10. Choose the right word and fill in the sentences:

1. Tom Battler … to reply to such a trivial question.

a) disgrace b) disguised c) disgust d) disdained

2. The city’s population is largely … of Asians and Europeans.

a) comports b)composed c) compress d) comprised

3. Darvin believed that we …. from apes.

a) evoked b) evolved c) evaded d)evicted

4. Grandma is always … in answering letters.

a) prop b) prone c) prong d) prompt

5. The President foreign policy advisers … for emergency session.

a) to convene b) to convent c) to converse d) to converge

A story behind the word: Vatican

Vatican, the name of the pope's residence in Rome, the seat of government of the Roman Catholic Church, comes about because in Roman times the Mons Vaticanus, "the Vatican Hill," was the headquarters of the soothsayers, in Latin vaticinatores. As a residence for the popes, the Vatican dates back to the 5th century, when Pope Symmachus built a palace there after Emperor Constantine I had built a basilica at St Peter's. Then, after the return of the papacy to Rome from France in 1377, the Vatican became the usual residence of the popes. During the Renaissance, great galleries and museums were constructed, and magnificent art collections set up. Since the Lateran Treaty between Pope Pius XI and King-Victor Emmanuel III of Italy in 1929, the Vatican city has been an independent state of nearly 109 acres with the pope as its absolute ruler.

Islam

Islam is a world religion founded by the Arabian apostle, or prophet, Muhammad in the 7th century AD and emphasizing an uncompromising monotheism and a strict adherence to certain religious practices. Although there have been many sects and movements within the religion, all followers of Islam are bound by a common faith and a sense of belonging to a single community.

For Muslims, as adherents of Islam are called, the Qur'an is the Word of God. The Word's agent of revelation is the Prophet Muhammad. The Prophet Muhammad, who worked as a trader, was forty years old when he had been chosen by God to be Messenger to all mankind. The angel taught him the way of worshipping God and conduct of prayers.

The Qur'anic theology is rigorously monotheistic: God is absolutely unique, omnipotent, omniscient, and merciful. Men are exhorted to obey his will (i.e., to be Muslim), and special responsibility is laid on man. The profession of the faith (shahada) is: "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is the prophet of God."

All Muslims are enjoined to practice the Five Pillars of Islam: (1) to recite the profession of faith at least once in one's lifetime; (2) to observe the five daily public and collective prayers; (3) to pay the zakat ("purification") tax for the support of the poor; (4) to fast from daybreak to sunset during the entirety of the month of Ramadan; and (5) to perform if physically and financially possible the hajj, or pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.

The most important and fundamental religious concept of Islam is that of the Shari'ah, or the Law, which embraces the total way of life as explicitly or implicitly commanded by God.