Answer — Exercise 5
6.3 - Memory box·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
Read the extract again and answer the questions below.
Answer
- People often idealise the dead (i.e. remember their good points and forget their faults).
- She was sceptical - she didn’t believe her mother was as happy and as optimistic as people said.
- He possibly felt uneasy about what it might contain and the effect it might have on Catherine.
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- curious, nervous, excited
- 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.