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Unit 2 Inference

The document contains exercises summarizing facts and inferences from passages about extra virgin olive oil containing a pain-relieving compound, farmers in India using Coca-Cola to kill pests, and a man found on a beach who was unable to identify himself but could play the piano. It asks the reader to underline facts and make inferences about details like prices, uses, and situations described in the passages.

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Unit 2 Inference

The document contains exercises summarizing facts and inferences from passages about extra virgin olive oil containing a pain-relieving compound, farmers in India using Coca-Cola to kill pests, and a man found on a beach who was unable to identify himself but could play the piano. It asks the reader to underline facts and make inferences about details like prices, uses, and situations described in the passages.

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Name : Citra Arba Rojuna

NIM : 200502502003
Class : A/English Education 2020

Extensive Reading - Making Inferences


EXERCISE 1

A. Preview the passage. Then read it and underline the facts. Working with another
student, answer the questions that follow. The first two have been done for you.

1. What facts are included in the first paragraph?


= Extra virgin olive oil contains a chemical compound that acts like a painkiller.

2. What can you infer about the price of extra virgin olive oil?
= It costs more than other olive oils.

3. What can you infer about other kinds of oil?


= Other kinds of oil are cheaper than extra virgin olive oil.

4. What facts are included in the second paragraph?


= Pouring 50 gm of the best olive oil on your food each day is equivalent to about
10 percent of the average ibuprofen dose.

5. What inferences can you make about Paul Breslin?


= Paul Breslin is the one who describe about how they isolated a compound
called oleocanthal from extra virgin olive oil in Nature.

6. What can you infer about Nature?


= Nature isolated a compound called oleocanthal from extra virgin olive oil.

EXERCISE 2

1. What facts are included in the first paragraph?


= Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh, farmers have discovered a new kind of
pesticide.

2. What can you infer about the cost of pesticides in India?


= It paid by spraying cotton and chili pepper fields with Coca-Cola.

3. What facts are included in the second paragraph?


= A farmer in Andhra Pradesh observed that the insects on his cotton plants
began to die soon after he sprayed his fields with cola.
4. What can you infer about the cola spray?
= It used by hundreds of farmers to on their fields.

5. What facts are included in the third paragraph?


= Coca Cola company is in legal difficulties in Andhra Pradesh state.

6. What can you infer about the economic situation of the farmers in Andhra
Pradesh?
= In Andhra, the cola spray cost considerably less than the pesticides
produced by Montsanto, Shell and Dow Chemical.

7. What can you infer about the Coca-Cola Company in India?


= Coca Cola Company not known if or how sales of the soft drinks have been
affected, though it is likely that the company may try to profit from this new
market.

EXERCISE 3

1. What has the writer inferred from the photograph of the "Piano Man"?
= It shows a tall, blond young man holding what looks like a musical score.

2. What can you infer from the fact that he was wearing a black suit and a white
shirt?
= Several weeks ago on a windy road beside the sea, the piano man found
was wearing a black suit and a white shirt
3. What can you infer about the fact that the labels had been cut out of his
clothes?
= had been mysteriously cut out from his clothes, authorities had no way of
even identifying his nationality.
4. What can you infer from the fact that the police brought him to the hospital?
= he given piece of paper and pencils and the he drew a detailed sketch of a
grand piano

5. What did the hospital staff infer from his drawing of a piano?
= Hospital staff then took him to the hospital's chapel, which contains a piano.
6. What can you infer from the description of the way he played the piano?
= He sat down immediately at the piano and began to play, appearing calm
and relaxed for the first time since he had been found.
7. What have people at the hospital inferred about his nationality?
= none of these has provided useful information about hi nationality.

8. What can you infer from the doctors' reported statements in the last sentence?
= Doctors at the hospital say that they have no reason not to take him seriously
and they have a duty to care for him as long as he needs it.

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