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Lesson 1: Paraphrase with Synonyms

What to do: Find a synonym for the words/phrases that are underlined. Re-write each
sentence using these new words or phrases. For example:

More than half of the women who attended the one-day meeting were in
business with their spouses.

Possible answer:

The majority of the women who went to the one-day meeting were in
business with their husbands.

1. Approximately 30,000 students may be assisted by the proposed “free lunch”


program.

2. With the development of flash memory cards, the market for portable music
players jumped sharply.

3. Although the coach’s strategy was a little dangerous, the team was successful.

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4. Therefore, the effect was an increase in student examination results.

5. In addition, a strong typhoon is expected to batter the coast over the next few
days.

6. The expenditure needed to combat climate change will require changes to the
federal government’s budget.

7. The engineer must judge how much dynamite to use according to the volume
of material to be removed from the tunnel.

8. Two of the students were expelled for violating the school’s “no
fighting” policy

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