Q: CHAPTER XX.

MR WHITTLESTAFF TAKES HIS JOURNEY.

Mr Whittlestaff did at last get into the train and have himself carried up to London. And he ate his sandwiches and drank his sherry with an air of supreme satisfaction,--as though he had carried his point. And so he had. He had made up his mind on a certain matter; and, with the object of doing a certain piece of work, he had escaped from the two dominant women of his household, who had done their best to intercept him. So far his triumph was complete. But as he sat silent in the corner of the carriage, his mind reverted to the purpose of his journey, and he cannot be said to have been triumphant. He knew it all as well as did Mrs Baggett. And he knew too that, except Mrs Baggett and the girl herself, all the world was against him. That ass Montagu Blake every time he opened his mouth as to his own bride let out the idea that John Gordon should have his bride because John Gordon was young and lusty, and because he, Whittlestaff, might be regarded as an old man. The Miss Halls were altogether of the same opinion, and were not slow to express it. All Alresford would know it, and would sympathise with John Gordon. And as it came to be known that he himself had given up the girl whom he loved, he could read the ridicule which would be conveyed by the smiles of his neighbours.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where did Mr. Whittlestaff go?
2. Was he drinking vodka?
3. What was he drinking?
4. Did he eat anything?
5. what was it?
6. Who was thought to deserve his bride?
7. How come?
8. What about Whittlestaff?
9. Who else thought so?
10. Who would be on Gordon's side?
11. Anyone else?
A: 1. London
2. no
3. sherry
4. yes
5. sandwiches
6. John Gordon
7. John Gordon was young and lusty
8. he was regarded as an old man
9. The Hall sisters.
10. Mrs Baggett and the girl
11. no
Q: Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry.

Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father's lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries.

He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.

Answer the following questions:
1. When did Alfred Nobel die?
2. Who was his father?
3. What did he invent?
4. Where was Alfred birthed?
5. In what year?
6. Where did his family move?
7. When did that happen?
8. What kind of profession did his dad do?
9. Did his father make a good amount of money?
10. Did he lose it at some point?
11. When did they go back to their home country?
12. What profession was Nobel the son?
13. What did he work on?
14. Did he have a high education experience?
15. What languages could he speak?
16. How many companies did he build?
17. Where these companies in multiple cities?
18. In how many countries?
19. Was finding the purpose of life important to him?
20. Where did he die?
21. What does his will fund?
22. Will he be remembered?
A: 1. 1896
2. Immanuel Nobel
3. landmine
4. Stockholm
5. 1833
6. Russia
7. in 1842
8. engineering
9. yes
10. yes
11. 1859
12. an inventor
13. explosives
14. no
15. Swedish, Russian, German, French and English
16. 80
17. 20 different
18. 20
19. yes
20. Italy
21. physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace
22. yes
Q: Li Mingyang only joined Alibaba's investment platform one month ago but he has already transferred almost all the cash in his bank account - nearly Rmb200,000 ($32,000) - to the online fund. He is far from alone . More than 30 million people in China have signed up to Yu'E Bao, or "Leftover Treasure", only six months since its launch.

Initially as the Chinese e-co mmerce group as a platform for its users to manage extra funds in their online payment accounts, Yu'E Bao is becoming something far more powerful: a straight-up substitute for traditional bank deposits ."There's no point in keeping money in the bank any more. This is just as reliable, more flexible and you can earn a lot more from it," Mr Li says.

A quick hit of the Yu'E Bao application on his phone shows the Shanghai-based editor has earned more interest on his account over the past day than 94 per cent of other local users ."This is fun, almost like a computer game," he says with a laugh.

For every Rmb12 that companies and individuals have deposited in Chinese banks since June, they placed roughly Rmb1 in their Yu'E Bao accounts, according to Financial Times calculations based on official data. While it remains tiny compared with total deposits in the Chinese banking system, this transfer of cash from banks to the Alibaba platform is only speeding up. In the process, it threatens to upend( ) the rules of China's state-protected financial department, break banks' profit model and shifting power to savers in a way that was scarcely imaginable at the start of this year.

Other Chinese tech companies are getting in on the act. Tencent, developer of the hugely popular

messaging app WeChat, is said to be designing a fund platform similar to Yu'E Bao. Baidu, the search engine company, began marketing investment products in October.

"Internet companies, with their ability to instantly reach millions of consumers, have already started to change the competitive dynamic in finance," says Ernan Cui, an analyst with GK Dragonomics, a

Beijing-based research firm.

Answer the following questions:
1. What platform did Mungyang join?
2. How long ago?
3. How much has he already transferred?
4. How long ago did Leftover Treasure launch?
5. Yu'E Bao is a substitute for what?
6. What does Mr Li say is the main benefit?
7. He has earned more over the past day than what percent of local users?
8. What did Li compare it to?
9. For ever Rmb12 what amount was placed in their Bao accounts?
10. Who else is getting in on the act?
A:
1. Alibaba's investment platform
2. one month
3. nearly Rmb200,000
4. six months
5. traditional bank deposits
6. more flexible and you can earn a lot more from it
7. 94
8. a computer game
9. Rmb1
10. Other Chinese tech companies