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Answer — Exercise 6

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Câu hỏi

  1. Look at the extracts and underline five phrases for expressing estimates (when we don’t know the exact number).
  2. Which phrases in Exercise 6A could be replaced by 1) fewer than, 2) more than or 3) about / around / approximately?
  3. Listen and tick the exact number.

Câu trả lời

a)

  1. just under
  2. roughly; or so
  3. somewhere in the region of
  4. upwards of

b)

  1. fewer than - just under
  2. more than - upwards of
  3. about / around / approximately - roughly, or so, somewhere in the region of

c)

  1. b
  2. b
  3. a
  4. a
  5. a
  6. b

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