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Trumps first overseas trip (Page 1)

Instructions: Read the article Trumps first overseas trip.
Answer questions 1-16.

1. What is Air Force One?

2. Who is King Salman?

3. What are the two main political groups in Palestine?

4. Who is the prime minister of Israel?

5. What is the Vatican?

6. Where did Mr Trump go for the final part of his tour?

7. What is NATO?

8. Who is Mahmoud Abbas?

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Trumps first overseas trip (Page 1)

9. What is the G7?

10. Which countries make up the G7?

11. What is the two-state solution?

12. Who attended the Arab Islamic American Summit?

13. What is an absolute monarchy?

14. Who leads NATO?

15. Who helped to set up a new Jewish state in 1948?

16. Who is Emmanuel Macron?

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Alpine fault discovery (Page 6)

Instructions: Read the article Alpine fault discovery.
Tick either true or false for the following statements.

TRUE FALSE

1.
Cook was not the first European to sail all the way around
New Zealand.
2.
Plates pushing into one another formed most of the worlds
highest mountains, including the Himalayas.
3.
The Maori people lived in this part of the world long before
Europeans arrived.
4.
New Zealand is on what is often called the Ring of Fire.
This is a hexagonal-shaped line of plate boundaries.
5.
The places where tectonic plates meet are known as plate
boundaries, or faults.
Parts of the Alps are in eight countries: Austria, France,
6. Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Hungary, and
Switzerland.

7.
The only places where temperatures are higher at lower
depths are near areas of volcanic activity.
8.
The researchers expected a geothermal temperature of
40C (104F) at a depth of 800 metres (2,625 feet).
9.
Admiral James Cook (1728 1779), was a British explorer,
and a very good cartographer, or mapmaker.
10.
High geothermal temperatures near the surface cannot be
used for heating or generating electricity.
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Rouhani wins again (Page 9)

Instructions: Read the article Rouhani wins again.
The answers to the questions are given for 1-8. Write the questions.

1. Q.

A. Every four years.

2. Q.

A. Guardian Council.

3. Q.

A. Hassan Rouhani.

4. Q.

A. Theocracy.

5. Q.

A. Supreme Leader.

6. Q.

A. Nuclear weapons.

7. Q.

A. Persian Empire.

8. Q.

A. Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Fire ice in the South China Sea (Page 12)

Instructions: Read the article Fire ice in the South China Sea.
Draw a line to connect the correct links. The first is done for you.
Oil Combustible ice

Cold water Butane

Natural gas Greehouse effect

Propane Coal

Carbon dioxide Tsunami

Fire ice Carbon

Organic matter Methane hydrate

Underwater landslide High pressure

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Lee statue removed (Page 4)

Instructions: Read the article Lee statue removed and fill in the spider diagram
below with the details.

11 STATES GETTYSBURG

ROBERT E LEE CONFEDERATE FLAG

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Open SESAME (Page 3)

Instructions: Read the article Open SESAME.
Answer questions 1-8.

1. What is SESAME?

2. Where is the most famous synchrotron?

3. What does a synchrotron create?

4. Why were many of the best scientists from Middle Eastern countries moving to
the USA and Europe?

5. What does Jordan plan to build nearby, and why?

6. Why has it taken so long to build SESAME?

7. What is the Large Hadron Collider?

8. Where did much of the money come from to build SESAME?

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World Map (Page 13)

Instructions: Solve these anagrams. Each answer is a country that appears on the
World Map. Each anagram has one extra letter. Together the extra
letters form another anagram. The answer is a mystery country. One is
already done for you.

1. LARIRSE R
I S R A E L
2. AUBCOOMIA

3. AEAEAOWPNPNUIUG

4. NOAJDRA

5. SUNAITHI

6. SONAIDNINE

7. L PA O D G R U T

8. A S I M S A L AY

Mystery country = R
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Issue 302 Elimination

Instructions: Read issue 302. Now eliminate from the list 13 pairs of words or phrases
that go together. You will have one word or phrase left over. That is
the answer. One pair is already done for you.

Elytra Te Ika-a-Maui Svalbard vault

Flamingo River Nile Bitumen

Shooting star Wizards hat OBOR

Start Today Te Waipounamu Scoville scale

Marshall Plan Elysium Donald Tusk

Spider Capsaicin Carthage

Nodosaur Jeff Bezos Portugal

Jean-Claude Juncker Ankle Untitled

Miracle of the Sun Permafrost Hindwings

Odd one out =

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Issue 302 multiple choice quiz

Instructions: Read issue 302 and circle the correct answers for questions 1-10.

1. When was the Miracle of the Sun? 6. Who was Andy Warhol?
a. 1835 a. Architect
b. 1856 b. Fashion designer
c. 1888 c. Journalist
d. 1905 d. Artist
e. 1917 e. Sculptor

2. Where does much of the Crop Trusts 7. Which country produces the most dates?
money come from? a. Portugal
a. Norwegian government b. Tunisia
b. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation c. Israel
c. European Union d. Egypt
d. Jeff Bezos e. China
e. Stichting INGKA Foundation
8. Who may have been the first European to
3. From where does the plant, nicknamed taste a chilli pepper?
the bleeding tomato originate? a. Vasco da Gama
a. Colombia b. Christopher Columbus
b. Brazil c. Ferdinand Magellan
c. Papua New Guinea d. Sir Francis Drake
d. Mexico e. Pedro lvares Cabral
e. Australia
9. In the past, what was used to carry goods
4. Which company has sucessfully launched along the Silk Road?
a reusuable space rocket? a. Donkeys
a. Starchaser Industries b. Horses
b. Elysium Space c. Trucks
c. NASA d. Trains
d. SpaceX e. Camels
e. XCOR Aerospace
10. Which of the following was not a
5.. Where will the G7 meet next year? Confederate state?
a. U.S. a. Arizona
b. Britain b. Texas
c. Canada c. Virginia
d. France d. Georgia
e. Japan e. Alabama