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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9C - Facts and figures for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Listen to the introduction to a show called Quiz Night. Answer the questions.
  2. In pairs, look at sentences 1-8 from Quiz Night. Write T (true) or F (false).
  3. Listen to a contestant on Quiz Night. Check your answers to b. How much money does he win?
  4. Listen again for why the answers are true or false. Write down all the important numbers in each answer.

Answer

a)

  1. Ten seconds
  2. a £100 b £200 c £400 d £12,800
  3. All the money
  4. Phone a friend

b)

  1. T
  2. T
  3. F
  4. T
  5. F
  6. T
  7. F
  8. F

c)

He doesn’t win anything.

d)

  1. T – Blue whales can make a sound of up to 188 decibels, whereas a lion’s roar is never more than 114 decibels.
  2. T – The First World War lasted four years, from 1914 to 1918, but the Second World War lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945.
  3. F – ...the Indian film industry produces about 1,000 films every year, which is double what Hollywood produces.
  4. T – The average temperature in July in Edinburgh is 15 degrees, and in Sydney it’s 13 degrees.
  5. F – Gold weighs about 19 grams per cm3 and silver weighs only 10.5 grams.
  6. T – Thirty per cent of the people who try to climb K2 die, usually on the way down, whereas only five per cent of the people who try to climb Everest die.
  7. F – ...out of every 100,000 people, six people died because of car accidents in Italy, compared to seven in Belgium.
  8. F – It’s better to do exercise in the afternoon, between 4.00 and 5.00.