Gr 8 Revision

GRAMMAR

Quotation Mark Exercise

In the following sentences put in quotation marks wherever they are needed, and underline words where italics are needed.

  1. Flannery O'Connor probably got the title of one of her stories from the words of the old popular song, A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
  2. When did Roosevelt say, We have nothing to fear but fear itself?
  3. Yesterday, John said, This afternoon I'll bring back your bookConflict in the Middle East; however, he did not return it.
  4. Can you believe, Dot asked me, that it has been almost five years since we've seen each other?
  5. A Perfect Day for Bananafish is, I believe, J. D. Salinger's best short story.
  6. Certainly, Mr. Martin said, I shall explain the whole situation to him. I know that he will understand.

Capitalization Exercise

Some of the following sentences contain capitalization errors. Identify and correct the errors. Note: not all sentences contain errors.

  1. My Father-in-Law took me to a Chicago Cubs game; He doesn’t know I’m a White Sox fan.
  2. Jessica’s dad, Dr. Johnson, wants her to be a Doctor as well.
  3. Jeremy went to Alexander community college for two years.
  4. My sister’s new friend is italian.
  5. We traveled South on vacation because my dad wanted to study Civil War history.

COMPREHENSION

An open letter from Vladkhleb to the residents of Vladivostok.
When bread prices rose, Valkhleb, a bakery, asked the krai and city for help in holding down prices. Here is a letter it wrote, published in the Vladivostok Times Sept. 9. 1998
Dear residents of Vladivostok:
The staff and Board of Directors of Vladkhleb can't keep silent in the current wild situation when prices for all existing products are skyrocketing unbelievably. And while we somewhat indifferently watch enormous figures on price tags for delicacy products, every kopeck of extra charge for the staples … causes a real panic. We perfectly realize that, and that's why we have kept bread prices affordable for all this time.
Even after the fall of prices we have tried to keep the past prices for as long as possible.
At the moment all our reserves are exhausted. Stocks of bread-baking ingredients such as flour, sugar, butter and the like are running out. To buy what we need at reasonable prices is virtually impossible today.
However, we cannot temporize. We all need bread every day, which means we will be forced to buy everything we need at much higher prices. What this means perhaps doesn't need to be explained.
The cost of bread closely depends on ingredients. Another financial crisis has led to a 50-300-percent increase of prices for butter, vegetable oil, all types of margarine, yeast and other as of September 1. All these prices continue to grow every hour.
Because of this, Vladkhleb came to the critical point where it is necessary to raise prices of its products. Otherwise, we will just destroy a most powerful bread enterprise. Should Vladkhleb shut down, the bread price will get out of hand.
Our economists projected the situation for the near future considering the growing flour cost. With the cost of flour at 2.18 rubles per kilogram at the start of September, the retail bread price was to be 4.36 rubles. With an increase of flour cost to 4 rubles per kilogram, bread price will grow to 6.17 rubles. Further growth will be possible.
So it turns out that bread may rank with delicacy products. Is there another way out? Yes. It is already put into practice by leaders of other cities and regions. For example, Moscow Mayor YuryLuzhkov used the press in the very first days of the crisis to tell the residents that he had decided to subsidize the bread industry so that not to allow prices for this type of food to rise. There were no objections. So did Khabarovsk -- there they pay subsidies for bread-baking ingredients.
Incidentally, the city and krai administrations already have the experience of supporting our plants. Rather than artificially holding back prices, they employed loans and waivers and the like. At this point all the city and krai offices of authority as well as deputies at all levels could consider our propositions such as:
Granting waivers on taxes to krai and city budgets;
Establishing lower prices for electric and thermal energy for a program of bread production;
Facilitating in reception of customs duty and tax waivers from the federal government for imported grain;
Recovery of Pacific Fleet's debts in the amount of 6 million rubles (calculated as of August 1998) for supplied products;
Lowering rent for premises and plots.
Any of these possible measures will help Vladkhleb contain the growth of prices for its products. Despite of our SOS signal, no measures have been taken as yet. We have found ourselves in the same situation as any of you. We see the situation changing steadily for the worse. We will not cope with that alone.
We see one recourse: Raise the bread price minimally and cancel our free plastic bag service. But what is next? This is the concern of all the 700 employees and the board of Vladkhleb.
Every extra kopeck in the cost of bread upsets you and us very much. Making our sincere apologies for a forced increase of the bread price, we hope for your understanding and support. Today and tomorrow we are with you, as usual.
The staff and board of Vladkhleb.

1 / Vladkhleb is ...
a farm
a bakery
a butchery
a motor company
2 / In this open letter Vladkhleb explains to the people of Vladivostok that ...
they can no longer supply bread
the price of bread will treble
all reserves of bread-making ingredients have been depleted
it will have to close down
3 / One of the things Vladkhleb asks the local authorities is ...
more workers
lower energy prices
money to buy fresh ingredients
the permission to buy flour in the US
4 / "So it turns out that bread may rank with delicacy products," means ...
that bread has become much tastier in recent months.
that bread has become as expensive as caviar.
that bread has become an article many people can no longer afford.
5 / Vladkhleb has decided not to shut down because - they say - ...
theorganisation still has a lot of outstanding debts.
otherwise the price of bread may get out of hand.
otherwise the distribution of bread may end up in the hands of the mafia.
6 / One of Vladkhleb's propositions to the local authorities is : "Recovery of Pacific Fleet's debts in the amount of 6 million rubles (calculated as of August 1998) for supplied products." This means ...
that the army still owes the bakery a lot of money for bread delivered in the past.
thatVladkhleb still owes a lot of money to the army for ingredients that it supplied in the past.
LITERATURE -Review all the worksheets given related to the lesson & the work done in class& memorize all the qs. & ans, summary for the lesson After Twenty Years.
VOCABULARY- Learn all the synonyms & antonyms for Voc L= 14 & 15

Quotation Mark Exercise ANSWERS

  1. Flannery O'Connor probably got the title of one of her stories from the words of the old popular song, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
  2. When did Roosevelt say, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"?
  3. Yesterday, John said, "This afternoon I'll bring back your bookConflict in the Middle East"; however, he did not return it.
  4. "Can you believe," Dot asked me, "that it has been almost five years since we've seen each other?"
  5. "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is, I believe, J. D. Salinger's best short story.
  6. "Certainly," Mr. Martin said, "I shall explain the whole situation to him. I know that he will understand."

Capitalization Exercise Answers

The corrected sentences are below. The corrected words are underlined.
1. Myfather-in-lawtook me to a Chicago Cubs game;hedoesn’t know I’m a White Sox fan.

2. Jessica’s dad, Dr. Johnson, wants her to be adoctoras well.
3. Jeremy went to AlexanderCommunity Collegefor two years.
4. My sister’s new friend isItalian.

5 We traveledsouthon vacation because my dad wanted to study Civil War history.

ANSWER KEY

  1. B
  2. C
  3. B
  4. C
  5. B
  6. A

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