Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.3 - Memory box for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Read the extract again and answer the questions below.

Answer

  1. People often idealise the dead (i.e. remember their good points and forget their faults).
  2. She was sceptical - she didn’t believe her mother was as happy and as optimistic as people said.
  3. He possibly felt uneasy about what it might contain and the effect it might have on Catherine.
  4. -
  5. -
  6. curious, nervous, excited
  7. Catherine was sceptical about how happy her mother was before she died; her father and stepmother were uneasy about giving her the memory box; Catherine is curious about why they felt so uneasy; Catherine was uninterested in her mother when she was growing up and initially she was uninterested in the box; Catherine used to feel annoyed if people referred to Charlotte as her stepmother.