Answer — Exercise 3
15 - Now trending·Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book
Question
Read the article again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? How do you know?
Answer
- F ( little could he have known ... his choice of phrase was set to become a trend ...)
- F (‘peak plastic surgery’ is mentioned by social commentators, not the writer)
- 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.)
- F (in a bid to explain this, he speculates – it can be interpreted that the paper hasn’t proved anything, it’s a hypothesis)
- T (This will make it less likely to fall prey to predators ... This, in turn, makes it a more attractive partner.)
- T (As the fashion spread, however, it lost its edge and female preferences started shifted again.)
- T
- F (... I’m not alone in wanting to see the back of grumpy cats ...)