【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 s. 5. Major fields of study Choosing a major does not have to be done blindly. 6. House calls Doctors should be pelled to make house calls. 7. Summer vacations Summer is the worst time of year to take a vacation. 8. Barbecuing There are three kinds of people who will be found behind a barbecue grill. 9. Children’s allowances Getting an allowance teaches a child to be responsible, mature, and thrifty.10. Christmas shopping One year I made the mistake of doing my Christmas shopping months in advance.Activity (Providing Specific Evidence), 68–69Answers will vary。 some possibilities are listed below. 1. Guests arrived two hours late。 roast was burned。 host and hostess got into a huge fight 2. Collects dead frogs, birds, and worms。 loves to dunk pizza in his chocolate milk。 bs his hair with his toothbrush 3. Too tired。 too hungry。 too disorganized 4. Chose my friends for me。 chose my clothes for me。 chose my college for me 5. Babysitting, gardening, baking cookies 6. New ignition, new brakes, new heater 7. Cat got sick。 kids got sick。 roof started to leak 8. Slept at his desk。 gave six hours of homework per night。 had a nasty temperActivity (Identifying Adequate Supporting Evidence), 69–70AD 1.U 2. What are specific examples of how people are thoughtless to pets? What are the particular needs of pets that may be ignored? Examples might include bathing animals regularly, treating them for fleas, helping them stay cool in summer, exercising them, and providing a nutritious diet.U 3. What are specific examples of shows that are of little interest to people? Exactly how would mercials be changed? How would network news be made more interesting? Examples might include the names of shows (situation edies, game shows, and so on) that aren’t popular. Commercials might be changed by eliminating repetitious jingles or celebrity endorsements (using examples of current mercials). AD 4.U 5. What are examples of how the woman was set in her ways? What did she say about the kind of hairdo she wanted? For example, the woman might have rejected any suggestions other than the style she was used to. What did the writer do that was unsuccessful? And how did the woman seem to indicate that the writer was not doing what she wanted? For instance, she might have shook her head or sighed every time the writer attempted to please her.Activity (Adding Details to Complete an Essay), 70–73Answers will vary。 possible supporting details are included in the paragraphs below. First of all, with no television to pete for our time, we found plenty of hours for personal interests. We all read more that week than we had read during the six months before. Dad introduced Mom to his favorite mystery writer—Dorothy Sayers—and it was pleasant to see them sitting on the sofa together, each one absorbed in a book. Luella, serious as always, read novels by Charles Dickens, while I settled modestly for the daily newspapers. We each also enjoyed some hobbies we had ignored for ages. Mom and Dad did crossword puzzles together, Lu dusted off her stamp collection, and I finished knitting the sweater I had started last September. In addition, my sister and I both stopped procrastinating with our homework. Instead of putting off our English and math assignments until our favorite shows were over, we tackled them right after supper and found that, without the sound of the TV blaring in our ears, we could do them in a couple of hours—far more quickly than we expected.Second, we did chores that had been hanging over our heads for too long. There were many jobs around the house that had needed attention for some time. Mom fixed a faucet that had been dripping for weeks while Dad patched the cracked plaster in the dining room. Lu and I cleaned our closets, finding records, tapes, and magazines that had been missing for months. By the end of the week, the house was in tidier shape than it had been since we moved in. We also had a chance to do some longpostponed shopping. Mom and Dad picked out a new sofa for the den。 Lu bought some new books, and I went through a whole stack of catalogs and finished all my Christmas shopping by mail. And each of us also did some letter writing or other paperwork that was long overdue. Mom and Dad struggled with this year’s ine tax forms, Lu wrote to Johnny, a friend she met at Spirit Lake last summer, and I wrote a thankyou note to Aunt Elsie for letting me stay with her during my weekend in New York City last month. Finally, and probably most important, we spent time with each other. Instead of being in the same room together while we stared at a screen, we actually talked for many pleasant hours. Mom told us about the programming project she has been doing at work, and we had fun planning the trip to Boston we are going to take this summer. Moreover, for the first time in years my family played some games together. We played several games of Scrabble, and we even got out the Monopoly set and played a game following the rules our family has made up over the years. And because we didn’t have to worry about missing this or that show, we had some family friends over a couple of evenings and spent an enjoyable time with them. We were glad to see how much the Overholt children had grown, and Joe and Sandy Ciprianni kept us laughing all evening with their stories about fixing up the old house they bought. 4 The Third Step in Essay WritingFillins (Common Methods of Organization), 75–76The topic sentences in the essay use the words To begin with, Next, and Finally to help show time order.The paragraph uses the following words to help show time order: Next, first, Then, After, and Finally.The topic sentences in the essay use the words For one thing, In addition, and Most important to help show emphatic order.The words Worst of all are used to mark the most emphatic detail in