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In court she ___ maintaining that she was Anastasia and deserved her inheritance. 

The people surrounding the queen encouraged her to spend money ____.

The minister of finance tried to curb these royal ___. 

The idea of flying an aircraft was ___to some people

People thought that the Wright brothers had ____. 

The Wright's interest in flight grew into a ____. 

Lilenthal's idea about controlling airborne vehicles was ___the Wrights. 

The old tables were __ and replaced by the first reliable figures for air pressure on curved surfaces. 

The Wrights designed and built their own source of ____.

What happened first? 

When did Muir invent a unique form of alarm clock? 

What did John Muir do soon after he arrived in San Francisco? 

When did John Muir meet Theodore Roosevelt? 

The passage was found near 50 degrees S of ___.  

Four of the ships sought a passage along a southern ___.  

One of Magellan's ships explored the ___ of South America for a passage across the continent.  

The Pope divided New World lands between Spain and Portugal according to their location on one side or the other of an imaginary geographical line 50 degrees west of Greenwich that extends in a ___ direction. 

Magellan lost the favor of the king of Portugal when he became involved in a political ___.  

The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.  

High in the Andes Mountains in Peru stands the ancient city of Machu Picchu. No one knows why thisgreat city was built, nor is it likely that we will ever know. Nevertheless, the deserted city of MachuPicchu is important for what it reveals about the ancient Inca people of South AmericA. The Incasonce ruled a great empire that covered a large part of the South American continent. The empire wasmore than five hundred years old when the first Spanish explorers, looking for gold, went to thatcontinent in the sixteenth century. The Incas were an advanced people. They were skillful engineerswho paved their roads and built sturdy bridges. They plowed the land in such a way that rains wouldnot wash away valuable soil. They dug ditches to carry water into dry areas for farming. Even thoughthey did not know about the wheel, the Incas were able to move huge stone blocks- some as heavyas ten tions- up the sides of mountains to build walls. The blocks were fitted so tightly, withoutcement of any kind, that it would be impossible to slip a knife blade between them! The walls havestood firm through great storms and earthquakes that have destroyed many modern buildings. TheIncas were great artists, too. Today, Incan dishes and other kinds of pottery are prized for theirwonderful designs. Since both gold and silver were in great supply, the Incas created splendid objectsfrom these precious metals. While it is true that the Incas had no written language, they kept theiraccounts by using a system of knotted strings of various lengths and colors. The sizes of the knots andthe distances between them represented numbers. At its height, the Incan empire included as manyas thirty million people. The emperor ruled them with an iron hand. He told his subjects where tolive, what to plant, how long they should work-even whom they could marry. Since he ownedeverything, the emperor gave what he wished when he wished- and in the amount he wished -to hispeople. In 1533 Spanish explorers led by Francisco Pizarro murdered the emperor of the Incas.Earlier, the heir to the Incan empire had also been killed. The Incas, who had always been entirelydependent on their emperor, now had no recognized leader. The Spaniards easily conquered theempire and plundered its riches. Have the Incas disappeared from South America? Not at all. In Perualone, once the center of that great empire, eighty percent of the twenty million people aredescendants of the Inca people. Evidence of the Incan empire can be found in many other places inSouth America as well. You can even visit Machu Picchu. The remains of this ancient city still standhigh in the mountains of Peru, an awesome tribute to this once powerful empire. What is the mainidea of this passage? 

Every year since 1986, some of the world's most daring runners have gathered in the desert ofMorocco. They are there to take part in one of the most difficult races in the world. The Marathon ofthe Sands, as it is called, covers over 125 miles of desert and mountain wilderness. The runnerscomplete the course in fewer than seven days, and they run with their food, clothing, and sleepingbags on their backs. The Marathon of the Sands was founded in 1986 by Patrick Bauer. His idea wasto give the runners, who come from all over the world, a special kind of adventure. Most of therunners in this race have found that they form deep friendships with the other runners during theirdays and nights in the desert. Facing terrible heat and complete exhaustion, they learn much aboutthemselves and each other. For most of the runners, though, the challenge of the race is the mainreason for coming. On the first day, for example, they run fifteen miles across a desert of sand, rocks,and thorny bushes. Few runners finish the day without blistered and raw feet. They also suffer from alack of water. (They are allowed less than nine quarts of water during each day of the race.) Most ofall, they are exhausted when they arrive at the campsite for the night. The second day, the runnersare up at 6:00A. M. Within a few hours, it is 100 degrees F, but the runners do not hesitate. Theymust cover eighteen miles that day. That night, they rest. They must be ready for the next day's run.On the third day, the runners must climb giant sand dunes- the first they have faced. Dust and sandmix with the runners' sweat. Soon their faces are caked with mud. After fifteen miles of theseconditions, the runners finally reach their next camp. The race continues like this for four more days.The fourth and fifth days are the worst. On the fourth day, the runners pass through a level stretchand a beautiful, tree-filled oasis, but then, on this and on the next day, they cross more than twentyonemiles of rocks and sand dunes. The temperature soars to 125 degrees F, and many runnerscannot make it. Helicopters rush fallen runners to medical help. Runners who make it to the end ofthe fifth day know that the worst is over. On the sixth day, heat and rocks punish the racers terribly. Inthe Valley of Dra, the wind picks up and, as the desert heat is thrust against them with great force, they grow more and more exhausted. The seventh day is the last, with only twelve miles to be covered. The dusty, tired, blistered runners set out at daybreak. Near the finish line, children race along with the runners, for everybody has caught the excitement. The ones who have run the whole marathon know they have accomplished what most people could not even dream of. “During the hard moments,” says one contestant who has raced here twice, “I'd think, ‘Why am I here?' Then I'd realize I was there to find my limits.” What is the main idea of this passage?

What if someone told you about a kind of grass that grows as tall as the tallest trees? A grass that canbe made as strong as steel? A grass from which houses, furniture, boats, and hundreds of otheruseful things can be made? A grass that you would even enjoy eating? Would you believe thatperson? You should, for that grass is bamboo, the “wood” of 1,001 uses. Bamboo may look likewood, but it is part of the family of plants that includes wheat, oats, and barley. It is a kind of grass.This grass is not just a material for making useful products. Young bamboo is eaten, often mixed withother vegetables, in many Asian foods. Bamboo grows in many parts of the world. In the UnitedStates it grows in an area from Virginia west to Indiana and south to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.Most bamboo, however, is found in warm, wet climates, especially in Asia and on the islands of theSouth Pacific Ocean. In most Asian countries, bamboo is nearly as important as rice. Many Asians livein bamboo houses. They sit on bamboo chairs and sleep on bamboo mats. They fence their land withbamboo and use the wood for cages for chickens and pigs. Bamboo is used to build large buildings aswell as homes. When it is glued in layers, it becomes as strong as steel. On some islands in the South  Pacific, bamboo is even used for water pipes. This extraordinary material has many other uses. It isused to make musical instruments, such as flutes and recorders. Paper made from bamboo has beenhighly prized by artists for thousands of years. Bamboo is light and strong, and it bends withoutbreaking. It is cheap, floats on water, almost never wears out, and is easy to grow. Nothing else onearth grows quite so fast as bamboo. At times you can even see it grow! Botanists have recordedgrowths of more than three feet in just twenty-four hours! Bamboo is hollow and has a strong rootsystem that almost never stops growing and spreading. In fact, only after it flowers, an event thatmay happen only once every thirty years, will bamboo die. There are more than a thousand kinds ofbamboo. The smallest is only three inches tall and one-tenth of an inch across. The largest reachesmore than two hundred feet in height and seven inches in diameter. No wonder, then, that the livesof nearly half the people on earth would change enormously if there were no longer any bamboo.No wonder, too, that to many people bamboo is a symbol of happiness and good fortune. What isthe main idea of this passage? 

When you want to hang the American flag over the middle of a street, suspend it vertically with theblue field, called the union, to the north and east-west street. When the flag is displayed withanother banner from crossed staffs, the American flag is on the right. Place the staff of the Americanflag in front of the other staff. Raise the flag quickly and lower it slowly and respectfully. When flyingthe flag at half-mast, hoist it to the top of the pole for a moment before lowering it to mid-pole.When flying the American flag with banners from states or cities, raise the nation's banner first andlower it last. Never allow the flag to touch the ground. What is the main idea of this passage? 

In 1976, Sichan Siv was crawling through the jungle, trying to escape from CambodiA. By 1989,however, Siv was working in the White House, in Washington D. C., as an advisor to the President ofthe United States. How did this strange journey come about? Like millions of Cambodians, Siv was avictim of a bloody civil war. One of the sides in this war was the Cambodian government. The otherwas a group called the Khmer Rouge. When the Khmer Rouge won the war, the situation inCambodia got worse. Many people were killed, while others were forced into hard labor. Sometimesentire families were wiped out. Siv came from a large family that lived in the capital of Cambodia.After finishing high school, Siv worked for a while with a Cambodian airline company. Later, hetaught English. After that, he took a job with CARE, an American group that was helping victims ofthe war. Siv had hope to leave Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge took over the country.Unfortunately, he was delayed. As a result, he and his family were taken from their homes and forcedto labor in rice fields. After a while, Siv managed to escape. He rode an old bicycle for miles, trying toreach Thailand where he would be free and safe. For three weeks he slept on the ground and tried tohide from the soldiers who were looking for him. Caught at last, he was afraid he would be killed.Instead, he was put into a labor camp, where he worked eighteen hours each day without rest. Afterseveral months, he escaped again; this time he made it. The journey, however, was a terrifying one.After three days of staggering on foot through mile after mile of thick bamboo, Siv finally made hisway to Thailand. Because he had worked for an American charity group, Siv quickly found work in arefugee camp. Soon he was on his way to the states. He arrived in June of 1976 and got a job-firstpicking apples and then cooking in a fast-food restaurant. Siv, however, wanted more than this; hewanted to work with people who, like himself, had suffered the hardship of leaving their owncountries behind. Siv decided that the best way to prepare for this kind of work was to go to college. He wrote letters to many colleges and universities. They were impressed with his school recordsfrom Cambodia, and they were impressed with his bravery. Finally, in 1980, he was able to study atColumbia University in New York City. After finishing his studies at Columbia, Siv took a job with theUnited Nations. He married an American woman and became a citizen. After several more years, hefelt that he was very much a part of his new country. In 1988, Siv was offered a job in the WhiteHouse working for President Reagan's closest advisors. It was a difficult job, and he often had to worklong hours. However the long hard work was worth it, because Siv got the opportunity to helprefugees in his work. What is the main idea of this passage? 

The raisin business in America was born by accident. It happened in 1873 in the San Joaquin Valley ofCaliforniA. Many farmers raised grapes in this valley. That year, just before the grape harvest, therewas a heat wave. It was one of the worst heat waves ever known. It was so hot the grapes dried onthe vines. When they were picked, California had its first raisin crop. People were surprised to findhow good raisins were. Everybody wanted more. So the San Joaquin farmers went into the raisinbusiness. Today, of course, they do not let the grapes dry on the vines. They treat them with muchmore care. In late August the grapes start to ripen. They are tested often for sweetness. The growerswait until the sugar content is twenty-one percent. Then they know the grapes are ripe enough to be picked. Skilled workers come to the vineyards. They pick the bunches of grapes by hand. The workersfill their flat pans with grapes. They gently empty the pans onto squares of paper. These squares liebetween the long rows of vines. They sit in the sun. Here the grapes stay while the sun does its work.It may take two weeks or longer. The grapes are first dried on one side. When they have reached theright color, they are turned to dry on the other side. The grapes are dried until only fifteen percent ofthe moisture is left. Then they have turned into raisins. The raisins are rolled up in the paper onwhich they have dried. Trucks take them from the fields. They are poured into big boxes calledsweatboxes. Each box holds one hundred and sixty pounds of raisins. Here, any raisins that are a bittoo dry take moisture from those that have a bit too much. After a while they are all just moistenough. The big boxes are trucked next to the packaging plant. They are emptied onto a conveyorbelt that shakes the raisins gently. This knocks them from their stems. A blast of air whisks the stemsaway. The water bath is next. Then the plump brown raisins have a last inspection. They are againchecked for moisture and sugar. Then they go on a belt to packing machines. Here they are pouredinto packages, which are automatically weighed and sealed. The raisins are now ready for market.What is the main idea of this passage?