Q: CHAPTER III

THE TEAM THAT RAN AWAY

"Oh, Dave, the gully!" cried his sister Laura. "If we go into that we'll all be killed!"

"Please keep quiet, Laura," flung back her brother in a low, tense voice. "These horses are scared enough as it is."

Dave was doing his best to bring the spirited grays out of their mad gallop. But they had not been out of the stable for the best part of a week, and this, combined with the scare from the roar of the automobile, had so gotten on their nerves that to calm them seemed next to impossible. On and on they flew over the packed snow of the hard road, the sleigh bouncing from side to side as it passed over the bumps in the highway.

Jessie was deadly pale and had all she could do to keep from shrieking with fright. But when she heard Dave address his sister in the above words, she shut her teeth hard, resolved to remain silent, no matter what the cost. Ben was worried as well as scared--the more so because he realized there was practically nothing he could do to aid Dave in subduing the runaways. The youth on the front seat had braced both feet on the dashboard of the sleigh, and was pulling back on the reins with all the strength of his vigorous muscles.

Thus fully a quarter of a mile was covered--a stretch of the hill road which fortunately was comparatively straight. But then there loomed up ahead a sharp turn, leading down to the straight road through the valley below.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is scared?
2. Who might scare them more?
3. What is she afraid of?
4. What does she think will happen?
5. If they reach it?
6. Who is she talking to?
7. What is he trying to do?
8. Is it working?
9. Why not?
10. Where were they travelling?
A: 1. horses
2. Laura
3. the gully
4. we'll all be killed
5. yes
6. Dave
7. bring the spirited grays out of their mad gallop
8. no
9. They had not been out of the stable and with roar of the automobile, had so gotten on their nerves that to calm them was impossible.
10. highway
Q: Malawi (, or ; or [malawi]), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. Malawi is over with an estimated population of 16,777,547 (July 2013 est.). Its capital is Lilongwe, which is also Malawi's largest city; the second largest is Blantyre, the third is Mzuzu and the fourth largest is its old capital Zomba. The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area. The country is also nicknamed "The Warm Heart of Africa".

Malawi is among the smallest countries in Africa. Lake Malawi takes up about a third of Malawi's area.

The area of Africa now known as Malawi was settled by migrating Bantu groups around the 10th century. Centuries later in 1891 the area was colonised by the British. In 1953 Malawi, then known as Nyasaland, a protectorate of the United Kingdom, became a protectorate within the semi-independent Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The Federation was dissolved in 1963. In 1964 the protectorate over Nyasaland was ended and Nyasaland became an independent country under Queen Elizabeth II with the new name Malawi. Two years later it became a republic. Upon gaining independence it became a one-party state under the presidency of Hastings Banda, who remained president until 1994, when he lost an election. Arthur Peter Mutharika is the current president. Malawi has a democratic, multi-party government. The country has a Malawian Defence Force that includes an army, a navy and an air wing. Malawi's foreign policy is pro-Western and includes positive diplomatic relations with most countries and participation in several international organisations, including the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the African Union (AU).

Answer the following questions:
1. Who settled in Malawi?
2. when?
3. What does the defence force include?
4. What does COMESA stand for?
5. Is it a large country?
6. When was it colonized?
7. By who?
8. What was it called before Malawi?
9. when was the federation dissolved?
10. What is the capital city?
11. What is the biggest lake?
12. how much of Malawi's space does it take up?
13. What is AU?
A: 1. Bantu groups
2. 10th century
3. army, a navy and an air wing
4. Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
5. No
6. 1891
7. British
8. Nyasaland
9. 1963
10. Lilongwe
11. Lake Malawi
12. a third of Malawi's area
13. African Union
Q: Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetal and oxidizing agent that readily forms compounds (notably oxides) with most elements. By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. At standard temperature and pressure, two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen, a colorless and odorless diatomic gas with the formula O 2. Diatomic oxygen gas constitutes 20.8% of the Earth's atmosphere. However, monitoring of atmospheric oxygen levels show a global downward trend, because of fossil-fuel burning. Oxygen is the most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust as part of oxide compounds such as silicon dioxide, making up almost half of the crust's mass.

Many major classes of organic molecules in living organisms, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and fats, contain oxygen, as do the major inorganic compounds that are constituents of animal shells, teeth, and bone. Most of the mass of living organisms is oxygen as it is a part of water, the major constituent of lifeforms. Oxygen is used in cellular respiration and released by photosynthesis, which uses the energy of sunlight to produce oxygen from water. It is too chemically reactive to remain a free element in air without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic action of living organisms. Another form (allotrope) of oxygen, ozone (O 3), strongly absorbs UVB radiation and consequently the high-altitude ozone layer helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation, but is a pollutant near the surface where it is a by-product of smog. At even higher low earth orbit altitudes, sufficient atomic oxygen is present to cause erosion for spacecraft.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the article about?
2. What is its symbol?
3. it's numeral?
4. is it abundant?
5. how does it rank?
6. What is more abundant?
7. What makes up O2?
8. What seems to be lowering earths levels of O2?
9. Does O2 exist inside our planet?
10. How is O2 released by plants? What process?
11. What is O3?
12. Where is this found?
13. Is it found near the face of the planet?
14. What is this called?
15. Does smog cause this?
16. What can erode space vehicles?
17. At what level?
A:
1. Oxygen
2. O
3. Eight
4. Yes
5. third
6. hydrogen and helium
7. two atoms of oxygen
8. fossil-fuel burning
9. Yes
10. photosynthesis
11. ozone
12. high-altitude
13. Yes
14. a pollutant
15. Yes
16. atomic oxygen
17. higher low earth orbit altitudes