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Unit 4 Dealing with
AIDS
Key to the Exercises
Text comprehension
I. Decide which of the
following best states the author's purpose of
writing.
D
II. Judge,
according to the text, whether the following
statements are true or false.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
IV
. Explain in your own
words the following sentences.
1.
David and I
felt so young and healthy that we couldn't believe
we would fall victim to any
disease before the word AIDS appeared
in my life.
2.
We didn't spend as much time together
as before.
3.
I asked him face to face to explain why
we were not friends any more.
4.
I couldn't go
away from him when he needed me badly.
5.
I was unable
to control any more the strong emotions which I
had been trying to hold back
until this moment.
Vocabulary
I. Explain the underlined part in each
sentence in your own words.
1.
having a very
enjoyable and exciting time
2.
disconnected
and refused to take my phone call
3.
go away from
or refuse to be with
4.
didn't give
up, still taking him to be my best friend as
before
5.
experience so much pain and stress
6.
endure all the pain and sorrow by
myself
II. Fill in the blank in each sentence
with a word or phrase taken from the box in its
appropriate
form.
1.
invincible 5.
marking 9.
positive
2.
stress
6.
blame 10.
recognized
3.
confront
7.
pushing aside
4.
keep up
8.
emotional
III. Choose a
word or phrase that best completes each of the
following sentences.
1
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4 B C A C
5
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8 D D D A
IV
. Fill in each blank with
one of the two words from each pair in its
appropriate form and note
the differences in meaning between
them.
1.
a.
carefree
c.
careless
carefree
ss
b.
2.
a.
sick
c. ill
b.
sick
d. ill
3.
a.
disease
c. disease
b.
plague
d. plague
4.
a.
keep
c. maintain
b.
keep
d. maintain
V
. Give a
synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in
each sentence in the sense it is used.
1.
tighten
(intensify, enhance)
2.
unhappy
(wretched, miserable, cheerless)
3.
quickly
(rapidly, swiftly)
4.
negative
(doubtful, pessimistic, uncertain)
5.
benefit
(profit, advantage)
6.
gain
(increase, gather)
7.
cautious
(alert, watchful)
8.
beginning
(start, commencement)
VI. Fill in the blank in
each sentence with an appropriate form of the
given capitalized word in
brackets.
1.
unfavourable
5.
strengthening
2.
organisation
6.
ashamed
3.
worthless
7.
gratitude
4.
imperfect
8.
youth
Grammar
I. Put in any, each, every, some or one
of their compounds.
1.
every
5. somehow; anything
2. everything 6. anyone;
someone
3. anywhere
7. some
4. everyday 8. somewhere
II. Explain the
underlined part in each sentence in your own
words.
1.
a kind of seriousness
2.
a kind of
devotion
3.
people that cause joy
4.
the water of
the stated river
5.
a kind of zeal
6.
many kinds of tea
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