1. This failure was occurred for two reasons.
2. Intensity is a significant in stress production.
3. He indicated me that he had decided to always choose the second syllable.
4. I do not agree that conclusion.
5. This experiment focuses the role of pitch.
6. We would suggest to find a better connector piece.
7. After reviewing customer specifications, five main design concepts generated.
8. We talked Terry Larrow.
9. $1500 cost our prototype.
II. Sentence structure
Task 2. Each sentence in the following passage contains one word order error. Rewrite the passage, making corrections as necessary. More than one answer may be possible.
1. Frederick Douglass, an African-American who was born into slavery, for the abolition of slavery fought all his life.
2. He wrote every month articles in the newspaper he established.
3. He used again and again his editorials to try to get his point across.
4. He gave frequently lectures.
5. However, success he did not find immediately.
6. He had to urge constantly president Abraham Lincoln to allow men of his race to enlist in the army.
7. Was very' significant his work for the antislavery movement.
8. Not only he influenced the president, but he also changed the face of the nation. 9. Why there are no campaigners like him today?
III. Academic vocabulary
Task 3. Insert the omitted words.
1. English language 1. _____ is becoming a priority academic/professional requirement whether international higher education graduates choose to return to their home countries or whether they choose to stay in the United States," notes Joan Morley.
2. "English is today the 2. _____language in science and technology, medicine and health care fields, commerce, business and industry, and much more.
3. It should come as no shock to find that three-quarters of the world's information stored in computer banks is in English."
4. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, a billion persons in the world are able to speak English, with more speaking it as a foreign language than as their mother tongue.
5. But the language that non-native speakers actually speak can be thought of as many different Englishes.
6. Some speak only about computers, or oil, or commodities trading or swine; they, 3._____ English into forms useful for specific purposes, and those who speak these forms are usually unable to 4. _____ comfortably about matters outside their field of interest.