Problem: There are 5 channels on British television and each channel has several news programs all day long. Some programs are only for 3 minutes but some are one hour long. The people who read the news are called news presenters and because they appear on television every day, they are very famous. This is a popular news presenter in England called Trevor McDonald, in the news studio. He presents a program called "News at Ten"every Monday to Friday evenings. Another popular news presenter is Kirsty Young. She has a more modern style of reading the news, as you can see, she sits on the desk not on a chair! Television news presenters need to have worked as journalists because they have to write most of the news that they read. Sometimes an important new event happens after the program has started, so the presenter has to be able to read something without looking at it first. They must always keep calm even when there are many changes during the program. At the end of "News at Ten"Trevor McDonald says "And finally...". Then he reads an unusual or interesting item. It's a famous saying in England now.
1. What do news presenters do?
2. Are they famous?
3. Where can they been seen?
4. How often?
5. How many channels does British TV have?
6. How long are the shows?
7. How long are others?
8. What kind of shows are they?
9. Are they news shows
10. Does Trevor MacDonald star on one?
11. Which one?
12. When does it air?
Answer: 1. read the news
2. yes
3. on television
4. every day,
5. Five
6. some are one hour long
7. only 3 minutes
8. several
9. yes
10. yes
11. "News at Ten
12. every Monday to Friday evenings

Q: Years after throwing a bottle-up note into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a man's childhood message was found and returned to his mother. 

Eleven years ago, a then 10-year-old boy, Joshua Baker, wrote the message, folded and put it in an empty container, his mother, Maggie Holbrook said. He died last February in a motor vehicle accident in California. He had recently returned after a serving in the Middle East as a US marine. "I think he was just letting us know he was OK and keep doing what we are doing." Holbrook said. 

The message surfaced in White Lake in late April, just days after the 11th anniversary of its being thrown into the lake. It was found by one of Baker's closest friends, Steve Lieder, she said. Lieder and two friends were chatting near the lake when Lieder looked down and saw the bottle. He broke it open and found the note inside. 

"My name is Joshua Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/98." They immediately took it to Holbrook, who said she is now having the note preserved and will display it in her home. 

She can remember when her son wrote the message for the school project. She said she always wondered why he didn't put it in the nearby Wolf River, which has a much stronger current. 

"I still remember the day he wrote it, " Holbrook said. "I couldn't understand why he threw I in the lake. No one would never see it again. Now I know."

Answer the following questions:
1. How old was Joshua?
2. What was his last name?
3. When did he die?
4. How?
5. Where was it?
6. Where had he just come back from?
7. Why was he there?
8. How old was he when he died?
9. When did he write a bottle message?
10. Why did he write it?
11. When was it found?
12. Before he died?
13. Who was his mom?
14. What body of water was the message in?
15. Who found it?
16. What did the note say to do?
17. What day was it written?
18. How many people were there when Steve found it?
19. Had they been fishing?
20. What were they doing?
A: 1. 10
2. baker
3. last February
4. motor vehicle accident
5. California.
6. Middle East
7. serving as a US marine.
8. 21
9. Eleven years ago
10. school project
11. late April
12. one year after
13. Maggie Holbrook
14. White Lake
15. Steve Lieder
16. put it on the news.
17. 4/16/98
18. Three
19. no
20. chatting

Problem: CHAPTER VIII--AFFAIRS OF LAULII AND FANGALII 

_November-December_ 1888 

For Becker I have not been able to conceal my distaste, for he seems to me both false and foolish. But of his successor, the unfortunately famous Dr. Knappe, we may think as of a good enough fellow driven distraught. Fond of Samoa and the Samoans, he thought to bring peace and enjoy popularity among the islanders; of a genial, amiable, and sanguine temper, he made no doubt but he could repair the breach with the English consul. Hope told a flattering tale. He awoke to find himself exchanging defiances with de Coetlogon, beaten in the field by Mataafa, surrounded on the spot by general exasperation, and disowned from home by his own government. The history of his administration leaves on the mind of the student a sentiment of pity scarcely mingled. 

On Blacklock he did not call, and, in view of Leary's attitude, may be excused. But the English consul was in a different category. England, weary of the name of Samoa, and desirous only to see peace established, was prepared to wink hard during the process and to welcome the result of any German settlement. It was an unpardonable fault in Becker to have kicked and buffeted his ready-made allies into a state of jealousy, anger, and suspicion. Knappe set himself at once to efface these impressions, and the English officials rejoiced for the moment in the change. Between Knappe and de Coetlogon there seems to have been mutual sympathy; and, in considering the steps by which they were led at last into an attitude of mutual defiance, it must be remembered that both the men were sick,--Knappe from time to time prostrated with that formidable complaint, New Guinea fever, and de Coetlogon throughout his whole stay in the islands continually ailing. 
1. does the author like Becker?
2. Does he prefer his replacement?
3. what was his name?
4. Was Knappe short-tempered?
5. was he a healthy man?
6. what was wrong with him?
7. Who wanted peace in Samoa?
8. Was Knappe in favor of that?
9. Did Becker have a good relationship with his allies?
10. did he make them angry?
11. Did Knappe try to make amends?
12. Were the English pleased with this?
13. Did Knappe like the Samoans?
14. who did Knappe not visit?
15. was that permissible?
16. Who did he seem to have a mutual sympathy with?
17. was he also in poor health?
18. did he have a specific ailment?
Answer:
1. no
2. yes
3. Dr. Knappe
4. no
5. no
6. New Guinea fever
7. England
8. yes
9. yes
10. yes
11. yes
12. yes
13. yes
14. Blacklock
15. yes
16. de Coetlogon
17. yes
18. no