Problem: Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. It is situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 580,000 in the urban area and about 1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. 

Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the then-ongoing Thirty Years' War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries. 

Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927. The original, parent Volvo Group and the now separate Volvo Car Corporation are still headquartered on the island of Hisingen in the city. Other key companies are SKF and Astra Zeneca. 

Gothenburg is served by Göteborg Landvetter Airport southeast of the city center. The smaller Göteborg City Airport, from the city center, was closed to regular airline traffic in 2015.
1. How many colleges are in Gothenburg?
2. Can you name one?
3. What large manufacturer started in Gothenburg in 1927?
4. Where is their home office?
5. Has the company split into two divisions?
6. What is the airport for that region?
7. Did one close recently?
8. Where was it located?
9. When did it close?
10. How does Gothenburg compare to other cities in Sweden based on size?
11. How about among all the Nordic countries?
12. How many people live there?
13. How about in the metro area?
14. What sort of colony did it start out as?
15. What nationality of people mostly lived there, then?
16. Who chartered the town?
17. When?
18. How big is the port there, today?
Answer: 1. Two
2. University of Gothenburg
3. Volvo
4. Gothenburg
5. yes
6. Göteborg Landvetter Airport
7. yes
8. from the city center,
9. 2015
10. it is the second-largest
11. fifth-largest
12. 580,000
13. about 1 million
14. trading
15. Dutch,
16. King Gustavus Adolphus
17. 1621
18. the largest port in the Nordic countries.

Problem: Lots of people make it as their aim to get to the top of Mount Everest. Mark is one of them. The difference between Mark and other climbers is that he lost both his legs when climbing. New Zealand's highest mountain, Mount Cook. He was caught in a big ice hole and he had to have his legs cut below the knees after he was saved. But that couldn't make Mark lose heart, who has become the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest. From the top of the world's highest mountain, Mark called his wife to say he made it. His wife, Anne got the phone when she was sleeping. She couldn't hear him clearly on the phone. She was unable to say when he reached the top but thought it was around mid-day. She also said his "legs" didn't work well sometimes, so her husband was carrying a spare leg and repair tools. Mark used to be a mountain guide before his accident. He said it was not important that no one like him had ever reached the 8850-meter mountain. "I'm not doing this to be the first. I have been climbing most of my life and I just feel Mount Everest is really a great aim. I want to send a message that I can do-anything better."
1. Where Mark wants to go?
2. Do many aspire that?
3. If he reaches there what record he would make?
4. Why he has man-made legs?
5. In what incident?
6. Where?
7. Where is it?
8. Is it the highest there?
9. What he used to do before the accident?
10. Did he really want to climb everest to set a record?
11. What was his thought about that?
12. Does he think his adventurer will send a great message?
13. What would be the message?
14. How high is the Everest?
15. Who did he call from that height?
16. What's her name?
17. What she was doing at that moment?
18. What he told her?
19. Could she hear him properly?
20. Did his "legs" helped him always in climbing Everest?
Answer: 1. the top of Mount Everest
2. yes
3. he would be the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest
4. he had his legs cut after being saved
5. He was caught in a big ice hole
6. Mount Cook
7. New Zealand
8. yes
9. he was a mountain guide
10. no
11. he has been climbing most of my life
12. yes
13. he can do anything better
14. 8850 meters
15. his wife
16. Anne
17. she was sleeping
18. he made it to the top
19. no
20. no

Problem: The city of Yangzhou came into being at the Spring and Autumn Period ( about 500 AC ). As the key transportation link at joint place of the Great Canal ( Beijing-Hangzhou) and Changjiang (Yangtze River), Yangzhou has been from the Sui Dynasty (600 AD.) an economically rich city, and then reached its top in the Tang Dynasty. At that time Yangzhou was a famous port and one of few biggest cities in East Asia. With the improvement of the local economy and easy transportation way, there happened in the history a special local culture, which has an important place in Chinese culture. Many famous men of letters, poets, artists, scholars , statesmen, scientists and national heroes in the history were born in, lived in or had connection with Yangzhou. Li Bai, one of the greatest Chinese poets visited and stayed in Yangzhou several times in his life and one of his famous poems about Yangzhou has been so popular that Chinese of all ages can sing it and has become a symbol of Yangzhou . Zheng Banqiao, a famous Chinese painting painter in the Qing Dynasty heading a group called "Eight Eccentrics", had strongly influenced Chinese paintings. Wang Zhong and Yuan Yuan and some other scholars formed school of Yangzhou Scholars and achieved great success in the study of classic Chinese and writing. Zhu Ziqing, one of most famous modern Chinese writers and scholars, had always been proud of himself as a native of Yangzhou and thanked the city for being nourished by its rich culture. Quite a few other names you may come across frequently in the study of Chinese culture and history have connection with Yangzhou . Yangzhou was so attractive and important that many Chinese emperors in history had come specially to visit or check the city. Emperor Suiyang, who ordered to cut the Great Canal so that he could come more easily and quickly, died on his last trip to the city and buried here. Emperor Qianlong had come all the way from the north and visited the city nine times.
1. What part of Asia is Yangzhou in?
2. Who was one of the greatest Chinese poets to visit there?
3. Who was Zheng Banqiao?
4. When did Yangzhou come into being?
5. What group did Zheng Banqiao head?
6. Who started the school of Yangzhou Scholars?
7. What did they study?
8. Which Emperor died on his last trip the the city?
9. Did Qianlong visit the city 10 times?
10. How many times did he visit?
11. Where did he come from?
12. What Dynasty is Yangzhou from?
13. What Dynasty did it reach it's peak, or top, in?
Answer:
1. East Asia
2. Li Bai
3. a painter
4. at the Spring and Autumn Period
5. Eight Eccentrics
6. Wang Zhong and Yuan Yuan and some other scholars
7. classic Chinese and writing
8. Suiyang
9. no
10. nine
11. the north
12. the Sui Dynasty
13. the Tang Dynasty