to set the systcm again. ' -but the notice on my phone was telling me that there was a movement in my flat and also a face that the software did not recognize. " He watched the video and was very surprised by what he saw. "I saw a person I did not know with his shoes on. I was watching it live on vidco. So I felt totaly unbelievable, frozen. I asked a workmate to take me back home as fast as possible and I callcd the police on the way. " With the help of the video, the police found the intruder later that day.
1. What can the new camera tell parents?
2. What else?
3. What else?
4. Where does the camera send information?
5. What special kind of recognition does the camera have?
6. Who is Janina?
7. For what company?
8. True or False: The new camera can't tell individual people apart.
9. What happens if the camera senses a stranger?
10. What does the alarm sound like?

Numbered answers:
1. children have returned
2. a package has been taken
3. stranger has entered t
4. to the owner's smartphone
5. facial
6. manager
7. Netatmo
8. true
9. phone warned
10. an alarm

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The Christian Church is a term generally used by Protestants and some others to refer to the whole group of people belonging to the Christian religious tradition throughout history. In this understanding, the "Christian Church" does not refer to a particular Christian denomination but to the body of all believers; but most Christians follow the traditional Christian understanding of the term, and believe that the term "Christian Church" or "Church" applies only to a specific historic Christian body or institution, namely their own (e.g., the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, the Non-Chalcedonian Churches of Oriental Orthodoxy, or the Assyrian Church of the East). The Four Marks of the Church first expressed in the Nicene Creed are that the Church is One (a unified Body of Particular Churches in full Communion of doctrines and faith with each other), Holy (a sanctified and deified Body), Catholic (Universal and containing the fullness of Truth in itself), and Apostolic (its hierarchy, doctrines, and faith can be traced back to the Apostles).

Thus, the majority of Christians globally (particularly of the apostolic churches listed above, as well as some Anglo-Catholics) consider the Christian Church as a visible and institutional "societas perfecta" enlivened with supernatural grace, while Protestants generally understand the Church to be an invisible reality not identifiable with any specific earthly institution, denomination, or network of affiliated churches. Others equate the Church with particular groups that share certain essential elements of doctrine and practice, though divided on other points of doctrine and government (such as the branch theory as taught by some Anglicans).
1. What do the majority of Christians consider the Christian Church?
2. What do others equate the church with?
3. Who is the term Christian Church usually used by to refer to the whole group?
4. What do most Christians believe about the term "Christian Church"?
5. Can you name a couple of these churches?
6. Name two?
7. Where were the Four Marks of the Church 1st expressed?
8. What is the first one of these Marks?
9. Can you name another?
10. What can the Apostolic Mark hierarchy, doctrines and faith be traced back to?
11. Who thinks the the church is an invisible reality?
Numbered answers:
1. a visible and institutional "societas perfecta" enlivened with supernatural grace
2. an invisible reality not identifiable with any specific earthly institution, denomination, or network of affiliated churches
3. Protestants
4. it applies only to a specific historic Christian body or institution
5. yes
6. the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
7. in the Nicene Creed
8. the Church is One
9. the Church is Holy
10. the Apostles
11. Protestants