question: I am very hungry. I look for my mother.

When is dinner? I ask.

Dinner is at six, my mother says.

What can we eat? I ask.

We can pick food from our garden, she says. I help her pick corn, beans, and peas.

The corn is yellow and white. The beans are small and brown. The peas are green and round.

I put the beans in a basket. I put the peas in a bowl. Mother brings the corn. We go inside.

I have dirty hands. I wash my hands with soap and water. The water is warm. My hands are now clean.

Mother lets me stir the beans. I fill a pot with water. Mother puts the corn into the pot. She puts the pot on the stove. The water boils.

Mary is my sister. Mary puts four plates on the table. Each plate is blue.

We each eat two pieces of meat. I eat more corn than Mary. Mary eats more beans than our mother.

What did you learn today? Mary asks.

I can spell ten new words, I say.

Mary can only spell two words.
1. Do you have siblings?
2. Who?
3. What chore did she complete?
4. What did she put down?
5. What colour were they?
6. Where did she put them?
7. Where did they get the ingredients for dinner?
8. What vegetables did they get?
9. What do they look like?
10. Where did they put them?
11. Then where did they go?
12. Who ate the most corn?
13. And beans?
14. How much did your mother eat?
15. Who learned more today?
16. What went onto the stove?
17. What else was inside?
18. What did it do next?
19. How much meat was eaten?
20. How many people eat?
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answer: 1. yes
2. Mary
3. setting the table
4. four plates
5. blue
6. on the table
7. from the garden
8. corn and peas
9. The corn is yellow and white. The peas are green and round
10. in a bowl and inside
11. inside
12. I do
13. Mary
14. fewer beans than Mary
15. I
16. the corn in the pot
17. water
18. boil
19. Six
20. Three

question: When Mark first arrived in Thailand, he saw an old man selling something cheap in the street of Chiang Mai. The old man was one of the poor people in Chiang Mai and there was no difference from beggars . Most of them were some lonely old people. Their life had no support. Mark was a kind man, so he gave some changes to him without thinking. The old man told him to pick something he liked. Mark didn't choose anything and left. But the old man followed him closely. AT first, Mark didn't think a lot, just supposing he wanted to go home. But when he went out very far saw the old man still following him, he was a bit tired, thinking the old man must feel he was kind and wanted to beg more money from him. Mark turned back and told him not to follow him because he hadn't much money. But the old man seemed not to understand what he meant, still following him. The bag on his back made him sweat all over. Mark happened to meet his Thai colleague in the street and his colleague heard this. The colleague turned to ask why the old man was following his friend. The old man said out of breath, "My son, you gave me money, but didn't want my things, so I have to give you something. I see you are a foreigner, likely not to familiar with here. I just want to follow you and show you the way. All I can do for you is this." Mark was shocked. He said he didn't know why, when he felt the old man was just like his father.
1. Where was Mark?
2. Why did he think the old man was following him?
3. But what did he really want to do?
4. Why did Mark give him some change?
5. Was the old man selling expensive stuff?
6. Did Mark pick something when the man told him to?
7. So he just walked off?
8. Was the old man carrying something on his back?
9. What?
10. Did it cause the old man to be drenched in sweat?
11. Where was the street where Mark first encountered the old man?
12. Was he the same as a beggar?
13. What kind of people were most of them?
14. Were most of them old, too?
15. Did they have anyone to help them?
16. What did Mark tell the old man after he'd followed him awhile?
17. Why?
18. Did the old man stop following him?
19. Who did Mark run into in the street?
20. What did the old man call Mark?
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answer: 1. Thailand
2. he wanted to beg more
3. to give him something
4. he was a kind man
5. no
6. no
7. yes
8. yes
9. a bag
10. yes
11. Chiang Mai.
12. yes
13. onely
14. yes
15. no
16. not to follow him
17. he hadn't much money.
18. no
19. his colleague
20. My son

question: Turkmenistan ( or ; , ), formerly known as Turkmenia, is a country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west.

Turkmenistan has been at the crossroads of civilizations for centuries. In medieval times, Merv was one of the great cities of the Islamic world and an important stop on the Silk Road, a caravan route used for trade with China until the mid-15th century. Annexed by the Russian Empire in 1881, Turkmenistan later figured prominently in the anti-Bolshevik movement in Central Asia. In 1925, Turkmenistan became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR); it became independent upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Turkmenistan possesses the world's fourth largest reserves of natural gas resources. Most of the country is covered by the Karakum (Black Sand) Desert. Since 1993, citizens have been receiving government-provided electricity, water and natural gas free of charge.

Turkmenistan was ruled by President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov until his death in 2006. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow was elected president in 2007. According to Human Rights Watch, "Turkmenistan remains one of the world's most repressive countries. The country is virtually closed to independent scrutiny, media and religious freedoms are subject to draconian restrictions, and human rights defenders and other activists face the constant threat of government reprisal." After suspending the death penalty, the use of capital punishment was formally abolished in the 2008 constitution.
1. What was an important stop on the Silk Road?
2. What is that road?
3. Is it a caravan route?
4. What business did it aid?
5. Until when?
6. Turkmenistan has been where for centuries?
7. Is most of the country forest?
8. What is it, then?
9. What's one thing the residents get for free?
10. What natural resources is in abundance there?
11. Who ruled there until 2006?
12. What punishment did they end there in 2008?
13. What other punishment is no more?
14. What's to the southwest of this country?
15. What did the place used to be called?
16. What happened in 1881 there?
17. When did it become it's own country?
18. What caused that to happen?
19. Is it a repressed country?
20. Do the people have much freedom?
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answer:
1. Merv
2. the Silk Road,
3. yes
4. for trade with China
5. until the mid-15th century.
6. at the crossroads of civilizations
7. no
8. Most of the country is covered by the Karakum (Black Sand) Desert.
9. electricity, water and natural gas
10. natural gas resources
11. President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov
12. capital punishment
13. the death penalty,
14. Iran
15. Turkmenia
16. It was annexed by the Russian Empire
17. 1991.
18. the dissolution of the Soviet Union
19. yes
20. no