07/01/2009

ALLIGATORS - REVIEW & PRACTICE - UNIT 3

These are the answers to the exercises (except ex.4 which we haven't seen in class)

1. ... decided that life at the magazine
the article claimed that ...
the company hadn't yet become...
the site had received over a thousand hits
... which included a number of bizarre questions
the magazine was preparing to forget...

2. 1 Doing things for other people is life's biggest pleasure.
2 Anyone wishing to take the exam must register in June.
3 Most of the dead animals found after the earthquake were domestic pets.
4 Feeling sleepy, Luisa went to bed.
5 When swimming, it is compulsory that you wear a bathing cap.
6 Having been famous for years, he finally wanted some peace and quiet.
7 Banned from exhibiting their paintings in the exhibition, they decided to set up their own.
8 Waking up early as usual, David looked out of the window.

3. 1 avid 2 page-turner 3 black humour 4 hooked 5 readable 6 one-dimensional 7 based 8 gripping 9 couldn't put it down 10 bestseller 11 puns 12 irony 13 moving 14 fictionalised 15 depict 16 surreal

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