Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.

TELLS OF DARK AND THREATENING CLOUDS, AND WAR.

The exigencies of our somewhat acrobatic tale require, at this point, that we should make a considerable bound. We shall beg the obliging reader to leap with us into the year 1834.

Hans Marais, moustached, bearded, bronzed, and in the prime of life, sits at the door of a cottage recently built close to that of his father. Beside him sits his wife--formerly Miss Gertrude Brook, and now as sweet and pretty a young woman as you would find in a month's ride through a country where sweet pretty women were, and still are, very numerous in proportion to the population.

Whether it was that Hans was timid, or Gertie shy, we cannot tell, but somehow it is only three months since they began their united career, and Hans considers himself to have married rather "late in life." Gertie, being now twenty-six, begins to think herself quite an old woman. It is evident, however, that this ancient couple wear well, and are sufficiently happy--if we may presume to judge from appearances.

"Gertie," said Hans, patting the fingers which handed him his big Dutch pipe, "I fear that my father is determined to go."

"Do you think so?" said Gertie, while a sad expression chased the sunshine from her face.

"Yes, he says he cannot stand the treatment we Cape-Dutchmen receive from the British Government, and that he means to give up his farm, take his waggons and goods, and treck away to the north, with the friends who are already preparing to go, in search of free lands in the wilderness where the Union Jack does not fly."

1. What year is it?
2. Who is the male character?
3. Does he have facial hair?
4. What color is he?
5. What kind of house does he have??
6. Does he have a wife?
7. Are pretty women easy to come by?
8. How long has it been since they started their career
9. How old is Gertie?
10. Is the couple happy?
11. What ethnicity are the characters?
12. Yes. Was did Gertie hand to Hans
13. Did he fear is father leaving?
14. What did Gertie say next?
15. Why is the father thinking about leaving?
16. From whom?
17. Where is he planning on trecking?
18. In search of what?
19. Which country does he not want to be under?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 1834
2. Hans Marais
3. yes
4. bronzed
5. a cottage
6. yes
7. yes
8. three months
9. , twenty-six
10. yes
11. Cape Dutchman?
12. his big Dutch pipe
13. yes
14. Do you think so?
15. he cannot stand the treatment Cape-Dutchmen receive
16. the British Government
17. away to the north
18. of free lands in the wilderness where the Union Jack does not fly
19. the Union Jack

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Tim Welford, aged 33, and Dom Mee, aged 30, both from England, were keen on (="like..." very much) rowing boats. They made a plan to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to San Francisco. The name of their rowboat was "Crackers". It was about seven meters long.

They set out from Japan on May 17,2001. They had rowed nearly 5,500 miles when their boat was hit by a fishing ship on September 17,2001. Luckily they both escaped unharmed, but their boat was badly damaged and they had to abandon( =" stop)their" journey.

In a radio interview, Dom expressed his disappointment and explained how the accident took place.

"A fishing ship came towards us with nobody on the bridge and ran us down. It all happened so quickly. I managed to dive into the water. Tim felt it would be safer to stay on board. He was trapped inside as the boat was driven under the water. Finally some people appeared on the ship and saw me in the water. I shouted at them to stop the ship and to get Tim out. When the ship stopped, I eventually saw Tim, and I was very, very happy that we were still alive. We were very disappointed that we couldn't reach San Francisco. But we are alive. That above everything is the most important. "

1. What does keen mean?
2. Whast were they keen on?
3. What were they planning on?
4. Where were they to start?
5. and end?
6. When did they leave?
7. Did they make the trip?
8. what happened?
9. How far had they went?
10. Who dived into the water?
11. why?
12. Was anyone on the bridge of the boat?
13. Did anyone appear eventually?
14. Did Dom shout at them?
15. What?
16. Was Tim happy?
17. why?
18. How old was Dom?
19. and Tim?
20. where were they from?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Like very much.
2. Rowing boats.
3. Rowing across the Pacific Ocean.
4. Japan.
5. San Francisco.
6. May 17.
7. No.
8. Their boat was hit by a fishing ship.
9. Nearly 5,500 miles.
10. Dom.
11. He felt it was safer.
12. No.
13. Yes.
14. Yes.
15. Stop the ship and to get Tim out
16. No.
17. That we couldn't reach San Francisco.
18. 30.
19. 33.
20. England.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

The concept of free market contrasts with regulated market, in which a government intervenes in supply and demand through various methods such as tariffs used to restrict trade and protect the economy. In a free market economy, prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy.

Although free markets are commonly associated with capitalism within a market economy in contemporary usage and popular culture, free markets have also been advocated by free-market anarchists, market socialists, and some proponents of cooperatives and advocates of profit sharing. Criticism of the theoretical concept consider systems with significant market power, inequality of bargaining power, or information asymmetry to be less than free, with regulation being necessary to control those imbalances.

The laissez-faire principle expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages, such as those from discriminatory government taxes, subsidies, tariffs, regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies. Friedrich Hayek argued in "The Pure Theory of Capital" that the goal is the preservation of the unique information contained in the price itself.

1. what is a free market system?
2. are they commondly associated with capitalism?
3. are prices set freely?
4. by?
5. can the government intervene?
6. is free market and regulated market the same?
7. what is a regulated market?
8. what principle is mentioned?
9. what is laissez-faire?
10. from?
11. anything else?
12. what?
13. and?
14. aret there more?
15. please mention them.
16. who argued about about the goal being preservation?
17. in what?
18. did he write a paper or thesis about it?
19. called?
20. are free markets popular?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers
2. yes
3. yes
4. the forces of supply and demand
5. no
6. no
7. a government intervenes in supply and demand
8. tariffs
9. expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages
10. discriminatory government taxes,
11. Yes
12. , subsidies,
13. tariffs
14. yes
15. regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies.
16. Friedrich Hayek
17. of the unique information contained in the price itself.
18. yes
19. "The Pure Theory of Capital
20. no