Page 20, exercise f: 1. a. eerie b. deafening c. hammered d. whining e. gurgling f. roar g. thump h. whisper i. decibels 2. roar: dull whisper: soft thump: dull 3. absorb sound (vb.) ambient soung (adj.) a scraping sound (adj.) background noise (noun, making a compound noun) EXPRESSING PREFERENCES: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 The More Education Republicans Have, the Less They Tend to Believe in Climate Change , an exhaustive scientific report unveiled this month (The New York Times)
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