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Task 12. Qualifying Matters
Study the sentences taken from the story that you have read. Take note of
the underlined words. Then answer the questions that follow.
The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office
and the bank, around ten o’clock; in some towns there were so many people that
the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 20 th .
School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily
on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they
broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the
teacher, of books and reprimands.
Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no
one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box.
Chips of wood, Mr. Summers had argued, had been all very well when the village
was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to
keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily
into the black box.
DRAFT
1. What are the underlined words called?
2. What questions do the underlined words answer about the words they
describe?
3. How do the underlined words enhance writing?
April 10, 2014
Task 13. Fill in the Gap
Complete the sentences with the best adverb. Use the adverbs inside the box.
Do this in your notebook.
usually unequally often overly
closely equally interchangeably
more than two thousand year ago widely
Justice and fairness are (1) __________ related terms that are (2) __________ used
today (3) __________.
While justice (4) __________ has been used with reference to a standard of rightness,
fairness often has been used with regard to an ability to judge without reference to one's
feelings or interests; fairness has also been used to refer to the ability to make
judgments that are not (5) __________ general but that are concrete and specific to a
particular case.
The most fundamental principle of justice—one that has been (6) __________ accepted
since it was first defined by Aristotle (7) __________ —is the principle that "equals
should be treated (8) __________ and unequals (9) __________."