More than Just Lines on a Map: Best Practices for U.S Bike Routes
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3 FOCUS ON WRITING
VOCABULARY
1) Interaction: Communicationorcollaboration
2) Assimilate:Thisiswhat takesthe brainso longto do,according to Dr. Levitin.
3) Savant: A personwithextraordinarymental skillsmightbe this.
4) Transform: To change
5) Predictable:Because of hisneedforstructure,Daniel Tammet`slife isthis.
6) Expertise:What youmay acquire afterthousandsof hoursof practice
7) Benefit:Anadvantage
8) Emerging:Startingto appear
9) Anxious:Nervousoreager
10) Compensate:To make up forweakness
11) Disabled:Unable to performcertainactivities
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CREATE
Rewrite the sentencesbyreplacingthe underlinedwordwiththe forminparentheses.Make any
necessarygrammatical changes.
1) Because I knowDaniel Tammetwell,Ican predicthow he will reactincertainsituations.
(PREDICTABLE)
Because I knowDaniel Tammetwell,how we will reactincertainsituationsisvery
predictable
2) Many people whosufferfromASDhave problemswith flexibility.(FLEXIBLE)
Many people whosufferfromASDhave flexible problems.
3) Accordingto Gladwell,the transformationof talentintoexpertise requiresatleast10,000
hours.(TRANSFORM)
Accordingto Gladwell,talentintoexpertise transformrequireatleast10,000 hours.
4) A lackof structure can cause anxietyforDaniel tammet.(anxious)
For Daniel tammetbe anxiousisalack of structure.
5) For manypeople withASD,beingable tointeractsociallyisdifficult.(INTERACTION)
For manypeople withASD,the social interactionisdifficult.
6) Scans of the brainsof autisticsavantssuggestthatthere mightbe some comprensation
beingdone bythe righthemisphere fordamage otthe left.(COMPENSATE)
Scans of the brainautisticsavantssuggestthatthere mightbe compensate beingdone by
the right hemisphere fordamage tothe left.
7) The retentionof large amountsof informationisusuallynotaproblemforautisticsavants.
(RETAIN)
Autisticsavantsretainlarge amountsof informationisusuallynotaproblem.
8) Daniel tammetmemorizedpi to22, 514 decimal placestoshow people that,althoughhe
istechnicallydisabled,itdoesn’tstophimfrombeingsuccessful.(DISABILITY)
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MAKE INFERENCES
1) Throw itin myface (paragraph5)
Discriminate
2) Forge a link(paragraph16)
Relation
3) Churnedout(paragraph19)
Successful
4) Leafedthrough(paragraph19)
Look to hisstudents
5) Lost hiswits(paragraph20)
Confused
6) Harvestingthe bounty(paragraph23)
ENJOY
7) Bubbledintohisconsciousness(paragraph25)
Remember
8) Dig deep
Inside
9) Dance yourowndance
Do it yourself
10) In the same boa
All concentratedonone thing.
