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

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.3 - Perfect pets? for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read rule A in the Active grammar box. Find three examples of as + adjective + as in the article (lines 9, 51 and 61). Which meaning (1 or 2) does each example have?
  2. Look at phrases a-h and answer the questions.

Answer

a)

  • bought and sold for as little as a few hundred dollars there are as few as 150,000 left
  • buying wildlife online is as damaging as killing it yourself
  • (The first two examples show surprise about a statement. The last example means the two things are equal.)

b)

1

  1. as much as - as little as
  2. well under - well over
  3. not very much - a great deal
  4. a tiny minority - a large majority
  5. virtually all - virtually none
  6. precisely - approximately
  7. as many as - as few as
  8. a minimum - a maximum

2

  • not very much
  • a great deal
  • a tiny minority
  • a large majority
  • virtually all
  • virtually none
  • a minimum
  • a maximum

3

  • as much as
  • as little as
  • well under
  • well over
  • precisely
  • approximately
  • as many as
  • as few as
  • a minimum
  • a maximum

4

  • as much as
  • as little as
  • not very much
  • a great deal