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Answer key: Unit 3
6 A new study on Albert Einstein (1) has been 3 Suggested answers
completed and (2) will be published next month Formal: instant communication, charting a
in a journal on neurology. The study suggests that new course, it need not be, increasingly, exert,
Einstein’s extraordinary genius (3) may have been discrimination, did not have to, human–computer
influenced by a uniquely shaped brain. When interaction, determines, skills, values and limits
anthropologist Dean Falk and her team made a are instilled, educationalists, do not pay attention,
comparison with 85 ‘normal’ human brains, (4) it parameters are increasingly set, peer groups, has
was found that Einstein’s brain possessed some been built collective knowledge, contributors, shape
remarkable features. their interests
The researchers were using 14 photos of the genius’s Informal: The other day, I’d, have it on me, I don’t
brain which (5) had only recently been rediscovered. know where I’d be without it, That’s, zip, she’s, It’s
With permission from his family, Einstein’s brain non-stop, glued to computer screens, end up as
(6) was removed and photographed (by scientists) zombies, full of junk, fighting a losing battle
after his death in 1955. The photographs (7) are held Serious and authoritative factual information tends
by the National Museum of Health and Medicine but to be expressed in formal language. But the writer
(8) (they) had never been fully investigated before. wants to engage and interest ordinary readers, so
less formal, more colloquial language is also used to
lighten the text and to convey personal impressions.
Reading and Use of English | Part 5
When Emily is quoted directly, we get the very
3 1 C 2 A 3 C 4 D 5 C 6 B informal language of her colloquial speech.
Vocabulary Reading and Use of English | Part 2
Formal or informal? 1 2 The article concludes that heredity plays a part in
forming our personalities, but it is not known to what
1 Formal: 3 We will, the fog has (full, uncontracted extent.
verb forms); 4 contemplated residing, neighbourhood
(formal vocabulary – longer words); 6 with whom 2 1 by 2 an 3 is 4 other 5 which 6 are
(preposition placed before relative pronoun in 7 is/has 8 It
relative clause); 7 is believed (passive construction)
Informal: 1 They’ve, they’re (contracted verb 3 1 their 2 at 3 little 4 like 5 when 6 me 7 with
forms); 2 What on earth are you doing? (colloquial 8 an
language); 5 put up with (phrasal verb – more
colloquial); 8 Grub’s up (slang); 9 the girl I go to
school with (omission of relative pronoun and Speaking | Part 3
preposition at the end of the sentence)
2
2 Suggested answers
1 They have telephoned to say / inform us that they CD 1 Track 10
are coming tomorrow. Woman 1: I have to admit it’s only recently that I started
2 Could you please tell me what you are doing? getting stressed about things – I think it coincides with
3 We’ll be leaving as soon as the fog’s gone. when I started my new job.
4 We’ve never thought about living anywhere else. Woman 2: Really? So what makes you feel stressed?
5 I cannot tolerate this situation for much longer. Woman 1: Oh, all kinds of things. Obviously having too
6 ‘ Community’ means anyone or any organisation much to do, you know, not having enough time to do
we mix with. everything they want me to do. Then I start thinking: my
7 They think it was a teenager who started the fire. manager’s got it in for me – or that she doesn’t like me
8 The food/meal is ready. Come and eat. and is making my life difficult deliberately. Do you know
9 That is the girl with whom I go to school. what I mean?
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