Q: Renacimiento, Mexico (CNN) -- As raging floodwaters swept away half of his timber shack, Saturnino Medina climbed to the roof.

He pointed Thursday to the place where river waters broke through a container wall and washed away his kitchen.

Medina and his family have almost nothing left now, after the wind and rain of Manuel hit the town of Renacimiento, located about 20 km northeast of the resort city of Acapulco.

Days after the storm made landfall as a tropical depression in the Mexican state of Guerrero, thousands of tourists are still trapped in Acapulco and thousands of families are struggling to recover.

Medina and his family were left to eat eggs and tortillas donated by neighbors and drink expired cartons of juice they found in a nearby trash dumpster. So far, he said, they haven't gotten any government aid.

"The truth is, I don't even know what to tell you," he said. "The government ignores us. They help everyone else, but they've forgotten about Renacimiento."

The town is one of many across Mexico ravaged by multiple storms that have been battering the country.

Federal officials say at least 97 people were killed across Mexico by Manuel, which plowed into the country's Pacific coast, and Ingrid, which hit the Gulf coast.

Rescue efforts continued throughout the country Thursday. In one Guerrero town ravaged by a mudslide, authorities said 68 people remained unaccounted for.

An aerial survey revealed many more mudslides, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said, and there are additional reports of disappearances that authorities have not yet confirmed.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where is Renacimiento in reference to Acapulo?
2. What did the family consume?
3. And drink?
4. Was the family happy with the help received from the government?
5. What created this dire situation for the family?
6. Was the damaged all caused by wind?
7. What else caused damage?
8. How many lives were lost due to the storm?
9. In what country?
10. What type of disaster hit another town?
11. In what place?
A: 1. 20 km northeast
2. eggs and tortillas
3. expired cartons of juice
4. no
5. Storm Manuel
6. no
7. Rain too
8. 97 by Manuel and Ingrid
9. Mexico
10. a mudslide,
11. a town in Guerrero
Q: CHAPTER X

AN ALIEN

The individual on the doorstep had fallen into slumber over his own knees. No greater air of prosperity clung about him than is conveyed by a rusty overcoat and wisps of cloth in place of socks. Shelton endeavoured to pass unseen, but the sleeper woke.

"Ah, it's you, monsieur!" he said "I received your letter this evening, and have lost no time." He looked down at himself and tittered, as though to say, "But what a state I 'm in!"

The young foreigner's condition was indeed more desperate than on the occasion of their first meeting, and Shelton invited him upstairs.

"You can well understand," stammered Ferrand, following his host, "that I did n't want to miss you this time. When one is like this--" and a spasm gripped his face.

"I 'm very glad you came," said Shelton doubtfully.

His visitor's face had a week's growth of reddish beard; the deep tan of his cheeks gave him a robust appearance at variance with the fit of, trembling which had seized on him as soon as he had entered.

"Sit down-sit down," said Shelton; "you 're feeling ill!"

Ferrand smiled. "It's nothing," said he; "bad nourishment."

Shelton left him seated on the edge of an armchair, and brought him in some whisky.

"Clothes," said Ferrand, when he had drunk, "are what I want. These are really not good enough."

The statement was correct, and Shelton, placing some garments in the bath-room, invited his visitor to make himself at home. While the latter, then, was doing this, Shelton enjoyed the luxuries of self-denial, hunting up things he did not want, and laying them in two portmanteaus. This done, he waited for his visitor's return.

Answer the following questions:
1. When was the letter received?
2. Was the man from this country?
3. What was he wearing?
4. What was the mans name?
5. Did he want to be seen?
6. But was he?
A: 1. this evening
2. No
3. overcoat and cloth for socks
4. Shelton
5. No
6. Yes
Q: Birds (Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species, at approximately ten thousand, with more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds.

The fossil record indicates that birds are the last surviving dinosaurs, having evolved from feathered ancestors within the theropod group of saurischian dinosaurs. True birds first appeared during the Cretaceous period, around 100 million years ago. DNA-based evidence finds that birds diversified dramatically around the time of the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event that killed off all other dinosaurs. Birds in South America survived this event and then migrated to other parts of the world via multiple land bridges while diversifying during periods of global cooling. Primitive bird-like dinosaurs that lie outside class Aves proper, in the broader group Avialae, have been found dating back to the mid-Jurassic period. Many of these early "stem-birds", such as Archaeopteryx, were not yet capable of fully powered flight, and many retained primitive characteristics like toothy jaws in place of beaks, and long bony tails.

Answer the following questions:
1. What do fossil records say about birds?
2. What did they evolve from?
3. What group?
4. When did they first appear?
5. How long ago was that?
6. What group are they classified as?
7. What are their characteristics?
8. Anything else?
9. How many chambers does their heart have?
10. Where do they live?
11. How big are they?
12. What is the smallest?
13. How big are they?
14. What is the largest?
15. What is their size?
16. What is their class rank?
17. How many living species are there?
18. What are half known as?
19. What is another name for that?
20. When did they diversify dramatically?
A:
1. are the last surviving dinosaurs
2. from feathered ancestors
3. theropod group of saurischian dinosaurs
4. during the Cretaceous period
5. around 100 million years ago
6. endothermic vertebrates
7. feathers, toothless beaked jaws,
8. the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate,
9. Four
10. Birds live worldwide
11. range in size
12. bee hummingbird
13. 5 cm (2 in)
14. ostrich
15. 2.75 m (9 ft)
16. tetrapods
17. approximately ten thousand
18. passerines
19. perching birds
20. CretaceousPaleogene extinction event