Task 1

Please study unit 1, 2 and 3 by yourself.

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Write topic sentences of these incomplete paragraphs. (click comments to write your topic sentence)
1. When you are going to change your tire,this is what you have to do...............................................

When you have removed the hubcap from the wheel which has the flat, correctly place the jack to lift the car off the ground. Now you are ready to jack up the car high enough for the tire to clear the ground. After you hove done that, carefully loosen the nuts that hold the tire and rim in place; the tool you use to do that is called a lug wrench. Remove the tire and put the spare tire in place. Now you are ready to put the nuts back on the wheel and tighten them as firmly as you can with the lug wrench. All that remains is to replace the hubcap, lower the car to the ground, give the nuts a final tightening, and remove the jack.

2. These are some kinds of dictionary people use. ..............................................

The one most people are familiar with is the "desk dictionary," sometimes referred to as a general-purpose dictionary. Another kind is the pronouncing dictionary, which is concerned with a word's pronunciation more than with its meaning. A third type is the bilingual dictionary, which lists the words in one language and attempts to give equivalent meanings in another language. Other types include technical dictionaries, special-purpose dictionaries, and scholarly dictionaries.

3. The telephone company has made a new system of billing..............................................

Under this system, the customer's monthly telephone bill includes specific information for each long-distance call: the date and time of each call, the rate charged per minute (based on the company's dis­count system), the length of time the call took, the number and place called, whether the cdl.1 was direct-dialed or operator-assisted, and the amount charged for the call. As each call is placed, all of this information is fed into a computer and programmed onto each customer's billing card, thus simplifying and clarifying the entire billing process. The telephone company hopes that its billing procedure will re­duce the number of inquiries and free its employees to do work which computers are not yet able to perform.

4. Retired Americans do not get much money from their retirement plans..............................................

Surveys indicate that Social Security benefits constitute the main source of income (about 37 percent) for retired Americans who are over sixty­ five years of age. The Social Security system, which .is a fund financed jointly by workers, employers, and the federal government, provides monthly payments to retired persons and pays for some of their medical bills. Earnings from part-­time jobs account for approximately 25 percent of the income of retired Americans. Almost half of the retired population works on a part-time basis, and most do so at a lower salary than they earned before retirement. Assets, including prop­erty, stocks, and money saved during working years provide another 23 percent of retirement income. Surprisingly, money from pensions (retirement plans) supplies only 1 3 percent of retirees' total fiscal support. The remaining 2 percent is attributed to unspecified other sources.