Cover of the textbook Solutions Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter B2 Exam Skills Trainer 2 for the textbook Solutions Intermediate - Workbook with authors Tim Falla and Paul A. Davies from Oxford University Press

Question

Read the Strategy above. Then read the extract and sentences 1-4, which could all be correct options in a multiple-choice task. Note the words and phrases which give the same information in the extract and sentences.

Answer

  1. the achievement of a long-term goal = dream come true
  2. fond of travelling by rail = adore train travel
  3. dissatisfied by the length of train journeys = in the UK even the longest trips seem to end too soon for my taste
  4. Other people on the train were more sociable than the speaker was used to = I found the Canadian passengers more willing to chat than the British