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Swampy Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Choosing a correct heading for the following extract
I had another problem with a heading-choosing exercise. Here's the excerpt.
Horses pulling carriages were obviously capable of lower speeds than modern cars, many of which are capable of very fast speeds. Yet it has been calculated that people who travelled by horse and carriage in London had shorter journey times than those of today's highly-stressed motorists. Of course, horse-drawn transport had the advantage that horses didn't wait at red lights and they didn't get stuck in traffic jams. Nevertheless, it certainly makes you question what kind of progress we have made over a hundred years.
Decide which of the headings best corresponds to the paragraph:
A No lights to hold them up
B Drivers under pressure
C Primitive and slow
D Quicker by miles than horses
E Impressive machines going nowhere
Horses pulling carriages were obviously capable of lower speeds than modern cars, many of which are capable of very fast speeds. Yet it has been calculated that people who travelled by horse and carriage in London had shorter journey times than those of today's highly-stressed motorists. Of course, horse-drawn transport had the advantage that horses didn't wait at red lights and they didn't get stuck in traffic jams. Nevertheless, it certainly makes you question what kind of progress we have made over a hundred years.
Decide which of the headings best corresponds to the paragraph:
A No lights to hold them up
B Drivers under pressure
C Primitive and slow
D Quicker by miles than horses
E Impressive machines going nowhere
Top answer
Try using the process of elimination. There are some choices which are clearly wrong because they focus on small details within the paragraph, not the main point. Which ones can you eliminate?
- Try using the process of elimination.
- There are some choices which are clearly wrong because they focus on small details within the paragraph, not the main point.
- Which ones can you eliminate?
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Try using the process of elimination. There are some choices which are clearly wrong because they focus on small details within the paragraph, not the main point. Which ones can you eliminate?
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Actually, I'd choose between A and D. It is either No lights to hold them up or Quicker by miles than horses. Moreover, the second choise is somewhat unclear to me by the meaning.
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I would have eliminated those two. The mention of traffic lights was a small detail within the paragraph, not the main idea. "quicker by miles" is a way of saying "very much quicker"; the reference is to cars, which are quicker than horses -- or are they? The paragraph contrasts cars and horses, true, but it seems to me that it does so for the purpose of leading up to the "punch line" at the e
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Just in order to discover the answer I will guess E though I am sure I am wrong
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Are you going by Swampy and maverick88 both?
Don't be so self-defeating! You must have guessed E for a reason. What was your reason? Were you able to eliminate B and C? How?
Don't be so self-defeating! You must have guessed E for a reason. What was your reason? Were you able to eliminate B and C? How?
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Impressive machines going nowhere? This choise seems to me one of the unreliable. It would be reliable without the word "impressive", which seems very inadequate. Why are the modern cars so impressive? How do they impress? I think the text does not talk about some impressive gadget on the modern cars.
Actually, I would choose "No lights to hold them up", since the lights here are not ne
Actually, I would choose "No lights to hold them up", since the lights here are not ne
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