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  Quiz 2: Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions:…

  Quiz 2: Effective and Ineffective Paraphrasing Directions: Read each passage. Then select the letter of the best paraphrase.     Jet travel has altered the way Americans lived and thought more than anything else, including the Internet. By enhancing mobility, jets—like railroads in the nineteenth century—advanced a truly national market. They made it possible for Disney World and Las Vegas to become national destinations, and they allowed Harvard to recruit from the West Coast and Stanford from the East. (Adapted from Robert J. Samuelson, “Requiem for the Jet Age?” Newsweek, November 26, 2001, p. 61.) Paraphrase

  Directions: Choose the appropriate letter to indicate the…

  Directions: Choose the appropriate letter to indicate the conclusion that can be drawn from each passage.     In his book Luxury Fever, author Robert H. Frank asks us to imagine two parallel universes, two societies that are isolated from another but alike in all respects except for one: everyone in Society A lives in a 4,000-square-foot house, and everyone in Society B lives in a 3,000-square-foot house. He also asks us to imagine that the people who live in Society B used the resources they saved by building smaller houses to improve their overall living conditions by funding the construction of high-speed public transportation. Therefore, when the residents of Society B leave their 3,000-square-foot houses to go to work, they face a hassle-free, fifteen-minute commute. Meanwhile, the residents of Society A, who poured all of their resources into an extra 1,000 square feet of living space, face a grueling, one-hour long automobile commute through heavy traffic, a stressful activity that has been shown to cause significant mental and physical damage. What Frank wants to know is this: In which society would you choose to live? (Source of information: Robert H. Frank, “How Not To Buy Happiness,” Daedalus, Vol. 133, Issue 2.) From this passage, a reader might logically draw which conclusion?