Context Clue Quiz
In Correct Answers Correctly Defined
Context Quiz 1:
Ecumenical - promoting unity among religions
Context Quiz 2:
Quandary - doubtful state
Context Quiz 3:
conjecture: a guess
Context Quiz 4:
inchoate: inperfectly formed
egress: exit
limned: represented in words
Ecumenical - promoting unity among religions
Context Quiz 2:
Quandary - doubtful state
Context Quiz 3:
conjecture: a guess
Context Quiz 4:
inchoate: inperfectly formed
egress: exit
limned: represented in words
Ch.4 Exercises
MC Exercise 1
It is apparently very necessary to distinguish between parenthood and parentage. Parenthood is an art; parentage is the consequence of a mere biological act. The biological ability to produce conception and to give birth to a child has nothing whatever to do with the ability to care for that child as it requires to be cared for. That ability, like every other, must be learned. It is highly desirable that parentage be not undertaken until the art of parenthood has been learned. Is this a counsel of perfection? As things stand now, perhaps it is, but it need not always be so. Parentage is often irresponsible. Parenthood is responsible. Parentage at best is responsible for the birth of a child. Parenthood is responsible for the development of a human being--not simply a child, but a human being. I do not think it is an overstatement to say that parenthood is the most important occupation in the world. There is no occupation for which the individual should be better prepared than this, for what can be more important to the individual, his family, his community, his society, his nation, and the world of humanity than the making of a good human being? And the making of a good human being is largely the work of good parents. And it is work--hard work--not to be irresponsibly undertaken or perfunctorily performed. Yet parenthood, perhaps like politics, is the only profession for which preparation is considered unnecessary.
1.The mode of the discourse in this paragraph is exposition.
MC Exercise 2
Read these two paragraphs and answer the questions that follow.
(1) In many years of hiking in the East, I've happened across bears twice. Once, in Maine, I rounded a corner on a trail, and there, three feet away, as lost in thought as I had been, sat a black bear. One look at me and she dived for the bushes--total contact time, perhaps four seconds. A few years later, walking near my house with my wife, I heard a noise in a treetop, and suddenly a black bear, roughly the size and shape of a large sofa, dropped to the ground a few yards away. She glowered in our direction and then lit out the opposite way. Time of engagement: maybe seven seconds. Those were grand encounters, and they've spiced every other day I've spent in the woods--on the way up Blackberry, for instance, I sang as I waded through the berry bushes, aware that this was where any bear with an appetite would be, especially after I found fresh berry-filled scat. But if I counted as dramatic only those days when I actually saw a big fierce animal, I would think the forest a boring place indeed.
(2) Even if you did go to the woods and saw a rare animal, and somehow managed to creep up real close, chances are it wouldn't be doing anything all that amazing. Chances are it would be lying in the sun, or perhaps grooming itself, or maybe, like the duck on the pond, swimming back and forth. A lot of animals are remarkably good at sitting still (especially when they suspect they're under surveillance), and this is something TV never captures. The nature documentaries are as absurdly action-packed as the soap operas, where a life's worth of divorce, adultery, and sudden death is crammed into a week's worth of watching. Trying to understand "nature" from watching "Wild Kingdom" is as tough as trying to understand "life" from watching "Dynasty."
1.The main idea of the first paragraph is implied, that dramatic encounters with wild animals in nature are unusual.
2.The female bear "glowered" at the author and his wife, suggesting that she was angry.
MC Exercise 3
Indians spoke of hibernation as the Long Sleep, but it is rather more than that. It is a profound oblivion halfway between sleep and death. It is an unknowing and unfeeling more deep and lasting than can be induced in man by the most powerful drugs, a suspension of life processes more thorough and protracted than even the "frozen slumber" which doctors have lately devised as a palliative of cancer. It is a phenomenon unique in nature, and though we are wiser about it than we were in those cradle-days of biology when Dr. Johnson thought that swallows [a kind of bird] passed the winter asleep in the mud at the bottom of the Thames, it remains a riddle still.
2. The mode of discourse is exposition.
3.The predominant method of development is definition.
4.Samuel Johnson, always called Dr. Johnson, was an eighteenth-century English critic and writer. The reference to him in the last sentence is meant to show that although our knowledge of hibernation is imperfect, we still know more about it today than was known in Johnson's time.
Review MC Exercise
The following passages and questions are reprinted from earlier editions of the text and the test booklets. Working through each carefully will give you excellent practice to prepare for either a midterm or a final examination, depending on your instructor's course schedule. The skills they represent are a composite of those taken up in Parts I and II, Chapter 1 - 7. Good luck!
(1) Starfish, of which there are roughly eighteen hundred species, are present in every ocean. (2) Most pose no hazard; they do not bite or sting, and they remain placid when they are touched. (3) Until recently, the starfish seen on the Great Barrier Reef were likewise perfectly benign. (4) One day when I was scuba diving with Gladstone in Mermaid Cove, I asked him the name of a particular eye-catching starfish we kept coming across. (5) (We were able to communicate underwater by means of a plastic writing pad.) (6) He told me that, like many of the reef inhabitants, the starfish did not have a common name; its scientific name was Linckia laevigata. (7) A brilliant cobalt blue--the color of the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty--Linckia drapes itself over outcrops of coral rubble with the nonchalance of an Australian lounging about a pub, arms over the backs of neighboring chairs. (8) Unlike the seemingly infinite number of small fish that dart nervously in and out among the rocks and crevices of the reef, Linckia sits uncaring, fully exposed, wherever it chooses. (9) The reason for Linckia's peace of mind is not that it knows that it is beautiful--it has no brain--but that every creature around with a brain, or what can pass for one, knows that Linckia is poisonous. (11) "If you want to dissect Linckia, you don't get a knife--you get a hacksaw," Dr. John Lucas, a biologist and starfish researcher at James Cook University in northern Queensland [Australia], explained to me at his laboratory. (12) A Linckia feels leathery to handle. (13) Then, when you go to cut it, you find that it's a tremendous system of interlocking plates."
7. The tone of this paragraph can be best described as objective, informative.
It is apparently very necessary to distinguish between parenthood and parentage. Parenthood is an art; parentage is the consequence of a mere biological act. The biological ability to produce conception and to give birth to a child has nothing whatever to do with the ability to care for that child as it requires to be cared for. That ability, like every other, must be learned. It is highly desirable that parentage be not undertaken until the art of parenthood has been learned. Is this a counsel of perfection? As things stand now, perhaps it is, but it need not always be so. Parentage is often irresponsible. Parenthood is responsible. Parentage at best is responsible for the birth of a child. Parenthood is responsible for the development of a human being--not simply a child, but a human being. I do not think it is an overstatement to say that parenthood is the most important occupation in the world. There is no occupation for which the individual should be better prepared than this, for what can be more important to the individual, his family, his community, his society, his nation, and the world of humanity than the making of a good human being? And the making of a good human being is largely the work of good parents. And it is work--hard work--not to be irresponsibly undertaken or perfunctorily performed. Yet parenthood, perhaps like politics, is the only profession for which preparation is considered unnecessary.
1.The mode of the discourse in this paragraph is exposition.
MC Exercise 2
Read these two paragraphs and answer the questions that follow.
(1) In many years of hiking in the East, I've happened across bears twice. Once, in Maine, I rounded a corner on a trail, and there, three feet away, as lost in thought as I had been, sat a black bear. One look at me and she dived for the bushes--total contact time, perhaps four seconds. A few years later, walking near my house with my wife, I heard a noise in a treetop, and suddenly a black bear, roughly the size and shape of a large sofa, dropped to the ground a few yards away. She glowered in our direction and then lit out the opposite way. Time of engagement: maybe seven seconds. Those were grand encounters, and they've spiced every other day I've spent in the woods--on the way up Blackberry, for instance, I sang as I waded through the berry bushes, aware that this was where any bear with an appetite would be, especially after I found fresh berry-filled scat. But if I counted as dramatic only those days when I actually saw a big fierce animal, I would think the forest a boring place indeed.
(2) Even if you did go to the woods and saw a rare animal, and somehow managed to creep up real close, chances are it wouldn't be doing anything all that amazing. Chances are it would be lying in the sun, or perhaps grooming itself, or maybe, like the duck on the pond, swimming back and forth. A lot of animals are remarkably good at sitting still (especially when they suspect they're under surveillance), and this is something TV never captures. The nature documentaries are as absurdly action-packed as the soap operas, where a life's worth of divorce, adultery, and sudden death is crammed into a week's worth of watching. Trying to understand "nature" from watching "Wild Kingdom" is as tough as trying to understand "life" from watching "Dynasty."
1.The main idea of the first paragraph is implied, that dramatic encounters with wild animals in nature are unusual.
2.The female bear "glowered" at the author and his wife, suggesting that she was angry.
MC Exercise 3
Indians spoke of hibernation as the Long Sleep, but it is rather more than that. It is a profound oblivion halfway between sleep and death. It is an unknowing and unfeeling more deep and lasting than can be induced in man by the most powerful drugs, a suspension of life processes more thorough and protracted than even the "frozen slumber" which doctors have lately devised as a palliative of cancer. It is a phenomenon unique in nature, and though we are wiser about it than we were in those cradle-days of biology when Dr. Johnson thought that swallows [a kind of bird] passed the winter asleep in the mud at the bottom of the Thames, it remains a riddle still.
2. The mode of discourse is exposition.
3.The predominant method of development is definition.
4.Samuel Johnson, always called Dr. Johnson, was an eighteenth-century English critic and writer. The reference to him in the last sentence is meant to show that although our knowledge of hibernation is imperfect, we still know more about it today than was known in Johnson's time.
Review MC Exercise
The following passages and questions are reprinted from earlier editions of the text and the test booklets. Working through each carefully will give you excellent practice to prepare for either a midterm or a final examination, depending on your instructor's course schedule. The skills they represent are a composite of those taken up in Parts I and II, Chapter 1 - 7. Good luck!
(1) Starfish, of which there are roughly eighteen hundred species, are present in every ocean. (2) Most pose no hazard; they do not bite or sting, and they remain placid when they are touched. (3) Until recently, the starfish seen on the Great Barrier Reef were likewise perfectly benign. (4) One day when I was scuba diving with Gladstone in Mermaid Cove, I asked him the name of a particular eye-catching starfish we kept coming across. (5) (We were able to communicate underwater by means of a plastic writing pad.) (6) He told me that, like many of the reef inhabitants, the starfish did not have a common name; its scientific name was Linckia laevigata. (7) A brilliant cobalt blue--the color of the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty--Linckia drapes itself over outcrops of coral rubble with the nonchalance of an Australian lounging about a pub, arms over the backs of neighboring chairs. (8) Unlike the seemingly infinite number of small fish that dart nervously in and out among the rocks and crevices of the reef, Linckia sits uncaring, fully exposed, wherever it chooses. (9) The reason for Linckia's peace of mind is not that it knows that it is beautiful--it has no brain--but that every creature around with a brain, or what can pass for one, knows that Linckia is poisonous. (11) "If you want to dissect Linckia, you don't get a knife--you get a hacksaw," Dr. John Lucas, a biologist and starfish researcher at James Cook University in northern Queensland [Australia], explained to me at his laboratory. (12) A Linckia feels leathery to handle. (13) Then, when you go to cut it, you find that it's a tremendous system of interlocking plates."
7. The tone of this paragraph can be best described as objective, informative.
Ch. 8 Exercises
1. claim of policy
5.claim of policy
7.claim of value; claim of policy
8.A national ID card would probably result in some loss of privacy, but the resulting benefits would be worth the exchange.
12.claim of policy
13.Human cloning research should be outlawed.
14.Claim of policy
15.Americans' propensity for work long hours needs to be changed
5.claim of policy
7.claim of value; claim of policy
8.A national ID card would probably result in some loss of privacy, but the resulting benefits would be worth the exchange.
12.claim of policy
13.Human cloning research should be outlawed.
14.Claim of policy
15.Americans' propensity for work long hours needs to be changed