question: Jamie Oliver has been invited by Gordon Brown to prepare a banquet at No.10 for President Barack Obama and other leaders of the G20, offering a cut-price menu to reflect times when trade and industry are far from prosperous and the rate of employment is decreasing. 

Downing Street sources say Oliver, the well-known chef, will cook using "honest high-street products" and avoid expensive or "fancy" ingredients. 

The prime minister is trying to avoid a repeat of the embarrassment last year when he sat down to an 18-course banquet at a Japanese summit to discuss world food shortages. 

Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and other leaders will be served by apprentices from Fifteen, the London restaurant Oliver founded to help train young people in poverty in order to make a living by mastering a skill. 

Brown wants the dinner to reflect the emphasis of the London summit, which he hopes will lead to an agreement to lift the world out of recession."To be invited to cook for such an important group of people, who are trying to solve some of the world's major problems, is really a privilege," said Oliver. 

"I'm hoping the menu I'm working on will show British food and produce is some of the best in the world, but also show we have pioneered a high-quality apprentice scheme at Fifteen London that is giving young people a skill to be proud of." 

The chef has not yet finalized me menu, but is expected to draw inspiration from his latest book, Jamie's Ministry of Food, which has budget recipes for beef and ale stew and "impressive" chocolate fudge cake. ( 

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1. Where was Oliver invited?
2. For whom?
3. Who was he invited by?
4. Who were these leaders a part of?
5. Was the  menu expensive?
6. Was employment rising?
7. What is Oliver's profession?
8. will he use exquisite ingredients?
9. What was the Prime Minister embarassed by?
10. Was there plenty of food in the world?
11. Who is the French President?
12. Who is the chancellor of Germany?
13. What restaurant did Oliver found?
14. Why was it founded?
15. What does Brown hope the meal will reflect?
16. What does he want it to show about the food in Britain?
17. And what about the apprentice program?
18. has he finished the menu?
19. Did he write a book?
20. What's its name?
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answer: 1. No. 10
2. Barack Obama and other leaders
3. Gordon Brown
4. the G20
5. no
6. no
7. chef
8. no
9. an 18-course banquet
10. no
11. Nicolas Sarkozy
12. Angela Merkel
13. Fifteen
14. to train young people
15. the emphasis of the  summit
16. it's some of the best in the world
17. it's high-quality
18. no
19. yes
20. Jamie's Ministry of Food


question: The economy of Australia is developed and one of the largest mixed market economies in the world, with a GDP of AUD$1.69 trillion as of 2017. Australia is the second wealthiest nation in terms of wealth per adult, after Switzerland. Australia's total wealth was AUD$8.9 trillion as of June 2016. In 2016, Australia was the 14th largest national economy by nominal GDP, 20th largest by PPP-adjusted GDP, and was the 25th-largest goods exporter and 20th-largest goods importer. Australia took the record for the longest run of uninterrupted GDP growth in the developed world with the March 2017 financial quarter, the 103rd quarter and 26 years since Australia had a technical recession (two consecutive quarters of negative growth). 

The Australian economy is dominated by its service sector, comprising 61.1% of the GDP and employing 79.2% of the labour force in 2016. East Asia (including ASEAN and other Northeast Asia countries) is a top export destination, accounting for about 64% of exports in 2016. Australia has the eighth highest total estimated value of natural resources, valued at US$19.9 trillion in 2016. At the height of the mining boom in 2009-10, the total value-added of the mining industry was 8.4% of GDP. Despite the recent decline in the mining sector, the Australian economy has remained resilient and stable and has not experienced a recession since July 1991.
1. What GDP does Australia hold?
2. Is it the largest mixed market?
3. Which one is the first wealthiest nation?
4. In what year and month id has a wealth of $8.9 trillion?
5. Did it ever take a record of uninterrupted GDP growth?
6. When did Australia undergo recession?
7. Has it seen recession again?
8. What rank does it stand when its natural resources are accounted for?
9. Valued at what amount?
10. and in what year?
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answer: 1. $1.69 trillion
2. unknown
3. Switzerland
4. June 2016
5. Yes.
6. July 1991.
7. No.
8. eighth
9. US$19.9 trillion
10. 2016


question: CHAPTER XXX 

Selingman had the air of one who has achieved a personal triumph as, with his arm in Maraton's, he led him towards the man whom they had come to visit. 

"Behold!" he exclaimed. "It is a triumph, this! It is a thing to be remembered! I have brought you two together!" 

Maraton's first impressions of Maxendorf were curiously mixed. He saw before him a tall, lanky figure of a man, dressed in sombre black, a man of dark complexion, with beardless face and tanned skin plentifully freckled. His hair and eyes were coal black. He held out his hand to Maraton, but the smile with which he had welcomed Selingman had passed from his lips. 

"You are not the Maraton I expected some day to meet," he said, a little bluntly, "and yet I am glad to know you." 

Selingman shrugged his shoulders. 

"Max--my friend Max, do not be peevish," he begged. "I tell you that he is the Maraton of whom we have spoken together. I have heard him. I have been to Sheffield and listened. Don't be prejudiced, Max. Wait." 

Maxendorf motioned them to seats and stood with his finger upon the bell. 

"Yes," Selingman assented, "we will drink with you. You breathe of the Rhine, my friend. I see myself sitting with you in your terraced garden, drinking Moselle wine out of cut glasses. So it shall be. We will fall into the atmosphere. What a palace you live in, Max! Is it because you are an ambassador that they must house you so splendidly?" 
1. What two me walked arm in arm?
2. Who are they headed to meet?
3. What does he do for a living?
4. Did he live poorly?
5. What were Maraton's thoughts on him when they first met?
6. Was the man he met tall?
7. And his shape?
8. Did he have fair skin?
9. Did they shake hands?
10. What expression had passed from his face after he extended his hand?
11. Where would they take their drinks?
12. What would they drink out of?
13. What would they drink?
14. What type of home does Selingman say Max has?
****
answer:
1. Selingman and Maraton'
2. Maxendorf
3. an ambassador
4. no
5. mixed
6. yes
7. lanky
8. dark complexion
9. unknown
10. smile
11. terraced garden
12. cut glasses
13. wine
14. a palace