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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3 - Reading for the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press

Question

These statements about José Mujica are all true. Find and underline evidence in the article to support them.

Answer

  1. ... donated the vast bulk of his salary to social projects
  2. 'If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me.'
  3. ... reaffirmed Uruguay as the most socially liberal country in South America.
  4. ... spent 14 years in a military prison, much of it in dungeon-like conditions.
  5. Mujica cut an impressively unpolished figure.
  6. I'm just sick of the way things are.
  7. 'We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market.' 'What we have left is the automatization of doing what the market tells us.'
  8. 'We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means - be being prudent - the seven billion people in the world could have everything they needed.'