Q: BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. James Harding has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013.

The department's annual budget is in excess of 350million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London. Through the BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.

The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by Royal Charter, making it operationally independent of the government, who have no power to appoint or dismiss its director-general, and required to report impartially. As with all major media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum, both within the UK and abroad.

Answer the following questions:
1. What does BBC stand for?
2. How many staff members does it have?
3. How many focus on journalism?
4. Where is it located?
5. What type of coverage does it provide? Local?
6. Is it operated by a governmental agency?
7. Who is the director?
8. Since when?
9. How much information is generated daily?
10. Do they have online content?
11. Do they have a large budget?
12. What is it?
13. What is their newsroom called?
14. Where is it located?
15. Do they have multiple news centers?
16. Where?
17. Anywhere else?
18. Where?
19. Anywhere else?
20. Do each of these locations produce their own news?
A: 1. British Broadcasting Corporation
2. 3,500
3. 2,000
4. in Europe
5. global
6. No
7. James Harding
8. 2013
9. 120 hours
10. yes
11. yes
12. 350million
13. Broadcasting House
14. London
15. Yes
16. Millbank
17. Yes
18. Northern Ireland
19. Scotland
20. Yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Botany, also called plant science(s) or plant biology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specializes in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (botane) meaning "pasture", "grass", or "fodder"; is in turn derived from (boskein), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists study approximately 400,000 species of living organisms of which some 260,000 species are vascular plants and about 248,000 are flowering plants.

Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify and later cultivate edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to monasteries, contained plants of medical importance. They were forerunners of the first botanical gardens attached to universities, founded from the 1540s onwards. One of the earliest was the Padua botanical garden. These gardens facilitated the academic study of plants. Efforts to catalogue and describe their collections were the beginnings of plant taxonomy, and led in 1753 to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus that remains in use to this day.

1. Does Botany have another name?
2. what?
3. anything else?
4. What is a botanist?
5. Where does the word botany come from?
6. What does it mean?
7. How did Botany orginate?
8. with what efforts?
9. to do what?
10. Does botany include fungi?
11. and what else?
12. how many living organisms do botanists study?
13. vascular plants?
14. how many?
15. Flowering plants?
16. how many?
17. what was discovered in the 1540s?
18. what was one of the earliest?
19. what did they facilitate?
20. were they catolouged?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. yes
2. plant biology
3. plant science
4. a scientist who specializes in this field.
5. the word botane
6. "pasture", "grass", or "fodder"
7. as herbalism
8. he efforts of early humans
9. to identify and cultivate edible, medicinal and poisonous plants
10. yes
11. algae
12. 400,000
13. yes
14. 260,000
15. yes
16. 248,000
17. botanical gardens attached to universities
18. the Padua botanical garden
19. the academic study of plants
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Annabelle Smith and her two best friends, Samantha and Kristy, loved going to Sand City School. Mrs. Lemming, their teacher, would read them a story. That Monday afternoon, Mrs. Lemming read them a story called Super Sophie Saves the Day. After school, Annabelle, Samantha and Kristy walked home together. "I decide that from now on I'm going to be a superhero like Sophie," Annabelle told her friends. "You mean heroine," Kristy said. "You're a girl, Annabelle." The next day Kristy and Samantha picked Annabelle up on their way to school. Annabelle had a red towel taped to her blue shirt. "I am Super Annabelle," Annabelle said. "I'll save someone on the way to school." Charlotte, another second-grader, walked past the girls. Her sweater was tied around her waist. She ran a little faster, and her sweater was nearly on the ground. Annabelle wondered what she would do. Giving her a dirty look, Charlotte ran away. Annabelle walked into her father's study when she got home. She had a homework question for him. A note on her father's desk said he was lending some books to Charlotte's father. She noticed a magazine on his desk that said Go Green. "Homework can wait," Annabelle thought. "Maybe Charlotte goes green!" In the woods, Annabelle saw a man cutting down a tree. Trees were good for the environment. She prevented him from cutting down the tree, and then she fell on the hard ground. Annabelle walked farther in the woods, where she found Charlotte picking up litter. Annabelle said, "You are the second-grade's hero, Charlotte." Charlotte stared at Annabelle. "I'm picking up litter to make the earth a better place," she said. "I don't care about being famous." Annabelle felt slightly ashamed of herself.

1. Who were Annabelle's best friends?
2. Did they have a teacher?
3. what was her name
4. What book did she read
5. What did Annabelle decide?
6. Who did Kristy and Samantha pick up
7. What did she have on her shirt?
8. What color was the shirt?
9. Who is Charlotte?
10. Where was her sweater?
11. Did she run away?
12. What kind of question did Annabelle have for her dad?
13. What was on her father's desk?
14. What else?
15. What did it say?
16. Where was Annabelle when she saw a man?
17. What was he doing?
18. Did she let him do that?
19. Who else did she find in the woods?
20. What was she doing?
21. Does she care about being famous?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Samantha and Kristy
2. Yes.
3. Mrs. Lemming
4. Super Sophie Saves the Day
5. going to be a superhero
6. Annabelle
7. red towel
8. blue
9. another second-grader
10. nearly on the ground
11. Yes.
12. homework question
13. note
14. magazine
15. Go Green
16. In the woods
17. cutting down a tree
18. No
19. Charlotte
20. picking up litter
21. No