The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.1 - History in a box for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Read extracts a)-f) from the article and answer the questions. Which phrases in bold mean.
There are two words missing in each sentence. Add the two missing words to each sentence. Use the expressions in Exercise 3A.
Answer
a)
dates back to
the outset
at regular intervals
was about to
for the foreseeable future / in years to come
b)
In years to come, we will remember this as a golden age.
Scientific breakthroughs don't happen at regular intervals; they occur irregularly.
AIDS probably dates back to the early 20th century, but began to spread rapidly in the 1980s.
We are about to enter an age of natural disasters.
From the outset, the internet was able to unite people around the world.
Poverty will be with us for the foreseeable future.