Question: Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewellery, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. It took its name, short for "Arts Décoratifs", from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925. It combined modernist styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress. 

Art Deco was a pastiche of many different styles, sometimes contradictory, united by a desire to be modern. From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism; the bright colors of Fauvism and of the Ballets Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis Philippe and Louis XVI; and the exotic styles of China and Japan, India, Persia, ancient Egypt and Maya art. It featured rare and expensive materials, such as ebony and ivory, and exquisite craftsmanship. The Chrysler Building and other skyscrapers of New York built during the 1920s and 1930s are monuments of the Art Deco style.

1. Name something Art Deco had an effect on?
2. Any common household items?
3. Like what?
4. That style merged fine craftmanship with what?
5. And what else?
6. What monument is considered Art Deco in New York?
7. Just the Chrysler Building?
8. What is the long, proper name for Art Deco?
9. What year did the exhibition that the term came from happen?
10. Where?
11. During it's prime, what's something Art Deco stood for?
12. What else?
13. Was Art Deco formed by lots of different styles?
14. Did they sometimes contradict each other?
15. What brought them together?
16. From the start, it was influenced by what ind of forms?
17. Known as?
18. What stood out about Fauvism?
19. Who was this in the time of?
20. Did the style incorporate ebony and ivory?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. building design
2. yes
3. radios and vacuum cleaners
4. modernist styles
5. rich materials
6. The Chrysler Building
7. other skyscrapers built during the 1920s and 1930s
8. Arts Décoratifs
9. 1925
10. Paris
11. luxury
12. glamour
13. yes
14. yes
15. a desire to be modern
16. bold geometric forms
17. Cubism
18. the bright colors
19. unknown
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

"Did you go skating a lot last year?" I asked. Jen shook her head and looked at me. Finally she said, "On Thanksgiving, Mom and I always went to visit some friends who lived on a farm. I especially loved seeing their big turkeys." Until then, I didn't think about how Jen felt. She had a new stepfather and stepbrother, and had a new town and home, too. Jen and her mom used to live near a lake where Dad and I went every summer, and she had to move up north with us. She had more changes than me. Jen seemed sad, so I was busy thinking of some ways to cheer her up on Thanksgiving. I told her my plan and she was excited. First we made a huge snowball, and then a small snowball. Then we built a wall behind the big snowball as a tail. Jen mixed some food coloring with water, saying, "We can spray colors on the tail." Our snow turkey had a red, blue, green, and yellow tail. We were so busy that we didn't notice our parents come outside. Dad found a hat for the snow turkey, and Mom wrapped her scarf around its neck. " _ ," Mom said. "You're a good brother, and you always come up with great ideas.'' A happy feeling spread through me. I began to understand how much she cared about everyone in our new family.

1. Who is the story about?
2. What day does it take place?
3. Is Jen happy?
4. Why not?
5. Where did she used to live?
6. Where does she live now?
7. Did she have any Thanksgiving traditions?
8. What were they?
9. What did she do there?
10. Does her new family do anything to cheer her up?
11. What?
12. What next?
13. What were they making?
14. Did they decorate it?
15. How?
16. Any other decorations?
17. What were they?
18. What else?
19. Was this a happy Thanksgiving?
20. Were there any lessons learned?
21. What were they?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Jen
2. Thanksgiving,
3. No
4. She had a new stepfather and stepbrother, and had a new town and home, too.
5. near a lake where Dad and I went every summer
6. she had to move up north
7. Yes
8. Mom and I always went to visit some friends who lived on a farm.
9. I especially loved seeing their big turkeys
10. Yes
11. First we made a huge snowball, and then a small snowball.
12. Then we built a wall behind the big snowball as a tail.
13. snow turkey
14. Yes
15. Jen mixed some food coloring with water, saying, "We can spray colors on the tail."
16. Yes
17. Dad found a hat for the snow turkey
18. Mom wrapped her scarf around its neck
19. Yes
20. Yes
21. I began to understand how much she cared about everyone in our new family.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

In a telephone call Monday between Russia's Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu and the U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel, Shoigu described the activity of U.S. and NATO troops near Russia's border as "unprecedented." 

According to the official Russian version of the call, his American counterpart assured him the alliance did not have "provocative or expansionist" intentions -- and that Russia should know this. 

But it hardly seems to matter how often NATO makes these assurances. The Kremlin will never trust them. Fear of the Western military alliance's steady march east is deep-rooted. It strikes at the very heart of Russia's national sense of security, a relic of Cold War enmity which has seeped down to post-Soviet generations. 

Ilya Saraev is a 15-year-old pupil at the First Moscow cadet school in Moscow. He thinks long and hard when I ask him about NATO. "I think NATO might be a friend to Russia but there's one point I don't understand: Why it needs to approach the border with Russia more and more," he says. 

Cadet school is an education in patriotism, like something from a bygone era. Besides the regular classes, there are lessons in ballroom dancing. Teenage cadets proudly leading local beauties through the waltz while outside their classmates rehearse the goosestep. 

After the takeover of Crimea, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of behaving in a 19th century fashion in the 21st century. In some ways it's an epithet that seems to ring true here. The children are immaculately mannered and thoughtful. They write to their fellow cadets in Crimea. They say they feel sad there's this tension between brother nations -- Russia and Ukraine. 

1. Who is Chuck Hagel?
2. Did he describe something?
3. Who did?
4. Was the pairing povocative according to him?
5. Whi is a teen?
6. Is he a soldier?
7. What is he?
8. What type of school is that?
9. Is this a new form of education?
10. When is it from?

Numbered answers:

A:
Answer: 1. U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel,
2. No
3. Russia's Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu
4. no
5. Ilya Saraev
6. No
7. A pupil at the First Moscow cadet school in Moscow
8. an education in patriotism
9. No
10. from a bygone era