Exercise 1
Instructions • Read the following information about pangrams.
• A pangram is a sentence that includes every letter of the English alphabet, often used for typing practice. • The most famous example is, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” but there are many others. • Select a pangram from the list below and type it, focusing on 100 percent accuracy. • Repeat this exercise with different pangrams, either going down the list or choosing randomly. • This activity is not timed, so take your time to focus on the process and your typing accuracy.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The five boxing wizards jump quickly. My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit.
Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag . Farmer Jack realized that big yellow quilts were expensive . We promptly judged antique ivory buckles for the next prize. Brown jars prevented the mixture from freezing too quickly. Back in June, we delivered oxygen equipment of the same size.
Exercise 2
Instructions • Time yourself while typing the passage that follows . • The passage contains 181 words . Divide the number of words typed by the amount of time taken to type the passage to obtain your “words per minute” typing speed . When it comes to physiology, the leatherback turtle is, in some ways, more like a reptilian whale than a turtle . It swims farther into the cold of the northern and southern oceans than any other sea turtle, and it deals with the chilly waters in a way unique among reptiles. Leatherbacks keep their body heat in three different ways . The first, and simplest, is size . The bigger the animal is, the lower its surface-to-volume ratio; for every ounce of body mass, there is proportionately less surface through which heat can escape. An adult leatherback is twice the size of the biggest cheloniid sea turtles and will therefore take longer to cool off. Maintaining a high body temperature through sheer bulk is called gigantothermy. It works for elephants, for whales, and, perhaps, it worked for many of the larger dinosaurs. It apparently works, in a smaller way, for some other sea turtles . Large loggerhead and green turtles can maintain their body temperature at a degree or two above that of the surrounding water, and gigantothermy is probably the way they do it .
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