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SB Answer Key File 1
SB Answer Key File 1
Grammar Bank 1A
e 1 gut feeling 2 foolproof 3 light-hearted response 4 geek 5 work–life balance 6 the point of
7 good-natured rivalry 8 job-seekers
c
How did they answer? What happened in the end?
1 I can’t answer this right now. Can I answer this at the He got the place at university.
end?
John Lennon, Picasso, and another artist or musician
(he can’t remember).
2 No, I don’t have a boyfriend, and I have no plans to She decided immediately that she didn’t
get pregnant. want to work for that company.
3 Well, I still think a lot. He got the job.
4 A cat She didn’t get the job.
1B It’s a mystery
c 1 There was nobody at the lighthouse. This was discovered by the three new lighthouse keepers
who arrived at the island to relieve the men who had been working there for three months.
2 the lighthouse door was unlocked
a chair was knocked over
one rain jacket was hanging on its hook, but the other two
had disappeared
the clocks had stopped
the last entry in the log book was 9 a.m. on 15th December
3 The men had argued about a woman; they had been kidnapped by German agents; they had been
carried away by a sea serpent, a giant bird, or a boat full of ghosts.
e Muirhead thought that the men had been washed away by an enormous wave.
People rejected his idea at the time.
Now people think that small waves can combine to create a huge wave, which swept the men
away.
f 1 A huge rock was lying on the steps leading up to the lighthouse, but it would have been too
heavy for anyone to carry, so it adds evidence to the idea of the huge wave.
2 The ship Queen Elizabeth II was hit by a 100-ft wave in 1995, a modern example of Muirhead’s
theory.
3 A paper in a scientific journal has recently been published saying that monster waves really
exist.
4 1901 was the date when Muirhead actually solved the mystery, but then there was no proof.
5 There are some things we will never know the answers to.
Grammar Bank 1B
3 Neither have I.
4 Oh, don’t you?
5 I do.
6 Do you?
7 Why didn’t you go?
8 I did go, but I arrived really late because my car broke down.
9 So am I.
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
h possible answers
1 …the more I spend. / the more I save.
2 …the better I feel. / the worse I feel. / the more I do.
3 …the more difficult they are to understand.
4 …the thinner I get. / the hungrier I am. / the more bad-tempered I am.
5 …the more I enjoy it. / the easier it gets.
6 …the fitter I get. / the more I like it.
d Positive
easy-going = relaxed and happy to accept things without
worrying or getting angry
good-tempered = cheerful and not easily made angry
laid-back = calm and relaxed
open-minded = willing to listen to, think about or accept different ideas
well-balanced = sensible and emotionally in control
well-behaved = behaving in a way that other people think is polite or correct
Negative
absent-minded = tending to forget things, perhaps because you are not thinking about what is
around you, but about something else
c 1 He asks some general questions about their journey to the interview, the weather, or if they have
been to Oxford before.
2 He asks some general questions about the candidate, their CV, their background.
3 Information which shows how the candidate meets the criteria for the post, including specific
skills and experience they have that is relevant.
b 1T
2 F (‘It’s not something that I have direct experience of…’)
3T
4 F (It was to see if candidates had the ability to multitask.)
5 F (He would have had to have asked for the question to be repeated, and he probably wouldn’t
have been able to answer immediately.)
6T
2 LOOKING AT LANGUAGE
1 demonstrate 2 commenced 3 viewed 4 announced 5 appropriate footwear, a lady
6 am aware of 7 response
3 THE CONVERSATION
a S, D, A b 1D 2B 3A 4F 5E 6C
e 1 speaking 2 will
They give the word extra stress.