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

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 02 - Reading and speaking for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Read your article again in more detail. Student A: Ask Student B questions 1-6 below. Student B: Ask Student A questions 7-12 below.

Answer

  1. It opens up new possibilities and increases the chances of finding luck and friendship.
  2. The researchers sat in public places in New York holding a sign saying 'Talk to me'. Positive results: they were generally surprised by the kindness of strangers. Negative results: they sometimes encountered hostility and suspicion.
  3. The activities that make us happy are the ones where we focus on the present, such as exercising or talking to friends.
  4. Fathers who do less housework are more stressed.
  5. The amount of housework fathers are doing is increasing, but at a very slow rate: it will be 2050 before men and women are sharing the chores equally.
  6. No, it doesn't. Although the index focuses on factors like education, health and safety, it shows it takes more than sunny weather to feel happy.
  7. Because what makes people happy is to earn more than their friends and colleagues.
  8. No, it isn't. Money has an impact on happiness, because not having enough money definitely makes people miserable.
  9. People are least happy in cities, and happiest away from cities, particularly in mountains and forests.
  10. She gave one group of students $20 to spend on themselves and another group the same amount to spend on other people. Those students who spent the money on others were much happier.
  11. 'Pro-social spending' is what Elizabeth Dunn calls the act of spending your wealth on others rather than on yourself.
  12. Because it makes you feel happier: it reminds your face muscles what it feels like to smile and smiling reminds you what it feels like to be happy.