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Getting Your Share of the Pie
The Global Effects of Outsourcing
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L  Pre-Reading Activity

vast

huge, enormous or large

dawn

beginning or advent of something

white-collar

professional, managerial or ‘office’ job

marvel

an amazing or awesome thing

proliferation

propagation or increase

mitigate

alleviate or lessen something

outsourcing

Paying another company to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform

distinctions

differences

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1. c    2. bombarded    3. answers will vary    4. c     5. 3      6.- 8 answers will vary. 

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Active & Passive Voice [Issues of Style]

  1. Kathryn distributed the candy between the children, Ali and Sonia.
  2. The new addition to the hospital was built at a cost of 17 million dollars.
  3. When you’re finished reading that novel, can you lend it to me?
  4. As we approached the harbor, we could see a rainbow.
  5. I was in such a hurry that I only had time to dash into the store and pick up some milk and bread.
  6. I turned off the light as I exited the room.
  7. Noah bought a kind of an mp3 player that can hold almost 1,000 songs.
  8. Taylor put on his tuxedo before he went to the reception.
  9. Alison plays the piano and the violin.
  10. The reason I was late was that I was held up in traffic.
  11. What kind of a person do you take me for?
  12. The Clintons aren’t coming to the festivities next week.
  13. It looked like a terrible collision; fortunately, I think everyone is all right.
  14. The Civil War was fought in the mid nineteenth century.
  15. The pencil rolled off of the table.
  16. The new edition is not much different from the old edition.
  17. I was surprised at the amount of news coverage about the municipal scandal.
  18. Jean-Paul teaches English during the day and runs marathons on the weekends.
  19. David ate the baklava last night.
  20. If you practiced more, you could improve your hand-eye coordination.
  21. My doctor advised me to take it easy and get lots of sleep.
  22. Alison accepted the offer to chair the finance committee.
  23. By the time I arrived, everyone had already eaten.
  24. Don’t worry; it’s only a little farther.
  25. Besides Gabriella, no one else knows how to do it.
  26. That meal was delicious and I don’t think I have any room for dessert.
  27. Did you know that it’s raining?
  28. These pants are too loose; I think I need a smaller size.
  29. The party was quite noisy, so I had them turn down the music.
  30. I recently emigrated from Mexico.

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