Answer: "if"
Explanation:
Signal words are referred to as the words that provide hints on what is expected to happen while one is reading.
The signal word that points to the problem in the passage is "if". From the text, we can see that Hughes knew that the meat that comes from a single cow could not make many people sick buy that the real danger was "if" the disease was passed to other cows.
1 IT stands for technology information
2 The club is interested in computers for anyone
3 Do you like playing games on your computer?
4 would you like to learn how computers work?
5 The meetings last for one hour so we finish at 1:30
6 You don’t need to bring your laptop
7 we are looking for new members for the Debating Society
True, you want them to understand you as easily as possible and they will not know slang, etc. if they speak little english
He is referring to the bird as clumsy because "ungainly" is define as "awkward" or "clumsy" and "fowl" is another word for "bird"
If you do not know your audience's interests you will probably lose their interest.