2015-2016 BEGINNER GROUP SECOND SPAN

OLR 0.5 OUTSIDE READINGS ANSWER KEY

42 AIRLINE FLIGHT REVIEWS
Part A.
1. D

2. B

3. F

4. E

5. A

6. C

Part B.
1. Singapore Airlines 2. Germanwings Airlines 3. Germanwings Airlines
4. Singapore Airlines 5. Delta Airlines
Part C.
1. F (He flew economy class.)
2. F (Passengers paid money for the meals and
drinks.)
3. T
4. T
5. T

6. F (There was no music.)

7. F (There was a magazine from last month.)
8. T

44 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN LONDON

Part A.
1. it has 402 kilometers of track
2. London Metro(the underground in London)

3. bus stops 5. night buses

4. the passenger

Part B.
1. F It has 12 lines and runs 20 hours a day.
3. T
2. F (It is less busy than the ones in Paris and
4. F (You can get on a bus and buy a ticket by
Moscow./It isnt as busy as the ones in
paying the driver.)
Paris and Moscow.)
5. F (They operate seven nights a week.)
Part C.
5. The two types of bus stops are compulsory and
1. They call it the Tube.
request bus stops. Buses always stop at compulsory
2. Shangai has the longest metro in the
bus stops but they only stop at request stops if the
world.
passenger rings the bell. Also, compulsory stop signs
3. It has 270 stations.
are white with a red roundel; request ones are red
4. They are slower than the tube but
with a white roundel.
they are cheaper.
6. You can see Londons famous landmarks (and
colorful 2000-year-history).
45 SCOOTERS
Part A.
1. A scooter
2. In the 1950s
3. having small wheels, a big comfortable seat and a wide, low
footboard
Part B.

4. (Scooter) Engines
5. Scooterists
6. drivers

1. They were noisy to operate and uncomfortable to ride.

2. He should always wear a helmet and follow all the rules of a road.
Part C.
1. b
2. d
Part D.
1. F (It is easy to pass through narrow streets.)
2. T

3. F (It is lightweight.)
4. F (It has a capacity of only two people.)
5. T

47 SHOCKING SEAFOOD DISHES

Part A.
1. fish
2. (the) heads
3. in Vietnam
4. country

5. (the) puffer fish

6. (the) puffer fish
7. sannakji
8. sannakji

9. sea cucumbers
10. cooks
11. people

Part B.
1. F (Cooks add fish sauce to it./ Sour Fish Head Soup doesnt have
any sauce in it.)
2. F (About a hundred people die from eating puffer fish every year.)

3. F It is served raw.
4. T

Part C.
1. They keep them and use them to make soup.
2. Because it has poison in it and only trained chefs can prepare it properly and make it safe to eat.
3. Yes, it is delicious.
4. Suckers on the arms can cause the octopus pieces to get stuck in a persons throat.
5. a) They have more protein than many other foods.
b) They are very low in fat.
6. Answers may vary.

48 TABLE MANNERS
Part A.
1. lifting your soup bowl to your mouth
2. eat with your left hand

3. you dont like the food

4. (the) host

Part B.
1. Table manners
2. you really like the food

3. your right hand

4. please

Part C.
1. (any two) Lifting your soup bowl to your mouth is impolite./Making noise when you are eating
is impolite. / Putting your hands and elbows on the table during the meal is impolite.
2. In Britain, people dont put hands or elbows on the table, but in Mexico, people keep their hands
on the table all the time.
3. Its impolite to speak when you are eating, and you should leave some food on your plate.
4. Answers may vary, but may include: Lifting your soup bowl to your mouth, making noise when
you are eating, slurping your tea or soup, eating before the cook is seated are impolite manners in
Turkey.

49 THE MOST POPULAR FOOD IN THE USA

Part A.
1. hamburgers
2. meatballs between two slices of bread
3. Lois Lassens
4. at LLs/the restaurant
5. sandwich of beef (between two slices of bread)

Part B.
1. popular/favorite fast food
2. a) 15 b) first hamburger
3. easy to eat while they were walking
4. flat meatballs between two slices of bread
5. much time
50 SUPERMARKETS
Part A.
1. A 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. D

6. Sailors from the USA

7. to America
8. some restaurants
9. burgers
10. Onion rings

6. Hamburg
7. wanted quick food
8. toppings for hamburgers
9. French fries /onion rings /salad
10. a) eats/has French fries b) healthy

6. A 7. D 8. A 9. D 10. A

11. A

Part B.
1- C 2- F 3- J 4- A 5- G 6- E 7- H 8- K 9- I 10- D 11- B
Part C. Answers may vary.
54 ROMANS IN BRITAIN
Part A.
1. in most of Roman Britain
2. (The) Villas
3. (The) Basilica

4. (The) Public baths

5. palace
6. (the) (governors) palace

Part B.
1. T
2. F (The Roman villas were popular mostly in
the south of England.)

beside/by the sea OR at

Fishbourne

3. T
4. F (The seaside palace of the governor was
heated by an underfloor heating system.)

Part C.
1. People lived in villages before Romans came to Britain.
2. They went to an amphitheater to watch a performance.
3. They lived in palaces/villas.
4. They could relax, get clean, keep fit, meet people, do business,
chat with friends, jump into a cold pool and have a massage.

55 THE AMISH
Part A.
1. T
8. T
2. F (They speak (a dialect of) German at home.)
9. NI
3. T
10. F (They dont believe in higher education.)
4. F (They can play baseball.)
11. F (They help men and boys with some of
5. T
the farm work./They work on the farms in the
6. F (They wear dresses and skirts in one color.)
summer./They dont work on the farms in the
7. NI
winter.
Part B.
1. They think that modern technology and habits are harmful to their community life.
2. S/he has to leave the community.
3. They make quilts.
60 PLAY PUMPS
Part A.
1. The Play Pump Water System
5. kids and adults
2. (the) childrens
6. (the ) educational messages on two sides of the tanks
3. Most people in rural Africa
7. Play Pumps
4. to the well
Part B.
4. Lines 2-3
1. Lines 16-17
5. Lines 5-6
2. Line 13
3. Lines 8-9
6. Lines 14-15
Part C.
1. The Play Pumps made life better in her village because before they got a play pump, they didnt
have clean water in their village.
2. You can see educational messages about good health practices and advertisements. b
3. Local teams maintain the tanks.
4. Different from other pumps, they store water.
5. The lack of clean water is one cause of the high rate of child deaths.
6. a. (any two) They store water.
b. They are a center of social activity.
c. They use the energy of children at play.
62 MONEY FROM THE LOTTERY
Part A.
Text I. 1. 1 million 2. (Mels/ the) children Text II.
1. money 2. Leicester
3. working 3. lottery
Part B.
1. (When I was 34,) I found a teacher and learned
to read and write.
2. We had half a ticket each and took half the prize
money each. / I won the lottery with a friend.
3. For a long time, I had all kinds of jobs.

5. I already had a million before I won the

lottery.
6. I have a villa on the Costa Blanca and a
chteau in France, but I didnt buy them
with lottery money, I bought them some
years earlier.

4. My wife and I arent going to change anything.

7. I dont understand why Im in the

newspapers.
4

Part C.
1. F (Lisa spends one-fourth of her money on
5. F (Lisa can read and write a bit.)
lottery tickets.)
6. T
2. T
7. F (Shell take them to Skegness, to see the
sea and the sand again. (inference))
3. NI
4.
F (Their father doesnt give the
children any money.)

63 MONEY
Part A.
2. The Ancient Indians, the ancient Chinese
3. The Ancient Turks
4. The Ancient India, the ancient Chinese
5. The Aztecs
Part B.
1. person
2. using rice, bread, salt or chocolate as money
3. item used as money
4. using metal coins as money
Part C.
1. Both used ring money and liked to wear their
wealth.
2. Roman
3. China
4. a. It went bad.
b. It was eaten.
c. It wasnt easy to carry.

6. The Ancient Romans

7. The Ancient Greeks, the ancient Roman
8. The Ancient Greeks

5. each Greek city-states

6. (the) traders
7. (the) Greek coins
8. (the) real people
5. They put the pictures to make them popular.
6. They kept them on money trees.
7. They gave them as a present because (they
believed that) coins brought luck./.. .because
they were gifts of both wealth and luck.

66 JAPANESE HOUSES
Part A.
1. any room can be a living room, dining room, study or bedroom
2. inside the entrance / inside the genkan
3. (The) Ima / the largest room in the house
4. the Japanese/Japanese people/people in the house
5. futons
Part B.
1. portable (adj.)
2. extension (noun)
3. step into (verb)
4. combined (adj.)
5. humid (adj.)
6. tiny (adj.)
7. room (noun)
Part C.
1. c
2. c
3. a

c
f
d
e
a
g
b
4. c
5. b
5

67 THE MYSTERY CASTLE

Part A.
1. Mary Lou Gulley/Boyce L. Gulleys daughter
2. in 1945
Part B.
1. NI
2. F (Mary Lou went to Phoenix
after her father died.)
3. T

4.
5.
6.
7.

3. (the) house
4. in the house / Mystery castle

F (Only Marilyn Monroe could see it.)

F (The castle had 18 rooms altogether.)
T
NI

Part C.
1. found and cheap materials
3. the heat of Arizona healed him of his tuberculosis.
2. die _____________________ 4. Mary Lou was a real cat lover. / Mary Lou loved cats.