General Test Answer Key

Unit 1 General Test 23. k

1. customary 24. c
2. before 25. h
3. taboo 26. g
4. title and last name 27. Laughter can help your body fight disease.
5. punctuality 28. Laughter is a good form of exercise.
6. taught a class 29. Laughing keeps your brain healthy and helps
7. offensive you remember things.
8. cultural literacy 30. Doctors may prescribe laughter along with
9. table manners other things.
10. impolite
11. etiquette Unit 3 General Test
12. aren’t you
13. am I 1. reliable
14. doesn’t he 2. copying
15. won’t we 3. fast
16. haven’t they 4. car repair
17. did they 5. helpful
18. aren’t I 6. tailoring
19. would you 7. reasonable
20. hasn’t it 8. to go
21. 2, 1 9. plan
22. 1, 2 10. framed
23. 2, 1 11. finished
24. hadn’t yet bought 12. to pay
25. had already begun 13. She’ll get someone to call the restaurant for a
26. hadn’t yet moved reservation.
27. had already started 14. The store manager will have a sign printed to
28. true announce the sale.
29. false 15. Will they have the apartment cleaned before
30. true the party?
16. My parents can get me to help around the
house.
Unit 2 General Test 17. You can have the package delivered
1. a tomorrow morning.
2. c 18. Can you get her to sign the forms?
3. d 19. f
4. False 20. e
5. False 21. a
6. True 22. d
7. cough medicine 23. b
8. painkiller 24. had/got
9. antacid 25. cleaned
10. must 26. shoes repaired/fixed
11. must 27. c
12. may/might 28. a
13. must 29. c
14. may/might 30. a
15. may/might
16. must Unit 4 General Test
17. i
18. d 1. science fiction
19. a 2. autobiography
20. j 3. romance novel
21. e 4. biography
22. b 5. travel book

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 6. thriller 27. No
7. short stories 28. Yes
8. a 29. No
9. c 30. No information
10. b
11. b
12. c Units 1–5 Review Test
13. a 1. False
14. c 2. False
15. I want to ask if he wrote another book. 3. True
16. Do you know where Tina left the magazine? 4. True
17. I wonder if she liked the movie. 5. True
18. Did he like the food? I guess not. 6. a recommendation
19. I don’t know if we’ll be late, but I hope not. 7. tomorrow
20. how many poems Pablo Neruda wrote 8. reliable
21. why you want to read more books by that 9. South America
author 10. cost too much
22. if you enjoy reading science fiction 11. I have a bad pain in my chest!
23. who won the Nobel Prize for Literature this 12. He had his suit dry-cleaned.
year 13. What a terrible typhoon!
24. whose book this is 14. He may be stuck in traffic.
25. where you found a copy of that book 15. He needs an injection.
26. True 16. c
27. False 17. b
28. True 18. c
29. True 19. a
30. False 20. a
21. b
22. b
Unit 5 General Test 23. c
1. flood 24. a
2. catastrophic 25. b
3. not known 26. b
4. are no deaths 27. c
5. in a first-aid kit 28. c
6. e 29. c
7. b 30. a
8. g 31. biography
9. f 32. antihistamine
10. True 33. offensive
11. False 34. shelter
12. True 35. customary
13. True 36. etiquette
14. False 37. eye drops
15. False 38. punctuality
16. needed to be changed 39. doesn’t
17. was the worst storm 40. may
18. to evacuate immediately 41. won’t
19. it was important to get vaccinations before 42. must
their trip 43. told
20. would suffer 44. already
21. not to drink tap water 45. Yes
22. could go 46. No
23. say 47. No
24. say 48. Yes
25. tell 49. Yes
26. say 50. No

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 Unit 6 General Test 25. who march in the parade
1. No 26. she gave me
2. Yes 27. the town square
3. No 28. involving a large group of people
4. She didn’t pass the exam. 29. safer
5. Her tastes changed. 30. have to
6. Her parents talked her out of it.
7. She changed her mind. Unit 8 General Test
8. Correct
9. Incorrect 1. angry
10. Correct 2. got wet
11. Incorrect 3. continue to
12. Correct 4. might win
13. c 5. unique
14. a 6. lost
15. b 7. could/would buy
16. c 8. had
17. a 9. were
18. b 10. could/would reach
19. a 11. could/would help
20. c 12. knew
21. c 13. were
22. a 14. could/would admit
23. b 15. Incorrect
24. a 16. Correct
25. False 17. Correct
26. False 18. Incorrect
27. True 19. unique
28. False 20. inefficient
29. True 21. old
30. False 22. efficient
23. state-of-the-art
24. wacky
Unit 7 General Test 25. top-of-the-line
1. g 26. False
2. d 27. True
3. a 28. True
4. h 29. False
5. b 30. True
6. f
7. c Unit 9 General Test
8. c
9. d 1. True
10. a 2. True
11. h 3. False
12. g 4. False
13. i 5. True
14. f 6. conservative
15. e 7. moderate
16. Correct 8. liberal
17. Incorrect 9. radical
18. Incorrect 10. is
19. Correct 11. crime
20. Incorrect 12. are
21. who are dancing 13. Help
22. that sell cards 14. The program encourages young people to
23. who you met participate in government.
24. who blows out the candles on the cake 15. Many groups urge people to vote.

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 16. All my neighbors plan to vote in the election. 4. c
17. People deserve to have their needs met by 5. picnic
their political leaders. 6. was going to
18. The dictator doesn’t allow anyone to speak 7. sandwiches
against him. 8. parade
19. I would advise students to study hard 9. fireworks
because education is important. 10. She must have forgotten her umbrella.
20. Several organizations offered to help after 11. The family got together for the holiday.
the disaster. 12. They just got married.
21. b 13. It’s too foggy to see clearly.
22. b 14. volcano
23. c 15. cliff
24. False 16. first-rate
25. False 17. glacier
26. True 18. valley
27. disasters 19. wacky
28. work together 20. costume
29. are 21. make up your mind
30. prepare for 22. What a ridiculous idea
23. slippery
24. democracy
Unit 10 General Test 25. an island
1. c 26. Mark took the wrong road because he didn’t
2. e use a map. / If Mark had used a map, he
3. a wouldn’t have taken the wrong road.
4. cave 27. If it hadn’t rained, I would have gone
5. slippery climbing. / It rained, so I didn’t go climbing.
6. pyramids 28. I couldn’t agree more. / I couldn’t have said it
7. f better myself.
8. a 29. Madison might have left the party before I
9. c did. / I’m not sure if Madison left the party
10. b before I did or not.
11. e 30. It’s too spectacular to miss. / You don’t want
12. of to miss it.
13. on 31. I picked his brain to get ideas. / I asked him
14. in what ideas he had.
15. to 32. I got eaten alive by mosquitoes. / The
16. too sleepy to stay mosquitoes were brutal.
17. too cloudy to see 33. c
18. too cold to go 34. b
19. too slippery, to drive 35. a
20. h 36. c
21. f 37. b
22. b 38. a
23. j 39. a
24. d 40. c
25. a 41. b
26. e 42. c
27. b 43. a
28. a 44. b
29. c 45. a
30. b 46. a
47. c
48. b
Units 6–10 Review Test 49. c
1. b 50. a
2. a
3. a

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 Final Exam 26. costumes
1. True 27. censorship
2. False 28. first-aid kit
3. True 29. glacier
4. False 30. politics
5. True 31. flood
6. liberal 32. checkup
7. poverty 33. election
8. disagrees with 34. slippery
9. doesn’t agree 35. Incorrect
10. polite 36. Correct
11. a 37. Correct
12. c 38. Incorrect
13. b 39. Correct
14. c 40. Correct
15. a 41. Correct
16. c 42. Incorrect
17. a 43. Correct
18. c 44. Incorrect
19. a 45. Correct
20. c 46. True
21. landslide 47. True
22. valley 48. True
23. gifts 49. False
24. injection 50. False
25. typhoon

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