VOCABULARY REVIEW

Unit 1 Dating Crossword Puzzle

Across
PEOPLE
1. inspire 3. eldest 6. consultation
Prepare to Read
8. unlikely 9. phenomenon
1. Sample answers: They can go to professional
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matchmakers or join a dating service.
1. instinct 2. celebrity 4. embellish
2. Answers will vary.
5. potential 7. average
Word Focus
A. 1. c 2. a 3. e 4. b 5. d
Words in Context
1. location 2. judgment 3. match
B. 1. d 2. b 3. e 4. a 5. c 4. phenomenon 5. complaint 6. consultation
7. intention 8. turn 9. celebrities
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10. environment 11. inspires 12. row
a. is the most expensive matchmaker in the world.
13. class 14. trust 15. potential
Which Meaning? Word Families
2 (noun) level 1. Luxury (noun)
Check Your Comprehension 2. luxurious (adjective)
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. D 3. insisted (verb)
4. insistent (adjective)
5. suits (verb)
PLACES 6. suitable (adjective)
Prepare to Read
1. Sample answer: He’s grocery shopping. Phrasal Verbs
2. Answers will vary. 1. show 2. showed up 3. backed out
4. back 5. pick out 6. pick
Word Focus
A. 1. b 2. a 3. d 4. e 5. c Synonyms or Antonyms?
B. 1. d 2. b 3. e 4. a 5. c 1. Synonyms 2. Antonyms 3. Neither
4. Neither 5. Synonyms 6. Synonyms
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b. difficult 10. Antonyms 11. Antonyms 12. Synonyms

Which Meaning? What About You?

3 (noun) opportunity to do something Speaking
Answers will vary.
Check Your Comprehension
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. A Writing
For these questions, answers will vary. These are
sample answers.
THINGS
1. [My partner] usually shows up for school at 8:00.
Prepare to Read
2. He/She likes to chat with his/her friends at lunch.
Answers will vary.
3. He/She thinks that jeans and a T-shirt are
Word Focus suitable clothes to wear to a party.
A. 1. d 2. a 3. e 4. b 5. c 4. He/She would like to meet sports or pop music
celebrities.
B. 1. c 2. a 3. e 4. b 5. d
5. He/She thinks a cafe is a good location for a date.
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b. until the 1970s. READING QUIZ
1. A 2. D 3. D 4. C 5. D 6. A
Which Meaning?
1 (noun) lines
Check Your Comprehension
1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. D

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Unit 2 Dolphins Scrambled Words
1. captivity 2. rehabilitate 3. Presumably
PEOPLE 4. snoop 5. navigate 6. surgery 7. mission
Prepare to Read 8. lethal 9. reproduction 10. Ironically
1. Answers will vary.
2. Sample answers: They need to catch fish. Words in Context
1. adapt 2. gear 3. blushed 4. extinction
Word Focus
5. stranded 6. euthanize 7. mere 8. tide
A. 1. d 2. e 3. b 4. c 5. a
9. image 10. step 11. Reproduction
B. 1. d 2. a 3. e 4. c 5. b 12. priority 13. snoop 14. case 15. process
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a. a dolphin TV character. 1. presume (verb)
2. Presumably (adverb)
Which Meaning?
3. navigable (adjective)
3 (noun) parts of a larger action
4. navigate (verb)
Check Your Comprehension 5. severely (adverb)
1. B 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. A 6. severity (noun)
Wrong Word
PLACES 1. court 2. assist 3. add 4. birthday
Prepare to Read 5. fact 6. freedom 7. clients 8. artist
1. Teaching notes: Wild dolphins can get attacked by
other fish or they can get caught in fishing gear. Sentence Completion
2. Teaching notes: The hospitals have huge water rehabilitate; habitat; pens; stress; mission
tanks, as well as medicine and medical
equipment. What About You?
Speaking
Word Focus Answers will vary.
A. 1. b 2. e 3. a 4. c 5. d
B. 1. c 2. e 3. d 4. a 5. b Writing
For these questions, answers will vary. These are
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b. Florida. 1. Being healthy is a priority in [my partner’s] life.
2. Exams cause stress for him/her.
Which Meaning? 3. He/She has seen dolphins, lions, elephants, and
2 (noun) situation
penguins in captivity.
Check Your Comprehension 4. He/She has seen monkeys in their natural
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. C habitat.
5. He/She can see clams and starfish at low tide.
THINGS
Prepare to Read READING QUIZ
1. D 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. A
1. Teaching notes: Most dolphins are gray, but some
species are white or pink.
2. Teaching notes: Pollution, boats, and fishing
equipment put dolphins in danger.
Word Focus
A. 1. d 2. e 3. b 4. a 5. c
B. 1. c 2. e 3. d 4. b 5. a

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a. True

Which Meaning?
2 (verb) got smaller
Check Your Comprehension
1. D 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. D

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Unit 3 Soccer Crossword Puzzle
Across
PEOPLE
2. heighten 3. display 5. remotely
Prepare to Read
6. outlaw 8. outshine 9. whirlwind
1. Teaching notes: He is a famous English soccer
player. He has played for Manchester United and Down
Real Madrid. 1. penalty 4. spectator 5. ransom 7. trend
2. Answers will vary.
Words in Context
Word Focus 1. wild 2. conducted 3. top 4. distinct
A. 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. e 5. c 5. tripped 6. faze 7. follow 8. established
B. 1. b 2. c 3. a 4. e 5. d 9. debate 10. convince 11. objects
12. spectators 13. media 14. victory
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15. spokespeople
a. 18

Which Meaning? Word Families

1. obsessed (adjective)
2 (verb) be a fan of
2. obsession (noun)
Check Your Comprehension 3. governor (noun)
1. D 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. B 4. governed (verb)
5. sculpture (noun)
PLACES 6. sculptor (noun)
Prepare to Read True or False?
1. Answers will vary. 1. False 2. True 3. True 4. False
2. Teaching notes: Historians think the earliest 5. False 6. True 7. True
variation of soccer began in China over 2,000
years ago. Phrasal Verbs
1. hold 2. hold on to 3. broke into
Word Focus 4. break 5. held on to 6. broke
A. 1. d 2. c 3. b 4. e 5. a
B. 1. b 2. e 3. a 4. c 5. d What About You?
Speaking
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Answers will vary.
a. 1908
Writing
Which Meaning? For these questions, answers will vary. These are
1 (adjective) best sample answers.
Check Your Comprehension 1. [My partner] follows soccer and sumo.
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. B 6. A 2. His/Her favorite top athlete is Lance Armstrong.
3. He/She is wild about the movie stars Kim Tae-hee
THINGS and Chow Yun-fat.
4. He/She keeps his/her valuable objects in a safe.
Prepare to Read
5. He/She has held on to his/her first toy since
1. Answers will vary.
he/she was young.
2. Teaching notes: The 2002 World Cup winner was
Brazil; answers will vary.
READING QUIZ
Word Focus 1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B 6. D
A. 1. c 2. e 3. a 4. b 5. d
B. 1. e 2. a 3. d 4. b 5. c

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b. Uruguay

Which Meaning?
3 (noun) thing
Check Your Comprehension
1. D 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. C

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Unit 4 Beauty Word Search
“Beauty and the Beast”
PEOPLE
Prepare to Read
1. Teaching notes: People use makeup and beauty
products; some have cosmetic surgery.
2. Teaching notes: Cindy Jackson has had cosmetic
surgery—see reading passage for details.
Word Focus
A. 1. b 2. d 3. e 4. a 5. c
B. 1. d 2. a 3. e 4. b 5. c

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a. True

Which Meaning?
2 (adjective) not beautiful
Check Your Comprehension
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. D
Words in Context
PLACES 1. guarantees 2. pressure 3. square
4. principles 5. promote 6. target
Prepare to Read 7. self-proclaimed 8. run 9. cosmetic
Answers will vary. 10. dye 11. essential 12. plain
13. financial 14. sags 15. market
Word Focus
A. 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. e Word Families
B. 1. e 2. a 3. b 4. d 5. c 1. appropriately (adverb)
2. inappropriate (adjective)
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b. Italy. 4. reluctantly (adverb)
Which Meaning? 5. inherited (verb)
3 (noun) plaza or small park 6. inheritance (noun)

Check Your Comprehension Synonyms or Antonyms?

1. C 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. B 1. Antonyms 2. Neither 3. Antonyms
4. Synonyms 5. Synonyms 6. Synonyms
7. Neither 8. Synonyms 9. Antonyms
THINGS 10. Antonyms
Prepare to Read
1. Sample answers: Face creams, hairspray, nail Sentence Completion
polish, makeup, etc. Tattoos; plain; glamorous; transformation; fantasies
2. Sample answers: Face creams, hair dye, etc.
What About You?
Word Focus Speaking
A. 1. e 2. c 3. d 4. b 5. a Answers will vary.
B. 1. e 2. c 3. b 4. d 5. a
Writing
Scan For these questions, answers will vary. These are
b. the 1990s. sample answers.
1. [My partner] uses hair gel and other cosmetic
Which Meaning?
products.
1 (verb) manage
2. Uniforms are appropriate clothes to wear in
Check Your Comprehension school.
1. A 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. A 3. Pens, paper, and textbooks are essential things to
bring to school.
4. He/She would never dye his/her hair because
he/she likes the color of his/her hair now.
5. He/She would like to get a tattoo because he/she
thinks they’re attractive.

READING QUIZ
1. B 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. C

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Unit 5 Fantasy
Crossword Puzzle
PEOPLE Across
Prepare to Read 1. aristocrat 4. paradise 6. tangled
1. Sample answers: airplanes, hot air balloons, 7. utopia 8. precious 9. elegant
helicopters. Down
2. Answers will vary. 1. astronaut 2. regulations 3. shiver
Word Focus 5. starvation
A. 1. e 2. a 3. d 4. b 5. c
B. 1. e 2. a 3. d 4. c 5. b Words in Context
1. power 2. zoomed 3. harmony
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b. some balloons 8. aluminum 9. helium 10. authorities
11. tangled 12. region 13. precious
Which Meaning? 14. fulfilled 15. parachute
1 (noun) electricity
Word Families
Check Your Comprehension 1. bold (adjective)
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. B 2. boldly (adverb)
3. royally (adverb)
PLACES 4. royalty (noun)
Prepare to Read 5. Violators (noun)
Answers will vary. 6. violate (verb)

Word Focus Wrong Word

A. 1. c 2. e 3. a 4. b 5. d 1. story 2. garage 3. common 4. plastic
B. 1. c 2. a 3. d 4. e 5. b 5. work 6. remain 7. boss 8. reward
9. region 10. hairstyle
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a. In the 1500s Sentence Completion
racetrack; escort; regulations; violates; fined
Which Meaning?
3 (adjective) full of plant life What About You?
Speaking
Check Your Comprehension Answers will vary.
1. D 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. D
Writing
For these questions, answers will vary. These are
THINGS sample answers.
Prepare to Read
1. Teaching notes: The couples in the photo are 1. [My partner] wore elegant clothes to his/her
dancing at a formal ball; answers will vary. graduation.
2. Answers will vary. 2. He/She would like to explore South America.
3. He/She would rather go to a racetrack because
Word Focus he/she likes cars.
A. 1. c 2. d 3. a 4. b 5. e 4. He/She doesn’t own anything precious.
B. 1. e 2. c 3. d 4. a 5. b 5. He/She would like to be an astronaut because
he/she would like to explore space.
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b. Twenty million dollars READING QUIZ
Which Meaning? 1. B 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. A
2 (noun) items of clothing
Check Your Comprehension
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. C 6. C

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Unit 6 Reptiles Srambled Words
1. slimy 2. swamps 3. unsuspecting
PEOPLE 4. cautious 5. feat 6. plods 7. forked
Prepare to Read 8. donated 9. retired 10. peered
1. Teaching notes: Snakes can be poisonous. They
are useful for their role in the environment and Words in Context
their venom is sometimes used for medicine. 1. perish 2. lifespan 3. blame 4. pursue
2. Sample answers: snake charmer or performer, 5. major 6. scanned 7. show 8. consumed
environmentalist, educator, zoo worker 9. slithery 10. darted 11. grow 12. flies
13. slimy 14. crept 15. claws
Word Focus
A. 1. c 2. e 3. a 4. b 5. d Word Families
B. 1. c 2. b 3. d 4. e 5. a 1. miner (noun)
2. mines (noun)
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3. cautious (adjective)
b. Seven
4. cautiously (adverb)
Which Meaning? 5. donated (verb)
2 (noun) performances 6. donation (noun)

Check Your Comprehension True or False?

1. D 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. C 6. A 1. True 2. True 3. False 4. False 5. False
6. False 7. False 8. True 9. True 10. True
PLACES Phrasal Verbs
Prepare to Read 1. carries 2. carried on 3. keep away
1. Teaching notes: Male komodo dragons can be up 4. keeps 5. keep away 6. carry
to three meters long and can weigh 250 kilos;
female dragons can be two meters and 65 kilos. What About You?
2. Teaching notes: Komodo dragons eat deer, Speaking
snakes, birds, fish, and wild pigs. Answers will vary.
Word Focus Writing
A. 1. b 2. c 3. e 4. a 5. d For these questions, answers will vary. These are
B. 1. c 2. e 3. a 4. b 5. d sample answers.
1. [My partner] is interested in pursuing a career in
Scan medicine.
a. Indonesia
2. He/She consumes a lot of food during winter.
Which Meaning? 3. He/She likes reality shows on TV.
3 (verb) become bigger 4. He/She has seen amphibians in the local park.
5. He/She prefers to keep away from poisonous
Check Your Comprehension animals.
1. C 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. C
READING QUIZ
THINGS 1. B 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. D 6. B
Prepare to Read
1. Sample answers: Snakes, turtles, lizards,
crocodiles; answers will vary.
2. Answers will vary.
Word Focus
A. 1. e 2. d 3. b 4. a 5. c
B. 1. b 2. d 3. a 4. c 5. e

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b. looking for reptiles and amphibians.

Which Meaning?
3 (noun) certain flying insects
Check Your Comprehension
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. A

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Unit 7 Fortune-Telling Crossword Puzzle
Across
PEOPLE
4. earthquake 6. discard 8. intricate
Prepare to Read
9. astrology 10. interpret
1. Teaching notes: Traditional fortune-telling
methods include using the stars, reading crystal Down
balls, fortune-telling sticks, special cards, tea 1. brew 2. fragrant 3. predict
leaves, and palm reading. 5. vegetarian 7. guidance
2. Answers will vary.
Words in Context
Word Focus 1. temple 2. vision 3. stream
A. 1. a 2. b 3. e 4. d 5. c 4. architecture 5. incense 6. pray 7. ladder
B. 1. b 2. d 3. a 4. e 5. c 8. liquid 9. handle 10. sits 11. charity
12. steaming 13. appeared 14. palm
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15. vegetarian
a. Alaska
Word Families
Which Meaning? 1. assassin (noun)
1 (adjective) specific; precise 2. assassination (noun)
Check Your Comprehension 3. accurately (adverb)
1. D 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. B 4. accurate (adjective)
5. astrologer (noun)
6. astrological (adjective)
PLACES
Prepare to Read Synonyms or Antonyms?
Answers will vary. 1. Neither 2. Synonyms 3. Antonyms
4. Synonyms 5. Antonyms 6. Antonyms
Word Focus 7. Neither 8. Synonyms 9. Neither
A. 1. c 2. a 3. d 4. e 5. b 10. Synonyms
B. 1. c 2. e 3. a 4. b 5. d
Sentence Completion
Scan predicted; brewed; interpreted; stream; exact;
b. False unexpectedly

Which Meaning? What About You?

3 (verb) is in a place Speaking
Answers will vary.
Check Your Comprehension
1. B 2. D 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. C Writing
For these questions, answers will vary. These are
THINGS sample answers.
Prepare to Read 1. [My partner’s] house sits on a hill overlooking the
1. Answers will vary. ocean.
2. Teaching notes: They interpret the shape of the 2. He/She uses a plastic container to hold his/her
leaves as symbols of good or bad luck. pens.
3. He/She uses a ladder when he/she changes light
Word Focus bulbs.
A. 1. c 2. a 3. e 4. b 5. d 4. He/She asks his/her teacher for guidance.
B. 1. c 2. e 3. b 4. a 5. d 5. He/She likes modern architecture.
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a. good luck.
READING QUIZ
1. A 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. D
Which Meaning?
2 (verb) come into view
Check Your Comprehension
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. C 6. B

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Unit 8 Disasters 3 (noun) substance

PEOPLE Check Your Comprehension

1. A 2. C 3. D 4. C 5. D 6. D
Prepare to Read
1. Teaching notes: The tsunami of 2004 was a series
of huge waves caused by an underwater VOCABULARY REVIEW
earthquake in the Indian Ocean; it killed over Word Search
200,000 people. “The world will never forget the tsunami of 2004.”
2. Teaching notes: It is possible to get advance
warning of tsunamis— they usually occur after
earthquakes. People are advised to listen for
warnings and evacuate immediately.
Word Focus
A. 1. e 2. c 3. d 4. a 5. b
B. 1. b 2. d 3. c 4. e 5. a

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b. False

Which Meaning?
3 (noun) cause
Check Your Comprehension
1. D 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. B

PLACES Words in Context

Prepare to Read 1. inland 2. disaster 3. drifted 4. reason
1. Teaching note: The person in the photo was 5. leak 6. brought about 7. storage
buried in rock and ash following the eruption of 8. frozen 9. tossed 10. spewed
the volcano Vesuvius in the Roman town of 11. wrecked 12. abandoned
Pompeii. 13. prosperous 14. stuff 15. frantically
2. Sample answers: volcanoes, earthquakes,
Word Families
tsunamis, hurricanes, flooding
1. avoidable (adjective)
Word Focus 2. avoid (verb)
A. 1. a 2. e 3. b 4. d 5. c 3. stick (verb)
B. 1. e 2. d 3. a 4. b 5. c 4. sticky (adjective)
5. evident (adjective)
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b. volcano
Wrong Word
Which Meaning? 1. car 2. river 3. cousin 4. possessions
2 (adjective) not moving 5. ice 6. poor 7. stay
Check Your Comprehension True or False?
1. B 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. D 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. False 5. False
6. True 7. True
THINGS What About You?
Prepare to Read Speaking
1. Teaching note: The disaster was caused by a Answers will vary.
wave of molasses that came from a storage tank
that exploded. Writing
2. Teaching note: If a flood of molasses occurs, as it For these questions, answers will vary. These are
did in Boston in 1919, people can be injured or sample answers.
even killed. 1. [My partner] can run swiftly.
2. He/She tries to avoid doing laundry.
Word Focus 3. He/She would like to relax at a resort.
A. 1. d 2. e 3. a 4. b 5. c 4. He/She prefers horror movies to disaster movies.
B. 1. c 2. d 3. b 4. e 5. a 5. He/She would prefer to live inland because
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b. millions
READING QUIZ
1. C 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. A

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