Exercise 28.5

1.       Many colleges have started campus garden programs that aim to teach students about the benefits of sustainable farming methods, and locally grown food.

2.       These gardens use organic farming techniques, and also provide fresh produce for the college cafeteria.

3.       A garden big enough to grow produce for a college cafeteria requires a large piece of land.

4.       A garden also needs a leader who can choose crops that will thrive in local growing conditions.

5.       Volunteers willing to work in the garden every week are essential.

6.       Some campus gardeners distribute produce to people in the community, who live far from a grocery store.

7.       Correct

8.       The colleges may distribute produce with special trucks, or “veggie wagons” that drive through the urban neighborhoods.

9.       The wagons deliver produce once a week, although they may make two deliveries during peak harvest time.

1.   A community garden planted during the academic year will fare better in southern states, where the growing season is longer than northern states.

Exercise 28.6

1.       American colonists first imported pasta from the English, who they had discovered it as tourists in Italy.

2.       The English, who were called macaronis because of their fancy airs, were returning from their grand tours of Italy.

3.       A hair style, with elaborate curls, was also called macaroni.

4.       The song “Yankee Doodle” refers to this hairdo, when it reports that Yankee Doodle “stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni.

5.       The song, a creation of the English, was actually intended to poke fun at unrefined American Colonists.

Exercise 28.7

1.       Prices have risen rapidly, the government debated a price freeze.

2.       A price freeze, unlike a rise in interest rates seemed a sure solution.

3.       The President would have to persuade businesses to accept a price freeze, his methods depending on their resistance.

4.       No doubt the President, his advisers having urged it, would first try a patriotic appeal.

5.       The President, not his advisers, insisted on negotiations with businesses.