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The exuberance of the jungle amazed the travelers.

She met them with benign smile.

A flood threatened to burst the reservoir, but the villagers rose to the occasion and didn’t desist till they made it all secure.

It was an imbecile behavior.

The dulcet tones of the cello attracted me.

we are born ____ something defective, they can repair it.

They can make us happy, restore our sanity, ease our pain, replace ____ parts and give us children.

These are wonderful achievements, but there is a ____ we have to pay.

Because medicine has reduced infant mortality and natural death so significantly, the population has been ____ steadily, in spite of serious ____ to reduce the rate of population growth.

Because medicine has reduced infant mortality and natural death so significantly, the population has been ____ steadily, in spite of serious ____ to reduce the rate of population growth.

Less than a century ago in the United States, infant mortality ____ more than half of the newborn ____ the first year of life.

Less than a century ago in the United States, infant mortality ____ more than half of the newborn ____ the first year of life.

Medical advances, ____, have now reduced that rate to nearly zero.

A child born in the United States today has ____ than a 90 percent chance of ____.

A child born in the United States today has ____ than a 90 percent chance of ____.

Furthermore, medical advances have ensured that most of those infants will live to be seventy years of age ____ more, and even that life ____ increases every year.

Furthermore, medical advances have ensured that most of those infants will live to be seventy years of age ____ more, and even that life ____ increases every year.

The result of this progress is an enormous population increase that threatens the ____ of life, brought ____ by progress in the medical progression.

Changes in the technology of communication are occurring so rapidly that we human beings now move through a cloud of messages as densely as a locust-storm. Every new device (1)____ increases the speed and the outreach of the last, and young people are now governed by the gadgets in their hands, which don't merely contain their lives and also to a great (2)____ extent dictate them. Of course, the print media still exist. There are old-fashioned people like myself who make a living by writing things, and old-fashioned people like you, who support us by reading, or at any rate buy, what we write. But maybe it's (3)____ only people like us who are able really to regret for the (4)____ changes that are sweeping away so much that we depended upon. The rest of the world is caught up in the torrent of gadgets, each new model is designed to relieve its owner of one more (5)____ source of spiritual exercise or one more obstacle to fun. (6)____ Memory now exists behind a screen. Very few is stored (7)____ in our heads, and our recollections drift in cyberspace like asteroids, unconnected to the orbit in which we move. Written letters are a thing of past, and essays are (8)____ downloaded from the sites devoted to them. Research means surfing the web, and as for social life-this is a matter of tweeting and twittering as one drifts through cyberspace. Facebook friendships bubble up in a moment, and consist of a mutual agreement between strangers to (9)____ put themselves on display. More and more does it seem that putting yourself on display is what it is all about, which there is nothing more to love and friendship (10)____ than being mutually visible.

Point out the rhetorical devices used in the underlined parts of the following sentences: Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focused rather than problem-focused.

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