OJO: La primera lectura es de relacionar frases con los segmentos (entiendase por fragmentos como parrafos) y la segunda lectura es para completar los espacios con las palabras que se encuentran al final. Deben presentarme estos ejercicios para el día 14 de enero en caso de 10° y para el 15° de enero en caso de 11° . Favor enviarme a sophiescobar@hotmail.com su documento con las respuestas unicamente. Pilas con la fecha de entrega. Hasta pronto!!!

Arbor Day (April 22)

In the 1840s, the midwestern state of Nebraska was a territory within a wide prairie. When pioneers moved out to settle there, they found few trees to build houses or to burn for fuel. There was no shade from the sun or wind, and crops did not grow well in the dry earth.

J. Sterling Morton was one of those pioneers who moved to the treeless Nebraska territory. He and his wife planted trees immediately after moving from their hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Morton was a journalist, and later the editor, of Nebraska’s first newspaper. In his writings, he advocated planting trees to help life on this vast barren plain.

He became the secretary of the Nebraska Territory. At a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture in January, 1872, Morton proposed that citizens of the raw state of Nebraska set aside April 10 as a day to plant trees. He suggested offering prizes as incentives for communities and organizations that planted the most trees properly. Everyone welcomed the idea enthusiastically. Nebraskans planted about one million trees on that first Arbor Day. Today a visitor to Nebraska would never guess that it was once a dusty prairie.

In 1882, Nebraska declared its own Arbor Day as a legal holiday, and the date was changed to Morton’s birthday, April 22. Because the best tree-planting season changes from region to region, other states observe the day on different dates. Hawaiians, for example, plant Arbor Day trees on the first Friday in November!

You are given a list of questions (1-4) and a list of possible answers to choose from (A – E) These questions ask you to choose what each of the 4 sections is about. There are 5 possible ideas. Answer each question by matching a line in A with a line in B.

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Section 1Section 2 Section 3 Section 4	a The first Arbor Day b The hardships of the first settlers c Planting competitions on Arbor Day d The people who started the tradition e The dates on which the holiday is observed

To answer these questions, you need to be very clear about the development of the writer’s argument or, if it’s a narrative, about the sequence of events. So read the text carefully and, before you look at the possible ‘fillers’, think about what kind of information might be missing in each gap. When you are choosing an answer, look for grammatical and logical clues.

MEMORIAL DAY

This holiday is a day on which Americans honor the ________. Originally a day on ________ frogs or flowers were placed on graves of soldiers who ________ in the American Civil War, it has become a day on which the dead of all wars and all other dead are ________ the same way. Families and individuals honor the memories of ________ loved ones who have died. Church services, visits to the cemetery, flowers on graves, or even silent tribute mark the day with dignity and solemnity. It is a day of reflection. However, to many Americans the day also signals the beginning of summer – with a ________ weekend to spend at the beach, in the mountains, or at home ________.

In many ________, special ceremonies are held in ________ or at monuments for the war dead by veterans of military services. Some hold parades and ________ hold memorial services or special programs in churches, schools or other ________ meeting places.

On Memorial Day the President or Vice President of the USA gives a speech and lays a wreath on the tombs.

 

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