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Unit 60
... was obliged/forced to close down / had to close down / had no choice/alternative but to
close down.
... it's optional.
... have to / '11 have to pay a deposit.
... no choice/alternative, otherwise we'll gotbe bankrupt.
... must / ought to / should take it to the cleaners.
... forced him to hand it over.
... mandatory (or perhaps obligatory) for dangerous driving.
. . .compulsory/obligatory in all secondary schools.
... needn't have bought us a present / didn't have to buy us a present / shouldn't have bought
us a present.
... exempt from military service / not obliged to do military service.

Possible answers:
2 Most people usually suffer from a lack of time or of money.
3 Filling out a tax return is obligatory once a year in many countries.
4 Most people feel they are in need of more time and money, and millions of people in the world
are in need of food and a decent home.
5 Death is certainly inevitable for all of us.
6 If you are an adult you probably no longer have to go to school or wear nappies!
7 When I was at school, sport, maths, English and French were compulsory.
60.3 Suggested answers:

highly quite very absolutely
possible 8 d
impossible 8 d
probable d d
(un)likely d d
inevitable 8 8
certain )r d

Suggested answers:
1 A videophone in every home is quite possible by 2025.
2 Rain in the Amazon forest within eight days is highly likely!
3 A human being living to 250 is absolutely impossible.
4 We'll all be dead by 2250: absolutely inevitable.
5 A flying saucer in ~ong Kong is highly unlikely.
6 An opportunity to meet the US President is highly unlikely for most people but quite possible
for some.
7 A third world war? Very possible if we continue to build nuclear weapons.

Unit 6 1
I racket would be an ideal word here
2 sound, since it is obviously pleasant
3 noises if you mean different sounds, but noise is also possible here if you interpret 'some' to
mean not a plural number, but one sound of 'a certain, unidentifiable type', e.g. 'Some animal
must have come into the garden last night; look at these footprints.' (it's not clear what sort of
animal)
4 din or racket; din is often used for discordant music
5 noise is the only word in the group that can be used uncountably (without a)

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