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Visit National Geographic Learning online at NGL.Cengage.com Visit our corporate website at www.cengage.com Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 18 17 16 15 14 15469_00_FM_p001-003_ptg01.indd 2 7/23/14 3:13 PM Contents Unit 1 Relationships page 4 Unit 2 Storytelling page 10 Unit 3 Science and technology page 16 Unit 4 Art and creativity page 22 Unit 5 Development page 28 Unit 6 Alternative travel page 34 Unit 7 Natural resources page 40 Unit 8 The news page 46 Unit 9 Talented people page 52 Unit 10 Customs and behavior page 58 Unit 11 Knowledge and learning page 64 Unit 12 The economy page 70 15469_00_FM_p001-003_ptg01.indd 3 7/23/14 3:13 PM Unit 1 Relationships 1a Friendship Grammar present tenses review 3 a close acquaintance/relationship/friend/relative 4 a flat/faithful/travel companion 1 Complete the questions from a survey on friendship. 5 a(n) odd/happy/blood couple Use present tenses. 6 a(n) fair-weather/old/passing friend 1 What person or people (you / spend) the most time with 4 Complete the sentences. Use the best collocation recently? from Exercises 2 and 3. 2 (you / consider) this 1 Traveling alone can have its advantages, but I person or people to be close friends? always prefer to have a . 3 How many really close friends 2 They are a very : Kate (you / have)? is a highly-educated scientific researcher and Dan 4 Would you say your friendship circle is a professional soccer player who left school (increase) or not? when he was fifteen. 5 (you/make) any new 3 Relationships where one person thinks they are friends in the past month? better than the other don’t work, but in this case 6 How long (you / they have a great for know) your closest friend? each other. 7 How often (you / see) 4 Travis is probably my best friend. We were this person? in college. 8 Generally, what qualities 5 I don’t really consider Ana to be a (you / look for) in a friend? : she’s the mother of my brother-in-law’s wife. Vocabulary friends: nouns 5 Complete the phrasal verbs. Choose the and phrasal verbs correct option. 2 Match the adjectives in the box to these words. You 1 I used to hang out with / around John a lot at may use the adjectives more than once. college because we were both swimmers. 2 I’m meeting with / up with a group of colleagues casual close closest complete on Friday. Would you like to join us? intimate strong true 3 It’s very important to stand by / with your friends when they are in trouble. 1 a(n) , , friendship 4 Some people are very good at keeping up with / 2 a bond on with their old friends. I’ve lost touch with practically all the people I knew in college. 3 a , friend 5 Jane and I were friends in high school, but when 4 a stranger met we just seemed to pick off / up from where 5 a acquaintance we left off 20 years ago. 3 Which word in each group does NOT collocate with 6 It’s your 30th birthday next month. What kind of the single word next to it? Cross out the word. celebration are you going for / after? 1 a mutual friend/respect/student/interest 2 a fellow student/companion/scientist/traveler 4 57078_01_U01_p004-009_ptg01.indd 4 7/30/14 10:03 AM 1b Young and old Reading the aging population Grammar the passive There are a couple of reasons many countries have 2 Rewrite the sentences from the active to the an aging population today. Firstly, the birth rate has passive form. declined over the last 20 years—fewer babies are being born. The second reason is that 60 years ago, there 1 Governments are forcing people to work longer. was a baby boom; these “baby boomers” are now People to reaching retirement age. And in general people have a work longer. healthier lifestyle: not only do they eat better, they also 2 Governments have raised the retirement age in exercise and keep fit. Lastly, we can’t underestimate the many countries. enormous progress that has been made in the field of The retirement age medicine. These advances have increased life expectancy in many countries. to around 80 in the developed world. People are also 3 People don’t consider someone to be old until given routine vaccinations against life-threatening they are about 80. diseases, for example, flu shots for the elderly. Someone to be The main result of the younger generation being old until they are about 80. outnumbered by the older is that, in the future, a 4 The government is encouraging each family to smaller number of young people will have to support have more children. this older population. For all of us, that means working longer, spending more time caring for old people, and Each family to paying more social insurance to fund their medical have more children. treatment. But of course, it also puts a strain on family 5 The government reduces taxes for families with relationships. Parents find that, having spent 20 years more than two children. bringing up their own children, they then spend the Taxes for next ten looking after their aging parents—often both families with more than two children. sets. That means less time together as a couple and less 6 The public have not welcomed the idea of free time to enjoy with other friends and family. It’s working longer for less money. not easy. The idea of working longer for less money 1 Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)? by the public. 1 People are not having as many children as in 3 Choose the correct option. the past. 1 Life expectancy is rising / is being risen in many 2 People don’t eat and exercise as healthily as in countries. the past. 2 In the Middle East, the number of young people 3 Older people are not as much at risk from deadly is growing / is being grown. diseases as they were in the past. 3 The idea of working longer has not received / has 4 The average age that anyone in the world can not been received well by people. expect to live to is now around 80. 4 Some people say that advances in medicine have 5 In the future, the money to support the old will gone / have been gone too far. come from the younger generation. 5 It is unfair that young people oblige / are obliged to 6 The aging population will help bring families pay for the care of the old.