Q: CHAPTER XV

A RUNAWAY MOTOR-BOAT

"What do you make of that?"

"The motor-boat must have run away from Nat!"

"Either that or Nat has fallen overboard!"

"Maybe Nat has been drowned!"

These and other remarks were made, as the boys on the highway gazed down at the craft that was speeding along in such an erratic fashion over the surface of the river. A closer look confirmed their first opinion, that nobody was on board.

"I'm going to try to stop her!" shouted Dave, and ran back along the highway, and disappeared into the bushes. Roger followed him closely, and some of the others trailed behind.

"I am going up the river--to see if I can find Nat!" shouted Phil, and away he sped, and Sam and Ben went along.

It was no easy matter for Dave to work his way down the bank of the stream. The bushes were thick and the footing uncertain, and once his jacket caught on a root and he had to pause to free himself. But at last he came out on a narrow strip of rocks and sand, at a point where the Leming River made a broad turn.

The water at this point was quite shallow, and here he thought the progress of the motor-boat would be stayed. His surmise was correct, the craft bringing up between several smooth rocks. The engine continued to work, pounding the boat back and forth, and threatening to sink her.

Fortunately, Dave had on a pair of gaiters he had borrowed, and they were so big that he slipped them off with ease. His socks followed, and then he rolled up his trousers to his knees, and waded into the stream.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was having difficultly reaching the water?
2. Why?
3. Did he make it?
4. What was the body of water called?
5. Did it have a name?
6. Was it deep?
7. Why was he going to it?
8. Did he find the barge?
9. Was it broken?
10. Who yelled they were looking for Nat?
A: 1. dave
2. uncertain footing, thick brush and he was caught on a root
3. yes
4. river
5. Leming River
6. no
7. they can't find nat
8. yes
9. the engine was runing and threatening to sink the ship on the rocks
10. Phil
Q: Hong Kong (CNN) -- An Australian teenager reported missing two months ago has been found alive in dense bushland not far from his home, local police say.

Matthew Allen, 18, was last seen at his family home near Westleigh, a suburb about 30 kilometers (20 miles) away from Sydney, on November 27.

Police feared the worst as the teen had not taken his mobile phone with him or accessed his bank accounts.

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Extensive searches by police and emergency services failed to find him.

On Saturday, two hikers told police that they had spotted a "disorientated man" in bushland not far from Westleigh.

When rescuers reached Allen, he was in a bad way suffering from exhaustion and dehydration.

Local media said he was emaciated, covered in leeches and mosquito bites and his feet and lower legs were suffering from gangrene.

It was believed he had been in the bush the entire nine weeks he was missing, police said.

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''He was in such a poor state,'' Detective Acting Inspector Glyn Baker told the Sydney Morning Herald.

''He was completely exhausted, completely dehydrated, suffered significant weight loss, somewhere up to 50%. He was suffering from partial blindness and he had leeches all over him.''

He was winched out by a rescue helicopter and taken to a nearby hospital, where he was reunited with his family.

Allen went missing during a record heatwave when Sydney endured temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did hikers find?
2. Where?
3. Where was it close to?
4. How many hikers were there?
5. When did they see him?
6. Who did it turn out to be?
7. How old is he?
8. How someone reported him missing
9. How long was he gone?
10. Where does he live?
11. What big city is that close to?
12. How far apart are they?
13. Was he in good shape when they found him?
14. Was was he experiencing?
15. Anything else?
16. Was some kind of animal on him?
17. What?
18. What had bitten him?
19. How much of his body weight had he lost?
20. Who filed for bankruptcy?
A: 1. a "disorientated man"
2. in bushland
3. Westleigh
4. two
5. On Saturday
6. Matthew Allen,
7. 18
8. Yes
9. two months
10. Westleigh
11. Sydney
12. 20 miles
13. no
14. dehydration
15. partial blindness
16. Yes
17. leeches
18. mosquitos
19. 50%
20. Casey Anthony
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