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The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7 - Plant life for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Listen to seven pairs of sentences. Decide if the words in each sentence have the same (S) meaning in Exercise 6 or different (D). Use the word forms and other words in the sentences to help you.

Answer

  1. a) S b) D → the root cause of a problem = the basic cause
  2. a) S b) D → plant is a verb here. Plant a bomb = put it where you want it to explode
  3. a) D → blossom is a verb. If your career blossoms, it starts to go well.  b) S
  4. a) D → stem is a verb; stem from means is caused by, is the result of b) S
  5. a) S b) D → a stormy relationship is one where the couple argue a lot and are angry
  6. a) D → floods of complaints = lots and lots of complaints b) S
  7. a) S b) D → the seed of an idea = the start of an idea

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