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Answer key: Units 8 and 9
films, which include / including The Lion King and
RoboCop.
3 In this film, (which is) based on a sci-fi novel by
Richard Matheson, a military scientist, played by
Will Smith, is left completely alone in New York,
which is deserted after a virus has wiped out the
human race.
Vocabulary and grammar review |
Unit 8
1 1 ex-politician 2 mistrust 3 illegal 4 disappear
5 autobiography 6 reclamation 7 prejudge
8 destabilise
2 1 (un)ethical 2 entertainment/entertainer,
entertaining 3 cooperation, (un)cooperative
4 produce, (un)productive 5 consideration, (in)
considerate/considerable 6 create, creation/creator
3 Suggested answers
1 Roland told Joanna that she mustn’t tell / not to tell
anyone what she had seen.
2 Clare said it was / had been a surprise seeing Tom
last week / the previous week. She said she hadn’t
seen him since they were / had been at school
together.
3 Ben asked Jerry if he should do the shopping that
afternoon.
4 The doctor told me that I had to stop smoking if I
wanted to get rid of my cough.
5 Bogdan asked me how many languages I could/
can speak.
4 1 ‘What are you doing out so late?’
2 ‘Do you have / Have you got any plans for
tomorrow evening?’
3 ‘This is the worst programme I’ve ever seen.’
4 ‘I’ll phone you as soon as I get home.’
5 ‘I hope I’ll be going there tomorrow.’
5 1 promised never to / (that) she would never
2 advised me to apply for that 3 asked (me) if/
whether I’d / I had 4 suggested meeting the
following / suggested (that) we (should) meet the
following 5 warned the motorist not to drink
6 announced that they were getting married
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9 At top speed
Listening | Part 1
2 1 B 2 A
CD 2 Track 07
Extract One
Man: Yes, well of course when the steam train was
invented, it completely changed nineteenth-century
society, didn’t it?
Woman: Yes, it was a tremendous change. People’s entire
world view underwent a profound transformation. There
were things we find laughable today, such as the fear
that the vibration would shatter passengers’ skeletons.
And over the next hundred years railways had a radical
impact on the countryside, making it possible to live
there and commute to work in cities. Outlying villages
which had been quiet, sleepy places before trains
arrived became busy suburbs.
Man: That’s right and humans underwent a sudden
evolution from being comparatively slow and clumsy to
becoming the fastest living creatures. This had a subtle
but distinct effect in the following years on the way
people regarded their place in the world. They began
to believe they were no longer totally at the mercy of
natural events but that they were somehow above them
and could take action to harness these phenomena. I
doubt if any other invention has had such a profound
influence on the human psyche. Nineteenth-century
literature and art’s full of it.
Woman: And early steam trains were to blame for some
quite horrific accidents …
5 3 A 4 C
CD 2 Track 08
Extract Two
Woman: Do you think people will lose interest in Olympic
events when athletes no longer break records?
Man: Well, they’re only just managing to now. Previously
when they broke records, their feats were often mind-
blowing. Take Bob Beamon’s long jump record in 1968:
55 centimetres longer than the previous record! I can’t
imagine anyone making such a difference nowadays.
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