Question: I once went on a week-long backpacking trip through the mountains. We had a lot of fun and saw a lot of animals. We saw two bears on the first. We also saw one buffalo. During the week we climbed four different mountains. The best day of the trip was the last day. On the last day we heard that one of best things to do was to climb the last mountain at night so that way you could watch the sunrise on top of the mountain. We had to wake up at two in the morning to do the climb. It was very tough to climb a mountain at night. We finally got to the top of the mountain at five in the morning. We watched the sunrise an hour later at six in the morning. It was very beautiful. In fact, at one time because of the rise of the mountain you it was daytime in front of us and nighttime behind us. This was one of the best times in my life. 1. How long was the backpacking trip?
2. How many people went on the trip?
3. How many mountains did they scale?
4. Which day has the author's favorite?
5. On that day, how long did it take to get to the summit?
6. How long did they stay?
7. Was this climb easy?
8. When did they first see sunlight?
9. What did the author mean by it being day in front and night behind?
10. Why did they start at night?
11. How much wildlife did they see? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. week-long
2. Two
3. Four
4. the last day
5. 3 hours
6. 1 hour
7. no
8. at six
9. unknown
10. to watch the sunrise
11. 2 bears and 1 buffalo

Question: Some years ago, Wang Baoqiang was a nobody to most Chinese people. However, he is now a household film star in China.

Wang is the youngest child of a poor family in Hebei Province. Dreaming of becoming an actor, he left home at the age of 8 to study kung fu at Shaolin Temple, since kung-fu actors seemed to appear most often on the big screen.

At 14, he moved to Beijing for his acting career for the first time, with little money in his pocket. He worked at a construction site for 20 to 25 yuan per day, and spent his free time standing in front of the Beijing Film Studio, eager to be chosen as temporary actors. This was the hardest time for the boy. His opportunity finally came one day after he went for a role in the movie "Blind Shaft" . He was chosen to play a young coal miner. The movie won him three prizes in Thailand, France and Taiwan. But his success didn't make any difference to his life.

That year, he went home for the Spring Festival. He gave his family his earnings from the movie, around $ 250 and then returned to Beijing with 500 yuan, the same amount he had when he first came to the city. His life was as simple as before.

Thanks to his natural performance in "Blind Shaft", he was invited by the famous director Feng Xiaogang to act in the film "A World Without Thieves" in 2004, which made him famous immediately. People called him "Shagen", the name of his character in the movie.

Wang's work, "Soldiers Sortie" has made him the most popular actor on the Chinese mainland. For the actor, it's a dream coming true.

"Dreams come true. I think my life is exactly a course of pursuing dreams. No matter how tough one thing is,I can make it as long as I put great effort into it. "he said. 1. Where was Wang born?
2. To a weathly family?
3. Is he a nobody?
4. How about now?
5. what is he?
6. where?
7. is he an only child?
8. Where did he go at 8?
9. why?
10. Where?
11. When was the hardest time for him?
12. why?
13. doing what?
14. was he?
15. for what?
16. Did he do well in themovie?
17. how?
18. What made him famous?
19. How did he feel about dreams?
20. how? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Hebei Province.
2. no
3. Some years ago
4. no
5. a household film star
6. China.
7. no
8. he left home
9. to study kung fu
10. at Shaolin Temple
11. when he was 14
12. spent his free time standing in front of the Beijing Film Studio,
13. eager to be chosen as temporary actors
14. yes
15. He was chosen to play a young coal miner
16. yes
17. The movie won him three prizes in Thailand, France and Taiwan.
18. Soldiers Sortie
19. Dreams come true
20. put great effort into it

Question: Damascus is the capital and likely the largest city of Syria, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city. It is commonly known in Syria as "ash-Sham" and nicknamed as the "City of Jasmine". In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major cultural centre of the Levant and the Arab world. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 .

Located in south-western Syria, Damascus is the centre of a large metropolitan area of 2.6 million people (2004). Geographically embedded on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau above sea level, Damascus experiences a semi-arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus.

First settled in the second millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. After the victory of the Abbasid dynasty, the seat of Islamic power was moved to Baghdad. Damascus saw a political decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Today, it is the seat of the central government and all of the government ministries. 1. What city is this article talking about?
2. Located where?
3. Why did the population of Aleppo go down?
4. What is the city's nickname?
5. and the population?
6. Is it the oldest city?
7. Its a major cultural center of wht?
8. What river flows through it?
9. and why is there a semi arid climate ther?
10. When was it first settled? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Damascus
2. Syria
3. no
4. the city of Jasmine
5. 1,711,000 .
6. one of them
7. the Levant
8. The Barada River
9. because of the rain shadow effect.
10. in the second millennium BC