Lesson 1 How Others See Me
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Task 4. Watch Out!<br />
Study the paragraphs below. On a one-half sheet of paper crosswise, rewrite<br />
each paragraph in order to make it more cohesive.<br />
A. Forty kilometers south of Peshawar, deep inside Pakistan‘s tribal belt, lies<br />
the village of Darra Adam Khel. It‘s an area few foreigners will ever visit.<br />
They are surreptitiously waging the U.S.-led war on terror or trying to<br />
elude it. Anyone else who manages to pass through the roadblocks to<br />
enter Darra, it‘s the perfect place to release pent-up stress. The village<br />
has one industry of note: ordnance. Darra is the arms factory of the tribal<br />
areas. It pumps out everything from pistols to anti-aircraft weaponry.<br />
Wander into any of the mom-and-pop workshops. Choose your weapon.<br />
Haggle over the price of bullets or shells. Troll out with your equipment<br />
into the bush. Being rather nice to look at, the surrounding rocks and trees<br />
make for excellent target practice. You‘ve finished debarking a tree with<br />
an AK-47. You can head back to civilization a better, calmer person for<br />
this cathartic experience. Think of it as a harmless outlet for the warrior<br />
that lurks within you.<br />
(Adapted from Discharging Firearms-<br />
Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan by Jaimie<br />
Miyazaki from Time Magazine: The Best<br />
of Asia, July 4, 2005)<br />
B. After five hours of uphill struggle on the second day of the classic<br />
Himalayan trek from Paro, site of Bhutan‘s international airport, to<br />
Thimphu, the country‘s capital, your muscles will burn. The blood will<br />
pound in your ears. Your breathing will approximate that of someone with<br />
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