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Activity 08

Alumno: Jesus Eduardo Felix Aviles

Catedrático: Sthephany Sofía Gonzales

Domínguez

Materia: Ingles ll

4to cuatrimestre

Culiacán, Sinaloa a 03 de septiempre del 2023

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Jesus Eduardo Felix A. 03/09/23

Name: Date:

Listening 5%

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Answer these questions about the interview.

1) The plans for the house would be drawn by c .

a) a friend
b) himself
c) his dad

2) He wants an b refrigerator.

a) environmental
b) industrial
c) inexpensive
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c
3) In the yard he wants lots of .

a) flowers
b) trees
c) grass
a
4) The living rooms needs .

a) lots of art
b) a big TV
c) comfy couches
b
5) He would like to have .
a) a big pool
b) an outdoor bath
c) an indoor pool

Vocabulary
 work
 industrial
 backyard
 geothermal
 mural
 shutters
backyard
1.-The dog sleeps in the .
work
2.-He tries to music into his classes.
3.-This is an industrial area with lots of factories.
4.-The shutters keep out the sunlight.
5.-Who painted that mural in the church.
6.-The building is powered by geothermal energy.
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Writing 5%

Some people spend their entire lives in one place. Others move a number of times
throughout their lives, looking for a better job, house, community, or even climate.
Which do you prefer: staying in one place or moving in search of another place? Use
reasons and specific examples to support your opinion. Use 200 to 250 words

One of the most hotly-debated issues in today's world is whether people keep moving for better opportunities
regarding a job, house, community or better weather conditions or having a root in one place. Personally, I
firmly agree with the second perspective for reasons mentioned below. This essay will examine both views
followed by my personal point of view.
On the one hand, there are those who argue that seeking the best in every aspect of life is essential due to the
fact that change is the only constant. This leads to accepting the challenges to reach higher goals resulting in
having more room for personal growth and development. As a consequence, individuals can have higher living
standards. This has been evidenced by the numerous academic studies the latest of which is one published by
the University of Russia in 2019 concluding that most of the working-age population of Russia can have a high
quality of life if they decide to change their location or job. The study further shows that 75% of them are
satisfied with their lives as they have more opportunities to grow when they switch their paths which ends up
with a sense of accomplishment.
On the other hand, however, are those who reject the aforementioned view, contending that having a stable
life brings professionalism due to the fact that focusing on one subject or living in the same area allows people
to know about almost everything of the related matters. The proponents of this view point to the fact that it
helps to master in that area, resulting in high-efficiency which leads to unexpected discoveries. According to
the statistics released by the Science of Sydney Committee in 2017 indicates that people who spend their lives
on one particular job are 5 times more likely to find new approaches to solve problems as they have a mass
amount of knowledge regarding the subject. Moreover, 80% of the participants in nations' growth and
development has been done by those who stick with the same position as they have invented more than
others for the nations.
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READING 5%
“United States Postal Service”
Read the passage. Then answer questions about the passage below

The United States Postal Service (also known as USPS, the Post Office, informally as the P.O., or
the U.S. Mail) is the third largest employer in the United States, after the Department of Defense and
Wal–Mart. It employs over 785,000 workers in over 14,000 U.S. postal facilities.
The Postal Service has certainly grown and changed since 1775 when the first Postmaster General
– Benjamin Franklin – was named to head the Post Office Department, the forerunner of the current
USPS. At that time, members of the Second Continental Congress agreed that the Postmaster
General headquarters, or most important offices, would be stationed in Philadelphia, and that the
Postmaster would be paid $1,000 a year for his or her service.
As the country grew westward, it became necessary for the railroad system to carry the mail. The
Railway Mail Service (RMS) was initiated in 1862. The RMS workers sorted mail on the train, and
became some of the fastest workers in the system. They sorted about 600 pieces of mail per hour.
All the mail had to be sorted before the train reached the first stop, since some of the mail was destined
for that first stop on the route.
By 1918, the Post office took over air mail from the U.S. Army. The first airplanes used in
U.S. air mail were surplus planes from World War I. The Post Office started with only four pilots flying
these leftover planes in August 1 918, but by the end of that year, the Post Office had hired 36 more
pilots. By 1920, over 49 million air mail letters had been delivered.
The Post Office has used alternate methods of transmission during its history. It owned and operated
the first telegraph lines from 1884 to 1887 – when the lines were privatized. It utilized “V– Mail” (Victory
Mail) during World War II when U.S. military mail was put on microfilm in the U.S. and printed near its
destination, in order to save space on military transport. During the 1980s, Electronic Computer
Originated Mail, called ECOM, was used for some bulk mailings. Computer generated mail was
printed near its destination, and bore a blue ECOM logo on its special envelopes.
In 1970, the Postal Reorganization Act, signed by President Richard Nixon, replaced the Post Office
Department (a Cabinet–level department) with the independent US Postal Service.
The independent US Postal Service has streamlined its workload and modernized operations.
Today’s multi–line optical character readers (MLOCRs) can read the entire address on an envelope,
print a barcode on the envelope, and sort the mail at the rate of nine letters per second. The zip code
+ 4, a four-digit code added to the end of the existing 5–digit code, has decreased the number of
times a piece of mail needs to be handled. Special barcode sorters assign an 11–digit zip code to
each address, apply a barcode to each letter, and sort the mail in order of delivery.
The Postal Service has installed automated customer–service equipment in lobbies, and is planning
to automate even more of its work, including more machines which will process parcels and forwarded
mail.
The price of a first–class stamp - recently approved at 44 cents and good for up to one–ounce
domestic mail - seems relatively inexpensive compared to its predecessor; the first U.S. postage
stamp, issued in 1847. The first stamps, adorned with a picture of Benjamin Franklin, sold for 5 cents
apiece. They were used for letters weighing less than one ounce with a travel distance of less than
300 miles. By way of comparison, pay records available for the 1890s indicate that a typical year’s
pay for a schoolteacher was around $500, or 10,000 times the price of a stamp. Stamp prices then
seem relatively high when compared to today’s average teacher pay, in the $40,000 per–year range,
or about 1,000,000 times the price of a postage stamp!
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QUESTIONS VOCABULARY

1) What is another name for the United States 1) The best synonym for headquarters is…
Post Office? A. employer.
A. The P.O. B. postmaster.
B. The U.S.A. Mail C. main office.
C. The Ministry of Mail D. mainstream.
D. The Mail Department E central hub.
E The U.S.A. Postal Department
2) When you sort items, you …
2) How much did Benjamin Franklin earn as A. collect them.
Postmaster General? B. unify them.
A. $100 per year C. arrange them.
B. $500 per year D. organize them.
C. $1000 per year E. Both C and D are correct.
D. $14,000 per year E
$40,000 per year

3) What technological innovation did the Post 3) Which is the best synonym for surplus?
Office use during World War II? A. Superfluous.
A. Telegraph lines B. Antiquated.
B. Surplus airplanes C. Military.
C. Mail on microfilm D. Damaged.
D. Computer–originated mail E. Pristine.
E. Multi–line optical readers

4) When was the Post Office removed from the 4) The best synonym for streamlined is…
Executive Cabinet? A. Made more durable.
A. 1847 B. Made more popular.
B. 1918 C. Made more efficient.
C. 1920 D. Made more expensive.
D. 1970 E. Both A and C are correct.
E. None of the above

5) What acronym was used for the system of 5) To automate is to …

transporting mail by rail? A. mechanize.
A. RMS B. make automatic.
B. USPS C. accomplish by machine.
C. ECOM D. All of the above.
D. MLOCRs E. Both B and C are correct.
E None of the above
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Speaking 5%

Record yourself in a speech answering the following question. The recording has to last
1:50 to 2 minutes minimum

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

People are never satisfied with what they have; they always want something more or
something different. Use specific reasons to support your speech.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15wc8keVp0mOBxsLy176NTItp67d_JNBQ/view?usp=sharing