Homework Answers (Reading p52-53)

Tonight's homework was the reading "Chips with Everything", Ex #2, 3 & 4.

Answers:
2)=c
3) 1 combat - verb: try to prevent something bad from happening or getting worse
2 pooling - verb: collecting and using together
3 obsolete - adjective: no longer in use
4 address - verb: deal with, try to solve
5 granules - noun: very small grain-like pieces of a substance
6 suspended - verb: hung
7 dilemma - noun: a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made
8 sensors - noun: devises to measure and record something
9 incinerated - verb: completely burned
10 harness - verb: control something, in order to use its power

4) 1=H (lines 41-46)
2=G (lines 32-36)
3= D (lines 26-28)
4= I (lines 50-52)
5=B (lines 11-12)

EXTRA HOMEWORK: Try the rest of the page if you have extra time.
VOCABULARY p53

5) 1a, 2c, 3a, 4b, 5c, 6a, 7b

6) 1c, 2b, 3e, 4a, 5d

EXTRA HOMEWORK: Try the 'style extra' section on p49 if you have extra time.
Suggested answers:

3) 1 The lack of sunlight under water makes it impossible to see deep-sea fish without artificial lighting.
2 It is said that Alexander the Great descended in a diving bell.
3 Early inventors found it difficult to make submersibles watertight.
4 It must have astonished the people of seventeenth-century London that Van Drebbel's boat was able to travel under water.
5 Beebe left it to Barton to raise finance for the bathysphere.
6 It took some time to carry out unmanned tests of the bathysphere.
7 Because Beebe had studied deep-sea fishing nets, he found it easy to identify the creatures he saw from the bathysphere.