Unit 1
After You Read
Language Focus
2.1) begrudge 2) enmeshed 3) swear
4) entrusted with 5) haunt 6) stammered out
7) stifle 8) scented 9) scorned
10) scrutinized
3.1) emerge — emerging/emergence 2) when — that
3) was — were 4) escaping — had escaped
5) by — with 6) which — that
7) was — was not 8) magnitude — multitude
9) listen — listen to 10) inclusively — exclusively
5.1) are
2) is
3) was
4) are
5) is
6) is 7) was 8) are 9) are 10) is
Unit 2
Before You Read
The First World War The Second World War
Central Powers the Allies and the Axis
the Sarajevo assassination the Normandy landings
Zimmermann Telegram atomic bombing
Treaty of Versailles concentration camps
After You Read
Knowledge Focus
1.1) T 2) F 3) T 4) T 5) F 6) F 7) F 8) T
Language Focus
2.1) make head or tail of
2) triumph over
3) in store
4) in need of 5) hold on to 6) rule out
7) the other way around 8) left out
3.1) brutal 2) damage 3) unreasonable
4) publicize 5) brief 6) proverb
4.a.1) No sooner had he begun to speak, than I sensed that something was wrong.
2) Never has Susan seen a more beautifully decorated room.
3) Had I known what was going to happen, I would never have left her alone.
4) On the road lay an old beggar.
5) Only by shouting was he able to make himself heard.
b.1) A child — Child 2) you can — can you
3) Here she comes! 4) does a hermit live — lives a hermit
5) does — did
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1.1) useful 2) the team spirit 3) cut off
4) doubted 5) sadder 6) before
7) seventeenth 8) careless
Unit 3
After You Read
Language Focus
1.1) hereditary
2) roamed
3) peel
4) nourishment 5) attach 6) stingy
7) languishing 8) eccentric 9) mortgage