Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Vocabulary and listening for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to the first part of the programme. Were your predictions correct?
  2. Listen again. What is the 'big question' that experts have been asking? What do you think the answer is?

Answer

a)

  1. a
  2. a
  3. a
  4. a
  5. a
  6. b

b)

If our living standards have improved so much, why have our levels of happiness stayed the same? Why is our happiness not increasing with our income and our free time?