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1 1 Y 2 N 3 Y 4 N 5 Y 6 N 7 1 drunk
2 stupid
2 1 killing 3 feel confident about herself
2 cheating on
3 phone calls 8 1 Robin Stafford
4 clever 2 Vanessa
5 hate 3 Coach Ruffalo
6 suspects 4 Amber
5 Ashton
3 1 headache 6 Jake
2 birthday 7 Janae
3 boyfriend
4 eyelashes 9 1 warmly
5 homework 2 weirdly
6 loudspeaker 3 nervously
7 peanut 4 Suddenly
8 backpack 5 angrily
6 usually
4 1 c 2 b 3 a 4 b 7 kindly
5 1 by 10 1 announcement on the loudspeaker
2 in 2 most people
3 up 3 The expensive cold-pressed kind
4 from 4 Monday night
5 where 5 grandmother
6 like 6 a week
7 about
8 from 11 1 a 2 b 3 b 4 b 5 c 6 c
6 1 Nate goes to Simon’s funeral because 12 1 lizard
he wants to his probation officer 2 tissues
makes him. 3 posts
2 Janae, a homecoming princess Goth girl, 4 reporters
reads a weird poem at the funeral. 5 interviews
3 At first, Bronwyn is annoyed pleased her 6 cases
parents are with her when she’s asked to go 7 hug
to the police station.
4 Nate is not a likely the obvious scapegoat. 13 1 Addy and Cooper
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5 Addy’s mum answers her phone ’s phone 2 Because Janae is crying.
goes to voicemail all the time. 3 Because she isn’t Jake’s girlfriend any more.
4 She means that she has been crying a lot —
that she has been upset.
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5 She cuts some of her hair herself. 21 a Don’t talk about your life or why you’re
here.
14 • Don’t follow SC around. b Make friends—not real friends—because
• Don’t drink two beers if they make you do it’s useful to be in a group.
a terrible dance on the kitchen table. c Don’t break rules.
• Don’t be sick in the washing machine. d Do exercise.
e Watch television.
15 1 Bronwyn’s sister thinks people should be f Don’t complain about how slowly
looking at Simon more. time passes.
2 That doesn’t mean he was a great guy. g Don’t think about what’s outside. Or who.
3 Why did you invite me here?
4 It would be nice if you stopped hating 22 1 to go
me, Jake. 2 could
5 I guess I’ll see you around. 3 myself
4 about
16 1 F 2 T 3 DS 4 DS 5 T 6 F 5 too
6 what’s
17 Model answer:
The situation is very serious. Cooper thinks 23 1 c 2 a 3 b 4 b 5 c 6 b
that his father will not like having a gay son.
He thinks that his family will think about 24 Model answers:
him differently and everything in his life will 1 Nate leaves the detention center and is free.
change. He thinks that his dad won’t talk to 2 Addy is going to live with her sister in a
him and the scouts won’t want him to play new apartment.
baseball for their teams. 3 Bronwyn can still apply to Yale.
4 Cooper is liked by everyone again because
18 1 c 2 g 3 f 4 a he helped to stop Jake.
5 d 6 b 7 e 5 Jake is in the detention center for
young people.
19 1 on the floor 6 Ashton and Eli are dating.
2 yesterday 7 Nate’s dad is trying to stop drinking.
3 a computer 8 Nate’s mom has moved back and has
4 no got a job.
5 an adult jail
6 Jake 25 1 changed
2 took
20 1 seventeen 3 ‘d been
2 three 4 had asked
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3 four 5 had come
4 two
5 a thousand 26 1 d 2 c 3 f 4 b 5 a 6 e
6 eighteen
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27 1 I stop feeling pleased when Mr. O’Farrell 30 1 control freak
asks me whether I’d like to talk to a 2 social media
group of younger students. 3 homecoming
2 I ask Leah if she’s going to the service. 4 stereotype
3 I stop near some cheap stores, go into a 5 capital offense
hairdresser’s, and ask if they can cut
my hair.
4 Eli asks why the police aren’t checking
whether other people had reasons
to hate Simon.
5 The detective asks me if I know about
another site Simon had where he
wrote longer posts.
6 The detective asks me if I hated Simon
for writing it.
7 I ask my mum if she’s got the money to
pay for the meal, and she gets upset.
8 I get very nervous when the detective asks
me if I want my father in the room.
28 Police: criminal evidence
investigation
School: freshman prom locker
Computers: link screen thread
29 1 Jake and I slept together the first time just
after junior prom.
2 A guy’s wife was cheating on him,
and he paid someone to kill her.
3 I break up with Keely at her house
because it’s private.
4 “I hooked up with Nate at Luis’s party
at the end of junior year.”
5 But I guess I know now that no one
I hung out with really cared about me.
6 I still think about Nate all the time,
but I’m going out with Evan, a guy from
Math Club, now.
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