Intermediate Level Exercises Answers Key

Meet me in Istanbul
RICHARD CHISHOLM

Multiple Choice 1

2d 3a 4c 5c 6a

People in the Story

2 Personal computers. after 1981

3 E-mail and the Internet. after 1990

5 Mobile phones. after 1990

Multiple Choice 2

1c 2d 3d 4a 5b

Exchange Rates

£300 (three hundred pounds sterling) L 2,000,000 (two million Turkish lira)

At the American Bar

2 American 3 view 4 looking 5 ships 6 Russia 7 little 8 distance 9 see 10 exciting

11 watch 12 nearly 13 walked 14 people 15 hotel 16 anywhere 17 bar 18 beer
19 himself 20 late 21 inside 22 raincoat 23 table 24 coffee 25 cigarettes 26 open
27 front 28 from 29 newspaper 30 watching

What Happened Next?

2 First he went to Angela’s apartment.

3 He knocked on the door but there was no answer.

4 Then he found a room at the Ankara Hotel.

5 The next day he went to the export office where Angela worked.

6 He spoke to Mr Dünya, the owner of the export company.

7 Mr Dünya said that he had some very bad news.

8 He told Tom that Angela had been killed in an accident a week before.

9 Tom said, ‘But that’s impossible! I saw Angela yesterday.’

10 Mr Dünya gave Tom Mr David Pennington’s telephone number.

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Intermediate Level Exercises Answers Key

Making Sentences

Q2 What did Kemal offer to do?

Q3 Who was David Pennington?

Q4 Who had tried to contact Angela’s parents? / Who had Mr Pennington tried to contact?

Q5 How did Angela die?

Q6 What did the police say?

Q7 Why was it difficult to identify Angela’s body?

Q8 Why did they believe the dead person was Angela?

Q9 What did Mr Pennington advise Tom to do? / What advice did Mr Pennington give to Tom?

Q10 Why did Tom go to the airport?

Multiple Choice 3

1d 2b 3c 4a 5d 6d 7b 8d 9 c 10 a

Unanswered Questions

Possible answers:
1 Dünya may have killed an enemy or business rival, or he may have used the body of someone who was
already dead.
2 Possibly not, because then Tom would not have seen her and he would probably have gone back to
England.
3 Because she / they knew too much about his business.
4 He put opium inside table lamps and exported them to England. Then someone took the drugs out of
the lamps and sold them – so there were people working with him in England.

Dictionary: drugs

Meaning 1 an illegal substance that affects you physically and mentally

Meaning 2 something you take to treat a disease or medical problem

Dünya was smuggling drugs (meaning 1).

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