Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVI

THE SEARCH FOR THE "FLYAWAY"

"Tom! Sam! Get up at once!"

"What's the row now, Dick?" came sleepily from Tom. "Have you discovered anything?"

"Yes! I've discovered a whole lot. Get up if you want to catch the next train."

"The next train for where?" demanded Tom, as he hopped out of bed.

"The next train for Albany."

"Have they taken Dora to Albany?" questioned Sam, as he too arose and began to don his garments.

"I think so," was the elder brother's reply, and while the pair dressed, Dick told of what had occurred and what he had heard.

"This is getting to be quite a chase," was Tom's remark. "But I reckon you are right, and we'll land on them in the capital."

"If we aren't too late," answered Dick.

"I'd like to know how they are going to take Dora to Albany if she doesn't want to go?" came from Tom, when they were dressed and on their way to the railroad station.

No one could answer this question. "Josiah Crabtree is a queer stick and can do lots of queer things," was what Dick said.

The train left at half past two in the morning, and they had not long to wait. Once on board, they proceeded to make themselves as comfortable as possible, each having a whole seat to himself, and Sam and Tom went to sleep without much trouble. But Dick was wide awake, wondering what would be the next move on reaching Albany.

1. What is the name of the chapter?
2. Who are the brothers?
3. Who woke up first?
4. Where are they headed?
5. How?
6. Why?
7. when does it leave?
8. Who are they looking for?
9. Who may not want to go?
10. How do they feel about Josiah?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. THE SEARCH FOR THE "FLYAWAY"
2. Tom, Sam and Dick
3. Dick
4. Albany
5. by train
6. for a chase
7. next
8. Josiah and Dora
9. Dora
10. that he is a queer stick

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business .But he was not a good artist.So he invented a very simple camera .He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden .That was the first photo.

The next important date in the history of photography was 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his studio. He used a new kind of camera and a different processs. In his pictures, you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest details. This kind of photograph was called a daguerreotype.

Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's process. Travellers brought back daguerreotypes from all around the world. People photographed famous buildings, cities and mountains.

In about 1840, the process was improved. Now photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. The process was not simple. The photographers had to carry lots of film and processing equipment. But this did not stop the photographers, especially in the United States, where from the 1840s daguerreotype artists were popular in most cities.

Mathew Brady was a well-known American photographer. He took many pictures of famous people. The pictures were unusual because they were very life-like and full of personality.

Brady was also the first person to take pictures of war. His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and ruined cities. They made the war seem more real and more terrible

In the 1880s, new inventions began to change photography. Photographers could buy film readymade in rolls. So they did not have to make the film immediately. They could bring it back to their studios and develop it later, meaning that they did not have to carry lots of equipment. And finally, the invention of the small handheld camera made photography less expensive.

With the small camera, anyone could be a photographer. People began to use cameras just for fun. They took pictures of their families, friends and favourite places. They called these pictures "snapshots".

Photographs became very popular in newspapers in the 1890s. Soon magazines and books also used documentary photographs. These pictures showed true events and people. They were much more real than drawings.

Photography had turned into a form of art by the beginning of the 20th century. Some photographs were not just copies of the real world. They showed ideas and feelings, like other art forms.

1. who was a well known american photographer?
2. who took a picture of their studio?
3. what was his process called?
4. who took the first photo?
5. what did he photograph?
6. when did this happen?
7. were Daguerre's photos detailed?
8. what year did Daguerre make his contribution to photography?
9. what was unusual about Brady's pictures?
10. what was the subject of his photos?
11. in 1840, was the process easy?
12. was it still popular?
13. who was the first person to take photos of war?
14. name a new photographic invention from the 1880s
15. did this make the equipment easy to carry or hard to carry?
16. when did newspapers really start to use photographs heavily?
17. when does photography become considered an art?
18. what is another name for pictures that people take?
19. with a small camera, who can be a photographer?
20. who do they take pictures of?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Mathew Brady
2. Daguerre
3. a daguerreotype
4. Niepce
5. his garden
6. 1826
7. Yes
8. 1837
9. they were very life-like and full of personality.
10. famous people and Civil War
11. No
12. Yes
13. Matthew Brady
14. Readymade film in rolls
15. Easier to carry
16. 1890s
17. by the beginning of the 20th century
18. snapshots
19. anyone
20. families, friends and favorite places

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in service packs, and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. The browser is discontinued, but still maintained.

Internet Explorer was one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003. This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as macOS, Linux, iOS and Android that do not run Internet Explorer. Estimates for Internet Explorer's overall market share range from 3.91% to 16.84% or by StatCounter's numbers ranked 3rd, just after Firefox (or even as low as 5th when counting all platforms), (browser market share is notoriously difficult to calculate). Microsoft spent over per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on it by 1999.

1. What is the full name of IE?
2. Who is it made by?
3. When was it first introduced?
4. What other abbreviation does it go by?
5. What OS is it included with?
6. What MS package was it first included with?
7. and for what OS?
8. Were later versions free?
9. Is the project ongoing?
10. When did it obtain it's peak useage?
11. What market share did it have then?
12. With whom was it's first browser war?
13. Did MS win or lose the war?
14. When was Netscape the most popular browser?
15. When did Firefox launch?
16. and Chrome?
17. Did the advent of these two hurt the market share of IE?
18. What is IE's market share now?
19. In what market share position are they now?
20. Which competitor do they trail directly behind?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Internet Explorer
2. Microsoft
3. 1995
4. MSIE
5. Microsoft Windows
6. Plus!
7. Windows 95
8. yes
9. no
10. 2002 and 2003
11. 95%
12. Netscape
13. Microsoft
14. the 1990s.
15. 2004
16. 2008
17. yes
18. 3.91% to 16.84%
19. 3rd
20. Firefox