Paraphrasing Exercise
Use synonyms for the keywords
1. There has been a significant growth in the use of the Internet since 2000.
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2. Regular exercises can prevent us from serious illnesses.
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3. We hope to reach our goal of finding 90 percent of all objects.
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Rearrange ideas
4. Money is one of the big stressors for many students today.
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5. Dinosaurs were the largest and most powerful animals of the history of animal life.
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6. The title of this book is Academic Connection 1.
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Change from the active voice to the passive voice and vice versa.
7. Computers require a set of instructions to perform a specific task.
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8. Many scientists accepted Jack Sepkoski and David Raup’s academic paper. _________________________________________________________________________________
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9. Volcanoes caused the iridium layer.
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10. People can form first impression very quickly from little information.
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Change the parts of speech of the underlined words. Make other changes to make the sentences grammatically correct.
11. The researchers are anxious about the extinction of the humans.
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12. It is predicted that unemployment will increase to 700,000.
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13. Teachers and administers should put restrictions on the students’ use of computers.
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14. One result of watching English news is that they can improve students’ English speaking skills.
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