ANSWERS TO CAMBRIDGE CHECKPOINT ENGLISH WORKBOOK 2. 1 Descriptive writing to create an atmosphere or setting

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1 ANSWERS TO CAMBRIDGE CHECKPOINT ENGLISH WORKBOOK 2 Note: It is expected that students wi use dictionaries and thesauruses in their answers to the questions testing understanding of vocabuary in the comprehension sections. 1 Descriptive writing to create an atmosphere or setting Extract 1 1 a) Lit up b) Automaticay/without thinking c) Fearfu worry d) Determined e) Made me fee sick f) Extremey hatefu. 2 There is a gas ight. 3 He is afraid someone wi attack him from behind. 4 The ight from the room fas on the anding. He can see no one and there is no creak from the stairs suggesting anyone is going down them. 5 He has heard a faint sound from upstairs and wants to find out what caused it. 6 Indescribabe 7 I had never smet cannot describe it. 8 He finds the atmosphere distastefu and abominabe. This feeing is caused by the icy cod and the indescribabe odour. 9 Checks to see if anyone is hiding in the cupboards and corners. Coses the door and eaves. 10 The narrator s sense that someone was present; the faint sound; the odour; the cod in the room; the chi musty air; the description of the shadowy room; the dark; the description of the odour and how the narrator found it abominabe coud a be mentioned in an answer. Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

2 Extract 2: Niagara Fas 1 a) Without thought/spontaneousy b) Heavy, powerfu fow of water c) Dapped d) Being abe to make out (through sight) e) Having very many features f) Magnificence. 2 The waters continuay change their shape and form and so the viewer is never abe to ook at a stabe picture. 3 But it is swifty ost again in the mutitudinous tossing merriment. 4 It is as if the waters are acting as one and foowing a carefuy panned-out movement, ike sodiers when marching/advancing. 5 It is the impression given as it stays sti in the midst of the rapidy moving current. 6 The coour of the water changes to a deep green; the waters move in a more statey, uniform way as they prepare to punge over the Fas. 7 It is as if it is about to punge to its fate as it reaches the edge of the Fas. 8 The currents and the movements of the waters give the impression that there is no sense of order in their movement. Successfu responses to the second part of the question wi seect appropriate vocabuary suggesting the manic energy of the Fas from paragraph 1 and may attempt to contrast them with words and phrases from paragraph 2 that convey the majesty and grandeur of the waters. 9 The passage contains many metaphors but ony a few simies. Credit any correct identification of each and ook for comments that expain how the comparisons hep the reader to visuaise the spendour of the scene. 10 Credit any comments that successfuy expain the descriptive effects created by the writer. Engish usage The director of the schoo pay, as we as the other members of the cast, was worried. The eading actor was not at rehearsa. A phone ca to his home produced bad news; he had tripped over and bady sprained his anke; his foot was heaviy swoen. The director discussed the matter with the headteacher of the schoo. The pay, with many performers and swift scene changes, was due for the dress rehearsa the next day. The scenes foowed one after another; woud the eading actor be abe to cope with the physica exertions required? He was paying the part of a sodier in fu uniform, incuding miitary boots. Perhaps, he might manage if he coud wear a pair of trainers. 2 Diaries and journas Extract 1: Kate Stone s journa 1 She traveed in a carriage pued by two mues on her own apart from Webster the driver. 2 The mues had not eaten for 24 hours and they did not move very quicky; their corn had been stoen. 3 The mues corn had been stoen and he had not got them any to repace it. Had Kate reaised she woud have bought corn for the mues. 4 It was night-time and the woods were pitch back. 5 He was worried about her being scared and was concerned for her. 6 She was annoyed that he had not repaced the mues corn and had not tod her about it, but she appreciated the concern that he showed for her when she was scared, despite obviousy being scared himsef, and was not angry with him. 2 Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 2014

3 7 It was ten at night and they had assumed that she woud not be back unti the next day. 8 A the famiy had been i and confined to bed. Mr McRae feared that the heavy rain woud affect the cotton crop. 9 To persuade other women to join the society. 10 They were a cose community; dependent on cotton farming; reasonaby we to do Webster is a servant (possiby a save?); very concerned to contribute to the war effort and support their troops. Extract 2: Dorothy Wordsworth s journa 1 a) Being aone b) Speech where the words coud not be understood (as it was in a foreign anguage) c) Aowed d) Extreme disappointment e) A group of many different characters f) A very arge amount. 2 The moon on the water; the rocky shore; the ights from the houses. 3 They were discussing the times they had spent together in earier years (when they were growing up). 4 Because of the fog. 5 Cear moonit night gave way to thick fog that made the ship s deck wet and sippery; sun came up (at about 10a.m.) and dispersed the fog. 6 Went to ook for odgings. 7 Guarded the uggage and observed the other traveers. 8 The hats/caps they were wearing; the detaied descriptions given by Dorothy and the use of humorous simies. 9 Credit any sensibe inference that makes reference to detais contained in the passage. 10 Credit any appropriate comment which is supported by textua reference. Punctuation: commas, dashes and hyphens 1 The summer evenings were ong. It was not dark, yet. Presenty Tom checked his whiste. A stranger was before him a boy a shade arger than himsef. A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor itte shabby viage of St Petersburg. This boy was we dressed, too we dressed on a weekday. This was simpy astounding. His cap was a dainty thing, his cose-buttoned bue coth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaoons. He had shoes on and it was ony Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of ribbon. He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom s vitas. The more Tom stared at the spendid marve, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow. Neither boy spoke. If one moved, the other moved but ony sidewise, in a circe; they kept face to face and eye to eye a the time. 2 Finay Tom said: I can ick you! I d ike to see you try it. We, I can do it. No you can t, either. Yes I can. No you can t. I can. You can t. Can! Can t! Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

4 3 Myths and egends Yeti Abominabe Snowman of the Himaayas 1 a) A mystery which apparenty beongs to another word b) A creature that waks on two feet c) Fuy engaged in d) Something that encourages visitors to the country to spend their money e) Can t be ceary seen f) Hermit g) The pace where the path is found suggests that the sighting of the Yeti was not a practica joke. 2 They are remote and forbidding. 3 Stories of the Yeti bring tourists and their money to Nepa; the creature is aso ooked on by the peope as something mythica to be worshipped. 4 Looked ike a human being; waked upright; wore no cothes. 5 The trai was ost in the thick undergrowth. 6 Yetis are never found by peope who deiberatey go ooking for them; reports of their appearance come ony from peope who see them accidentay. 7 They foowed the tracks in the snow but ost them when the snow turned to ice which was too hard for footprints. 8 They coud not reate the photographs to any known creature so assume they must have been of a monkey or bear. 9 That the creature in the photographs is ceary waking on two egs whie the creatures suggested by the scientists wak on a fours. 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. Kaang s Peope 1 a) A iving beings had everything they needed b) Peace and unity c) Extreme (innocent) happiness d) Mixed up e) Happy with the fact that they were highy peased with what he had produced f) Easiy broken g) This unusua mystery. 2 Beneath the earth 3 They were content and a creatures ived together with no disagreement. 4 A great tree whose branches woud cover the whoe word 5 It was ta/had a ong neck; it was inquisitive. 6 They were to ive in peace and harmony; they shoud tak and isten to each other; the humans shoud not make fire. 7 They were cod and were afraid that the sun woud not come back. 8 The animas too became afraid when they heard what was said; they feared they woud freeze to death. 4 Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 2014

5 9 The animas ran away because they were scared of the fire; they were further scared because they coud hear ony shouts when the humans caed to them and coud no onger distinguish between words and shouts. 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. 4 Leafets and reports Trave Cinic Leafet 1 To advise traveers to foreign countries on steps to take to avoid serious iness. 2 If their seas are not intact, it s possibe that they are od bottes that have been fied with water other than purified water. 3 Non-chorinated water; freshwater akes and streams; waking barefoot on a beach. So that you do not catch diseases from parasites in water or from damp ground. 4 It is possibe that saads have been washed in contaminated water. 5 So that mosquitoes cannot get at their skin. 6 Use on exposed skin; use products containing DEET; spray repeents on cothes as we as skin; check suitabiity for chidren; if using sunscreen, spray repeent on top. 7 a) In non-airconditioned screened rooms cose shutters and spray with mosquito knockdown spray. b) Do not camp near stagnant water; seep under a mosquito net impregnated with permethrin. 8 There may be a power cut and eectric vaporisers wi stop working; there is no evidence that yeast extract works. 9 Any three of the foowing symptoms: feeing feverish; sweats and chis; headaches; musce pains; cough; diarrhoea. Any of the websites isted at the end of the eafet. 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. Significant rise in chidren s texting and time spent onine 1 The age group sends more texts more frequenty than any other group surveyed. 2 a) Texting habits among this age group have increased significanty in the ast year; the age group sends amost four times as many texts as the UK average. b) Girs in this age group send 35% more texts than boys of the same age hours a week (17 hours on each activity) 4 To access the internet 5 The percentage of chidren in this age group using smartphones is 17% higher than the percentage of aduts using them. 6 14% 7 Two fifths (39%) of year ods now say they woud miss their mobie phone more than any other device, up from just over a quarter (28%) in Ony one in five (20%) said that they woud miss TV the most. 8 The information they give about themseves on sites such as Facebook where they can chat with other peope/friends. 9 The use of However casts doubt on the chidren s caim that they know how to stay safe onine, especiay as the statistica evidence shows that they actuay know ony a sma percentage of the peope with whom they are in contact. 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

6 Vocabuary: puras Singuar Pura Singuar Pura bacterium bacteria orry orries barracks barracks oasis oases basis bases person persons criterion criteria piano pianos curricuum curricua radius radii diagnosis diagnoses stimuus stimui echo echoes studio studios fish fish tooth teeth gas gases vertebra vertebrae hero heroes window windows kangaroo kangaroos watch watches 5 Reading newspapers 1 Word begins 2014 with unusua number of extreme weather events 1 a) Cosey joined together b) Which keeps a cose watch on the word s weather conditions c) Stretched out fuy d) Means of transport have been hed up/prevented from moving, which has affected their profits e) Unusua and unexpected differences in temperature f) Happening at reguar intervas. 2 Vietnam is near the equator so snow woud not be expected. Russia is a northern country in parts of which temperatures are ow so 10% above average is unusua. 3 Brazi is a hot country and its peope are used to the heat the fact that they are swetering (sweating excessivey from the heat) emphasises that the heat is unusua even for there. 4 They have affected/disrupted transport, food production and power systems. 5 That these weather conditions are definite evidence of goba warming/cimate change. 6 Exceptionay warm air and sea in the Arctic. 7 The various references to the unusua weather conditions at the beginning of 2014 and the arge number of them. 8 The changes in sea ice wi have a serious effect on the Arctic and surrounding area; further studies are needed to determine the possibe effects of the changes in the Arctic on the rest of the word. 9 Evidence is given from countries across the whoe word (Russia, the Arctic, Vietnam, Brazi, Austraia). 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. Winter Oympics a) They are universay popuar as they are a team that is never expected to win b) Their uggage had gone missing c) Something popuar which many peope want very much to be part of 6 Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 2014

7 d) Gave in to e) Ruined/wrecked f) Continued despite the probem. 2 Athetes from the tropics taking part in a winter sports activity such as sedging is unusua and finding them in the snows of Russia further reinforces the unusua nature of the situation. 3 This is the sixth time a Jamaican team has competed in this event at the Winter Oympics; very few peope expected that they woud ever compete this many times. 4 They are at present in ast (30th) pace, a ong way behind the eaders, and ony the top 20 teams quaify for the fina. 5 Simpy to quaify to compete in the Winter Oympics. 6 They had to raise money for equipment and trave expenses; they had to overcome injury probems; they ost their uggage on arriva in Sochi and Watts equipment got damaged on the second run. 7 It is expected that someone woud support the team by ceebrating a Jamaican popuar hero. 8 They were as oved as ever ony the home bobs were given a ouder cheer. 9 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs 1 My friends te me that I am the better/best/bestest athete in the cass cub. 2 My best friend sings very we/best/good. 3 Out of a of my friends, you eat the eastest/ess/east. 4 Whie we were waiting for the test to begin, I think Maria was nervouser/most nervous/more nervous than Lee. 5 Who is the inteigentest/most inteigent/more inteigent person you have ever met? 6 If I had to choose between Karim and Michae, I woud say that Karim is the stronger/strongest/strong. 7 This exercise is harder/more harder/most harder than the one we did yesterday. 8 Of a three of you, Maria runs worse/better/best. 9 Who is the east ikey/most ike/ikey to win the prize for top student? 10 After the teacher s expanation, I now understand Agebra best/the better/much better. 6 Reading newspapers 2 Oh, how I hate the Beautifu Game 1 a) Disturbing/threatening/possiby dishonest b) Brainess c) Spoit and over-induged d) Mixed in with e) Someone who hates something intensey f) Ordinary, honest peope g) Stout-hearted. Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

8 2 First-person viewpoint engages reader; use of onomatopoeia (hoot, honk) adds dramatic detai; active verbs ratted, thrusting, waving bring scene to ife; exacty what is being described is not ceary expained so reader is engaged. 3 Grossy overweight and acking in any socia refinement the fans are physicay the exact opposite of the sportsmen they admire but it is perhaps impied that their oafish nature is refected in the behaviour of the footbaers on the pitch. 4 The spoit payers; graceess managers; supporters who behave with exaggerated mascuinity; the threatening and disturbing character of the owners of the cubs; the over-officious attitude of the referees and inesmen; the over-excited nature of match commentators and the non-stop views of those who anayse the action for radio and teevision; the songs and chanting from the terraces and the comments of the supporters who are convinced of the rightness of their views; the mascots who accompany the payers onto the pitch before the warm-up. 5 The anaysts expain and comment on the action during commentaries on teevision and radio. They are unpuggabe as it seems impossibe to stop them from giving their views. 6 That when a footba tournament is on it is impossibe to escape supporters who a want to make known their opinions of the action. 7 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. 8 They speak very quicky without making any sense they are over-excited. 9 The anguage used suggests that many peope view footba as a reigious cut. 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. Variety Review: Coo Runnings 1 a) Innate/inherent b) Ineffectuay/unsuccessfuy c) Novice/rookie d) Made [to do]/forced e) Essentia/necessary f) Gets by on the money they have/stretches it out. 2 It may not be an immediate success but it is ikey to gather support over time. 3 The word impies that she woud not give up on her wish to make the fim and stuck cosey to the task. 4 It is not of interest just to sports fans but has a wider appea through the human interest of the story. 5 Some of the facts have been atered to make the story more appeaing to the audience. 6 It suggests that the athetes woud have a natura affinity for bobsedding; the comparison with penguins reinforces the winter sports theme penguins ook awkward but are in contro when on the ice; Caribbean athetes may aso appear awkward in winter conditions but woud aso adapt in the way the penguins do. 7 The story of the fim seems highy unikey (even by Hoywood standards) and woud not be beieved if it had not actuay happened. 8 The fim tes the story of the underdogs without being over-sanctimonious. 9 The actor creates a credibe character and shows his abiity to make the audience sympathise with him an aspect of his ski as an actor which is not aways required in other parts he has payed. 10 Credit any appropriate comments supported by textua reference. 8 Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 2014

9 Figures of speech 1 Rhetorica question 2 Pun 3 Aiteration 4 Personification 5 Antithesis 6 Tricoon 7 Apostrophe 8 Sarcasm 9 Assonance 10 Onomatopoeia. 7 Writing summaries Disneyand Opens The foowing reevant points shoud be made: Park opened on 17 Juy Known as Back Sunday because of many probems. Park was unfinished workers were sti busy. Trees were sti being panted. Some of the paint was sti wet. Counterfeit tickets. Twice the number of invited guests showed up as a resut of this. Despite timed tickets guests who entered eary in the day did not eave as expected so the park was very crowded. Restaurants and drink stas ran out of food and drinks. The asphat on Main Street was sti wet and women s high hees got stuck. Many of the rides broke down. The Mark Twain riverboat was overfu with passengers and when they moved from one side to the other, the boat began to ist and water came over the deck. (Note: The Mark Twain neary sinking was not on opening day.) A pumbers strike during the construction meant a choice between working bathrooms or working water fountains. The temperature was 38 C. The decision to choose bathrooms meant guests became hot and thirsty. Réunion: France, with a tropica accent The foowing reevant points shoud be made: Réunion is a vocanic isand in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department of France. You pay with euros, get served croissants for breakfast. The isand ies just south of Mauritius. There is a very active vocano. There is an exciting music scene. Musica tourists shoud try to attend the Sakifo Musik Festiva. It is a truy ovey way to hear ive music. Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

10 The temperature is bamy. The sea deicious. The food (fresh fish and spicy stews) yummy. The ocas attractive. Le sud sauvage (the wid south) fees eerie, at once prehistoric and futuristic. Réunion s east coast offers good waking among extinct vocanoes. The Arctic The foowing reevant points shoud be made: Temperatures are warming more than twice as fast as they are for the panet as a whoe. Sea ice is meting. A warmer cimate wi have a major impact on pant and anima species, such as poar bears. There wi be major changes in the composition of pant communities. Southern pant species wi migrate northwards and suppress existing pants, affecting the species that depend on them. Insects responsibe for poination wi be threatened. Changes in access to nutritious pants wi affect herbivores such as musk oxen and reindeer. Changes in birds nesting patterns wi infuence how migratory birds cope with cimate change. The future for fish stocks depends on sea temperatures and agae booms that are an essentia source of food. Arctic waters wi become more acidic, affecting some organisms. Retreating sea ice is a major threat to most sea species and waruses. Ony immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions can prevent catastrophic and irreversibe change. Guiver in Liiput The foowing reevant points shoud be made but the summary shoud not be written as a first-person narrative: I found my arms and egs were strongy fastened on each side to the ground. My hair was tied down in the same manner. I heard a confused noise about me but coud see nothing. I fet something aive moving on my eft eg. I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands. I fet at east forty more of the same kind foowing the first. I roared so oud, that they a ran back in a fright. They soon returned, and one of them cried out Hekinah degu. I ay in great uneasiness. I managed to break the strings. I oosened the strings that tied down my hair on the eft side, so that I was just abe to turn my head. I heard one of them cry aoud Togo phonac. A hundred arrows discharged on my eft hand. I groaned with grief and pain. Some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides. I thought it the most prudent method to ie sti. My design was to continue so ti night, when, my eft hand being aready oose, I coud easiy free mysef. Their numbers increased. Against my right ear, I heard a knocking. I saw a stage erected capabe of hoding four of the inhabitants. One of them made a ong uninteigibe speech. 10 Cambridge Checkpoint Engish Workbook 2 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 2014