The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.4 - Secret island for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Work in pairs. Check you understand the words in bold.
Answer the questions.
Answer
a)
deserted → empty and quiet because there are no people there
abandoned → left by the people who owned or used it
uninhabited → not lived in
rehabilitation → the process of helping someone to live in a healthy, active way again
quarantine → keeping a person or animal apart from others for a time in case they are infected with a disease
b)
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Maybe there is nowhere for people to work, so they move away. Perhaps a building is deteriorating and needs repair but there is no money. Perhaps an area is no longer desirable to live in.
People who have been ill, broken a bone or had surgery may need rehabilitation. Addicts or prisoners also need rehabilitation.