Q: The Republic of the Congo (French: Republique du Congo), also known as Congo, Congo Republic, West Congo[citation needed], or Congo-Brazzaville, is a country located in Central Africa. It is bordered by five countries: Gabon to the west; Cameroon to the northwest; the Central African Republic to the northeast; the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the east and south; and the Angolan exclave of Cabinda to the southwest.

The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo-Brazzaville was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa. Upon independence in 1960, the former colony of French Congo became the Republic of the Congo. The People's Republic of the Congo was a MarxistLeninist one-party state from 1970 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who ruled for 26 years?
2. Which language is spoken?
3. What did they build?
4. to what?
5. Were they a colony?
6. What country?
7. Who ruled the colony?
8. Which nation once ruled over the colony?
9. When was independence gained from the French?
10. Were elections held?
11. When?
A: 1. President Denis Sassou Nguesso
2. Bantu
3. trade links
4. the Congo River basin
5. formerly
6. Africa
7. unknown
8. Bantu-speaking tribes
9. 1960
10. yes
11. since 1992
Q: Jenny wanted to encourage students to read more famous books, so she decided to put an introduction to some interesting children's story books in the school newspaper. The Little Prince (<<>> is a famous work written by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. In the book, the little prince leaves his own planet to explore the universe . In his journey, he finds that the adult world is really strange and boring. Finally, he goes back to his planet which is full of love. The book is really popular throughout the world. Charlotte's Web (<<>> is a famous children's novel written by American author E. B. White. The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a spider named Charlotte on a farm. When Wilbur is in danger of being killed for his meat by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages to _ Wilbur in her web and saves him. Wilbur becomes famous in the village and he is safe in the end. When it came out in 1952, the book was welcomed by both adults and children. And it is still very popular today. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (<<>> is a 2006 novel written by Kate DiCamillo. The book is about an unusual journey of a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. He travels from one place to another, meeting many people. During his journey, he learns to love and finally finds love again. This book is popular nowadays and was mentioned many times in the famous South Korean TV series My love from the Star (<<>> . The warm and sweet story will surely make you understand more about love.

Answer the following questions:
1. What show was broadcast in South Korea?
2. What is used to save the pig?
3. Who wove the web?
4. Who was saved?
5. What is he?
6. Who wanted to kill him?
7. Why?
8. Where did he find fame?
9. Who wrote the book about the young royal person?
10. What is his nationality?
11. What was the title?
12. From where does the boy go?
13. What did he find there?
14. What was it like?
15. Upon return, how did he find his home planet?
16. Who wrote about saving the barnyard animal from becoming bacon?
17. What's his nationality?
18. Who wrote about the trip a rabbit took?
19. In what year?
20. What was it's title?
A: 1. My love from the Star
2. Charlotte writes messages to _ Wilbur in her web and saves him.
3. Charlotte
4. Wilbur.
5. A pig.
6. The farmer.
7. For his meat.
8. In the village
9. Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
10. French.
11. The Little Prince.
12. To explore the universe .
13. The adult world
14. Strange and boring.
15. Full of love.
16. E. B. White.
17. American.
18. Kate DiCamillo.
19. 2006
20. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Q: A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Bringing a giraffe into the world is _ . In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, what the mother has done is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again. Why? She wants it to remember how it can get up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying great people, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something unusual about these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do."

Answer the following questions:
1. What position is giraffe in after being born?
2. What is its first lesson?
3. What does it have to do after being kicked?
4. What does the mother do after the baby stands up for the first time?
5. What's the purpose of that?
6. Why is this so important?
7. Who used this survival technique in his works?
8. Which famous people did he write about?
9. What did he have to say about them?
10. Did having this happen to them make them want to give up on life?
A:
1. on its back
2. Being kicked by it's mother.
3. get up
4. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again
5. She wants it to remember how it can get up.
6. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group
7. Irving Stone
8. Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin
9. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
10. No