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

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 05 - 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

Find the words or sentences in the article that tell you the things below.

Answer

  1. My phone and laptop are within constant touching distance.
  2. I have a constant drip-drip of information from any of the 750 online friends and followers ...
  3. l am a ... man with ... long-standing mates.
  4. I am not alone in feeling like an island.
  5. Far from bringing me closer to people, my phone drives me further away.
  6. When my long-suffering girlfriend comes round, she has to prise me from my phone or the internet.
  7. During work hours, I chatter away on social-networking sites, delaying tasks.
  8. ... he spent all of Rihanna's headline set reading updates from Twitter ...
  9. ... none of us can go cold turkey.