English Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 9

The five paragraphs that follow lack sufficient supporting details. In each paragraph, identify the spot or spots where more specific details are needed.
Chicken: Our Best Friend
1 Chicken is the best-selling meat today for a number of good reasons. 2 First of all, its reasonable cost puts it within everyone's reach. 3 Chicken is popular, too, because it can be prepared in so many different ways. 4 It can, for example, be cooked by itself, in spaghetti sauce, or with noodles and gravy. 5 I t can be baked, boiled, broiled, or fried. 6 Chicken is also con­venient. 7 Last and most important, chicken has a high nutritional value. 8 Four ounces of chicken contain twenty-eight grams of protein, which is almost half the recommended daily dietary allowance.
Fill in the blanks: The first spot where supporting details are needed occurs after sentence number ________. The second spot occurs after sentence number _________.