Exercise 1

A volunteer is a person who works at a job without pay. In many schools, students in twelfth
grade are required to complete a community-service project before they graduate. At Martin
High School, volunteers work at least three hours a week. Some students volunteer at day-care
centers. Many seniors are tutoring young children in reading. Other students work at museums
and in hospitals. Members of the football team are coaching at an after-school sports program.
Each year the guidance counselor gives students a list of organizations seeking volunteers.
Seniors have to write a proposal for their community-service project, and the counselor has to
approve it. After students have completed their projects, they write reports telling what they
learned.
Exercise 3
1. One of the nicknames for an American is Yankee.
2. None of our other national parks have as many geysers as Yellowstone.
3. Few are as beautiful as Yosemite in California.
4. Which part of Niagara Falls is in Canada?
5. Several of the popular sights in Washington, D.C., are the Vietnam Memorial, the
Washington Monument, and the White House.
6. Anyone in Death Valley knows how dry deserts are.
7. In Denver, everybody lives a mile above sea level.
8. Some of the land in the Black Hills are sacred to the Sioux.
9. The street names in New York City have fascinating histories.
10. None of the Great Lakes border an ocean.
Exercise 8
A volunteer is a person who works at a job without pay. In many schools, students in twelfth
grade are required to complete a community-service project before they graduate. At Martin
High School, volunteers work at least three hours a week. Some students volunteer at day-care
centers. Many seniors are tutoring young children in reading. Other students work at museums
and in hospitals. Members of the football team are coaching at an after-school sports program.
Each year the guidance counselor gives students a list of organizations seeking volunteers.
Seniors have to write a proposal for their community-service project, and the counselor has to
approve it. After students have completed their projects, they write reports telling what they
learned.
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The Trojan Woman is a play by Euripides, an ancient Greek dramatist.

A thousand years is called a millennium.
Every chimpanzee, ape, and gorilla, has flexible hands and feet.
Statistics is the branch of mathematics that deals with collecting, classifying, and organizing
data.
5. Many a poet and novelist write all night.
6. The herd of goats spend all summer in the mountains.
7. Sometimes election news reaches the public before polls close.
8. A committee of congressional representatives takes up pressing issues.
9. Four hundred thousand dollars were destroyed in the fire at the bank.
10. Mumps causes fever and painful swelling of the salivary glands.