ADVANCED GOLD - UNIT 5

Rezolvarea exercitiilor de la UNIT 5 din manualul de limba engleza pentru clasa XI intitulat ADVANCED GOLD, Editura Longman, Autori Sally Burgess si Richard Acklam, Editia 2001

UNIT 5: Where will it end?

Listening: cryonics Page 54

Exercise 2

They are planning to have themselves frozen so that they will be ready for any advanced in science that extend the natural life expectancy of a human.

Exercise 3

1. the United States

2. be together

3. liquid nitrogen

4. changes his mind

5. serious

6. life insurance

7. Michael Jackson

8. seven/7

9. emigrating

Speaking Page 54

Exercise 3

They are all used to pick up on a point made by another speaker so as to clarify and/ or develop it. They would be particularly useful in situations where one speaker is less accurate and/ or has a more limited range than another. The stronger speaker would use the phrases to check understanding by re-expressing what the less able speaker has said more accurately and with more sophisticated language. The phrases would also be used in situations where both speakers are equally competent so as to check understanding and show interest.

Exercise 8

1. to follow on from

2. generally agreeing with that

3. to what you’ve just

Writing: review Page 56

Exercise 2

Paragraph 1: Background information with elements of 2 and 3.

Paragraph 2: A brief account of the plot with elements of 3.

Paragraph 3: Critical comment + personal opinion and recommendation

Exercise 3

highly successful/ amusing/ entertaining

profoundly moving

utterly ridiculous/ tedious

excruciatingly tedious

hugely successful/ disappointing/ impressive

amazingly successful/ entertaining

Listening: song Page 57

Exercise 3

1. dreams

2. found

3. sad

4. alive

5. survive

6. fools

7. care

Exercise 4

1.     The experiment is not a normal scientific experiment and quickly gets out of control.

2.   He has gone slightly mad and/or is excited because his experiment has ‘broken new ground’.

to break new ground to do something completely new that no one has ever done before, or find out new information about a subject.

3.   He carries out the experiment on himself.

4.   to set your sights on something to be determined to achieve something or decide that you definitely want to have it

5.    the underdog a person, country etc. that is weak and is always treated badly.

6.   The greatest experiment, better or worse than all others i.e. The experiment of changing himself into Mr Jive and/ or being able to control human personality.

Exercise 5

He has created a living creature. He is horrified and terrified.

Grammar check: conditionals Page 58

Exercise 1

1. will not pass/ are not going to pass

2. would not have started

3. Would be going/ would go

4. say

5. did/ were to do

6. get

7. adds

8. promise

9. had come

10. has

Exercise 2

1. Present Simple

2. Present simple

3. Past Simple

4. Past Perfect

Vocabulary: science and medicine Page 59

Exercise 1

1. h

2. l

3. f

4. a

5. i

6. b

7. k

8. e

9. c

10. j

11. d

12. g

Exercise 2

1. clone

2. cell

3. sexual reproduction

4. organ

5. tissue

6. embryo

7. genetic engineering

8. fertilisation

9. technique

10. physicist

11. ethics

12. DNA

Exercise 3

1. a clone

2. reproduce reproductive

3. embryonic

4. gene/genetics

5. fertilise

6. physics

7. (un)ethical

Reading Page 60

Exercise 2

He seems rather impressed by him, though he also considers him to be arrogant and odd.

Exercise 3

1. Some reference to the first cloning method somewhere in the main text. Paragraph G fits gap 2. See lines 21-26

2. They refer to some process and a male person previously mentioned in the text. It will fill gap 1, referring back to ‘clone human beings’ and Richard Seed.

3. A: He in paragraph A refers back to Seed (and subsequent uses of ‘he’) in base text line 39; procedure refers back to the technique for transferring embryos in cattle (lines 47-48) in the base text.

4. H: This refers back to ‘research’ (line 68, base text).

5. B: my refers back to Steve Jones (line 74, base text).

6. F: They refers back to ‘clone (line 80, base text).

7. D: This refers back to ‘human cloning raises a hundred questions’ (lines 90-91, base text).

Grammar plus: conditionals (advanced forms) Page 62

Exercise 1

1. True

2. True

3. False: They are similar to ‘if’, i.e. no more or less polite.

4. True

5. True

Exercise 2

1. If I were to say that I …

2. Had we spent more time with her …

3. If you will/would just be patient …

4. … would that be a problem?

5. If you happen to see Mr Parker …

6. Were you to go through with legal action …

Exercise 3

1. Supposing you got all the necessary grades, would you go to college?

2. If you’ll do the shopping, I’ll make dinner.

3. Had you listened to my advice, you wouldn’t be in this situation.

4. If they were to discover a cure for he common cold, they’d make a fortune.

5. If you happen to see my address book, could you tell me?

Vocabulary: collocations (body) Page 63

Exercise 1

Picture 1: l lick your lips

Picture 2: k shake your fist

Picture 3: h twist your ankle

Picture 4: d wrinkle your nose

Picture 5: c shrug your shoulders

Exercise 2

a. viii

b. xi

c. vii

d. vi

e. x

f. i

g. v

h. xii

i. ix

j. iii

k. iv

l. ii

Grammar check: future Page 64

Exercise 1

1. are you doing

2. will probably go

3. ‘ll have saved

4. ‘ll begin

5. do you start/ are you going to start

Exam focus Page 64

1. pear - pair

2. moveing - moving

3. diferent - different

4. I’m thirsty. – I’m thirsty.

5. √

6. technology - technology

7. √

8. its – it’s

9. √

10. nerves, in – nerves in

11. √

12. patiente - patient

13. impulses’ - impulses

14. dr – Dr.

15. trainning - training

16. √