Answers to Activities C-7-1, C-7-2, C-7-3, C-7-4, C-7-5
Activity C-7-1
2. because they have the most readers
because they carry the most advertising
3. At newsstands
By subscriptions
4. Locally / nationally / internationally
5. Death
Destruction
6. National news
Popular culture
Current lifestyles
7. Current / entertaining / interesting
Activity C-7-2
Incorrect
1. to learn more about their business
2. making money
3. truckers
4. interest
5. people doing research
6. you can only find them in certain places
Subordinate clauses
Prepositional phrase
Adverbs
noun
Adjective and noun
Adjectives
Correct
those people who want to learn ….
or how to make money.
those who drive trucks and …
interesting
researchers
difficult to find
Activity C-7-3
1. those (verb)ing to
2. noun, and noun
3. adjective – name, or name
4. (verb)ing
5. noun and noun
6. noun
7. how to …, and how to …
8. noun
9. on + noun
10. noun, noun, and noun OR (verb)ing, (verb)ing, and (verb)ing
Activity C-7-4
1. We can divide the news into two kinds: hard news and soft news.
2. Hard news consists of important events at the local, national, or international level,
like the new state sales tax, the presidential election, or the war in Afghanistan.
3. Usually, hard news is reported by the most famous reporters: those who have big
names like Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw.
4. When reporters tell about hard news, they are serious and try to be objective.
5. Soft news, on the other hand, is not considered so important.
6. Soft news is, for example, the reactions of citizens to a new movie or a report on
the president’s wife’s visit to a nursery school.
7. The people who report the soft news are usually people you have never heard of, or
they are new or unknown reporters.
8. The reporting style of people reporting soft news is more friendly and less serious
than the style of those reporting hard news.
9. It is interesting to note the differences between these two types of news.
10. Sometimes I prefer the soft news because it is more cheerful.
Activity C-7-5
American novels can be divided into two groups according to their quality. The first
group consists of books we call classics. These books have depth and insight about human
nature. They have stood the test of time. People continue to read them even if they were
written a long time ago. These books are studied in high school and college literature
classes so that young Americans will have some knowledge of the highest quality
American writing. Some examples of American classics are The Scarlet Letter by
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and The Age of Innocence by
Edith Wharton. In reading these books we see in the characters the problems and
difficulty we all face in life. The second group of American novels consists of popular
books which are popular for a short period of time and then fade away. Often, they are
superficial in their understanding of human character, or they are not very well written.
In any case, they do not stand the test of time to become classics. Examples of popular
books are the suspense novels of Stephen King, and the murder mysteries of Sue
Grafton. These books are entertaining but don’t give us insight about ourselves.