Remarkable Stories: Friendship, Sustainability, and Social Change

Meeting an Old Friend

Meeting an old friend:

• Her parents sold the house and moved to Florida.
• Collaborated with an organization that built new schools.
• They are good friends and they call each other occasionally.
• Not seriously, he's not ready for a commitment.
• When there aren't many people in the club.
• In spite of her parents' opposition.
• She'll spend most of the time in the city after a short visit to Florida.
• To help the children who suffered the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

Gourmet Garbage

Gourmet Garbage:

• Even though they are in brand new condition.
• He eats the food that he has in his refrigerator.
• A market where people donate things they no longer want.
• It is a way to fight the system.
• By using bicycles.
• Doesn't eat meat, eggs, or milk products.
• Are not animal-friendly.
• Are serious people, not freaks.

A Better World

A Better World:

• The excessive use of coal and oil.
• Some people from the entertainment industry.
• The director, David Guggenheim, who often consulted Gore.
• Won't be much more important than it is now.
• Made mainly from waste.
• Are quite responsive to the production of oil and coal.
• Some cities do.
• To change people's point of view about global warming.

The Best-Seller Connection

The Best-seller Connection:

• b) You can see people reading it everywhere.
• c) Simply enjoys observing them unnoticed.
• c) She knows that some readers like to find that kind of relationship in novels.
• a) Accurate.
• b) Florence, Turin, and the Sorbonne in Paris.
• a) They were doing maintenance work.
• c) The information wasn't there.
• a) The information wasn't extremely relevant, so she continued the story without it.

No Longer Just Child's Play

No Longer Just Child's Play:

• Has gone up.
• Some people collect toys to earn money.
• Men do.
• They have some free time and can spend money on their own hobbies.
• Dolls.
• Are meeting places.
• Some toys are fake pieces or are too expensive.
• It is the only shop that specializes in Playmobil products.

Michael Palin: The Traveling Comedian

Michael Palin: The Traveling Comedian:

• d) He had no opportunities to travel.
• a) Enjoyed traveling as a means of getting away.
• b) Didn't have the feeling that he was really traveling.
• c) Look at the world as an outsider.
• a) It can bring you closer to the people.
• d) He had to improvise the interviews with the people he met during the trip.
• c) Not impose our way of life on other countries.
• a) We produce too much waste because we have much more than we need.

Ruth Manorama - Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize

Ruth Manorama - Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize:

• b) Be getting $90,000 in prize money.
• a) Be mainly for Dalit women.
• c) She had economic difficulties.
• d) Her mother thought the schools near her house were not good enough.
• d) After she had been involved in activities against discrimination.
• a) People would not understand why Dalit women should fight for their rights.
• c) She felt the situation of Dalit women was worse than that of other poor women.
• b) One needs to explain the truth and talk about it with courage.