Question:
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Travelling around the world is a dream for many people, but a young couple from China has made his dream come true. They drove along the ancient Silk Road, from China to the UK. Luo Chang and Ding Jie, a young couple from China's Guizhou Province, spent two months drving from their home in Shanghai all the way to London. The journey covered about 20,000 kilometer, and they crossed 14 countries and regions . Ding Jie said, " People were excited to see two travelers driving a foreign license car, appearing on their streets. We were stopped many times to take photos with them. Sometimes, when we couldn't understand each other's language, they would express their ideas with gestures . During their driving trip, they also spent many nights in local people's homes. Luo Chang said, "This is an amazing experience. We were driving on a highway or a country road to someone's home. Someone you've never met but was already preparing dinner for you. We feelwe have friends all over the world. During the trip, Luo and Ding took nearly 10,000 photos and kept diaries to record the beautiful scenery , the friendly people and the different customs on the way. ,.
1. What is a dream for many people?
2. Where are the young people from?
3. How long did they spend traveling from home?
4. How many countries did they drive through?
5. Where did they sleep during their travels?
6. How many pictures did they get?
7. What was the distance of their trip?
8. What were people excited to see?
9. Who was cooking a meal for them?
10. What did they do when they couldn't understand eachother?

Numbered answers:
1. Travelling around the world
2. China
3. two months
4. 14
5. local people's homes.
6. 10,000
7. 20,000 km
8. two travelers driving a foreign license car
9. Someone they've never met
10. use gestures


Question:
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Kurdish is a continuum of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken by the Kurds in Western Asia. Kurdish forms three dialect groups known as Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), Central Kurdish (Sorani), and Southern Kurdish (Palewani). A separate group of non-Kurdish Northwestern Iranian languages, the Zaza–Gorani languages, are also spoken by several million Kurds. Studies as of 2009 estimate between 8 and 20 million native Kurdish speakers in Turkey. The majority of the Kurds speak Northern Kurdish ("Kurmanji"). 

The literary output in Kurdish was mostly confined to poetry until the early 20th century, when more general literature began to be developed. Today, there are two principal written Kurdish dialects, namely Northern Kurdish in the northern parts of the geographical region of Kurdistan and Central Kurdish further east and south. Central Kurdish is, along with Arabic, one of the two official languages of Iraq and is in political documents simply referred to as "Kurdish". 

The Kurdish languages belong to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family. They are generally classified as Northwestern Iranian languages, or by some scholars as intermediate between Northwestern and Southwestern Iranian. Martin van Bruinessen notes that "Kurdish has a strong south-western Iranian element", whereas "Zaza and Gurani [...] do belong to the north-west Iranian group".
1. What is this about?
2. What do they speak?
3. Where are they located?
4. How many people speak it?
5. In which country?
6. What do they call it in the north?
7. Do less than half of them speak that?
8. How many different kinds of it are there?
9. What is one?
10. Where is that?
11. What is another?
12. Is that in the east?
13. Are there any other kinds of it?
14. Do they speak it in any other country?
15. Which one?
16. What else do they speak there?
17. Are there any other countries besides that?
18. Which one?
19. Which kind do they speak there?
20. What else do they speak?

Numbered answers:
1. Kurds
2. Kurdish
3. Western Asia
4. 8 and 20 million
5. Turkey
6. Kurmanji
7. no
8. three dialect groups
9. Sorani
10. Central Kurdish
11. Palewani
12. no
13. yes
14. yes
15. Iran
16. unknown
17. yes
18. Iraq
19. Central Kurdish
20. Arabic


Question:
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CHAPTER IV 

To reach their table, the one concerning which Francis and his friend had been speculating, the new arrivals, piloted by Louis, had to pass within a few feet of the two men. The woman, serene, coldly beautiful, dressed like a Frenchwoman in unrelieved black, with extraordinary attention to details, passed them by with a careless glance and subsided into the chair which Louis was holding. Her companion, however, as he recognised Francis hesitated. His expression of somewhat austere gloom was lightened. A pleasant but tentative smile parted his lips. He ventured upon a salutation, half a nod, half a more formal bow, a salutation which Francis instinctively returned. Andrew Wilmore looked on with curiosity. 

"So that is Oliver Hilditch," he murmured. 

"That is the man," Francis observed, "of whom last evening half the people in this restaurant were probably asking themselves whether or not he was guilty of murder. To-night they will be wondering what he is going to order for dinner. It is a strange world." 

"Strange indeed," Wilmore assented. "This afternoon he was in the dock, with his fate in the balance--the condemned cell or a favoured table at Claridge's. And your meeting! One can imagine him gripping your hands, with tears in his eyes, his voice broken with emotion, sobbing out his thanks. And instead you exchange polite bows. I would not have missed this situation for anything." 

"Tradesman!" Francis scoffed. "One can guess already at the plot of your next novel." 

"He has courage," Wilmore declared. "He has also a very beautiful companion. Were you serious, Francis, when you told me that that was his wife?" 
1. where was Oliver that afternoon?
2. what were the patrons probably asking yesterday?
3. and what about today?
4. does he have a companion?
5. what color is she wearing?
6. and who is dressed like?
7. is she beautiful?
8. who is she to him?
9. what is his full name?
10. who is Francis' friend?
11. what does Francis think this will be for Wilmore?
12. does Wilmore think he is a coward?
13. then what?
14. would you say Oliver is a gentleman?
15. how do you determine that?
16. and who is holding the chair for the lady?
17. does she smile at them?
18. does she acknoledge them in any way?
19. what is Wilmore's first name?
20. did Francis return the greeting?


Numbered answers:
1. in the dock
2. whether or not he was guilty of murder
3. what he is going to order for dinner
4. yes
5. black
6. a Frenchwoman
7. yes
8. his wife
9. Oliver Hilditch
10. Wilmore
11. his next novel
12. no
13. He has courage
14. yes
15. he exchanged polite bows
16. Louis
17. no
18. with a careless glance
19. Andrew
20. yes