English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

Unit 88
 88.1
2 a long speech by one person (e.g. in a film or play)
3 sound carried from a distance
4 something written by yourself about your own life
5 study of sound
6 to go back to an earlier, worse state
7 study of writing
8 to make something unstable
9 something written to represent yourself
 88.2 
Possible answers:
1 monotonous, mono-culture
2 technocrat, technology
3 retrograde, retroactive
4 telescope, telecommunications
5 automatic, automobile
6 pre-war, pre-flight
7 postnatal, postpone
8 biological, biodiversity

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 88.3 
Suggested answers:
2 She asked the singer for his 
autograph on the back of her table napkin.
3 She took a degree in 
criminology at Stockholm University.
4 The novel is largely 
autobiographical.
5 It’s 
a retrospective exhibition of the painter’s life and work.
6 He believes in 
auto-suggestion to cure yourself.
7 
Teleworking is now quite common.
8 Some English philosophers in the 19th century believed in 
de-industrialisation.
9 
Cybercrime is a huge cause for concern.
 88.4 
Suggested answers:
2 The firm makes job applicants do a test that analyses their handwriting for what it reveals about 
their personality.
3 The school always takes very seriously any case of bullying carried out over the internet or 
by phone.
4 Matt has a fear of anything technical.
5 He’s giving a paper at a special event taking place just before a conference in Spain.
6 She did a course in information science.
 88.5
1 information + commercial, i.e. a television advert that gives information instead of selling 
something (e.g. explaining new social welfare regulations)
2 iPod + broadcast, i.e. radio programmes that you can download after they are broadcast and listen 
to on a personal audio player such as an iPod or smartphone.
3 camera + recorder, usually a small, portable video camera
4 vegetable + hamburger, i.e. a vegetarian hamburger
5 swimming + marathon, i.e. an event in which people attempt to swim a very long distance 
(probably done in order to raise money for charity)
6 free + software, i.e. software you can download without charge from the internet