Exercise 38
4 - The printing boom
2 - The revolutionary impact of the printing press
Exercise 39
1. TRUE
The new fossil is the remains of a T. rex. (see paragraph 1 and the first two lines of
paragraph 2).
2. FALSE
"Juvenile" is the opposite of "mature"
3. TRUE
doubt whether the Nanotyrannus actually existed = Many paleontologists think that so-
called Nanotyrannus fossils are actually juvenile T. rex specimens
Exercise 40
A
D
E
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Exercise 41
1. True
widespread in oceans and seas = pervasive in marine environments.
2. Not given
No information about which fish are MORE at risk.
3. Not given
No information about other types of fish.
4. False
"In the firing line" means they are a TARGET for banning, but implies that they haven't been
banned yet.
5. True
yet to discover how serious = still a lot they do not know about the magnitude of its impact
Exercise 42
1. landmark
2. cause
3. evidence
4. unequivocal
5. emissions
6. reductions
7. projected
8. scenarios
9. experiment
10. consequences
Exercise 43
D
Exercise 44
1. C
- a corpus is a collection of texts used to help linguists analyse a language.
2. B
- the BNC was made to document British English from the 20th century as "a representative
sample of spoken and written British English of that time".
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