Even a high school student could read the following article if you know the meaning of “amazing.”
The word “but” has an important role, so I underline them. Please read each “paragraph” as a unit.
AJMER, INDIA ― Ajmer’s famous 13th-century Sufi shrine draws millions of pilgrims from around the world every year. The city recently launched a new Web site called “Amazing Ajmer.” But life in this ancient city of 550,000 in northern India is anything but amazing.
The word “but” has an important role, so I underline them. Please read each “paragraph” as a unit.
AJMER, INDIA ― Ajmer’s famous 13th-century Sufi shrine draws millions of pilgrims from around the world every year. The city recently launched a new Web site called “Amazing Ajmer.” But life in this ancient city of 550,000 in northern India is anything but amazing.
Running water is available for just two hours every two days. Only 130 of 125,000 homes in the city are connected to the sewage system. Dirty water flows in open drains in cramped neighborhoods. Stepwells and lakes have become garbage dumps. Illegal buildings and slums dot the city. And only two traffic lights work.
But soon, Ajmer could be transformed into a 21st-century “smart city” ― an urban-planning term for the gleaming metropolises of the future that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to create by 2022.
(From The Washington Post)
(1st paragraph)
Amazing→Not amazing
(2nd paragraph)
Not amazing
(3rd paragraph)
Amazing
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