Homework Answers (worksheet - unit 2)

Please do all of this worksheet for homework:
2 1 doping has become irresistable to many athletes, if only to keep pace with competitors who are doing it. (lines 8-10)
2 Where victory is paramount, athletes will seize any opportunity (lines 10-12)
3 Sports authorities fear that a new form of doping will be undetectable and thus much less preventable (lines 14-15)
4 Treatments that regenerate muscle, increase its strength and protect it from degradation will soon be entering human clinical trials for muscle-wasting disorders. (lines 16-19)
5 it is also a dream come true for an athlete bent on doping. (lines 25-26)
6 The chemicals are indistinguishable from their natural counterparts (lines 26-27)
7 the world may be about to watch one of its final Olympic Games without genetically enhanced athletes. (lines 36-38)

Vocabulary
3 1 synthetic, 2 counterparts, 3 certainly, 4 detect, 5 irresistible, 6 treatments, 7 degradation, 8 manipulating, 9 scandals (The vertical word is specimens)

Grammar
4 1 has been struggling / has struggled, 2 has David been playing, 3 has signed, 4 Have you set, 5 have been trying, 6 hadn't expected, 7 Has the college entered, 8 has won

5 1 As the information age has arrived, people's work and lives have become/ are becoming more and more dependent on computers.
2 It has been happening for the past two weeks, at the same time every evening.
3 I used my lighter to light the candle but unfortunately [no I've] also lit a book I had just been reading!
4 We had been / were waiting for 20 minutes before someone came to give us a menu.
5 The computer is one of those inventions that has changed the way we live.
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7 There have been recent cases in other sports events in which people have injured themselves because of unsafe equipment.

6 1 ...Ian Thorp had broken the world record for the 50m freestyel earlier today.
2 ...Rusedski had been cleeared of drub-taking and the charges against him dropped.
3 ...builders had almost completed work on the new stadium.


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