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Language in Use

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1) It’s not that I am unwilling to help you, but I’m tied to work these days.

2) It’s not that I don’t like your cooking, but I am going on a diet. 3) A growing number of people are obsessed with blind dates, so much so that some matchmaking websites and matchmaking TV programs have emerged in response to it.

4) All the mothers are brimming with affection for their children, so much so that each considers her own child the most beautiful and the most intelligent.

5) Cultural differences between the East and the West are such that it may take great effort to manage a transnational marriage.

Writing Exercise 1

1) Saving water and slowing down climate change are just two reasons for becoming a vegetarian.

2) saving water, slowing down climate change

3) Topic sentence of the first body paragraph: One environmental benefit of being vegetarian is that it saves a large amount of water.

Topic sentence of the second body paragraph: Another reason to become a vegetarian is that it helps to slow down global warming.

4) In the topic sentence of the first body paragraph: it saves large amounts of water

In the topic sentence of the second body paragraph: it helps to slow down global warming

5) The first supporting sentence states that meat production costs much water. The second supporting sentence gives a contrast between the water cost for producing a kilogram of beef and that for producing the same amount of rice or corn. The last sentence summarizes the paragraph. 6) The first supporting sentence explains the cause and consequence of global warming. The following sentences explain why meat production gives rise to greenhouse gases. The last sentence summarizes the paragraph.

Exercise 2

The following sentences in the three paragraphs should be crossed out: Paragraph 1

Most of his students were from rich families.

L’Epée also taught religion classes. Another Frenchman, Louis Braille, also lived during this time. He invented a system of reading and writing for blind people, using raised bumps that can be felt with the fingers. In Germany, a man named Samuel Heinicke was another important teacher of the deaf during this time. However, he did not use sign language for instruction. Instead, he preferred to teach the deaf to understand other people by looking carefully at other people’s mouths when they spoke. This is called lip or speech reading. Paragraph 2

The whole paragraph should be crossed out. Paragraph 3

Not much is known about the use of sign language among deaf people in the United States before the 1800s.

The school, called the American School for the Deaf, still exists in Hartford, Connecticut.

About twenty million people in the United States have hearing problems, and about two million of these are deaf.