Bhaskar Raj Suwal

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1) A) Summarize the quote from Foley in 30 or fewer words: Organic farming

practices are best deployed in fruit and vegetable farms, where growing nutrition is

the primary goal. But for delivering sheer calories, especially in our staple crops of

wheat, rice, maize, soybeans, conventional farms have the advantage.

B) Paraphrase the text in red: Traditional agriculture is more efficient than organic

agriculture, and in some cases it is significantly more efficient. However, there are

trade-offs with each method of production.

2) A) Summarize Aral's experiment and findings in your own words in 90 words or

less: A team of researchers secretly manipulated comments on a popular news site to

observe how users rate each other's comments and each of the users contributed more

than 100,000 comments. These comments were viewed more than ten million times

and rated more than three hundred thousand times by other users. Comments that

received fake positive votes were 32% more likely to receive more positive votes

compared with a control. Negative comments got an overall boost of about 25%.

However, the same did not hold true for negative manipulation.

3) A) Summarize the given text in 60 words or less: In 2000, a neuroscientist at

University College London examined the brains of 16 taxi drivers. She found that the

right posterior hippocampus, a part of the brain known to be involved in spatial

 navigation, was 7 percent larger than normal in the cabbies. The more years a cabbie

had been on the road, the more pronounced the effect.

B) Paraphrase the text in red: Until recently, it was believed that the adult brain was

incapable of producing new neurons; that while learning caused synapses to rearrange

themselves and new connections between brain cells to form, the brain's basic

anatomical structure remained more or less constant.

4) A) Paraphrase the sentences in red: The public's participation in composting is

similar to that of paper or glass recycling in that it requires some level of effort in

order to be successful. The disadvantages of composting, on the other hand, are far

outweighed by the advantages.

B) Write single sentence summaries of each paragraph: Compost is organic matter

such as food scraps and yard debris, not just recyclable paper or glass. What do you

do with your leftover banana peels, eggshells, and dead leaves? Compost can be

converted into natural gas that can be used as fuel and composting contributes to the

release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere through the

decomposition process.

5) A)Summarize the paragraphs in a single sentence: MIT business scholars see

dismal prospects for many types of workers as a result of advances in computer

technology ,where they believe rapid technological change has been destroying jobs

faster than it is creating them and the authors suggest that something similar is

happening in other technologically advanced countries, too.

 B) Paraphrase the text in red: They argue that rapid technological progress is killing

employment faster than it creates them, contributing to stagnant median income and

rising inequality in the US. They fear it's happening in other high-tech nations.

6) A) Summarize the main ideas in these paragraphs: New theories, practices, and

technologies are rapidly changing the workplace. Workers in a variety of fields, from

social services to manufacturing, must constantly update their knowledge and skills.

Professional development benefits both employees and employers. Thus, meaningful

professional development is a shared responsibility: employers must provide useful

programs, and employees must take advantage of those opportunities.

Employer-sponsored professional development is opposed by some employees. These

critics argue that if employees are falling behind at work, they must identify and pay for

resources to help them catch up. Many studies show that high employee turnover and

training new employees are significant costs for employers in many fields. Employers

who are proactive recognize the value of investing in existing employees rather than

hiring new staff when existing employees' skills lapse.

B) Paraphrase the text in red: Meaningful professional development is a shared

responsibility: employers must provide useful programs, and employees must take

advantage of the opportunities provided.