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Directions: Two different stories are told in the sentences. The sentences are jumbled up. Find the complete version of each story. Then tell your neighbor one of the stories, and get him or her to tell you the other.
1)When our oldest son decided to attend his father's alma mater, West Virginia University in Morgantown, the family toured the campus.
2)Enjoying the spring semester of our senior year at Harvard, my classmates and I came up with what we thought were imaginative excuses for not delivering term papers.
3) The dormitories now have air conditioning, he said.
4) He paused, then added, "Just kidding!"
5) On the way home, a traffic accident caused us to stop on a bridge. Seizing the opportunity for a geography lesson, my husband asked, "Does anyone know what river this is?"
6) "Actually, I finished the speech early, printed it out and slipped it under your doors three nights ago. Didn't you get it?"
7) My husband lectured the entire day on how much easier college life would be for our son than it had been for him.
8) After stepping to the platform to deliver the keynote address, he said, "I've labored for days on the speech you asked me to prepare for tonight, and it's a masterpiece. Unfortunately, the printer on my computer is malfunctioning, so I'll have to give it to you tomorrow or the next day."
9) Our son wouldn't have to walk or hitchhike to classes in bad weather the way he had because there was now a rapid-transit system.
10) "Probably the one you had to swim across every day," our son replied.
11) One good-natured professor found a way to turn the tables on us at a year-end dinner for the senior class.
The order of the sentences in the first story is: 1), _______________
The order of the sentences in the second story is: 2),________________
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