Reading and Writing 2 Q: Skills for Success

Unit 8 Student Book Answer Key Second Edition

The Q Classroom READING 1

Activity A., p. 170 PREVIEW THE READING
Answers will vary. Sample answers: Activity A., pp. 173–174
1. The last time I was sick was in a. related to
February. I had a very bad cold and a b. symptom
fever. I caught the cold from my c. virus
cousin. d. cover
2. I am careful to eat well and get e. infect
enough sleep. I also take vitamins. f. severe
3. The people are scientists. They are g. extremely
trying to find a cure for a disease. h. develop
Activity B., p. 171 i. approximately
1. Answers about how often students do j. epidemic
these things will vary. Activity C., p. 174
a. eat right Answers will vary.
b. exercise Activity D., p. 174
c. wash hands Answers will vary.
d. wear a mask when sick
e. get vaccinations WORK WITH THE READING
f. stay home Activity B., p. 176
2. Answers will vary. 1. c
2. b
PREVIEW THE UNIT 3. a
Activity D., p. 172 4. d
1. influenza (flu) Activity C., p. 176
2. tuberculosis (TB) The flu: lasts about two weeks; more
3. skin cancer severe; high fever; body aches; can
4. malaria develop into a serious illness
5. diabetes A cold: lasts about seven days;
6. asthma milder symptoms; slight fever;
Activity E., p. 172 runny, stuffy nose
1. skin cancer Both: symptoms include coughing;
2. malaria respiratory illnesses; viruses; spread
3. tuberculosis (TB) from person to person
4. asthma Activity D., p. 177
5. diabetes 1. 5–20 percent
6. influenza (flu) 2. They may not be able to fight the
Activity F., p. 172 virus and may become very sick.
Answers will vary. 3. 3 to 6 hours
4. 250,000–500,000
5. 70–90 percent

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6. Wash your hands often; cover your sneeze. c. Approximately three to

nose and mouth when you cough or five million people have a severe
sneeze; avoid touching your eyes, case of the flu each year.
nose, or mouth; avoid sick people; Activity B., pp. 179–180
get the flu vaccine. Answers will vary. Sample answers:
Activity E., p. 177 1. Yes, because humans do not have
Answers will vary. Sample answer: immunity and there may be no
1. Where can I get vaccinated? vaccine. There is a higher risk of
2. Your doctor or pharmacist may be death.
able to give you the flu vaccine. 2. It could spread when someone is
near or touches a sick animal. This
WRITE WHAT YOU THINK could happen to someone who lives
Activity A., B., p. 178 or works on a farm. It spreads
Answers will vary. Possible answers: quickly from person to person
1. If I feel like I am going to get a cold through sneezing and coughing, like
or the flu, I take extra vitamin C. I other types of flu.
also drink herbal tea if I feel like I am
getting a cold. I make sure that I get READING 2
enough sleep too. PREVIEW THE READING
2. I would say 4 on a scale of 1 to 10. I Activity A., pp. 180–181
worry a little about getting sick 1. vaccination
because I don’t want to miss work 2. mass
and school. 3. quarantine
3. I would like to learn more about 4. risk
diabetes. There are several people in 5. track
my family with diabetes. I want to 6. cooperation
know how to avoid getting it. 7. decades
8. outbreak
READING SKILL 9. strategy
Activity A., p. 179 10. take steps
Answers will vary. Sample answers: Activity C., p. 181
1. Answers will vary. Share knowledge, use technology, wash
2. a. main idea; b. synthesis; c. detail their hands, cooperate with others
3. a. It spreads when someone with Activity D., p. 181
the virus coughs or sneezes and Answers will vary.
someone else comes into contact
with the germs from the cough or WORK WITH THE READING
sneeze. b. Yes, I will change some of Activity B., p. 183
my habits. I will be more careful 1. Diseases spread rapidly in large
about washing my hands and crowds.
covering my mouth when I cough or

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2. Some mass gatherings are the Hajj, Activity E., p. 184

the World Cup, and the Olympic c and d
Games.
3. The Hajj is the largest mass WRITE WHAT YOU THINK
gathering in the world. Activity A., p. 184
4. All pilgrims receive health Answers will vary. Possible answers:
screenings. 1. It doesn’t surprise me. People make
5. It is important to quarantine people plans for a big event or travel, and
who are infected so that disease can’t change their plans if they’re
doesn’t spread. sick. I think it should be permitted
6. They use technology to track the because some things are very
outbreak of diseases. important.
Activity C., pp. 183–184 Activity C., p. 185
1. F Mass gatherings can present Answers will vary. Possible answers:
health problems because they 1. I think that a big problem will be
increase the spread of diseases. that people might become very
2. F The Saudi Arabian Ministry of worried, and they might panic.
Health has many years of experience People will run to the stores and buy
managing the Hajj. all of the medicine. They will crowd
3. T into clinics and hospitals, even if
4. F The pilgrims are from all over the they are not sick. Doctors may also
world. become sick, and there will not be
5. T enough doctors to help everyone.
6. F In 2009, there was an outbreak of 2. There are many things that a school
the H1N1 flu. can do to prevent sickness. Students
7. F New technology is very helpful in who seem sick should go to the
tracking and reporting the outbreak nurse’s office. Teachers need to
of diseases. teach their students good habits like
8. T washing their hands.
Activity D., p. 184
1. rapidly VOCABULARY SKILL
2. uncontrollably Activity A., p. 186
3. sharing 1. in common
4. health 2. comment on
5. screening 3. participate in
6. clinic 4. increase in
7. risk 5. contribute to
8. technology 6. in response to
9. Organization 7. succeed in
10. field 8. in favor of

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Activity B., p. 186 3. Asthma is a condition that causes

Sentences will vary. Sample answers: difficulty in breathing.
1. My friend and I have many interests 4. A vaccination is an injection that
in common. protects people from getting a
2. Would you please comment on this disease.
article? Activity C., pp. 188–189
3. Eating candy can contribute to tooth 1. A common cold; which is
decay. 2. a common cold; severe
4. There is an increase in fog during the 3. an epidemic; an epidemic
fall. 4. Asthma; which is; asthma
5. I am not in favor of the proposed 5. vaccination; vaccinations
law. Activity D.-G., p. 189
6. I would like to participate in your Answers will vary.
class.
7. I succeeded in finishing the book in GRAMMAR
two days. Activity A., p. 191
8. I got a letter in response to my commonly; efficiently; frequently;
complaint. immediately; precisely; rapidly; seriously;
successfully
WRITING SKILL 1. rapidly
Activity A., pp. 187–188 2. successfully
1. A pandemic is an epidemic that has 3. efficiently
spread to several countries or 4. precisely
continents. 5. frequently
2. epidemic 6. seriously
3. 2003, SARS virus; avian flu; 2009, a 7. immediately
new flu virus from Mexico 8. commonly
4. a plague Activity B., p. 191
5. Both paragraphs give general Answers will vary.
definitions of the terms. The
paragraph on page 187 contains UNIT ASSINGMENT
more statistical information than PLAN AND WRITE
paragraph 1 in Reading 1. Activity A., p. 192
Activity B., p. 188 Answers will vary.
Answers will vary. Sample answers: Activity B., pp. 192-193
1. A common cold is a respiratory Answers will vary
illness that is caused by a virus. Activity C., p. 193
2. An epidemic is when many people in Answers will vary.
a place get a disease at the same
time.

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