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

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 06 - Listening for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Look at the past and future achievements below. Try to match them to the boxes a-f on the timeline.

Answer

(from left to right)

  1. 3 the invention of writing (about 3200 BC)
  2. 6 the arrival of Europeans in Australia (17th century)
  3. 1 the discovery that bacteria cause diseases (18605)
  4. 2 a cure for the common cold (in the next decade)
  5. 5 the first manned mission to Mars (within 20 years)
  6. 4 human control of extreme weather events, like hurricanes (not within 20 years)