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8. How much oil does that oil well ____________________?
9. The ____________________ in that market is always fresh.
10. That store ____________________ twelve different kinds of milk!
11. The children played in the ____________________.
12. I worked all day, too. I’m ____________________ as tired as you are.
13. He put all of his savings into ____________________.
C.
Idioms
at our fingertips = easy to reach
This idiom is often used with world, and with information of different kinds.
He had the world at his fingertips.
She has the data at her fingertips.
Copy the sentence from the text that uses this idiom.
V. UNDERSTANDING GRAMMAR: 
even tHougH, 
altHougH, tHougH
A.
Read about even though
Even though, although, and though can be used as conjunctions that set up a 
contrast.
Even though there aren’t many immigrants in my neighborhood, my 
grocery store carries a lot of unusual vegetables.
Although there aren’t many immigrants in my neighborhood, my grocery 
store carries a lot of unusual vegetables.
Though there aren’t many immigrants in my neighborhood, my grocery 
store carries a lot of unusual vegetables.
These three sentences have the same meaning as well as the same grammar. 
Even though emphasizes the contrast. Though is less formal and more common 
than the other two.
If the two clauses are reversed, the meaning of the sentence remains the 
same, but there is no comma.
My grocery store carries a lot of unusual vegetables even though there 
aren’t many immigrants in my neighborhood.
Unlike the other two, though can be used as an adverb at the end of the 
sentence.
That was a delicious meal!
It was expensive, though.

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116 | Better Reading English
B.
Use the grammar
Combine the sentences using though/although/even though. Don’t change the 
order of the sentences. Make sure you put the conjunction in front of the 
correct clause, and use a comma if necessary.
1. I didn’t have much money. I bought an expensive dinner.
2. I buy that vegetable because it’s healthy. I don’t really like it.
3. I don’t usually like cabbage. I love bok choy.
4. The market carries a lot of Latin American produce. They don’t stock 
jicama.
5. We don’t have access to a wide variety of fruits. It is possible to ind 
unusual vegetables.
VI. READ IT AGAIN
Read the passage again. Answer the question.
The writer is talking about international inluence on American eating habits. 
What speciic regions does he mention?
HUNTING FOR DINNER
I. PRE-READING
A.
Background information
This passage is from the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. An 
omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals. Pollan writes about the 
food system in the United States. He describes large-scale farming and 
ranching and compares them to more traditional small-scale food production. 
He talks about the health effects, the economic effects, and the ethical aspects 
of modern food production. In one section of the book, Pollan describes his 
effort to eat a meal that only includes food that he has planted, gathered, or 
hunted himself. The passage below comes from the chapter where he hunts 
and kills an animal for the irst time in his life.

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B.
Words to know before you read