文档介绍：Unit Two Section B
The Political Career
of a Female Politician
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Reading Skills
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Language Points
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Unit Three
Test Yourself
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Mixture of Fact and Opinion
Reading Skills
As we learned in Book 1, Book 2 and Book 3, it’s very important to tell the difference between facts and the writer’s opinions in the course of reading. But more often, writers mix facts and opinions even within the same sentence.
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Test the writer’s opinion by asking whether a different opinion is possible.
Look for words that interpret one’s opinions such as pretty, ugly, handsome, dangerous, evil, attractive, well-dressed, good, etc.
I. Tips for Distinguishing Facts from Opinions
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Examples:
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“____”(opinion) “____”(fact)
1. Certainly middle-class audiences did; the working class audiences were more likely to clap for a character who revolted against authority, using his wicked little cane to trip it up, or aiming the heel of his boot for a well-placed kick at its broad rear.
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2. It’s a relief to know that life eventually gave Charlie Chaplin the stable happiness it had earlier denied him.
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But this one is basically factual because Chaplin did get married in his 50’s as his last marriage.
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II. Exercise
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Directions: In the following sentences from Passage B, pick out the words that present facts and those that present opinions. Select F for each sentence that basically represents a fact; Select O for each statement of opinion.
____ Yet, six months ago, she did a most revolutionary thing: She ran for mayor of Embu, Kenya, and won.
____ Ms. Mbogo’s victory was even more surprising because she was voted in by her colleagues on the District Council, all men.
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3. ____ For the thousands of women in th