Q: Mike McClure walked into Sarasota Bay for a little fishing on a beautiful day last April. This afternoon, the water was shallow enough at low tide that McClure could easily walk 100 yards offshore and cast his line in any direction.

Near sunset, still without a fish, he decided to turn back. Rather than turn to his earlier course, he chose a more direct path toward shore, thinking the bay wouldn't get deeper along the way. Instead, he was trapped. He tried to walk in different directions, but shallower water eluded him. Finally, he decided his safest choice was to head straight for land.

"Within about five steps, the water was coming in through the top of the waders ," says McClure.

He felt the deadweight of the flooding waders pulling him down and knew that if he didn't get out of them, he would drown. But he failed to kick his way out of the waders. Instead, they pulled him completely below the surface.

Back onshore, Eliza Cameron, 19, Loren Niurka Mora, 20, and Caitlin Petro, 20, had been watching McClure fish as they rested on the grass after a long week of classes. They saw McClure go under and then heard him cry, "Help!"

The three friends kicked off their shoes and ran into the bay. They were all good swimmers, but all hid a fear that he might pull them down too because they'd have to dive to save him.

When they reached him, he'd managed to kick himself out of the waders, but his eyes had partly rolled back. Cameron and Mora each hooked an arm under his shoulders, while Petro supported his back and held his hand. Then the three friends tried their best to tug him towards shore. Finally, they all returned to the shore safely.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is in peril?
2. Where did this happen?
3. When?
4. Was it a stormy day?
5. What caused the danger?
6. Was there any witnesses?
7. How many?
8. Which one was the youngest?
9. What were the older ones names?
10. Were they there to work?
11. What were they there for?
12. Did they try to assist?
13. Fearlessly?
14. How old was the man in peril?
15. When they got to him, was he perfectly fine?
16. What was happening?
A: 1. Mike McClure
2. Sarasota Bay
3. last April
4. no
5. flooding waders
6. yes
7. Three
8. Eliza
9. Loren, Caitlin
10. no
11. resting after classes
12. yes
13. no
14. unknown
15. no
16. drowning
Q: CHAPTER II

THE WRECK

The night was calm, but now and then a faint, hot wind blew from the shadowy coast, and rippling the water, brought a strange, sour smell. Lister did not know the smell; Brown knew and frowned, for he had been broken by the malaria that haunts West African river mouths. Heavy dew dripped from the awnings on _Terrier's_ bridge and in places trickled through the material, since canvas burns in the African sun. Brown searched the dark coast with his glasses, trying to find the marks he had noted on the chart. Lister leaned against the rails and mused about the voyage.

They had ridden out a winter's gale in the Bay of Biscay and for a night had lost the hulk and the men on board. Then they went into Vigo, where Lister's firemen wrecked a wine shop and it cost him much in bribes to save them from jail. He had another taste of their quality at Las Palmas, where they made trouble with the port guards and Brown brawled in the cheap wine shops behind the cathedral. In fact, it was some relief when the captain fell off the steam tram that runs between town and port, and a cut on his head stopped his adventures.

Then they steamed for fourteen-hundred miles before the Northeast Trades, with a misty blue sky overhead and long, white-topped seas rolling up astern. The Trade breeze was cool and bracing, but they lost it near the coast, and now the air was hot and strangely heavy. One felt languid and cheerfulness cost an effort. The men had begun to grumble and Lister was glad the voyage was nearly over and it was time to get to work.

Answer the following questions:
1. What type of weather did they just overcome?
2. Where?
3. Did they lose people during this?
4. Where did they go next?
5. Who wrecked a wine shop?
6. Did they go to jail?
7. What did he have to do to prevent that?
8. Had they caused trouble before?
9. Where?
10. What did they do?
11. Who got in a fight?
12. Where?
13. What were they behind?
14. Was this a stormy night now?
15. Was Brown sick?
16. What did he have?
17. What was he looking for?
18. How far did they travel before the Northeast Trades?
19. Was the wind hot?
20. What was Lister happy about?
A: 1. a winter's gale
2. in the Bay of Biscay
3. Yes
4. into Vigo
5. Lister's firemen
6. No
7. it cost him much in bribes
8. Yes
9. at Las Palmas,
10. made trouble with the port guards
11. Brown
12. in the cheap wine shops
13. the cathedral.
14. No
15. Yes
16. malaria
17. his glasses
18. 1400 miles
19. No
20. He was glad the voyage was nearly over
Q: How important is color in the business world? Google, one of the biggest U.S. companies, is trying to find it out. The company has already found "a close connection between color and satisfaction with a person's work area". That's according to its spokeswoman named Meghan Casserly. "Color is a silent salesperson," said Elyria Kemp. She is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of New Orleans. Kemp is following color trends in business. She is studying the connection between feelings and color. According to Kemp, when people make an evaluation of a product, usually they do this within 90 seconds or less. Besides, more than half of their first evaluation is based on (......) color alone. That's why so many companies are researching their color choices. They are spending thousands of dollars on the research, too. Just think of UPS's Pullman brown, Home Depot's orange and Tiffany & Co.'s blue. Joclyn Benedetto is a spokeswoman for Tiffany & Co. She said the success of the company's jewelry was connected to its blue color. It is used to wrap every product. She said the color was chosen by the founder Charles Lewis Tiffany for the cover of Blue Book, Tiffany's annual collection of beautifully hand-made jewels, which first came out in 1845. Coca-Cola's red color also dates back more than 100 years. The soft drink was shipped in barrels painted red. A spokesperson for Home Depot said research showed that the first thing people thought of was orange when they heard the name of the company. Smaller companies are also realizing the importance of color. But picking the right color is important. "You know when something is right because you get a feeling of safety, and it's not something that you think about. It just will hit you," said Emil Hagopian, a distributor for Mar Plast Color Building Accessories in Ann Arbor, Mich. "And sometimes, if it's done wrong, that also hits you."

Answer the following questions:
1. who is Elyria?
2. what is she following
3. what is she studying?
4. how long does it take people to evaluate according to her?
5. how much are companies spending on research?
6. who is orange?
7. What color is Tiffany and Co
8. Who chose that color?
9. how long does coca cola
10. What was it shipped in?
11. when did tiffany's annual collection come out?
12. what does it consist of?
13. who is Joclyn?
14. what does she say is responsible for their success
15. where is elyria a professor?
16. what is her job there?
17. who found a connection between color and satisfaction?
18. what country are they a big company in?
19. who is their spokeswoman?
20. what world is color important in?
A:
1. Assistant professor of marketing at the University of New Orleans.
2. Color trends in business.
3. The connection between feelings and color.
4. 90 seconds or less.
5. Thousands of dollars.
6. Home Depot.
7. Blue.
8. Founder Charles Lewis Tiffany.
9. More than 100 years.
10. Barrels painted red.
11. In 1845.
12. Tiffany's annual collection of beautifully hand-made jewels,
13. A spokeswoman for Tiffany & Co.
14. Its blue color.
15. University of New Orleans
16. Assistant professor
17. Google did.
18. The U.S.
19. Meghan Casserly.
20. The business world?