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Unit 27
27.1
2 grass
3 leaves
4 woods
5 plants
6 roots
7 branches
8 crops
27.2
2 countryside (also country)
3 up
4 own
5 season
6 ground/grass
7 keep
27.3
2 gate
3 tractor
4 footpath
5 field
6 valley
7 woods
8 farmhouse
27.4
2 spaces
3 air
4 pick
5 surrounded
6 worst
7 get
8 public
9 hopeless
10 much
11 away
27.5
Possible answers:
I agree with most of the ideas in the text. I also think that life in the country is probably less
stressful than in a big city, and probably healthier too. One of the disadvantages of living in the
country is that you become totally dependent on having a car.
Unit 28
28.1
2 ride
3 get in
4 journey
5 run
6 fly
7 missed
8 fares
9 driver
10 off; stop
28.2
2 van
3 motorbike
4 lorry (also truck)
5 coach
6 bicycle/bike
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28.3
2 journey
3 convenient; away
4 corner
5 reliable
6 queue
7 return
8 complaining
9 season
10 platform
28.4
Possible answers:
1 Generally yes.
2 Prices vary a great deal in England. Sometimes a return is twice the price of a single, but sometimes it
is not much more than a single.
3 Where I live is very convenient for the train station if I need to travel out of town.
4 I don’t take taxis very often; only if I need to get home late at night.
5 I usually ride my bike once a week.
Unit 29
29.1
2 pedestrians
3 pavement
4 pedestrian crossing
5 (road) junction
6 brake
7 road sign
29.2
2 lane
3 traffic light(s)
4 overtaking
5 motorway
6 bridge
7 bend
8 (road) junction
29.3
2 lost
3 direct
4 via
5 way
6 ended
7 turning
29.4
2 accident
3 approaching
4 overtake
5 speed
6 swerve
7 crashed
8 damaged
9 injuries
29.5
Possible answers for England:
1 Yes, it’s 70 mph. (about 115 kph)
2 There are usually three lanes.
3 Yes, they do.
4 Not very often, but it sometimes happens if the road is very narrow.
Unit 30
30.1
2 Mind the step
3 Admission free
4 Out of order
5 No vacancies/entry/exit
6 Do not lean out of the window / leave bags unattended
7 Please queue other side
8 Mind your head
9 Please do not disturb / Please do not feed the animals
10 Keep off the grass
11 Keep right/left
12 Silence examination in progress
30.2
2 In a hotel window
3 In a bank or post office
4 On a vending machine (a machine selling drinks and snacks)
5 At a theatre
6 On a parcel
7 In a zoo
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30.3
2 Do not leave bags unattended
3 Please do not disturb
4 No parking
5 Do not lean out of the window
6 Mind your head
7 Admission free
8 SILENCE – examination in progress
30.4
No exit, Silence – examination in progress, out of order, keep right, mind the step, no entry
30.5
Possible signs in English you might see are:
English spoken here
Entrance [
you go in here
]
Flat to let [
advertising a flat that you can rent
]
Cyclists dismount here [
people on bicycles must get off their bikes here
]
No through road [
there is no way out for cars at the other end of this road
]