silentspring.ppt

1. I love my parents so much that I would not _________ hurt their feelings. (intend) 2. Some fathers are too _________ towards their daughters. They wouldn’t let them out of their sight. (possess) 3. I am sorry that I can’t keep the ________ because I will have a meeting this evening. (appoint) 4. The _______ of too much time to sports leaves too little time for studying. (devote) 5. ________ his age, the little boy reads very well. (consider) 6. He is worried about the ____________ use of antibiotics. (discriminate) 7. The press has _______ its scrutiny of the candidates background. (intense) 8. Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is ______. (potent) 9. She was _______ with joy. (radiate) 10. It _______ rains when I take my holidays. (vary) * * * Book description:Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carsons book focuses don the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened more than a few eyes about the dangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work. Sentence Paraphrase These chemicals are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes, killing every insect, the “good” and the “bad”, to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil—all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. (16) The purpose of the wide use of the chemicals in farms, gardens, forests and homes is