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01font00 02font00By the eighteenth century printed materials were so sidespread sa to bring on fear of a "literacy crisis," a literacy crisis which was the exact opposite of ours in that it involved too much rather than too little reading. there is a continuing, and unresovable, argument about the actual increase in literacy rates in the eighteenth century. But the leaders of society then certainly feared that reading had become much too widespread, and the dangers of increased reading by the lower classes were much discussed. Locke did not, for example, favor teaching the poor. Those who deplored reading did not simply condemn its effects on morals and politics; thdy feared it would damage public health. A 1795 tract listed the physical consequences of excessive reading: "susceptiblity to colds, headaches, weakening of the eyes, heat rashes, indigestion, melancholy, etc." Reading came to be 01i00___________02i00 in much the same way that too much television viewing in the late twentieth century has become a kind of cultural bogey.02br
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01font00Fill in the blank with ONE word from the passage.02font02br
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01font00(my answer) -> bogey02font02br
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01font004. Read the passage and follow the directions.02font02br
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01font00 02font00 If readers are reading to get a general idea of a text, then they can probably skip over a fair number of unknown words as long as those words are not important and thus maybe ignored. One strategy to determine if te meaning of an unknown word is necessary to the overall meaning of the sentence is to read the sentence 01u00 (1) 02u00 and see if a general meaning is obtained. Another strategy is to examine the grammatical category of the wrod. If it is an adjective or an adverb, readers can probably get by without it. If, on the other hand, an unknown word appears several times in a text and seems to be the key to 01u00 (2) 02u00 , then that word needs to be dealt with. Nouns and verbs are usually important enough to the basic meaning in the sense that readers cannot get a general idea without knowing what they mean.02br
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01font00Fill in each blank with THREE words in the parenthesis below. The word 01i00the02i00 can be used more than once.02font02br
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01font00( idea general word the without )02font02br
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01font00(my answer) -> (1) without the word (2) the general idea02font02br
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