Reading Challenge 3 2nd – Answer Key

Unit 1 Read It or See It? Books written in unique literary

styles, such as Ulysses and The
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) Sound and the Fury have resisted
1. I have read Charlotte’s Web, film adaptation to rival the
which is also a movie. greatness of the books.
2. I read the book first. Then, I
saw the movie. Vocabulary and Idiom Review
3. I liked the book better because 1. b 2. b 3. d 4. b 5. a
some of the voices of the 6. b 7. a 8. a 9. c 10. c
characters in the movie didn’t
sound the way I had imagined the
characters would sound.

Vocabulary Preview
1. c 2. d 3. b 4. f 5. a 6. e

Reading Comprehension
1. c 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. d

Idiomatic Expression
1. it was a good bet Unit 2 Superstitions about Birds
2. more often than not
3. measure up to Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
1. Magpies and sparrows are the
Summary most common birds in my country.
1. attempted 2. critics 2. Robins are sometimes considered
3. measure up 4. transformed lucky in my country because they
5. masterpieces 6. industry show that warmer weather is coming.
7. bet 8. literary Crows are considered unlucky.
3. There are many places to go bird
Listening watching in my country. Some people
1. d 2. a 3. b go to the mountains or to marshes
to see special kinds of birds.
Discussion (answers will vary)
1. A famous book in my country that Vocabulary Preview
has been made into a movie is Tom 1.e 2. f 3. b 4. c 5. a 6. d
Sawyer.
2. A famous book from another Reading Comprehension
country that has been made into a 1. c 2. d 3. b 4. d 5. b
movie is Les Misérables.
3. A good book that I have read Idiomatic Expressions
that I would like to see made into 1. Woe be it
a movie is Captain Underpants. 2. feeds on
3. old wives’ tale
Grammar
Are there any books that are simply Summary
impossible to film?
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1. gods of war 2. portent of

death Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
3. Raven 4. kingdom won’t fall 1. Alaska is located in the Arctic,
5. the aftermath of battles west of the Yukon in Canada and
6. Swallows east of Siberia in Russia.
7. portent of death 2. I think that too much pollution
8. blessed from cars and factories contributes
9. insects to global warming.
10. help animals be healthier 3. I know that glaciers are big
fields of ice and snow. I’ve seen
Listening pictures of glaciers in the Rocky
1. The man wants to visit the Mountains.
aviary, which is like a zoo for
birds. Vocabulary Preview
2. The woman wants to see peacocks. 1. d 2. b 3. e 4. f 5. c 6. a
3. The man says it is bad luck to
look at a peacock’s feathers. Reading Comprehension
1. b 2. b 3. b 4. a 5. a
Discussion (answers will vary)
1. I don’t believe that birds can Idiomatic Expressions
be evil omens. Those stories are 1. turn of the century
just old wives’ tales. 2. turn up
2. The most well-known bird in 3. wipe out
Canada is probably the loon. It’s
not really related to good luck, Summary
but it is on our one-dollar coin, 1. Increasing global temperatures
so I guess it’s a little bit lucky. are causing Alaska’s glaciers to
3. One special bird in my country melt.
is the Canada goose. When people 2. Alaska’s thawing permafrost is
see Canada geese flying in a V- causing its road and utility poles
shape in the sky, they know that to collapse.
the season will soon change. 3. Melting permafrost and
increasing temperatures are causing
Grammar forest insects to appear sooner.
Perhaps inspired by the swallow’s
red-brown breast, Christian people Listening
initially related the swallow to 1. [ ] True [√] False
the death of Jesus Christ. 2. [ ] True [√] False
Any barn that has swallows living 3. [√] True [ ] False
in it is sure to be blessed in the
following year. Discussion (answers will vary)
1. I think that air pollution
Vocabulary and Idiom Review contributes to the melting
1. d 2. b 3. c 4. c 5. b glaciers, but mostly I think it’s
6. c 7. d 8. b 9. a 10. c just because Earth is now in a
natural warming cycle.
Unit 3 Alaska Is Melting
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2. I think the increasing 3. bear in mind

temperatures in Alaska make it
harder for some animals, like polar Summary
bears, to survive, but it also 1. properly 2. routine
makes it easier for other animals 3. in a row 4. recommend
to live. 5. rush 6. development
3. Last winter was a little bit 7. bear in mind 8. achieve
warmer than usual, but it was still
very cold. When the usual Listening
temperature is -20°C, a few degrees 1. c 2. a 3. b
higher doesn’t feel much warmer.
Discussion (answers will vary)
Grammar 1. I think I should exercise more
Presently, an estimated 100 cubic often, since I rarely exercise
kilometers of ice is disappearing enough to sweat or breathe heavily.
from Alaskan glaciers every year. 2. The common exercise mistake I
Alaskan glaciers account for about make is doing the same things all
75,000 square kilometers, or five the time. I have not changed my
percent of the state’s area. exercise routine in years.
3. I order to stay healthy, I walk
Vocabulary and Idiom Review to school instead of taking the
1. a 2. d 3. c 4. c 5. d bus.
6. a 7. c 8. c 9. b 10. a
Grammar
Unit 4 Working on Your Workout If someone is not working out
properly, it is rare that he or she
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) will see the results he or she
1. I don’t really like exercising. wants.
I never go to gyms or stuff like Instead of always sticking to the
that. same old workout, it is important
2. Exercising is important. If you to add a variety of workouts to
don’t exercise, your body will your routine.
become weak and sick.
3. Different ways of exercising Vocabulary and Idiom Review
include running, biking, swimming, 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. b 5. a
doing aerobics, and doing martial 6. c 7. d 8. b 9. a 10. a
arts.

Vocabulary Preview
1. b 2. f 3. c 4. d 5. a 6. e

Reading Comprehension
1. b 2. a 3. d 4. c 5. a Unit 5 Smart Exercise

Idiomatic Expression Pre-Reading (answers will vary)

1. stuck to 1. I know a few smart people. My
2. in a row smart friends like to read a lot,
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play games like chess, and some your brain, many people I know who
even play musical instruments. exercise a lot aren’t very smart.
2. I think using our brains in 2. I think sports that have complex
activities like reading or chess, rules and a lot of action, like
as well as eating the right foods hockey or basketball, require the
like pineapple and fish, can make most intelligence because players
us smarter. have to remember a lot of rules,
3. Some parents try to make their use different strategies to win,
babies smarter by reading to them, and think quickly under stressful
by playing music for them, or by conditions.
giving them challenging toys. 3. My favorite sport to play is
tennis. It is fast, competitive,
Vocabulary Preview and not too violent.
1. c 2. b 3. f 4. e 5. a 6. d
Grammar
Reading Comprehension Older people can beef up their
1. b 2. d 3. a 4. d 5. b brains by working out as well.
Their study showed a short-term
Idiomatic Expressions memory increase of up to forty
1. hit the books percent after exercising just three
2. beefed up hours a week.
3. be traced back to
Vocabulary and Idiom Review
Summary 1. a 2. c 3. a 4. d 5. d
1. developed 2. Brain 6. a 7. c 8. b 9. c 10. c
3. Concentrate 4. Babies
5. physical 6. three Unit 6 Rescuing Relics
7. heart rate 8. motions
9. short-term 10. paths Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
1. This sculpture is probably from
Listening China.
1. The woman suggests that he walk 2. This sculpture is made from some
a different way to school. kind of stone or metal.
2. She says doing regular 3. A sculpture like this would be
activities in a different way can found at a temple or palace.
re-activate old memory pathways.
3. She also suggests that waking up Vocabulary Preview
to different smells each day may 1. c 2. e 3. d 4. b 5. a 6. f
increase his memory and his ability
to learn. Reading Comprehension
1. a 2. c 3. c 4. c 5. b
Discussion (answers will vary)
1. I don’t know how much exercise Idiomatic Expression
affects brain development. While it 1. take away
makes sense that the increased 2. set up
blood flow from exercise would help 3. tear down

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Summary Unit 7 Tweenbots

1. More and more private collectors
have been setting up their own Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
private museums to display their 1. If I saw a robot like this on
collections, a trend that began in the street, I would look around to
the 1990s in China. see if a child lost his or her toy.
2. Li’s museum displaying his 2. A small robot like this could be
collection of Chinese folk art was used as a toy to entertain
set up in an 18th century house in children.
2001. 3. I think there are more kind and
3. Li says that more than ninety helpful people in the world than
percent of the older buildings in unkind and unhelpful people.
the city have been torn down over
the years from the time that Vocabulary Preview
Beijing began undergoing major 1. f 2. c 3. d 4. e 5. b 6. a
economic reforms in the late 1970s.
Reading Comprehension
Listening 1. c 2. b 3. b 4. a 5. a
1. [√] True [ ] False
2. [ ] True [√] False Idiomatic Expression
3. [√] True [ ] False 1. lend (him or her) a hand
2. was fitted with
Discussion (answers will vary) 3. relies on
1. I enjoy visiting science museums
the most. I enjoy visiting Summary
historical museums the least. 1. rely on 2. lend a hand
2. The smallest museum I have ever 3. aid 4. inability
visited was a museum inside a 5. navigate 6. arrive
cathedral in Mexico. Everything was 7. destination 8. routines
all in one small room.
3. A museum that I remember well is Listening
the art museum in Chicago. I saw 1. b 2. a 3. b
lots of famous paintings there.
Discussion (answers will vary)
Grammar 1. I don’t think I would help a
More than ninety percent of the old robot if I saw it on the street. I
houses and temples in Beijing have don’t usually touch other people’s
since been torn down and replaces things.
with modern buildings. 2. I was surprised that people took
Luckily, all of old Beijing’s time out of their busy schedules to
architectural folk art has not been help the robots.
lost. 3. I helped a friend of mine by
watching his cat when he was out of
Vocabulary and Idiom Review town. It only took about an hour a
1. d 2. c 3. b 4. b 5. d day to take care of his cat.
6. c 7. a 8. c 9. a 10. b
Grammar
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This strange machine may interest 9. hockey 10. Pan-American

some people, while others would
ignore it completely. Listening
Kinzer thought her little robots 1. The woman paid $50 for her
might even be seen as some kind of inline skates.
terrorist device. 2. The man is part of a roller
hockey league.
Vocabulary and Idiom Review 3. They will skate together next
1. a 2. b 3. c 4. c 5. a Saturday at two o’clock.
6. d 7. b 8. b 9. c 10. a
Discussion (answers will vary)
1. Skating can make your legs and
lungs much stronger.
Unit 8 Back to the Future 2. My new cell phone combines three
old products into one: a phone, a
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) camera, and a portable music
1. I think “Back to the Future” player. I use it every day to
means using some kind of product or communicate, take photos, and
invention now that was used a long listen to music.
time ago. 3. Ice hockey is another sport that
2. Soccer and snowboarding are two uses special equipment like pads
popular sports, but I don’t and helmets to protect the players.
participate in them. I’d like to I used to play hockey when I was in
try snowboarding someday, though. high school.
3. I like to skate in the park or
on the path beside the river. In Grammar
the winter, I like to ice skate on The Olsons set about trying to
the frozen river. I can skate modify the design of the antique
pretty well, but I can’t do any skates that they had found.
jumps or spins. By the mid-1990s, inline skates had
become more than just a
Vocabulary Preview recreational sport.
1. d 2. c 3. b 4. e 5. f 6. a
Vocabulary and Idiom Review
Reading Comprehension 1. a 2. d 3. c 4. b 5. c
1. c 2. c 3. c 4. a 5. a 6. a 7. d 8. c 9. a 10. b

Idiomatic Expressions
1. launch Unit 9 A Better Robot
2. skyrocketed
3. spring up Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
1. When I hear the word “robot,” I
Summary think about R2-D2 and C-3PO, the
1. antique 2. modifying robots from Star Wars.
3. stronger 4. reliable 2. I think a crab-shaped robot
5. founded 6. Rollerblade would be useful for walking in many
7. recreational 8. competitive different environments, grabbing
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different objects, and even cutting 2. Snakebots could be useful on

things that are in the way. Earth to explore places where
3. Robots can help science by scientists can’t go. For example,
collecting information from places they could explore very cold areas
that are too cold, too hot, or too in the Arctic, hot areas near
dangerous for scientists to go volcanoes, or parts of caves that
themselves. are too small for people to reach.
3. A movie in which robots had an
Vocabulary Preview important part was I, Robot. In
1. c 2. e 3. b 4. a 5. d 6. f this movie, robots that used to
serve people decided to attack the
Reading Comprehension people instead. The humans have to
1. d 2. b 3. c 4. a 5. b fight back against the stronger
robots, but one hero policeman
Idiomatic Expressions saves the day.
1. As far as
2. by its very nature Grammar
3. wave of the future A snakebot would be able to do
these things, too, making it much
Summary more effective than regular robots
1. Snakebots are shaped like with wheels.
snakes, so they can go into small Snakebots will be much less
cracks in rocks. expensive to build.
2. Snakebots are constructed of up
to thirty modules that are all Vocabulary and Idiom Review
actually individual robots that can 1. c 2. d 3. d 4. c 5. c
work independently of each other. 6. d 7. d 8. c 9. a 10. b
3. Snakebots are far less
expensive, costing only a few Unit 10 Flower Power
hundred dollars compared to robots
such as the kind sent to Mars Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
recently, which cost over a hundred 1. There are quite a few flowers
million dollars. around my apartment building. The
owners of the building planted
Listening them.
1. [√] True [ ] False 2. People like to plant flowers
2. [√] True [ ] False around where they live because it
3. [ ] True [√] False makes the area nice to look at.
3. People have to give flowers
Discussion (answers will vary) water, and sometimes they may have
1. I think some space exploration to cut them or take out dead
is too dangerous for humans. For plants.
exploration of places far away from
Earth that take many years to Vocabulary Preview
travel to, only robots should be 1. c 2. b 3. d 4. f 5. e 6. a
used.
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1. a 2. a 3. d 4. c 5. b Egypt, Machu Picchu in Peru, and

the Great Wall in China.
Idiomatic Expression 2. These historical places are
1. divided up into important because they can teach us
2. took the credit about past ways of life.
3. break into 3. Governments make laws and hire
people to study, protect, and
Summary restore these places.
1. ward 2. stealing
3. incidents 4. planting Vocabulary Preview
5. likely 6. installed 1. b 2. f 3. c 4. e 5. d 6. a
7. volunteers 8. dropped
Reading Comprehension
Listening 1. a 2. b 3. c 4. b 5. d
1. a 2. b 3. d
Idiomatic Expressions
Discussion (answers will vary) 1. touch up
1. My family has tried to grow 2. no longer
vegetables in a small garden. We 3. case in point
haven’t had much luck, though.
2. Along the streets in my Summary
neighborhood, I can see trees and 1. Sliding 2. Cracks
bushes. There are only a few places 3. halted 4. 300
with flowers. 5. blackened 6. Stains
3. I think crime-watch volunteers 7. shin 8. Dirty
are more effective than security 9. grime 10. erased
cameras. Thieves can think of ways
to hide from cameras. Listening
1. The man saw the Mona Lisa in
Grammar (the Louvre) in Paris.
City officials encouraged residents 2. The work was behind bullet-proof
across the city to plant flowers glass.
around their homes and along 3. The painting had to be restored
streets, especially in places where after someone threw acid on it.
thefts frequently occurred.
Thieves would be less likely to Discussion (answers will vary)
strike in areas where people were 1. I have visited several
outdoors watching things closely. historical sites in a few different
countries, but the pyramids in
Vocabulary and Idiom Review Mexico were the most impressive
1. a 2. d 3. c 4. b 5. d because of their size.
6. c 7. b 8. c 9. a 10. b 2. We should try to preserve
Unit 11 A Controversial Restoration historical sites and the
environment for future generations.
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) 3. It is a difficult choice, but I
1. There are many famous historical think old buildings are more
places, such as the pyramids in important than old works of art. I
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think old buildings can teach us 1. In the legend of Noah, Noah and
more about how people lived in the his family escaped the flood in a
past. boat filled with animals.
2. In a Hindu legend, one man was
Grammar saved from the flood by a fish, and
There is a pressing need for later, gods made a woman for the
something to be done in order to man so they could have many
save a historical treasure. children.
Restorations are planned to clean 3. In Incan, Mayan, and Native
or touch up the works so that they American legends of the flood, some
look better. humans survive the flood either by
climbing mountains or building
Vocabulary and Idiom Review boats.
1. b 2. d 3. d 4. a 5. c
6. a 7. a 8. c 9. b 10. a Listening
1. [√] True [ ] False
2. [ ] True [√] False
3. [√] True [ ] False

Discussion (answers will vary)

Unit 12 The Flood 1. I have heard the biblical story
of Noah’s Ark and the flood. In
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) this story, God warns Noah about
1. I have heard of the biblical the coming flood and tells him to
flood story, as well as similar build a big ark. Noah builds the
stories from other cultures. boat and brings his family and two
2. I first heard the flood story at of each kind of animal with him on
church, from my Sunday school the ark.
teacher. I learned about other 2. I know that the same story
flood stories in university. appeared earlier in Mesopotamia,
3. I think the stories are mostly except the characters had different
legend, but there may be some truth names.
to them as well. 3. I’ve heard that some scientists
think the flood stories originate
Vocabulary Preview with floods that happened at the
1. f 2. a 3. c 4. d 5. b 6. e end of the last ice age when a lot
of glaciers and icebergs melted,
Reading Comprehension making the oceans’ water levels
1. a 2. d 3. c 4. b 5. c rise.

Idiomatic Expressions Grammar

1. set about The flood happened long before
2. passed down humans could write, so the story of
3. at some point the flood could only be passed down
through generations by oral
Summary retellings.

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As the story was passed by word of 2. I don’t know of any earthships

mouth, it may have changed as in my country. If they aren’t too
various cultures learned the story. expensive, then I think that they
will could become popular.
Vocabulary and Idiom Review 3. I should probably do more to be
1. a 2. c 3. c 4. d 5. d environmentally friendly, but I do
6. c 7. b 8. a 9. b 10. c recycle cans, bottles, and paper.

Unit 13 Naturally Better Homes Grammar

Michael Reynolds set out to design
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) homes that were cheaper to build
1. A traditional home in my country and more energy efficient.
is a two-story brick house with Earthships need much less energy
both front and back yards. for heating and cooling because
2. Now, I live in an apartment. they are built into the ground,
3. One special thing about my home which keeps the temperature inside
is the view. My apartment is on the the house from getting too hot or
19th floor, and I have a nice view too cold.
of the city and mountains.
Vocabulary and Idiom Review
Vocabulary Preview 1. d 2. b 3. a 4. b 5. b
1. c 2. f 3. e 4. d 5. b 6. a 6. d 7. d 8. b 9. b 10. c

Reading Comprehension Unit 14 Eat Better, Look Better

1. d 2. a 3. c 4. d 5. a
Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
Idiomatic Expressions 1. I think that fruits, like
1. in the long run peaches, are good for our skin.
2. face up to 2. Peaches have a lot of moisture
3. come up with and vitamins that help keep our
skin soft and smooth.
Summary 3. Actually, I don’t eat peaches
1. concerned 2. very often, but I eat other fruits
environmentally every day.
3. typical 4. stacking
5. tires 6. generate Vocabulary Preview
7. collect 8. resources 1. a 2. f 3. d 4. b 5. e 6. c

Listening Reading Comprehension

1. d 2. a 3. d 1. c 2. c 3. b 4. c 5. c

Discussion (answers will vary) Idiomatic Expressions

1. I think that I would enjoy 1. take in
living in an earthship because it’s 2. Even better
good for the environment and I 3. stock up on
would save money on electricity
bills. Summary
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1. oxygen 2. oxidation 1. I like to lie on my bed when I

3. reduce 4. free radicals want to think or daydream.
5. Dark-colored 6. broccoli 2. The last time I did this was
7. apricots 8. liver last Saturday. I had some free time
9. green tea 10. facial cream on Saturday afternoon, so I just
lay on my bed resting and thinking.
Listening 3. One of my chores at home that
1. The woman is making a seaweed does not require much attention is
bag (for her bath). folding the laundry.
2. She will put seaweed into a
stocking and then tie it closed. Vocabulary Preview
3. She not only puts it in her 1. f 2. a 3. d 4. b 5. c 6. e
bath, she also eats it.
Reading Comprehension
Discussion (answers will vary) 1. d 2. a 3. c 4. a 5. d
1. Recently, I’ve heard that
pomegranates have lots of Idiomatic Expression
antioxidants in them. These days, 1. be thought of
you can buy pomegranates in many 2. comes to mind
shops. 3. tend to
2. I think my diet is a little
healthy. I don’t eat much oily junk Summary
food, but I should eat more fruits 1. In the default mode, the top or
and vegetables. outside part of the brain is
3. Women in my country use a lot of active, as various regions of the
different creams and soaps to take brain interact.
care of their skin. Men, on the 2. In the default mode, which
other hand, don’t do much except usually occurs while performing
wear sunblock cream if they go simple, tedious, or routine
outside during the summer. activities, the brain focuses on
itself rather than on the
Grammar environment.
These vitamins help produce 3. In the default mode, the mind is
molecules called antioxidants, free to wander, which allows it a
which actually help reduce the chance to create things.
production of free radicals.
Vitamin A and E are particularly Listening
good for helping your skin remain 1. [ ] True [√] False
young-looking. 2. [ ] True [√] False
3. [√] True [ ] False
Vocabulary and Idiom Review
1. d 2. d 3. c 4. a 5. d Discussion (answers will vary)
6. c 7. a 8. b 9. c 10. b 1. An event in my life that I wish
could have been different is the
Unit 15 Imagine That! time when I was in a school play
and I forgot my lines. I wish I had
Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
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studied my lines more before Summary

opening night. 1. definitely 2. to the top
2. Five years from now, I would 3. sharing 4. piracy
like to be working in an office 5. retaliate 6. decoy
downtown. 7. swearing 8. discourage
3. A problem I am still trying to
solve is how I can learn Spanish Listening
when I don’t have anyone to 1. b 2. a 3. d
practice with.
Discussion (answers will vary)
Grammar 1. I think downloading songs from
People who daydream are often the Internet is wrong because when
thought of in negative terms, such someone downloads a song, the
as being lazy or not doing what musician doesn’t get paid for it.
they should be doing. 2. I’ve heard that the Apple’s
Perhaps these are daydreams based iTunes site and Napster both charge
on memories of the past, or fees to download music. I think the
daydreams of what might be in the fee is about one dollar per song.
future. 3. Bono, the lead singer of the
band U2, is an artist with strong
Vocabulary and Idiom Review opinions. He said that all rich,
1. c 2. d 3. b 4. c 5. b developed countries should do more
6. a 7. a 8. c 9. a 10. b to help poor, developing countries.
Unit 16 Madonna’s Downloads
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) Grammar
1. I know a few sites for Over her career, she has released
downloading music, such as Kazaa eighteen albums, including three
and Limewire. collections of greatest hits.
2. I’ve downloaded a lot of music Throughout her climb to the top,
over the past few years. Madonna has not been afraid of
3. I’m not a big fan of Madonna’s controversy.
music, but I know she has sold lots
of albums, and that she published a Vocabulary and Idiom Review
controversial book about fifteen 1. d 2. b 3. c 4. c 5. c
years ago. 6. d 7. a 8. c 9. c 10. c

Vocabulary Preview
1. c 2. e 3. f 4. d 5. b 6. a

Reading Comprehension
1. c 2. b 3. d 4. b 5. c

Idiomatic Expressions
1. not mince words
2. climb to the top Unit 17 Remembering Memories
3. make a statement
Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
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1. I think I have a very good information and directions better

memory, except I can never remember than women.
people’s names. 2. I often have trouble remembering
2. My earliest childhood memory is names. When I meet new people, I
of playing “cowboys” in my backyard usually forget their names the
with a friend. I was about four first time. After I meet them three
years old then. or four times, I remember.
3. I think people can improve their 3. I use a day planner book to
memories by keeping a diary and write down and remember important
writing down important information names, dates, and phone numbers.
every day.
Grammar
Vocabulary Preview Our capability to remember things
1. b 2. e 3. c 4. f 5. d 6. a from the past depends on two
categories of memory.
Reading Comprehension The one thing to avoid at all costs
1. a 2. b 3. b 4. c 5. d is stress.

Idiomatic Expressions Vocabulary and Idiom Review

1. A little / goes a long way 1. d 2. b 3. c 4. a 5. d
2. at all costs 6. d 7. b 8. b 9. a 10. c
3. in good working order
Unit 18. Taking Home the World Cup
Summary
1. Remote 2. Recent Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
3. Semantic 4. Immediate 1. I like to watch football or
5. Prospective 6. degrade hockey the most, but I like to play
7. prevent 8. mental tennis.
9. activity 10. stress 2. I don’t like soccer very much
because there isn’t enough scoring.
Listening I’ve never been to a World Cup
1. They are remembering a time when game, but I’d love to go to one
they went sailing. someday.
2. They could not get back because 3. When I was in elementary school,
the wind died down. my baseball team won the city
3. The man remembers that the woman league championship, so I got a
fell in the water, but the woman trophy for that. I kept it on a
remembers that her shoe fell in the shelf for many years, but I don’t
water. know where it is now.

Discussion (answers will vary) Vocabulary Preview

1. I think men and women are good 1. f 2. a 3. d 4. c 5. e 6. b
at remembering different things.
Women can remember names and Reading Comprehension
important dates better than men, 1. c 2. d 3. d 4. d 5. a
but men can remember other
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1. under lock and key honor of the founder of the

2. Rest assured tournament.
3. none the worse for wear In 1966, the Cup was stolen during
a public showing of the trophy
Summary prior to the World Cup tournament
1. a + b: The original World Cup in England.
trophy was stolen twice, so none of
the winners these days are allowed Vocabulary and Idiom Review
by FIFA to take the trophy home. 1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b 5. b
2. c + d: Now the World Cup trophy 6. a 7. c 8. c 9. b 10. b
remains in the possession of FIFA,
so winners are awarded a gold- Unit 19 No Phishing Allowed
plated replicas instead of the real
solid gold trophy. Pre-Reading (answers will vary)
3. e + f: Brazil won the original 1. Viruses are the biggest computer
trophy three times and got to keep security problems, but spyware and
it, so a new cup was designed for spam mail are annoying, too.
FIFA in 1974. 2. Sometimes I shop and check my
bank account online because it’s
Listening much quicker and more convenient
1. [ ] True [√] False than going out to different stores
2. [ ] True [√] False and banks.
3. [√] True [ ] False 3. To protect our computers, we can
use firewall and antivirus software
Discussion (answers will vary) and be careful about the websites
1. I don’t think that teams should we visit.
be able to take home the real
trophy because there have been too Vocabulary Preview
many problems with it in the past. 1. d 2. a 3. c 4. f 5. e 6. b
It’s better to keep the real trophy
safe in a museum. Reading Comprehension
2. I know about the Stanley Cup, 1. b 2. a 3. b 4. a 5. c
the trophy given to the winner of
the National Hockey League’s Idiomatic Expressions
playoff tournament. It’s the oldest 1. right away
trophy in North American sports, 2. track down
and the winning team gets to keep 3. con / into
the real trophy for a year.
3. Trophies are nice, but I’d Summary
rather win money so I can buy the 1. risky 2. lure
things I need. 3. convince 4. financial
5. crooks 6. tracked
Grammar 7. gangs 8. wary
The original World Cup trophy was
made by a French sculptor, and was Listening
called the “Jules Rimet Cup,” in 1. c 2. d 3. d

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Discussion (answers will vary) 3. I don’t believe in ghosts

1. I receive a lot of phishing because I’ve never seen or heard
messages, but I rarely read them. I one.
recall one, though, that claimed
that I was the last relative of Vocabulary Preview
some rich man who had just died in 1. e 2. d 3. f 4. b 5. a 6. c
Nigeria. It said that if I sent
them my banking information, they Reading Comprehension
would send me the money I 1. d 2. b 3. c 4. d 5. a
inherited.
2. I think people caught phishing Idiomatic Expressions
should be fined lots of money, or 1. complete with
even jailed. They cause a lot of 2. made / home
inconvenience for most people and 3. leave / for another man
serious financial trouble for some.
3. I’ve heard that there are a lot Summary
of health scams on the Internet 1. surrounded 2. Remains
these days. There are 3. cemetery 4. left her
advertisements for vitamins, health 5. painting 6. White
supplements, and medicine, but when 7. poisoned 8. disappears
you buy them, the company just 9. tea-room 10. banquets
keeps your money and sends out
nothing. Listening
1. A ghost haunts a place, but a
Grammar poltergeist haunts a person.
Phishing implies that a thief is 2. Ghosts are not harmful, but
trying to lure people into giving poltergeists can be dangerous.
away valuable information. 3. Ghosts are thought to be spirits
The group created official-looking of the dead, but poltergeists are
email messages requesting people to thought to be a form of energy.
update their personal information
at an international bank’s website. Discussion (answers will vary)
1. I think it would be fun to stay
Vocabulary and Idiom Review in a castle like Chillingham. I
1. b 2. a 3. b 4. a 5. c really enjoy historical places, and
6. b 7. d 8. a 9. b 10. c I think it’s fun to be scared by
ghost stories.
Unit 20 Take a Ghost Tour 2. There is a town in the mountains
in my country that some believe is
Pre-Reading (answers will vary) haunted. The town was buried by a
1. I think this castle is in rockslide about 100 years ago, and
England because most castles that everyone died.
I’ve seen like it are in 3. If ghosts exist, they might
England. appear in certain places that were
2. This castle looks a little scary important to them during their
because it’s old and grey, and the lives.
windows are all dark. Grammar
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You hear a strange noise and feel a

cold rush of air move past you.
They gave him the name “Blue Boy”
because he was always seen wearing
blue clothes and surrounded by a
blue light.

Vocabulary and Idiom Review

1. c 2. a 3. a 4. b 5. c
6. b 7. d 8. a 9. c 10. c

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