Inside Reading 1 Answer Key
Inside Reading 1 Answer Key
Inside Reading 1 Answer Key
Reading Level 1
Reading Comprehension p. 5
1. T 3. T 5. F 7. F
2. F 4. T 6. F 8. T
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 5–6
A
1. changed 5. person 9. natural
2. planned 6. structure 10. hurt, lessen
3. abroad 7. great 11. replace
4. next 8. payment 12. main, purpose
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 6
B
1. a 3. e 5. b
2. f 4. c 6. d
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 6
C
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
snow skiing horseback riding mountain climbing
race‐car driving motorcycle racing other: (student’s choice)
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 6–7
D
2. d. An architect’s primary job is designing buildings.
3. c. A taxi driver’s primary job is driving people from place to place for a fee.
4. g. An international airline pilot’s primary job is flying airplanes overseas.
5. f. A doctor’s primary job is helping individuals who are injured or sick.
6. b. A substitute teacher’s primary job is teaching the classes of a teacher who
is absent.
7. e. A janitor’s primary job is cleaning and taking care of buildings.
Tailors, architects, doctors, and substitute teachers do their jobs primarily during
the day. Taxi drivers, international airline pilots, and janitors might also work at
night.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 7
E
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. The jet engine revolutionized air travel.
The jet engine was a revolutionary idea in air travel.
3. Alfred Nobel created a revolution with a new substance he called “dynamite.”
Alfred Nobel created a revolutionary substance that he called “dynamite.”
4. X‐rays were a revolution in medical science.
The discovery of X‐rays revolutionized medical science.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 8
F
2. Substitute an r for the l to make steer.
3. Substitute an r for the m to make tire.
4. Substitute an a for the o to make brake.
5. Substitute an r for the h to make ride.
6. Substitute a d for the t to make pedal.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 8
G
1. subsequently substituted 3. subsequent, substituted
2. subsequent substitution
Reading Skill: Previewing p. 9
Apply
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. It will be about something called a Segway. The word future suggests the
article will be about a modern way to travel. This article will be about a
recent invention, whereas the previous reading was about a historical
invention.
2. Yes, the picture helps explain it.
3. Checked:
Where are Segways used? Where is the engine?
Who will ride Segways? How much do they cost?
How are they like bicycles? What are they used for?
Reading Comprehension p. 12
1. T 3. F 5. F 7. T 9. T
2. T 4. F 6. F 8. T
5. To build the car, the designer traces his design on a block of wood and carves
out the shape. Then he attaches the wheels and paints his car.
6. On the day of the race, the Boy Scouts roll their cars down a sloped board
individually. The fastest car down the board wins a prize.
7. The judges give individual prizes for the funniest car, the scariest car, and
other categories.
8. Every car is a winner. The contest is designed to show every boy’s
individuality.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 16
G
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. Farmers substituted animals for tractors to pull their plows.
3. Airplanes made traveling overseas easier and faster.
4. Jet airplanes minimized the time of flights.
5. No one walks anymore. People travel primarily on wheels.
6. The first airplane had a framework of wood covered by cloth.
7. Segways rely on the inherent ability of riders to maintain their balance.
8. Early trains were powered by steam. Subsequent alterations were made in
their designs so they could be powered by diesel engines.
Unit 3: They Know What You Want
Reading Comprehension p. 36
1. T 3. T 5. T 7. F
2. T 4. F 6. T 8. T
Reading Skill: Scanning p. 37
Apply
1. as many as 200
2. sex, age, education, and income of future customers
3. They want their babies to be healthy.
4. They want to be good mothers.
5. Healthy Start
6. Give your baby a Healthy Start.
7. they must decide
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 37
A
1. Surveys 5. domestic
2. sector 6. explicit
3. administrators 7. implicit
4. published
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 38
C
airlines Airlines channel passengers through security checks.
waiters Waiters channel food and drinks to a customer’s table.
arteries Arteries channel blood through the body.
charities: Charities channel donations to needy families.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 38
D
2. d. We could survey students at a university.
3. e. We could survey readers in a library.
4. c. We could survey passengers in an airport.
5. b. We could survey people entering a theater.
Reading Comprehension p. 60
1. T 3. F 5. T 7. F
2. F 4. F 6. T 8. T
Reading Skill: Identifying Examples p. 60–61
Apply
1. Similarly, contemporary cultures today employ many common items,
including clothing, as symbols of social status.
2. Paragraph 2: university students
Paragraph 3: judges
Paragraph 4: kings and queens
Paragraph 5: the bride
Paragraph 7: police officers, fire fighters, waiters, waitresses, airline pilots,
cabin stewards, nurses, dental assistants
Paragraph 8: military personnel
3. a robe, a gavel, a wig
4. a white dress, a white veil, a bouquet of flowers
5. One type, another, A third type
6. First, Second, Finally
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 61
A
2. g. A windshield is analogous to eyes.
3. d. A driver is analogous to a brain.
4. b. Tires are analogous to feet.
5. c. An engine is analogous to a heart.
6. f. A gasoline tank is analogous to a stomach.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 62
B
2. This might be an index of good education policies in the country.
3. This might be an index of a strong economy in the country.
4. This might be an index of a democratic government in the country.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 62
C
1. a long robe or a head covering
2. the position of the tassel on the graduation cap
3. rings
4. a white wedding dress
9. Lying
10. to satisfy their needs and to admire them
11. everything else in their lives
Reading Skill: Identifying Definitions p. 76
Apply B
Answer will vary. Possible answer:
thinking that you are the most important person in every situation
Review a Skill: Finding the Main Idea p. 76
Apply B
The main idea of Reading 1 is that there are many reasons for why a person
achieves success, but having ambition is the most important factor.
The main idea of Reading 2 is that some people always want to be the center of
attention, seem to have a very high opinion of themselves, and do not care how
other people feel.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 76
A
1. B 4. B 7. B
2. P 5. A 8. B
3. B 6. B 9. P
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 76–77
B
farmer mail carrier salesperson
film actor politician teacher
gardener receptionist wedding planner
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. Electric ovens 3. Vaccines
2. Airplanes
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 77
C
1. good 3. certain or confident
2. accepting or approving
1. demonstrate 3. demonstration
2. demonstrate 4. demonstrates
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 79
G
1. Last year, Ahn went to Canada because the economic slowdown in his home
country inhibited his professional opportunities.
2. Adjusting to a new country was hard. He was too inhibited to make friends
with his colleagues. He worried that his English was poor.
3. He wanted to feel more uninhibited when he spoke, so Ahn decided to join an
English class.
4. His teacher told the students, “Try to lose your inhibitions. It’s okay to make
mistakes.”
5. The teacher understood why the students were inhibited. He made them feel
less inhibited, and soon the students were laughing and talking, learning
English, and making friends.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 85–86
B
1. logic 4. site 7. specific
2. consult 5. detect 8. conclude
3. instance 6. establish 9. contrary
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 86
C
1. c. An emergency medical team goes to an accident site to help accident
victims.
2. e. Carpenters go to a construction site to build things.
3. f. Soldiers go to a battle site to fight in a battle.
4. b. A bride and groom go to a wedding site to get married.
5. a. A rock band goes to a concert site to perform.
6. d. Students go to a graduation site for their graduation ceremony.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 86
D
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. he was not wearing a coat.
3. On the contrary, he looked very old.
4. On the contrary, he was alone.
5. On the contrary, he said, “I need some money.”
6. On the contrary, he looked happy.
7. On the contrary, he got into a taxi by the park.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 87
E
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. My Spanish teacher motivated me to spend a semester in Mexico.
2. Advertisements can make you think that you will achieve good results with
their product, so you are motivated to buy them.
3. A motive for acting kind is believing that ‘what goes around, comes around.”
A motive for acting mean is wanting to hurt someone’s feelings.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 87
F
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. He established that only one room showed signs of a crime.
2. He established that Eduard and Susan were gone.
3. She established that someone had been in the house.
4. They established that his fingerprints matched the ones from the crime
scene.
Unit 7: The Fast-Food Revolution
Reading Comprehension p. 100
1. F 3. F 5. T 7. F 9. T
2. T 4. T 6. F 8. T
Reading Skill: Reading Numerical Tables p. 101
Apply
1. 1954 3. McDonald’s
2. 90 4. Pizza Hut
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 101
A
1. generations 5. albeit
2. In contrast 6. rejecting
3. inclined 7. abandon
4. acknowledges 8. expand
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 102
B
2. 10 3. 10 4. 1,000 5. 100 6. 366
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 102
C
1. f. The output of an automobile factory is new cars.
2. c. The output of a movie studio is films.
3. e. The output of a bakery is cakes and pies.
4. a. The output of an author is stories.
5. d. The output of a power plant is electricity.
6. b. The output of a dairy is milk.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 102
E
1. d. People can make or receive phone calls on a cell phone no matter where
they are.
2. a. Cooking with a microwave oven is much faster than on a wood‐burning
stove.
3. c. An air conditioner cools an entire room or home, but a ceiling fan only
cools the space near it.
4. b. You can easily fix mistakes, rewrite, or move text with a word processor.
The number of mistakes you can make on a typewriter are limited and
always look messy, unless you retype an entire page.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 111
F
1. economically 5. Economists
2. economize 6. economy
3. economy 7. economic
4. economical
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 112
G
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. A teenager’s eating habits incline toward fast food.
3. People who can’t swim are not inclined to own boats.
4. Babies are inclined to cry a lot.
5. Little sisters are inclined to copy their big sisters.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 127
G
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. Among autistic children, boys outnumber girls by a ratio of 4 to 1.
3. Of colorblind adults, men outnumber women by a ratio of 15 to 1.
4. At age 65, women outnumber men by a ratio of 10 to 7.
5. Of the people in my family, males outnumber females by a ratio of 3 to 1.
6. Of the communication I receive, email messages outnumber phone calls by a
ratio of 10 to 1.
7. For school time, my hours studying outnumber my hours in class by a ratio of
4 to 1.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 128
H
1. participate 3. participants 5. participating
2. participants 4. participation
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 128
I
Answer will vary. Possible answer:
I learned that when autistic children observe something happening, they think that
everyone is aware of what took place. In their minds, if they saw it happen, it is a
fact.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 134
B
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. wind, rain, snow, earthquakes
2. poor nutrition, illness, aging
3. wind, rain, livestock
4. low quality, high prices, poor service
5. lack of money, lack of time, illness
6. little time spent together, changes in interests
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 118
C
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. a bookstore, a library
3. a garden, a greenhouse, a park, a nursery
4. children at school, passengers in a bus/train/subway/plane, people in an
office building
5. a book, a magazine, a journal, a newspaper
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 134
D
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
spring: in March or April October: in the fall
New Year’s Day: January 1 new classes: in spring or fall
a full moon animal migration: in spring and fall
your birthday: on February 11 family gatherings
a wedding
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 135
E
1. b 3. d 5. c
2. e 4. a
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 135
F
1. traced 4. process 7. impact
2. annual 5. erosion 8. ultimately
3. compatible 6. contributed
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 140
A
1. e 3. a 5. f
2. d 4. c 6. b
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 141
D
2. d. The post office might trace a lost package.
3. c. A scientist might trace the life cycle of a whale.
4. b. A grandmother might trace a family history.
5. f. The police might trace the owner of an abandoned car.
6. e. A small child might trace the letters of the alphabet.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 142
E
Answers may vary. Possible answers:
2. Detectives are going to conduct a search for the missing murder weapon.
3. Marketers will conduct a survey to identify future customers.
4. A famous composer conducted a local orchestra playing his Symphony in F.
5. Ocean scientists have conducted an experiment on poisonous algae.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 143
F
Answers may vary. Possible answers:
2. Dr. Lee’s occupation is ocean scientist.
3. Alvin has room for three occupants.
4. Looking out of the view ports occupies most of the scientists’ time.
5. Giant tube worms occupy an underwater environment without sunlight.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 144
G
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. The process of vent formation begins when seawater seeps down into the
earth’s crust.
3. The seawater is heated to over 750 F. In the process, it expands.
4. In the process of rising through the cracks, the hot water dissolves chemicals
from the rock.
5. Some of the minerals harden in the process and form a rim around the vent.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 152
G
Answers will vary.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 153
H
1. Society discriminates against people who are fat.
2. People who are colorblind usually cannot discriminate between red and
green.
3. It is against the law for employers to discriminate against someone because
of his race.
4. Immigrants often face discrimination in their new countries.
5. Movie actors wear contact lenses because studios discriminate against actors
who wear glasses.
6. I can’t discriminate between lemons and limes.
Reading Comprehension p. 156
1. F 3. F 5. T 7. F
2. T 4. T 6. T 8. F
Reading Skill: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion p. 157
Apply A
1. Fact 3. Opinion 5. Fact
2. Opinion 4. Opinion
Reading Skill: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion p. 157
Apply B
She was very brave.
Reading Skill: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion p. 157
Apply C
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
Facts:
Jesse’s arms were destroyed by a shock of electricity.
Claudia read about Jesse’s bionic arm and wanted one, too.
Opinions:
Jesse thinks his bionic arm was too expensive.
A 12‐pound artificial arm would be better than the one that Claudia has.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 157
A
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
1. Someone could drive him to work and help him get to his desk. Or he could
take a bus that accommodates wheelchairs.
2. She could listen to audio books. Or someone could read to her.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 157
B
Answers may vary. Possible answers:
2. Our library confined its children’s books to a cozy corner.
3. The private school confined its student body to girls under 18.
4. This clothing store confined its merchandise to items under $20.
5. That auto repair shop confined its repairs to Japanese cars.
6. A local radio station confined its broadcasting to ten hours a day.
7. A new magazine confined its articles to 900 words.
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 158
C
C., p. 158
1. voluntary 4. required 7. required
2. voluntary 5. voluntary 8. voluntary
3. required 6. required
Vocabulary Activities Step I: Word Level p. 158
D
1. d 2. f 3. b 4. c 6. e
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 159
E
1. The biology lab technician was suspended for a week for being careless.
2. He suspended hot lamps too close to the dishes of bacteria we were studying.
3. We had to suspend our experiment until we could grow new bacteria.
4. The technician was not paid during the time he was suspended. OR
The technician's pay was suspended during the time he was not working.
5. When he returns, we’ll show him the proper way to suspend the lamps.
Vocabulary Activities Step II: Sentence Level p. 160
F
Answers will vary. Possible answers:
2. Food from the sea provides a small proportion of the total world food supply.
3. A significant proportion of the earth’s 7.0 billion people rely on fish as a
primary source of protein.
4. Ambition seems to coincide proportionally with middle‐class status.
5. Celebrities are narcissistic out of proportion to other people.
6. The number of boys with autism is disproportionate to the number of girls
who have it.
7. A disproportionate number of the world’s malaria deaths occur in sub‐
Saharan Africa.
8. The rainforest and the native people will disappear proportionally.
9. Hundreds of new gas stations were built along the highways, with a
proportional number of new fast‐food restaurants.
10. In 2008, McDonald’s owned a greater proportion of fast‐food franchises than
Burger King did.