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Answer key: Unit 6

3 Suggested answers
As I said before, I’d been expecting to daydream all
day, but Mike painted me standing staring directly 2 Fewer and fewer people listen to classical music.
at him and I had to stand still with this very intense, This means that less of it is being recorded.
concentrated man’s eyes boring into me. Whenever my 3 I have to read lots of books for my Business
attention wandered, he’d say, ‘You’re not really looking Studies course. The ones / Those I enjoy most are
at me, your mind’s elsewhere.’ And I had to come those / the ones on management theory.
back to the present. It was harder than any acting job 4 I’m hoping to be given a pay rise. This/That/It
because I had to be myself through the entire process. I pay rise, which will mean I can buy a better car.
felt a huge sense of release when Mike announced he’d 5 I want Karl, Pau, Ludmila and Mar to come to the
finished with me. meeting. I’ve told Karl. Can you tell the others?
6 Marina doesn’t like spending a lot of money on
Interviewer: So, Mike, do you feel you capture the clothes, so she tends to buy second-hand ones /
personality of your sitters?
buy them second hand.
Mike: No doubt I get some intuition about my subjects’ 7 My mother asked you to help her and she’d have
personalities as I work with them, though we don’t been so happy if you’d done so / if you had.
normally talk much, because the process of painting 8 When Raul feels strongly about something, he
takes up all my attention. Critics say that the person’s says so.
personality comes through in great portraits, but I 9 She didn’t do the shopping because no one asked
think that argument’s a bit overstated. I feel that if I her to / asked her to do so/it.
capture anything, it’s my subject’s passing moods and 10 Someone left a message on the answering machine
emotions. People looking at the portraits later draw but they didn’t leave their name.
their own conclusions about character – and that’s how
the best art should be, shouldn’t it? An interaction
between the subject, the artist and the observer, Vocabulary
where each one makes a contribution to something
which never has one definitive result but where each Adjective–noun collocations (2)
individual takes from it what they see at that moment.
1 big

Reading and Use of English | Part 5 2 1 large / considerable / huge / tremendous
2 amazing / good / great / huge / wide
1 1 a 2 i 3 d 4 b 5 g 6 j 7 e 8 f 9 c 10 h 3 loud / terrible / tremendous
4 considerable / great / huge / tremendous
2 Suggested answer: portraits which were 5 heavy / terrible
unselfconsciously presented, less ‘finished’, more 6 amazing / good / great / tremendous / valuable
natural and spontaneous, drawn from life using a 7 good / high / large
mirror not a photo 8 amazing / considerable / good / great / huge /
satisfactory / tremendous
4 1 C 2 D 3 A 4 D 5 A 6 B 9 considerable / huge / wide
10 amazing / considerable / endless / great / huge /
tremendous / wide
Grammar
3 Suggested answers
Avoiding repetition
Words like huge and tremendous have a more
1 1 which 2 themselves, another 3 those, they extreme meaning than great, considerable or
4 this 5 whose 6 that large; they also tend to be used in more colloquial
speech. Amazing conveys surprise at how much.
2 1 (said) it so/this 2 it one 3 it one 4 these this Terrible conveys a negative attitude. Good, valuable,
5 all everything / it all / them all 6 it one/some satisfactory and great (in most contexts) convey a
7 it that/this 8 yourself you positive attitude.

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