ADVANCED ENGLISH IV QUARTER I

PARAPHRASING AND SUMMARIZING

WORKSHEET
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A. Paraphrase the following.

1. For many people across Europe, the introduction of the Euro has lead to price rises in many
everyday goods.
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2. Women have traditionally been seen as mothers and home makers and it is only in recent years
that they have been making significant inroads into the job market. There is still a long way to go
before they achieve complete equality with men but the situation has definitely improved.
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3. In the 1920s, an American academic, Elton Mayo, researched the effects of the physical
environment on the productivity of workers. The result, known as the Hawthorne Studies, named
after the electrics company where it took place, showed that workers could be motivated to work
harder by making small changes to the workplace, such as altering the lighting or the layout of a
room.
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4. Organic foods are said to be healthier because they are grown without pesticides, radiation, or
genetic mutations that most non-organic food contains. Non-organic foods are often injected
with hormones and dyes, which jeopardize the quality of the food.
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B. Summarize the passage.

1. There are times when the night sky glows with bands of color. The bands may begin as cloud
shapes and then spread into a great arc across the entire sky. They may fall in folds like a curtain
drawn across the heavens. The lights usually grow brighter, then suddenly dim. During this time
the sky glows with pale yellow, pink, green, violet, blue, and red. These lights are called the
Aurora Borealis. Some people call them the Northern Lights. Scientists have been watching them
for hundreds of years. They are not quite sure what causes them. In ancient times people were
afraid of the Lights. They imagined that they saw fiery dragons in the sky. Some even concluded
that the heavens were on fire.
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2. Faith, at its core, is deep-rooted in the expectation of good things to come. It goes beyond
hope. While much of hope lives in the mind, faith is steeped in the heart and the spirit. It can’t be
explained away by reason or logic, or be understood through a single dimension. While life can
be hard at the best of times, faith is the knowledge, deep down inside, that things will get better.
It’s taking the next step when you can’t see the entire staircase. Simply put, life would fail to
have reason if we didn’t have faith.