Unit 2
READING
Exercise 1
1 Muhammad Ali 2 Michael Jordan 3 Serena Williams 4 David Beckham 5 Jack
Nicklaus
Exercise 2
1 Boxing 2 Basketball 3 Tennis 4 Football 5 Golf
Exercise 3
1B 2A 3B 4C SA
Exercise 4 1 B 2 B
Exercise 5 1 1: opinion 2: factual 2 yes, most appropriate answer chosen 3 yes,
appeal, successful athlete; no, matching words are often misleading 4 referred to
himself as
Exercise 6 1 questions, instructions 3 key 4 Scan 5 wrong
Exercise 7 1 B, D 2 B, C 3 A, B
Exercise 9 past simple, past continuous, present perfect
Exercise 10 1 she was playing ... ,Serena hit...
-2. playing a match/ hitting a serve
-3. Long, continued action: playing a match; short, finished action: hit a serve
-4 yes
Exercise 11 1 whilst they were training
2 past continuous, past simple
Exercise 12 1 was playing, rang
2 fell, he was running
3 started
4 was raining
Exercise 13 A.he threw the ball to his opponent
B. he was scoring a goal
C.he heard a loud noise
Exercise 14 B
Exercise 15 1 B 2 C 3 B 4 B
WRITING
Exercise 2 1 USA, USSR and Germany 2 Norway 3 France
Exercise 4 1 Introduction 2 Main body 3 Main body 4 Summary
Exercise 5 1 yes 2 separate 3 both
Exercise 6 1 introduction 2 main body 3 summary
Exercise 8 1C 2A 3D 48 9 (significantly) more successful than
Exercise 10 achieved far more gold medals, slightly more silver and bronze
medals, a little more successful than Great Britain, the same number of medals
Exercise 11 1 slower/ more slowly
2 further/ farther
3 colder; more successful
4 more interesting
5 better
6 more oftemn
7 older
8 more gracefully
Exercise 12 easily , far, slightly, a little, roughly
Exercise 13 1, 2, 5 3 and 4 just describe facts
Exercise 14
1 The most successful country is the USA, which has won over 2,500 medals.
2 The line graph shows that Germany and Great Britain have won a similar number
of medals.
3 The second most successful country is the USSR, which has won fewer than half
the medals of the USA.
Exercise 15:
The given charts has illustrated the number of Olympics’ participant attended over
the last decades. There are some changes overtime but the women’s athletes has
some significant growth
The bar charts show the number of male and female joined the Olympic since
1928. In the year of that and 1952, most of the men athletes are always
overcrowded with 3 times higher than women due to the gender gap at that point.
In 1984, the numbers of women’s athletes increased with almost 2000 people.
While the number of men steady year by year, in 2012, the number of women
almost catch with men, compared to the year of 1924, 50 times higher (100 versus
4800)
The line charts given the overall of people who attended the
