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

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 08 - Listening 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

Work in pairs and answer the questions below.

Answer

  1. To escape the latest outbreak of the plague.
  2. Clara Redwood fell ill and the hotel doctor was called.
  3. He examined Mrs Redwood carefully, then called the hotel manager and spoke to him in French.
  4. She was sent to get the medicine from the doctor's surgery on the other side of Paris. She travelled in the doctor's carriage, while the doctor stayed with her mother.
  5. It took four hours.
  6. Because the hotel manager and the doctor both denied ever having met Eleanor's mother.
  7. Nothing. The room was empty, the decorations had been replaced and the beautiful red velvet curtains had disappeared.
  8. Officials refused to believe her.
  9. She was declared insane and put in a mental hospital.
  10. No, she was never able to trace her mother.