Culture Bank 7, page 114
Exercise 2
1 b
2 a
3 c
4 b
5 c
6 c
7 b
Exercise 3
1 It is the name of a street in New York City's financial district. Some people use 'Wall Street' to mean the whole financial district.
2 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
3 It was doing better before 1929 because millions of people wanted to invest money.
4 The value of investments started to fall and the New York Stock Exchange lost 89% of its value.
Exercise 4
There are four different pieces of information.
Exercise 5
average family income and world trade.
Exercise 6
number of banks that went out of business; increase in employment after 1939
Culture Bank 8, page 115
Exercise 1
Sherlock Holmes is wearing a coat and a deerstalker hat. He is smoking a pipe and he is examining something with a magnifying glass.
Exercise 2
1 b
2 c
3 a
4 c
5 a
6 c
7 a
8 b
Exercise 4
1 78
2 appealing / fascinating
3 dark
4 bed
5 woman
6 girlfriends
Exercise 5
Positive brave, confident, curious, imaginative, intelligent, logical, observant
Negative arrogant, cold, cynical, easily bored, proud, stubborn, unemotional, unsympathetic, vain
Exercise 6
arrogant, brave, cold, easily bored, im aginative, intelligent, observant, unemotional, unsympathetic, vain
Culture Bank 9, page 116
Exercise 2
1 The large machine is the Bombe, designed by Alan Turing. It is an early form of computer used for breaking complex codes.
2 The smaller machine is the earlier Enigma machine, used by the Germans to send out and receive coded information.
3 The Enigma machine is from the 1930s and the Bombe is from World War II.
Exercise 3
1 d
2 c
3 f
4 b
5 g
6 a
7 e
Exercise 5
The first computer program was written before the first computer was built.
Exercise 6
1 F
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 F