Does this paragraph compare, contrast, or both?
(1) According to a study conducted by the United Nations, Americans work much longer hours than Europeans. (2) In the United States, about 86% of men and 66% of women work more than 40 hours per week. (3) In contrast, few Europeans ever work over 40 hours per week, and full-time workers in several European counties, such as France, work as little as 30-35 hours per week. (4) The average American puts in 1,800 hours per year on the job; in some European counties, full-time workers put in as few as 1,400 hours per year. (5) Companies typically give their full-time American employees only two week’s paid vacation every year whereas they give European workers 4-6 week’s annual vacation leave. (6) European counties have laws that guarantee workers a minimum amount of vacation time and limit the length of the workweek to a maximum of 48 hours. (7) The United States, however, has no such laws for its workers.
A) compares only
B) contrasts only
C) compares and contrasts
B) contrasts only
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F. Read the e-mail that Marta wrote to her friend. Identify the conjugated -ar verbs. Then write the infinitive of those verbs in the spaces below. Hola, Lola: Hoy es el primer día de clases en la universidad. Tenemos un profesor de historia muy inteligente que habla cincuenta minutos seguidos. Mi amigo, Aldo, y yo compramos muchos libros de literatura latinoamericana, francés y arte. Los padres de Aldo son profesores: su madre es profesora de inglés y su padre enseña el español. Después de las clases, regreso a casa. No puedo practicar deportes o tomar café con amigos. Tengo mucha tarea... ¡necesito estudiar! Te escribo más tarde. - M. (1) ____________
What will be an ideal response?
Complete the statements that follow each of the paragraphs below by choosing the letter of the correct response.
(1) When asked on a survey “How much special consideration should black students receive in college admissions?” more than 70 percent of the UCLA freshmen in the sample said that at least some special consideration should be given. (2) However, when asked, “Should affirmative action be abolished?” 50 percent said yes. (3) Asked about government spending “on assistance to the poor,” only 23 percent of respondents in a 1994 Time magazine survey said that too much was being spent. (4) Asked about “welfare,” however, 53 percent said that too much was being spent. (5) In one study, 88 percent of participants indicated that they thought condoms were effective in stopping AIDS when condoms were said to have a “95 percent success rate.” (6) However, when condoms were said to have a “5 percent failure rate,” only 42 percent indicated that they thought condoms were effective. (7) When German adults were asked how many hours a day they watched TV, their answers differed dramatically as a function of the response scale they were given. The subject of sentence 1 is a. UCLA freshmen’s response. b. surveys of college students. c. consideration. d. surveys.
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What will be an ideal response?
Which sentence is correct, clear, and concise?
A) My favorite bovine buddy Gertrude has ceased to provide the large quantities of milk to which our family has become accustomed. B) Gertrude, our cow, has done stopped cranking out the bodacious amounts of milk like we is used to. C) Our cow Gertrude's milk production has fallen off precipitously for reasons unknown to farmer or veterinarian's specialist alike in the recent past. D) Our cow Gertrude is not giving much milk lately.