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Exercise 1: Summarize and Paraphrasing

The first paragraph discusses how the Antarctic plays an important role in regulating the Earth's climate by circulating cold water from the south pole to mix with warmer waters from the tropics. However, human activity now threatens the fragility of this climate regulation system. The second paragraph is about life in America during the 1920s, known as the "Roaring Twenties". It describes how prohibition led to the rise of organized crime, jazz music became popular, and women's fashion evolved with the "flapper" style. The third paragraph discusses bike safety, noting that head injuries cause the majority of bicycling deaths. Wearing a bike helmet can significantly reduce the risk of head injury by absorbing impact and cushioning the

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Exercise 1: Summarize and Paraphrasing

The first paragraph discusses how the Antarctic plays an important role in regulating the Earth's climate by circulating cold water from the south pole to mix with warmer waters from the tropics. However, human activity now threatens the fragility of this climate regulation system. The second paragraph is about life in America during the 1920s, known as the "Roaring Twenties". It describes how prohibition led to the rise of organized crime, jazz music became popular, and women's fashion evolved with the "flapper" style. The third paragraph discusses bike safety, noting that head injuries cause the majority of bicycling deaths. Wearing a bike helmet can significantly reduce the risk of head injury by absorbing impact and cushioning the

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Exercise 1: Summarize and paraphrasing

1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the
source of our heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques]
Cousteau told the camera. "The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to
mix with warmer water from the tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the
surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the fragility of this regulating system is now
threatened by human activity."

2. The twenties were the years when drinking was against the law, and the law was
a bad joke because everyone knew of a local bar where liquor could be had. They
were the years when organized crime ruled the cities, and the police seemed
powerless to do anything against it. Classical music was forgotten while jazz
spread throughout the land, and men like Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and
Count Basie became the heroes of the young. The flapper was born in the twenties,
and with her bobbed hair and short skirts, she symbolized, perhaps more than
anyone or anything else, America's break with the past.

3. Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by
head injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded
that wearing a bike helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an
accident, a bike helmet absorbs the shock and cushions the head.

4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most
realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a
landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate"
depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of
the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose
delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the
essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the
sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate.

5. While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper


engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the
quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building
go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly
one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel
claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building.

Exercise 2:
Cause and Effect Essay:
1. How optimism influences your life
2. Electronic devices and their influence on child development

Chronological Essay:
1. How to save money
2. How to get rid of a bad habit
3. How to exercise regularly

Compare and Contrast Essay:


1. Online shopping vs. traditional shopping
2. Online dating vs. real-life encounters

Argumentative Essay:
Should small children have access to smartphones and tablets?

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