Q: CHAPTER 10. Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman's Disaster

Major Bagstock, after long and frequent observation of Paul, across Princess's Place, through his double-barrelled opera-glass; and after receiving many minute reports, daily, weekly, and monthly, on that subject, from the native who kept himself in constant communication with Miss Tox's maid for that purpose; came to the conclusion that Dombey, Sir, was a man to be known, and that J. B. was the boy to make his acquaintance.

Miss Tox, however, maintaining her reserved behaviour, and frigidly declining to understand the Major whenever he called (which he often did) on any little fishing excursion connected with this project, the Major, in spite of his constitutional toughness and slyness, was fain to leave the accomplishment of his desire in some measure to chance, 'which,' as he was used to observe with chuckles at his club, 'has been fifty to one in favour of Joey B., Sir, ever since his elder brother died of Yellow Jack in the West Indies.'

It was some time coming to his aid in the present instance, but it befriended him at last. When the dark servant, with full particulars, reported Miss Tox absent on Brighton service, the Major was suddenly touched with affectionate reminiscences of his friend Bill Bitherstone of Bengal, who had written to ask him, if he ever went that way, to bestow a call upon his only son. But when the same dark servant reported Paul at Mrs Pipchin's, and the Major, referring to the letter favoured by Master Bitherstone on his arrival in England--to which he had never had the least idea of paying any attention--saw the opening that presented itself, he was made so rabid by the gout, with which he happened to be then laid up, that he threw a footstool at the dark servant in return for his intelligence, and swore he would be the death of the rascal before he had done with him: which the dark servant was more than half disposed to believe.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where are they?
2. What was to be known?
3. who was to know him?
4. who is reserved?
5. who was tough?
6. who was JB?
7. Who was major's friend?
8. What was his last name?
9. where was he from?
10. who was absent?
A: 1. Princess's Place
2. Dombey
3. J. B.
4. Miss Tox,
5. Major
6. Joey B
7. Bill
8. Bitherstone
9. Bengal
10. Miss Tox
Q: Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard. In the early years, these schools were nearly the same. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin and Greek. Little was known about science. And few people knew that one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers. In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could study in Harvard's law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began to teach modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began to teach American history. As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them. Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer all.

Answer the following questions:
1. what ancient languages did everyone used to learn?
2. was much known about science?
3. when did they start teaching modern languages at Harvard?
4. what year was Harvard founded?
5. what other schools opened soon after?
6. which is the oldest of all them?
7. what did most people become when they had graduated?
8. what year did Harvard start teaching medicine?
9. what modern languages did they start to teach?
10. in the past, who went to college?
11. besides medicine, what other subjects were offered?
12. did they also teach history?
13. Today, modern colleges are mostly made up of what?
14. are they specialized?
15. can one school offer everything?
16. how similar were Harvard, Yale and Princeton when they opened?
17. did everyone study the same subject?
18. could one school teach everything back then?
A: 1. Latin and Greek
2. no
3. In 1782
4. 1636
5. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth
6. Harvard
7. ministers or teachers
8. 1782
9. French and German
10. Only young men
11. law school
12. yes
13. smaller schools
14. yes
15. no
16. nearly the same
17. yes
18. yes
Q: Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, England. It is a division of Thomson Reuters.

Until 2008, the Reuters news agency formed part of an independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data. Since the acquisition of Reuters Group by the Thomson Corporation in 2008, the Reuters news agency has been a part of Thomson Reuters, making up the media division. Reuters transmits news in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Urdu, and Chinese. It was established in 1851.

The Reuter agency was established in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter in Britain at the London Royal Exchange. Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen.

Upon moving to England, he founded Reuter's Telegram Company in 1851. Headquartered in London, the company initially covered commercial news, serving banks, brokerage houses, and business firms. The first newspaper client to subscribe was the London "Morning Advertiser" in 1858. Afterwards more newspapers signed up, with "Britannica Encyclopedia" writing that "the value of Reuters to newspapers lay not only in the financial news it provided but in its ability to be the first to report on stories of international importance." Reuter's agency built a reputation in Europe and the rest of the world as the first to report news scoops from abroad. Reuters was the first to report Abraham Lincoln's assassination in Europe, for instance, in 1865. In 1872, Reuters expanded into the far east, followed by South America in 1874. Both expansions were made possible by advances in overland telegraphs and undersea cables. In 1883, Reuters began transmitting messages electrically to London newspapers.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is this about>
2. What is that?
3. Where is it located?
4. Who owns it?
5. When did they buy it?
6. What was the name of the company before?
7. What else did they do?
8. When was it first started?
9. By who?
10. Where?
11. What was it called then?
12. What was the first paper called?
13. When did that start?
14. What languages do they offer?
15. Any others?
16. Is that all?
17. What is something they did first?
18. What else?
19. Where?
20. To do what?
A:
1. Reuters
2. an international news agency
3. London
4. the Thomson Corporation
5. 2008
6. Reuters Group plc
7. Provided financial market data
8. in 1851
9. Paul Julius Reuter
10. at the London Royal Exchange
11. Reuter's Telegram Company
12. the London "Morning Advertiser"
13. 1858
14. English, French, and Chinese
15. Arabic, Spanish, German, and Italian
16. Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Urdu
17. report Abraham Lincoln's assassination in Europe
18. using homing pigeons
19. in Aachen
20. transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen