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CHAPTER XXVI

ON THE TRAIL

It was a long, wet sail up the coast with the wind ahead, and Carroll was quite content when, on reaching Comox, Vane announced his intention of stopping there until the mail came in. Immediately after its arrival, Carroll went ashore, and came back empty-handed.

"Nothing," he reported. "Personally, I'm pleased. Nairn could have advised us here if there had been any striking developments since we left the last place."

"I wasn't expecting to hear from him," Vane replied tersely.

Carroll read keen disappointment in his face, and was not surprised, although the absence of any message meant that it was safe for them to go on with their project and that should have afforded his companion satisfaction. The latter sat on deck, gazing somewhat moodily across the ruffled water toward the snow-clad heights of the mainland range. They towered, dimly white and majestic, above a scarcely-trodden wilderness, and Carroll, at least, was not pleasantly impressed by the spectacle. Though not to be expected always, the cold snaps are now and then severe in those wilds. Indeed, at odd times a frost almost as rigorous as that of Alaska lays its icy grip upon the mountains and the usually damp forests at their feet.

"I wish I could have got a man to go with us, but between the coal development and the logging, everybody's busy," he remarked.

"It doesn't matter," Vane assured him. "If we took a man along and came back unsuccessful, there'd be a risk of his giving the thing away. Besides, he might make trouble in other respects. A hired packer would probably kick against what you and I may have to put up with."

1. Was there any mail at Comox?
2. How did Carroll feel about that?
3. But was Carroll?
4. When there was no mail did that mean that it OK to go on?
5. Where was Vane sitting?
6. What was he doing there?
7. At What?
8. Was Carroll happy about what he saw?
9. Could it get cold there?
10. As cold as where?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. No
2. Vane was didsppointed
3. unknown
4. yes
5. on deck
6. gazing somewhat moodily
7. the snow-clad heights of the mainland range
8. was not pleasantly impressed
9. yes
10. Alaska

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Passage 1 Mobile Phone Madness How much do you love your mobile phone? A Chinese student had to call 110 for help this week after he got his arm stuck in a toilet trying to rescue his mobile phone. After dropping his phone in the toilet, he decided to wrap(,) his arm in newspaper in the hopes of keeping clean. But the newspapers became larger in size in the water, and then even his roommates couldn't help him pull his arm out. So policemen were called and they spent an hour unsticking the stuck student. Passage 2 Crazy Pet Lovers How much do you love your pets? Many people in China are famous for how much they love their pets. They dress them up in fashionable clothing and buy them high quality food. But would they spend 7,000 English pounds (68,000 yuan) on a wedding for their pets? And that's what a couple in Brazil spent on a fancy wedding for their pet Yorkshire terriers( a kind of dog). Passage 3 Oh, rats! When something goes wrong, you can often hear Westerners cry "Oh, rats". But when it comes to Southern China, "Oh, rats!" can mean it's what you want for dinner. According to a report in China Daily, some restaurants in Guangzhou serve rat meat. But, actually, most of those rats are field mice. What would Mickey Mouse say? Passage 4 Liar , liar Here's some news that most women already know. Men tell more lies than women. The London Daily Mail cites a new study that says men tell about three lies a day, while women tell only two lies a day. Men are also less likely to feel guilty about lying, according to this week's survey of 3,000 people by a research organization called One Poll. According to the Poll, lying to our mothers is very popular. But then, so is lying at work. And both men and women will lie when it comes to how much they've drunk. So how easy is it to tell when someone is lying?

1. What kind of pet did the Brazilian couple have?
2. Yorkshire cats?
3. What do restaurants in Guangzhou sometimes serve?
4. According to what source?
5. True or False: Lying to your grandparents is popular according to polls.
6. Who does the poll name as commonly lied to, then?
7. What will both males and females frequently lie about?
8. How many people did One Poll survey?
9. What did the student get stuck in?
10. What part of him was stuck?
11. What country was he from?
12. What was he trying to do?
13. How long did it take to free him?
14. True or False: His roommates freed him.
15. Did they try to help?
16. How much did the Brazilian dog wedding cost in pounds?
17. How much is that in yuan?
18. What animal is the "rat meat" usually from?
19. What source wrote that men lie more than women?
20. What source cited One Poll?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Yorkshire
2. no
3. rats
4. China Daily
5. false
6. mothers
7. how much they've drunk
8. 3,000
9. toilet
10. arm
11. china
12. rescue his mobile phon
13. hour
14. false
15. yes
16. 7,000
17. 68,000
18. field mice
19. One Pol
20. The London Daily Mail

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In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense, idealism emphasizes how human ideasespecially beliefs and valuesshape society. As an ontological doctrine, idealism goes further, asserting that all entities are composed of mind or spirit. Idealism thus rejects physicalist and dualist theories that fail to ascribe priority to the mind.

The earliest extant arguments that the world of experience is grounded in the mental derive from India and Greece. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists gave panentheistic arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the ground or true nature of reality. In contrast, the Yogacara school, which arose within Mahayana Buddhism in India in the 4th century CE, based its "mind-only" idealism to a greater extent on phenomenological analyses of personal experience. This turn toward the subjective anticipated empiricists such as George Berkeley, who revived idealism in 18th-century Europe by employing skeptical arguments against materialism.

1. what does Idealism reject?
2. ontologically what does it assert?
3. where did the earliest arguments that experience is mental come from?
4. how does idealism manifest Epistemologically?
5. about what exactly?
6. where did the Yogacara school come from?
7. who was an empiricists
8. when did he revive idealism in Europe?
9. what is idealism a group of?
10. does idealism shape society?
11. who gave panentheistic arguments for consciousness?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. physicalist and dualist theories
2. that all entities are composed of mind or spirit
3. India and Greece
4. as a skepticism
5. about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing
6. within Mahayana Buddhism in India
7. George Berkeley
8. 18th-century
9. philosophies
10. yes
11. The Hindu idealists in India and the Greek Neoplatonists