UNIT 4. 4B, page 30
Exercise 1
1 terms
2 apply
3 expected
4 far
5 responsible
6 steadily
7 carefree
8 sight
9 idle
10 awful
11 stable
12 quite
13 confrontational
14 frustration
15 thing
Exercise 2
1 c
2 a, b, d
3 a, d
4 b, c
Exercise 3
1 Girls mature a good / great deal more quickly than boys.
2 I am quite a lot less confrontational than I was when I was a kid.
3 I’m not quite as self-centred as I was when I was younger.
4 Mark is the tallest in our class by a long way.
5 My A levels were far more difficult than other exams I’ve taken.
Exercise 4
1 The later you are, the angrier he’ll be.
2 The sooner we start, the sooner we can finish.
3 The more tired she is, the more bad-tempered she gets.
4 The harder you work, the more money you’ll earn.
5 The further he is from home, the more homesick he feels.
6 The more sophisticated the computer, the more likely it is to go wrong.