English Through Reading for efl learners
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Intermediate-Reading-Passages
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- English Through Reading for EFL Learners INSTRUCTOR: DR. H. GHAEMI 20
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Technology and the Amish:
Refused: Television, radios, telephones in the home, home computers, 110 volt electricity (the standard voltage in North America). Accepted: Communal telephones, diesel generators, electric woodworking and metalworking equipment, electric fences, solar power, wind power English Through Reading for EFL Learners INSTRUCTOR: DR. H. GHAEMI 20 Horses are the motive power in Amish farms Amish family; note how the children are not wearing shoes Prepositions exercise: Replace all the missing prepositions in this extract from the article. The roadsign is, to say the least, unexpected; driving ________ a prosperous rural part ________ North America, the last thing you expect ________ see ________ the highway is a yellow diamond roadsign ________ a horse and buggy ________ the middle! Watch ________ ________ horses and buggies ________ the road? What is this? Do they exercise racehorses here, or what? You keep an eye open ________ horses; ________ two miles you see nothing, then all ________ a sudden, look! Coming ________ you ________ the other side ________ the road, two black horse-drawn buggies! As they go ________ , your surprise turns ________ disbelief; what's going ________ ? Are they making a movie ________ eighteenth century America? The men and the women ________ the buggy look like they jumped ________ ________ a novel ________ Fennimore Cooper. Then, another mile and things get even stranger; ________ a neat-looking farm-house, there is a whole line ________ buggies. ________ the door ________ the house, half a dozen men ________ black coats, and ________ long beards, are talking while some women dressed ________ a curiously ancient fashion are sitting ________ a bench. Is this 2015 or 1715 ? You drive ________ , wondering what has happened ________ this part ________ the United States of America? Have you driven ________ a time-warp, and ________ realizing it, gone back 200 years, or is it the people you've just seen who're stuck ________ a time warp? |
