Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 15 - Now trending for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Read the article again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? How do you know?

Answer

  1. F ( little could he have known ... his choice of phrase was set to become a trend ...)
  2. F (‘peak plastic surgery’ is mentioned by social commentators, not the writer)
  3. T (Brooks claims there’s a deeper underlying cause: evolution. This infers that if something has happened as part of evolution then it’s not new.)
  4. F (in a bid to explain this, he speculates – it can be interpreted that the paper hasn’t proved anything, it’s a hypothesis)
  5. T (This will make it less likely to fall prey to predators ... This, in turn, makes it a more attractive partner.)
  6. T (As the fashion spread, however, it lost its edge and female preferences started shifted again.)
  7. T
  8. F (... I’m not alone in wanting to see the back of grumpy cats ...)