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Written Practice 6-6
For each of the following sentences, choose the word in the parentheses that is
written correctly.
- We’re moving our company to Las Vegas, Nevada in the (spring/Spring) of
2010. - Send our proposal to the (department/Department) of Transportation in
Washington. - We’ll leave San Francisco and then travel in the (orient/Orient) for three
weeks. - I just fi nished an inspiring book of poems by Linda Eve Diamond called
The Human (experience/Experience). - You’re expected for dinner on (friday/Friday).
Written Practice 6-7
Insert or delete capitalization as needed in the following paragraph. The sentences
are numbered for clarity in the Answer Key.
Paragraph 1
- the terms greenhouse effect and global warming have been used in scientifi c his-
tory for many, many years. 2. discussions of global warming fi rst appeared when a
swedish scientist, svante arrhenius (1859–1927), claimed in 1896 that burning Fossil
fuel might eventually increase global warming. 3. he further proposed that a rela-
tionship existed between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and Temperature gains. - arrhenius noted that because of the absorption of water and carbon dioxide, the
Average Surface Temperature of the earth is about 15 degrees Celsius. 5. this is what
we call the natural greenhouse effect. 6. however, arrhenius then suggested that
doubling carbon dioxide would result in a 5 degrees Celsius temperature increase.
Paragraph 2
- arrhenius and his colleague, thomas chamberlin, made another calculation: human
activities could warm the earth by adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. 2. years
passed before th is was actually ver ifi ed in 1987. 3. then the topic was forgotten because