Exercise 5: Paraphrasing EXERCISE 5: PARAPHRASING
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Exercise 5: Paraphrasing
EXERCISE 5: PARAPHRASING
Quick Fact Chart
Overview
Students use the textbook passage, Main Idea Review Passage 3: Adoption
(pages 39每40). They also receive a copy of pages 44每45. Students work in
small groups to understand and paraphrase content.
Academic Skills
Reading for main ideas
Discussing or writing about main ideas
Answering multiple-choice questions
TOEFL Skills
Comprehending the passage
Choosing the best paraphrase of an original sentence
Time
15每20 minutes
Answer Key
1. b, 2. d, 3. c, 4. a. Answers will vary for items 5 and 6.
Related Pages in
Textbook
Identifying Main Ideas and Understanding Content, pages 2每42
Extension Activities This activity can be repeated with any reading passage. Preparation: The
teacher prepares paraphrases for targeted sentences.
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PART 2: MORE PRACTICE FOR THE READING SECTION OF THE iBT
Ask students to choose the best paraphrase or to write a paraphrase of each sentence.
1. ※In short, adoption is a ubiquitous social institution in American society, creating
invisible relationships with biological and adoptive kin that touch far more people
than we imagine.§ (Paragraph 1)
a. In America, more people are adopted than was originally thought.
b. Adoption touches a surprising number of people throughout American society.
c. Because adoptees are ※invisible,§ their circumstances are hard to imagine.
d. Relationships between biological and adoptive kin have international scope.
2. ※While raising a family is inherently stressful, adoption is filled with additional
tensions that are unique to the adoptive relationship.§ (Paragraph 2)
a. Families that adopt children can avoid some of the tensions inherent in biological
families.
b. Raising a family under stressful conditions can discourage potential adoptive parents.
c. The adoptive relationship is inherently stressful.
d. Families with an adopted member face more challenges than biological families.
3. ※Third, in a nation that sanctifies blood kinship, adoptive families and adoptees are
stigmatized because of their lack of biological relationship.§ (Paragraph 2)
a. Nations that sanctify blood relationships are often stigmatized.
b. Adoptive families and adoptees are treated like criminals in nations that over-value
blood relationships.
c. Where blood kinship is excessively valued, adoption is considered inferior.
d. In some nations, adoptees do not have the same legal relationship to their adoptive parents as blood kin have to their birth parents.
4. ※Opposing these adoptees, some birth mothers argued that they were promised
secrecy when they relinquished their children for adoption and that abrogating that
promise constituted an invasion of privacy.§ (Paragraph 3)
a. Some birth mothers who were promised secrecy about their role felt that breaking
that promise was an invasion of their privacy.
b. In order to retain their privacy, some birth mothers refused to reveal their identities when they relinquished their children for adoption.
c. Some adoptees support their birth mothers* right to secrecy, even if it was promised to them when they gave their children for adoption.
d. Some birth mothers felt that their biological children*s pursuit of their identities
should be abandoned based on the possibility that the birth mother requested
privacy.
Questions 1每6 are reproducible. Copyright ? 2006 The University of Michigan.
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Exercise 5: Paraphrasing
Paraphrase these sentences.
5. ※Second, since World War II, the entire edifice of modern adoption has been
enveloped in secrecy.§ (Paragraph 2)
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6. ※As an outgrowth of in vitro fertilization technology, researchers have developed
※embryo adoption§ where an infertile couple can adopt a donated frozen embryo,
bringing into question the very meaning of the institution of adoption.§ (Paragraph 4)
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