Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - Superpowers for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Choose the words in italics which are not possible.
  2. What is the difference in meaning (if any) between the two correct options?

Answer

a)

  1. option
  2. hopeless
  3. doubt
  4. chance
  5. hope
  6. doubt
  7. any chance
  8. doubt

b)

  1. no chance = no possibility; no doubt = certainty
  2. doubtful = unlikely; possible = there is a chance
  3. haven't a hope /chance = same meaning
  4. remote / slim = same meaning
  5. bound / sure = same meaning
  6. likelihood / chance = same meaning
  7. every likelihood = a slightly better chance than a distinct possibility
  8. chance / hope both refer to possibility, hope implies a more personal involvement in the outcome