Q: Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent. There is no consensus on the precise area it covers, partly because the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. There are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region". A related United Nations paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct".

One definition describes Eastern Europe as a cultural entity: the region lying in Europe with the main characteristics consisting of Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, Russian , and some Ottoman culture influences. Another definition was created during the Cold War and used more or less synonymously with the term "Eastern Bloc". A similar definition names the formerly communist European states outside the Soviet Union as Eastern Europe. Some historians and social scientists view such definitions as outdated or relegated, but they are still sometimes used for statistical purposes.

Several other definitions of Eastern Europe exist today, but they often lack precision, are too general or outdated. These definitions vary both across cultures and among experts, even political scientists, as the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations.

Answer the following questions:
1. When was "Eastern Bloc" created as a anme?
A: 1. during the Cold War
Q: Would you like to go to Beijing, our capital? It's far away from Guangdong. It's 2313 kilometers from Beijing to Guangdong. The city of Kunming is 2216 kilometers away from Guangdong. It's always very warm there. But it's very hot in summer in Wuhan. It's 1084 kilometers from Guangdong to Wuhan. Changsha is near Guangdong. It's 726 kilometers from Changsha to Guangdong. Do you know which city is the biggest in China? It's Shanghai. It's 1811 kilometers from Guangdong to Shanghai. If you travel by air, you'll find it very interesting and fast enough to fly from Guangdong to Beijing. It only takes you about four hours and you'll get there easily, safely and unhurriedly .But traveling by train is quite different. You have to stay on the train for over thirty hours to arrive in Beijing. More and more people like to travel by air. You can see why, can't you?

Answer the following questions:
1. Is Beijing a capital?
2. Which place is further from Guangdong, Beijing or Kunming?
3. What temperature is Kunming usually?
4. Which place is closer to Guangdong, Wuhan or Changsha?
5. Which place is closer to Guangdong, it is Beijing, Kunming or Shanghai
6. What is the most time efficient way to get between Guangdong and Beijing?
7. Does it take more or less than a day to get between Guangdong to Beijing by train?
8. Does it take more or less than a day to go between Guangdong and Beijing by plane?
9. What country is Shanghai in?
10. Is air travel increasing or decreasing in China?
11. Is Guangdong generally a cool or warm place?
A: 1. yes
2. Beijing
3. warm
4. Changsha
5. Shanghai
6. fly
7. more
8. less
9. China
10. increasing
11. unknown
Q: CHAPTER IX: A PAINFUL TIME

When Ned was left alone he rolled himself up in the blankets, placed a pillow which Polly had brought him under his head, and lay and looked at the fire; but it was not until the flames had died down, and the last red glow had faded into blackness that he fell off to sleep.

His thoughts were bitter in the extreme. He pictured to himself the change which would take place in his home life with Mulready the manufacturer, the tyrant of the workmen, ruling over it. For himself he doubted not that he would be able to hold his own.

"He had better not try on his games with me," he muttered savagely. "Though I am only sixteen he won't find it easy to bully me; but of course Charlie and Lucy can't defend themselves. However, I will take care of them. Just let him be unkind to them, and see what comes of it! As to mother, she must take what she gets, at least she deserves to. Only to think of it! only to think of it! Oh, how bitterly she will come to repent! How could she do it!

"And with father only dead a year! But I must stand by her, too. I promised father to be kind to her, though he could never have guessed how she would need it. He meant that I would only put up, without losing my temper, with her way of always pretending to be ill, and never doing anything but lie on the sofa and read poetry. Still, of course, it meant I was to be kind anyhow, whatever happened, and I will try to be so, though it is hard when she has brought such trouble upon us all.

Answer the following questions:
1. How old was Fred?
2. Did Ned have family?
3. Who?
4. Where is his father?
5. Did he have siblings?
6. Were they older or younger?
7. Did he feel as if he had to protect them?
8. How did he feel about his mother?
9. Why?
10. What had Ted promised his father?
11. Was he bitter?
12. When did he finally fall asleep?
13. Did he have a blanket?
14. Who was he thinking about?
15. Who was that?
16. Was he known to be a tyrant?
17. What did his mother like to read?
18. Where would she do that?
19. Was she dating Mulready?
20. Was Mulready in control of their home?
A:
1. sixteen
2. yes
3. a mother
4. dead
5. yes
6. unknown
7. yes
8. she must take what she gets
9. she deserves to
10. to be kind to her
11. no
12. when the flames had died dow
13. yes
14. Mulready
15. the manufacturer,
16. yes
17. poetry
18. on the sofa
19. unknown
20. yes