Reading Comprehension #14018

Practice Exercise 26 C

Novel

C.

  1. Write a brief explanation about the meaning of the underlined words in each quotation.

    1. “The San Bernardino Valley ... but is in certain ways an alien place...”

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    2. “...a harsher California, haunted by the Mojave ... and works on the nerves.

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    3. “The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”

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    4. “The case of Lucille Marie Maxwell Miller is a tabloid monument to that new life style....”

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