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Answers - February 2009

The answers are given below to the exercise questions in the February lesson.

Before reading

The answers to each of the sub-questions are -

  1. In the Indian Ocean. Near India and Sri Lanka
  2. Low-lying islands surrounded by white sands and clear blue sea.
  3. Tourism. Because of the warm climate, idyllic beaches, etc.

The answers to each of the sub-questions are -

  1. A huge rubbish dump.
  2. Tourists.
  3. A castaway is a person left alone on a desert island. To cast something away means to throw it away.

The answers to each of the sub-questions are -

  1. junk, waste.
  2. bury, incinerate.
  3. hazardous, tozic.
  4. crushed can, used battery.
  5. campaigner, environmentalist.

While reading

The answers to each of the sub-questions are -

  1. yes
  2. no
  3. no
  4. yes
  5. no
  6. yes
  7. no

The answers to each of the sub-questions are -

  1. It's the richest country.
  2. It's thinly spread. It's concentrated in a small group of people.
  3. They import meat, vegetables and diesel oil.
  4. 3.5kg
  5. They brought vegetables and returned empty. They take back rubbish.

After reading

The answers to each of the sub-questions are -

  1. are known
  2. have shown
  3. visit
  4. produces
  5. was built
  6. is taken
  7. is growing
  8. is sifted through
  9. live
  10. are sent back
  11. are sold

The first pairs of collocations were potentially hazardous and largely hidden. The answers to each of the subsequent sub-questions are -

  1. perilously close
  2. relatively small
  3. privately furious
  4. remarkably stable
  5. dangerously ill
  6. economically disastrous
  7. completely untrue
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