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Answer — Exercise 7

3.2 - A life in six words·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

Question

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  2. Read the text and answer the questions.
  3. Read the article again and match meanings 1-10 with the multi-word verbs in the infinitive.

Answer

b)

  1. No
  2. writer, actress, cable car conductor, waitress, cook, singer, dancer, lecturer
  3. the arts and politics
  4. She overcame great difficulties as a child and young woman, she did whatever it took to support her family, she achieved a great deal in different fields, particularly the arts and writing, and she had great courage and an appetite for life and expression.

c)

  1. grow up
  2. pick up
  3. look up to
  4. pass away
  5. go on
  6. go by
  7. take on
  8. stand for
  9. drop out
  10. be brought up

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