Problem: China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion. Covering approximately , it is the world's second-largest state by land area and third- or fourth-largest by total area. Governed by the Communist Party of China, it exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing) and the Special Administrative Regions Hong Kong and Macau, also claiming sovereignty over Taiwan. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower. 

China emerged as one of the world's earliest civilizations in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-legendary Xia dynasty. Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In 1912, the Republic of China (ROC) replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist People's Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the People's Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, while the ROC government retreated to Taiwan with its present "de facto" capital in Taipei. Both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory.
1. What is China officially called?
2. Where is it?
3. Where did it start?
4. Was it near a river?
5. Which one?
6. Was it an early civilization?
7. What was their political system at the beginning?
8. What was another name for that?
9. What was the first one?
10. When did the last one end?
11. What replaced them?
12. Is the ROC still operating?
13. In China?
14. Where is it?
15. What is now China?
16. What is China now called?
17. When did it change?
18. Why?
19. How large is it land wise?
20. How populous is it?
Answer: 1. People's Republic of China
2. East Asia
3. North China Plain
4. Yes
5. Yellow River
6. Yes
7. Hereditary monarchy
8. Dynasty
9. Xia dynasty
10. 1912
11. Republic of China
12. Yes
13. No
14. Taiwan
15. A great power and a major regional power
16. People's Republic of China
17. 1 October 1949
18. The Communist Party defeated the ROC
19. It is the world's second-largest state by land area
20. The most

Problem: Tony Hawken, 57, is divorcing his wife Xiu Li, 51, Britain's wealthiest woman entrepreneur , because he says he doesn't like being rich and is 'not in the habit' of spending lots of money. 

The pair traded up their semi-detached home in South Norwood, London, and bought a PS1.5million house in Surrey. 

Li, who is now worth $1.2billion (PS700million) according to Forbes, quickly settled into a life which included sipping a PS900 bottle of wine on a luxurious yacht. 

However, Mr Hawken says he felt more comfortable getting lunch in his local Wetherspoon's. 

Despite his sudden wealth he continued to buy books from charity shops, and _ dear clothes. 

In an interview with The Times, he said: 'I think it made me uncomfortable because I'm not in the habit, I don't like spending lots of money -- I've been brought up that way. 

'Until recently I was never a wealthy person. I've been moderately comfortable because I have been careful with my money.' 

Now the couple have decided to part, Mr Hawken will walk away with just PS1million, but says it will be enough for him. 

He added: 'I have got a settlement which is not great, but it's enough for me because I don't have an extravagant lifestyle. I won't have to work if I'm careful.' 

On a recent trip to China, Mr Hawken said his wife took him on a yacht and treated him to a PS900 bottle of wine, but he prefers his local Wetherspoon pub. 

'I'm getting a little pay when you consider her potential wealth, but I don't really want to fight it.' 

Mr Hawken met Li on a blind date while he was still a teacher and she was studying English. 

The couple married, but as Li's business took off the couple spent more and more time apart. Mr Hawken says the couple have spent most of the relationship apart. 

Far from driving them apart, Mr Hawken believes the distance kept them together, and says they would have divorced a long time ago if they were under the same roof. 

Mr Hawken says his only regret is not getting a divorce sooner, but he didn't push for it over fears it would affect the couple's teenage son William, now 17. 

Mr Hawken no longer teaches full-time, but instead gives free tuition to under-privileged children.
1. Who is separating?
2. Where are they located?
3. what town?
4. before that?
5. How much is the building?
6. how much is LJ worth?
7. what did he still buy?
8. How much does Hawken get after the split?
Answer: 1. Tony Hawken and Xiu Li
2. Britain
3. Surrey.
4. South Norwood, London,
5. 1.5million
6. $1.2billion
7. lunch in his local Wetherspoon's.
8. PS1million

Problem: CHAPTER VII. 

A FIRE 

The last of February drew nigh, which was the time fixed upon for Josey to go home. He had remained with his uncle much longer than his father had at first intended; but now they wanted him to return, before the roads broke up in the spring. 

The evening before Josey was to go, the farmer was sitting by the fire, when Jonas came in from the barn. 

"Jonas," said the farmer, "I have got to write a letter to my brother, to send by Josey to-morrow; why won't you take a sheet of paper and write for me, and I'll tell you what to say. You are rather handier with the pen than I am." 

Jonas accordingly brought a sheet of paper and a pen and ink, and took his place at a table at the back side of the room, and the farmer dictated to him as follows: 

"Dear Brother, 

"I take this opportunity to inform you that we are all alive and well, and I hope that you may be the same. This will be handed to you by Josey, who leaves us to-morrow, according to your orders. We have been very glad to have him with us, though he hasn't had opportunity to learn much. However, I suppose he'll fetch up again in his learning, when he gets home. He has behaved pretty fair on the whole, as boys go. He will make a smart man, I've no doubt, though he don't seem to take much to farming. 
1. Where was Jonas coming from?
2. In what month did this story take place?
3. In the beginning or the end of the month?
4. Who had Josey been staying with?
5. Who was there when Josie came inside?
6. What did the farmer want him to do?
7. Why did the farmer need Josey's help with the letter?
8. Who ordered Josey to leave?
9. Did Josey learn a lot from his uncle?
10. What instrument did Jonas use to write with?
Answer:
1. the barn
2. February
3. the end
4. his uncle
5. the farmer
6. write a letter to the farmer's brother
7. Josey was handier with the pen than he was
8. the farmer's brother
9. no
10. a pen