Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXVII

STARTLING NEWS

It was noon on the day after Wandle's flight, and Jernyngham was sitting with his friends in a room of the Leslie homestead when Muriel, looking out of the window, saw Prescott's hired man ride up at a gallop. His haste and his anxious expression when he dismounted alarmed her, but her companions had not noticed him, and she waited, listening to the murmur of voices that presently reached her from an adjoining room. They ceased in a few minutes, she saw the man ride away as fast as he had come, and soon afterward Leslie opened the door. He was a talkative person and looked as if he had something of importance to relate.

"Svendsen has been over to ask if I saw Prescott when I was in at the settlement yesterday," he said. "When I told him that I hadn't, he seemed mighty disturbed."

Muriel's heart throbbed painfully, but she waited for one of the others to speak, and Jernyngham, laying down his paper, glanced up sharply.

"Why?" he asked.

This was all the encouragement Leslie needed.

"I'll tell you, so far as I've got the hang of the thing; I thought you'd like to know. It seems Prescott has been away somewhere for a few days and should have got home last night. He came in on the train in the evening, and Harper drove him out and dropped him at Wandle's trail; Prescott said he wanted to see the man. Well, he didn't get home, and Svendsen, who'd been to Harper's this morning, found Wandle gone and three of his horses missing. Then he found out from Watson, who stayed at the hotel last night, that Curtis rode in on a played-out horse before it was light, and kept the night operator busy for a while with the wires. Seems to me the thing has a curious look."

1. Who took a flight?
2. What time did he sit with friends the next day?
3. Did Leslie like to chat?
4. Whose heart hurt?
5. Who's been away for awhile?
6. In what room did the friends chat?
7. How did the hired man travel?
8. Did all the friends see him arrive?
9. Did the hired man hang around?
10. Who opened the door?
11. Did he look anxious?
12. Who hadn't been seen the day before?
13. Who was worried about that?
14. Who put their reading down?
15. When was Prescott supposed to return?
16. How was he traveling?
17. Where did he get left at?
18. What time of day?
19. What was also missing?
20. Who spent the night at a paid room?
21. Who had a very tired animal?
22. What did he keep the clerk busy with?
23. Where were the low voices coming from?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Wandle.
2. Noon.
3. Yes.
4. Muriel's.
5. Prescot.
6. At the Leslie homestead.
7. On a horse.
8. No.
9. No.
10. Leslie.
11. Yes.
12. Prescott.
13. Svendsen.
14. Jernyngham.
15. Last night.
16. Train.
17. Wandle's trail.
18. Evening.
19. Horses.
20. Watson.
21. Curtis.
22. Wires.
23. An adjoining room.

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The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT) (French: "les Territoires du Nord-Ouest", "TNO"; Athabaskan languages: "Denendeh"; Inuinnaqtun: "Nunatsiaq"; Inuktitut: ) is a territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2011 population of 41,462, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada. Its estimated population as of 2016 is 44,291. Yellowknife became the territorial capital in 1967, following recommendations by the Carrothers Commission.

The Northwest Territories, a portion of the old North-West Territory, entered the Canadian Confederation on July 15, 1870, but the current borders were formed on April 1, 1999, when the territory was subdivided to create Nunavut to the east, via the "Nunavut Act" and the "Nunavut Land Claims Agreement". While Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is both boreal forest (taiga), and tundra, and its most northern regions form part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

The Northwest Territories are bordered by Canada's two other territories, Nunavut to the east and Yukon to the west, and by the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the south.

The name is descriptive, adopted by the British government during the colonial era to indicate where it lay in relation to Rupert's Land. It is shortened from North-Western Territory ("see" History). In Inuktitut, the Northwest Territories are referred to as ("Nunatsiaq"), "beautiful land."

1. Where are the Northwest Territories a Territory of?
2. Why did the British government adopt it's name?
3. in relation to what?
4. What was it's estamated population in 2016?
5. What is the French translation of The Northwest Territories?
6. When did it enter the Canadian Confederation?
7. and when were today's borders formed?
8. What is the capital of the territory?
9. When did Yellowknife become the capital?
10. What does the northern most regions of the Northwest Territories form part of?
11. What other Canadian territory boarders the Northwest Territory to it's west?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Canada
2. To indicate its location
3. Rupert's Land
4. 44,291
5. les Territoires du Nord-Ouest
6. July 15, 1870
7. April 1, 1999
8. Yellowknife
9. 1967
10. Canadian Arctic Archipelago
11. Yukon

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Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May,1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, had been a schoolteacher. She also loved nature. She showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also taught Rachel a deep love for books. As a quiet child, Rachel liked to read and write stories. At a very early age, she decided she wanted to be a writer some day. Her story first appeared in a children's magazine when she was ten years old. Her first books, Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book, The Sea Around Us. She always remembered carefully when she wrote. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us. When the book came out in 1951, it won the National Book Award. It was No. 1 on the best-seller list for more than a year. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous. Rachel Carson's most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well. Finally, in November 1969, the United Sates government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years. Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist and writer. She will be remembered by the world.

1. Who was Maria Carson?
2. Who was MAria Carson?
3. What did she do?
4. How was Rachel as a child?
5. What did she enjoy doing?
6. What happened when she was 10?
7. Did she have other stories published?
8. What was the name?
9. Was this important?
10. Did the book do well?
11. Did it win any awards?
12. What won the national Book Award?
13. what year did it come out?
14. Is Rachel Famous?
15. How did she become this way?
16. Will she be remembered for this?
17. Where was she born?
18. When?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Rachel Carson
2. Rachel Carson's mother
3. she was a schoolteacher.
4. quiet
5. read and write stories.
6. Her story appeared in a children's magazine
7. yes
8. Under the Sea Wind
9. It was her first book
10. unknown
11. unknown
12. The Sea Around Us
13. 1951
14. yes
15. she pointed out that DDT would kill birds
16. yes
17. in the USA
18. May,1907.