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

The key answer of exercise 5

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

Find mistakes in six of the sentences and correct them.

Answer

  1. Pet rabbits usually live for approximately eight years, but a small minority live longer.
  2. Hamsters can give birth to as many as 20 offspring at a time.
  3. A large majority of domestic parrots are able to repeat human speech.
  4. ✓
  5. Koala bears spend virtually all of their lives asleep: 18 hours a day.
  6. Horses usually die at around 20 or 25, but can live a great deal longer.
  7. Tortoises can live to well over 100 years, a great deal longer than humans.
  8. ✓