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Possible sentences:
1 We moved over a month ago but we are still in a state of chaos.
2 The company has been going through a state of flux for some months now as two chairmen
have died in rapid succession.
3 Everything seems to be in an impossible state of confusion at the moment but I'm sure it'll all
be sorted out before the wedding.
4 It is not unusual for job candidates to get themselves into a terrible state of tension before a
final interview.

Unit 3 1

3 1.1 1 Argentinian Venezuelan Costa Rican Panamanian Mexican
Peruvian (note the v) Ecuadorian Bolivian Uruguayan Paraguayan etc.
2 Ukrainian Serbian Croatian Slovenian Bulgarian Rumanian
Albanian Mongolian Moldavian Hungarian etc.
3 Other groupings: -i adjectives seem to be Middle Eastern or Muslim countries (except Israeli);
three of the -ese adiectives are oriental.
3 I 2 Possible answers:
1 Mao-Tse Tung 3 Pope John Paul I1 5 U2
2 Nelson or Winnie Mandela 4 Luciano Pavarotti
1 Panama + Panamanian /pzna'rne~n~an/ 4 Jordan + Jordanian /dg3:'de1n1an/
2 Cyprus + Cypriot I'srpr~atl 5 Egypt + Egyptian /~'dg~pJan/
3 Ghana + Ghanaian /ga:'ne~an/ 6 Fiji -. Fijian /f~'dgi:an/

3 4 1 Madonna to marry a Frenchman? Hollywood sensation! (Note how Frenchman is normally
written as one word. French woman is usually two words.)
2 Britons have highest tax rate in EC
3 Vietnamese refugees leave Hong Kong camps
4 Police arrest Dane on smuggling charge
5 Iraqi delegation meets Pakistani President
1 Malays, Chinese (or various ethnic sub-types), and Indians (many are Tamils and Sikhs).
2 If we take Scandinavia as strictly the geographical peninsula, then Sweden and Norway are the
only countries completely in Scandinavia. If we consider it more as a language family, then
Denmark and Iceland can be added, and if as a cultural family, then Finland can be added too.
3 Approximate populations are China: 975,000,000; India: 638,000,000; USA: 218,000,000;
Indonesia: 141,000,000; Brazil: 116,000,000. The former Soviet Union used to be third, with
260,000,000 (source: The Times Atlas)
4 A difficult question! However, most linguists seem to agree on around 5,000 mutually
incomprehensible tongues. There are, of course, many many more dialects.
5 Kiribati is an independent country in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It has only about 57,000
people.
6 Inuit is an Eskimo language, and its speakers may be found in Northern Canada.
7 Languages most widely spoken, in the following order, are Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi,
Arabic (source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language CUP)

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