unit 3 writing guidance test.docx Please read the paragraph and underline the sentences that help: 1. to indicate the topic of the paragraph. 2. to develop the main idea of the paragraph. Americans are queer people: they can’t play. Americans rush to work as soon as they grow up. They want their work as soon as they wake. It is a stimulant. They used to open their offices at ten o’clock; then at eight; then at seven. Now they never shut them. Every business in America is turning into an open-all-day-and-night business---They eat all night, dance all night, build buildings all night, making noise all night. They can’t play. They try to, but can’t. They turn football into a fight, baseball into a lawsuit, and yachting into machinery. They can’t play. The little children can’t play; they use mechanical toys instead, and grow up in terrible depression and dullness. The grownup people can’t play; they use a mechanical gymnasium and a clockwork horse. They can’t laugh; they hire a comedian and watch him laugh.