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        Answer key: Units 8 and 9

            films, which include / including The Lion King and   9 At top speed
            RoboCop.
          3   In this film, (which is) based on a sci-fi novel by
            Richard Matheson, a military scientist, played by   Listening | Part 1
            Will Smith, is left completely alone in New York,
            which is deserted after a virus has wiped out the   2  1 B  2 A
            human race.
                                                                      CD 2 Track 07
                                                                 Extract One
        Vocabulary and grammar review |                          Man:  Yes, well of course when the steam train was
                                                                   invented, it completely changed nineteenth-century
        Unit 8                                                     society, didn’t it?

        1  1 ex-politician  2 mistrust  3 illegal  4 disappear   Woman:  Yes, it was a tremendous change. People’s entire
          5 autobiography  6 reclamation  7 prejudge               world view underwent a profound transformation. There
          8 destabilise                                            were things we find laughable today, such as the fear
                                                                   that the vibration would shatter passengers’ skeletons.
        2  1 (un)ethical  2 entertainment/entertainer,             And over the next hundred years railways had a radical
          entertaining  3 cooperation, (un)cooperative             impact on the countryside, making it possible to live
          4 produce, (un)productive  5 consideration, (in)         there and commute to work in cities. Outlying villages
          considerate/considerable  6 create, creation/creator     which had been quiet, sleepy places before trains
                                                                   arrived became busy suburbs.
        3  Suggested answers                                     Man:   That’s right and humans underwent a sudden
          1   Roland told Joanna that she mustn’t tell / not to tell   evolution from being comparatively slow and clumsy to
            anyone what she had seen.                              becoming the fastest living creatures. This had a subtle
          2   Clare said it was / had been a surprise seeing Tom   but distinct effect in the following years on the way
            last week / the previous week. She said she hadn’t     people regarded their place in the world. They began
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            seen him since they were / had been at school          to believe they were no longer totally at the mercy of
            together.                                              natural events but that they were somehow above them
          3   Ben asked Jerry if he should do the shopping that    and could take action to harness these phenomena. I
            afternoon.                                             doubt if any other invention has had such a profound
          4   The doctor told me that I had to stop smoking if I   influence on the human psyche. Nineteenth-century
            wanted to get rid of my cough.                         literature and art’s full of it.
          5   Bogdan asked me how many languages I could/        Woman:  And early steam trains were to blame for some
            can speak.                                             quite horrific accidents …

        4  1   ‘What are you doing out so late?’                5  3 A  4 C
          2   ‘Do you have / Have you got any plans for
            tomorrow evening?’                                        CD 2 Track 08
          3   ‘This is the worst programme I’ve ever seen.’      Extract Two
         4   ‘I’ll phone you as soon as I get home.’             Woman:  Do you think people will lose interest in Olympic
          5   ‘I hope I’ll be going there tomorrow.’
                                                                   events when athletes no longer break records?
        5  1 promised never to / (that) she would never          Man:  Well, they’re only just managing to now. Previously
          2 advised me to apply for that  3 asked (me) if/         when they broke records, their feats were often mind-
          whether I’d / I had  4 suggested meeting the             blowing. Take Bob Beamon’s long jump record in 1968:
          following / suggested (that) we (should) meet the        55 centimetres longer than the previous record! I can’t
          following  5 warned the motorist not to drink            imagine anyone making such a difference nowadays.
          6 announced that they were getting married             Woman:  Yeah but there’ll always be some individuals who
                                                                   manage to grab the headlines.
                                                                 Man:  Maybe, but they’ll be relatively few and far between.
                                                                   And newspapers and TV will always blow them out




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