H Writing

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UNIT 2

Writing

Grammar

III. Explain in your own words.

II. Fill in the gaps with the proper prepositions.

1. go ___ ___ the state

2. go __ vacation

3. to pack everything __ the car

4. drive __ miles and miles __ the states of America

5. Iowa is 1,000 miles __ the sea, 400 miles __ the nearest mountain, and 300 miles __ skyscrapers or anything __ interest

6. nothing to see __ __ the window

7. advertising anything __ milk __ a bowling alley

8. taking it __ turns to say

9. asked my mother __ a quiet voice

10. He always said 'yes' __ the end.

11. he didn't just say 'yes' __ the first place

12. Caverns turned __ to be an enormous disappointment

13. to find a room __ the night

14. spent the time __ the back of the car

15. stopping __ intervals to cry

16. accuse each other __ injuries

17. complain __ hunger, boredom

18. the need __ the toilet

· a skyscraper

· a billboard

· a highway

· a bowling alley

· an attraction

· a spook

· a cavern

1. Write out sentences with the construction “used to do smth”. Explain its function.

2. Write down your own examples illustrating the use of this construction.

1. Write an outline of the text “Lost Continent”.

2. Write a gist of the text “Lost Continent” (5-8 sentences).

[1] a state in the northern central U.S., on the western banks of the Mississippi River; pop. 2,964,324. It was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis, was the belief that living things appeared from nowhere for no apparent reason. That used to be people's way of explaining the cause of diseases. It took them a long time to accept that germs or microorganisms were the cause of those diseases.

It used to be believed that spontaneous generation would happen in living things when they were decaying. People thought the proof of this was that a dead animal's body started to decay. There was the appearance of maggots which then grew into flies or other insects. It was also thought that mud and dead plants were other places where spontaneous generation occurred.

Francesco Redi, an Italian scientist, first experimented with maggots at the end of the 17th century and successfully proved they really came from the eggs that flies lay in the flesh of dead animals. However, these results were not enough to disprove the deeply held belief in spontaneous generation. One hundred years later John Needham argued it was microorganisms or germs, not maggots, that were spontaneously generated in dead material. Next, Lazzaro Spallanzani carried out a similar experiment but people believed he had only proved that spontaneous generation could not take place without air being present.

It was not until Louis Pasteur and his scientific experiments in the middle of the 19th century that the theory of spontaneous generation was finally disproved. Pasteur's conclusions proved that microorganisms and germs were already present in the air and growth only occurred when the living organism came into contact with the air.