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

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 07 - 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 the texts and comments again. Are the statements below probably true (T) or probably false (F)? Underline the words that tell you.

Answer

  1. T ('unthinkable')
  2. T ('The Jarrow marchers were cheered and given food ... when they reached parliament, nothing was done for them')
  3. F ('the organisers held a 'funeral' and burnt a coffin labelled 'Summer of Love")
  4. T (Under overwhelming pressure')
  5. F ('swept to victory')
  6. T (The town was murdered ... like a hangman dropping a noose')
  7. T (I remember my mother bursting into tears')
  8. T ("We just couldn't believe it ... it seemed impossible ... We were worried it might be closed again')
  9. T (the presidency was always closed to us')