Answer key – Reading
Unit 0 – Reading
B. 1. got on well (l. 19) 2. embarked (l. 2) 3. overnight (l. 4)
4. sanding down (l. 9) 5. within touching distance (l. 15)
C. 1. Where: Tanzania 2. How many students: 17 3. How
many teachers: 2 4. How many expedition guides: 1 5. How
long: A month
D. 1. (…) the experience of a lifetime. 2. (…) plane.
3. (…) helped to dig the foundations for a new classroom for
students with Special Educational Needs. 4. (…) a Masai
market in (…) 5. (…) a month of manual labour, sleeping in a
tent, having cold showers and being responsible for 17
teenagers.
E.
1. On the first night they slept in the capital, Dar es Salaam.
2. They sanded down two school buildings in a camp up north.
3. When they visited the Chugga tribe they tried some
traditional Chugga food.
4. It felt incredible.
5. Yes, they did.
Unit 1 – Reading A
B. 1 b 2. b 3. a 4. c
C. She has installed a well and a water purification system,
donated food, clothes, books, shoes and bicycles to thousands
of young people, established five libraries with 15,500 books
at an orphanage and four low income schools in India and the
United States, started a science centre at an Indian school for
disadvantaged children and founded a sewing centre at a
school in India.
Unit 1 – Reading B
B. 1. host family (l. 4) 2. homesick (l. 10) 3. adapted (l. 10)
C. 1. (…) worried. 2. (…) get used to their culture. 3. (…) live
with a host family when they go to the United States.
D.
1. Before going to the USA Xiao was worried about leaving his
country and going to the United States by himself.
2. His host parents, host brother and host sister were.
3. He improved his English skills by listening and talking with
his host family.
4. His favourite memory is that they always treated him like
one of their children.
Unit 2 – Reading A
B. Personal answer
C. 1. d 2. f 3. a 4. b 5. c 6. e
D. 1. (…) talking on our mobile phones. 2. (…) texting
messages. 3. (…) text messages at least one a day. 4. (…)
popular. 5. (…) newer forms of communication.
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E.
1. “(…) whereas (…) or email.” (ll. 1-4)
2. “After a decade and a half of uninterrupted growth (…)”
(l. 5)
3. “Ofcom's director of research, James Thickett (…)” (l. 14)
4. “Smartphones are used for day-to-day things that used to
be done on a PC or laptop (…)” (ll. 18-19)
F. 1. We used to keep in touch with our loved ones with a
phone call. 2. Yes, it has. Texting doubled its numbers and it
became the most popular form of communication. c. Digital
and mobile technology has changed the way we socialise with
each other.
Unit 2 – Reading B
B. 1. a Blackberry 2. friends 3. Sadia and her friends 4. lots of
people’s 5. Olivia 6. phone
C.
1. “(…) and I also have a Blackberry, which is one of the old
ones.” (ll. 1-2)
2. “Sometimes when I'm doing my homework, I just get carried
away with talking to my friends online (…)” (ll. 14-15)
3. “(…) my mum feels I'm mature enough to deal with social
media in a very responsible way.” (ll. 24-25)
4. “For some people, their phone is like another limb.”
(ll. 32-33)
D.
1. “When I go to bed and I'm supposed to be asleep, I
sometimes talk to friends online or text them (…)” (ll. 3-4)
2. “(…) but we definitely have more fun when we meet up.”
(ll. 12-13)
3. “I'm unusual in that I'm not on Facebook (…)” (l. 23)
4. “I often find myself thinking ‘why are you tweeting this?’
The things that some people want to share with the whole
world could have a big impact on the rest of their lives, for
things like finding a job in the future.” (ll. 26-28)
5. “The problem with being online late at night (…) And then
you find more things to click on, and so on – it's never-
ending.” (ll. 29-32)
E.
1. Sadie spends 4 hours online every day.
2. Modern technology stops you from playing outside because
it's addictive.
3. Olivia thinks that she doesn't fit the anti-social teenager
stereotype because she feels happy when she meets her
friends face-to-face.
Unit 3 – Reading A
B. 1. f 2. d 3. g 4. h 5. b 6. c 7. e 8. a
C.
1. She had watched The Biggest Loser in the past and was a
fan. (ll. 1-2)