CAE UNIT 12

Answer Key

Use of English and

Grammar Focus p.120 Vocabulary
Word formation (Part 3) Exercise 4
1 incessant, immensity
2 randomness, amplification
Exercise 2 3 irritated, annoyed, uproar, infuriated
The sound of waves crashing against rocks
Exercise 5
Exercise 4 1A 4A
1 irresistible 2A 5A
2 unsurprisingly 3B 6B
3 soothing
4 ranking(s)
5anticipation
6 powerfully
7 central
Vocabulary focus p.124
8 Predictably
Exercise 1
1D 5F

Reading Focus p.122 2A

3B
6C
7H
4E 8G
Multiple matching (part 8)
Exercise 2
1 hum, buzz 5 patter
Exercise 2
2 roar 6 creak
1B
3 snap 7 rustle
('absence of man-made noise')
4 gurgle, whoosh 8 whisper, sigh
2A
('Silence unsettles us. Silence both widens our attention and
Exercise 3
focuses it'; 'It's not that we hear nothing - we hear everything)
1 buzzing 5 gurgling
3D
2 clicks 6 pattered
('People began whispering to one another and some people
3 snapped 7 creaking
began to walk out'; 'For those who actually widened their
4 popping 8 chattering
awareness and listened carefully, they would have heard a
world of unintended sound:)
Exercise 5
4B
1 ducks 4 frogs
('And in the American West? Maybe twelve:)
2 birds 5 penguins
5A
3 owls 6 snakes
('At 2 a.m. a silent house can be an unsettling house.
It creaks. It clicks. It shuffles:)
6B
('Instead of nothing, he heard')
7A Listening focus p.125
('[the sounds] were gone and with it, my sense of tranquillity')
8C Multiple choice (Part I)
(,Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist ... noted that in a
dense moss-covered forest it is possible to be aware of Exercise 2
something as delicate as the sound of a falling rain drop - 1B 4B
undetectable in any city:) 2B 5C
9D 3A 6B
('the audience burst into an uproar - "infuriated and
dismayed"')
10 C
(,Man-made noise dulls us. Thought narrows. Sitting
by a river or waterfall, or on a secluded stretch of beach, our
thoughts become expansive. Our nervous system slows and
soothes:)
Grammar focus p.127 Review p. 129
Future in the past: advanced Exercise 1
features 1 was planning
2 was meant to be coming
5 were working
6 was supposed to
3 was going to ask 7 were due to play
Exercise 1 4 would be 8 would have been
1 was about to
2 weren't meant to, was meant to Exercise 2
3 was meant to/due to leave (verb form changes here) 1 roar 5 whooshing
4 were thinking of inviting (verb form changes here) 2 croaked 6 buzzing
5 was about to 3 hooted 7 humming
6 was about to 4 shuffled 8 snapped
Exercise 2 Exercise 3
1 no 1 forgettable 5 founders
2 yes 2 attachment 6 clicking
3 yes 3 comfort 7 audible
4 yes 4 dedicated 8 nostalgic
Exercise 3
1 were to have left
2 was to have become
3 were to perform
4 were to be informed
5 were to sign
6 was to have been fired

Exercise 4
1 was supposed to be/have been finished
2 were due to release
3 were to have been told
4 was thinking of asking (for)
5 was about to close
6 would have invited Sarah

Writing focus p.128

Review (Part 2)
Exercise 2
1 awesomeness, bubbly, so fantastic, amazing
2 dance along like a local crazy, feeling like you just won
the X Factor
3 melody, track, vocals, riffs

Exercise 3
1 D (informal)
2 A (informal)
3 B (formal)
4 E (informal)
5 C (informal)
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