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law a few schools are beginning__________________ while
in other schools faculties and professors are recomending__________ or _____________.
13. What are the two benefits the contemporary law students gained from the public environmental
concerns:
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THE GENESIS OF THE MODERN TOY
PART I: FIRST PARAGRAPH
1. Vocabulary in Context
WORD PART OF SPEECH PROBABLE MEANING,
(Noun, Veib IN CONTEXT
Adjective or Adverb)
a. commonplace (1)
a. a.
b. artifacts (2)
b. b.
c. material culture (3)
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d. embryonic (4)
d. d.
e. bulk (11)
e. e.
f. ranked (12)
f. f.
g. differentiated (13)
g.
g.
h. not invariably (15)
h. h.
i. mirror (17)
i. i.
j. conversely (18)
j.
j.
k. prevailing (19)
k. k.
1. ambiguous (23) 1.
1.
m. revealing (23) m. m.
2. Two products of «material culture» mentioned in para.l are:_________ and_________. Two products of
«high culture» mentioned are______and_________.
3. The general term used by the writer to include the products of
both types of culture is__________________.
4. The connecting word «yet» (1.8) is a marker of «concession.» The writer concedes (admits) that some
piece of information he gives us is surprising in the light of some other piece of information that he gives us;
and he insists that, nevertheless, both are true.
A. What fact is surprising but nevertheless true? It is surprising but true that __________________.
B. This fact is surprising if we consider that
5. «Toys are equally revealing» (1. 14) means that they are just as revealing as something else.
A.
What is that «something else» that is also revealing?
B.
B. What do both things reveal?
6. The parenthetical phrase «(often though not invariably parents)» (1. 15, 16) conveys the somewhat
surprising implication that the choice of a particular toy for a particular child may be determined by
__________, and not necessarily by _____________.
7. «conversely» (1. 18) is a connecting word indicating that you can turn something about or reverse the
order of something in the preceding statement or proposition and get another proposition that is also true.
A. The initial proposition here tells us that we can learn about _________ by looking at___________.
B. The second proposition (following «conversely») tells us that_____________________________
PART II: PARAGRAPHS 3, 4, and 5
l.In Para. 3, two reasons are suggested for the attitude of parents towards their children in 16th and 17th