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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key UNIT 1 COMPREHENSION, page 12 1. Don 5. Ryan VOCABULARY, pages 4-5 2. Amanda 6. Don 3. Ryan 7. Don 1. managers 7. Postings 4. Amanda 8. Ryan 2. rewards résumés 8. 3. skills 9. interviews 4. careers 10. ideal
STEP 1: Organize, page 13 5. settings 11. advice 6. hire SKILLS SETTINGS REWARDS editing video working making MAIN IDEAS skydiving outside $15,000/year 2, page 7 teaching working in seeing 1. F 4. F an office people learn 2. F 5. F understanding 3. T how people seeing get along happy couples I DETAILS, page 8 introduced running a business FIND A JOB working on a What Many What Bolles Says Will computer People Do Help You working with look on the people decide what kind of job Internet is ideal update your decide what kind of REVIEW, page 15 LinkedIn page place you want to work in a. 1, 3, 2 e. 2, 3, 1 send out lots of b. 3, 1, 2 f. 1, 3, 2 résumés do exercises in What c. 3, 2, 1 g. 3, 2, 1 Color Is Your d. 1, 3, 2 Parachute? think about job rewards EXPAND, page 16 think about your skills
1. (huge / pretty good / expensive)
2. (happy / great / not very good)
3. (teaching / technical / lazy)
4. (organized / long / unfriendly)
5. (useful / bad / used) MAKE INFERENCES, page 9
6. (setting/advanced/regular) 1. T
7. (outdoor / delicious / beautiful)
8. (manager / smart / friendly) 2. F 3. T
9. (experience / advice / skills)
10. (alone / on teams / in settings)
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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key CREATE, page 16 REVISE 1. skills
4. Answers will vary. 1, page 22 2. advice
5. Answers will vary.
Underline: I would like to become a computer 3. résumé
6. Answers will vary.
animator and make films like Brave,
The Avengers, and The Hobbit. GRAMMAR 2, page 23
Paragraph 1: c (After this job is ideal for me 1, page 17
because I love to work on computers, and I love
1. bad, new, small, great, fun, last, successful
to draw.), b (After Animators can make a lot of 2. my, my, your, my
money, and that is important.)
Paragraph 2: b (After I have good skills for 2, pages 18-19
designing clothes.), d (After One reward is that
1. Jenny is looking for a new career.
they get to see people wearing their designs.)
2. She didn’t like her old job.
3. Our manager is funny and smart.
4. Juan found his new job on the Internet. UNIT 2
5. My sister is out of work.
6. Richard Bolles has an interesting job.
7. David’s wife has a huge office. VOCABULARY
8. Tom and Andrea sold their business.
9. That company pays its workers very well. 1, page 28
10. Dee has a great résumé. 1. b 6. c 2. b 7. c 3, page 19 3. b 8. a
Answers will vary. Suggested answers: 4. c 9. c
1. The man is young. He has short hair. He is 5. d
hungry. He drives an old truck.
His truck is old. The old truck is dirty. 2, page 29
2. The woman is sleepy. She has curly hair. 1. f 6. c
She’s working at a big desk. Her desk is 2. a 7. i messy. 3. g 8. b
3. The doctor is young and big straight . He has 4. h 9. d
hair. He is talking to an old patient. 5. e
His patient is a short woman. She is sitting on
a long table. She is happy. MAIN IDEAS WRITE 2, page 31 Check: c 1, page 21
Underline: I want to be a mountain-climbing guide. DETAILS, page 32
Circle: mountain climbing guide 1. c 3. a 2, pages 21-22 2. a 4. a Paragraph 1: b Paragraph 2: c
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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key GRAMMAR REVISE 1, page 42 1, page 49
Underline: helped, told, failed, wanted, talked, Suggested answers:
remembered, looked, helped, were, took, went,
Paragraph 1: …how the app works and what it passed looks like.
1. base form of the verb + -ed
Paragraph 2: … how Twitter worked in that
2. told / tell, were / be, took / take, went / go class. 2, pages 43-44 1. came 11. researched UNIT 3 2. began 12. wrote 3. met 13. thought 4. worked 14. did VOCABULARY 5. said 15. wrote 6. was 16. played 1, page 57 7. went 17. wasn’t 1. fake money 8. practiced 18. took
2. people who make fake money / counterfeiters 9. made 19. learned 10. did 20. didn’t sleep 2, page 57 1. bills 6. equipment 3, page 45 2. fake 7. ink 1. finished 5. didn’t get 3. counterfeiters 8. illegal 2. didn’t go 6. joined 4. technologies 9. prevent 3. started 7. attended 5. scanners 10. completely 4. got 8. played MAIN IDEAS WRITE 2, page 59 1, page 47 a. Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 e.
Topic sentence: Being curious helped me solve b. Paragraph 5 Paragraph 2 f.
a big problem for my grandfather. c. Paragraph 1 Paragraph 6 g.
Supporting sentences: He can’t type emails or d. Paragraph 7
texts because he has very shaky hands. I was
curious about iPads because so many people 3, page 59
love them. I borrowed my friend’s iPad and Check: c
looked at all of the games and other apps on the
screen. I played a few games and learned about
a few apps. But the best app was Voice Text. I DETAILS, pages 59-60
touched it, I talked, then all of my words came 1. skills, equipment 4. ten, 50
on the screen. It was like someone else was 2. scanner 5. yellow
typing my words! It made me think of my 3. line 6. more
grandfather. He can’t type, but he can talk!]
Conclusion: My cousins and I bought him an
iPad with Voice Text, and now he can text or
MAKE INFERENCES, pages 60-61 email us any time! 1. b 3. a 2. b 4. a 2, page 48 Paragraph 1: b Paragraph 2: c COMPREHENSION, page 63
1. “It” is a $100 bill.
2. “Ben” is Ben Franklin, the man on the $100
bill. His portrait did not look right to Michael. He felt disappointed.
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3. “Them” are Secret Service agents. They were STEP 2: Synthesize
coming to arrest Michael Landress because he was a counterfeiter. 1, page 65
4. “Getting caught with your hand in the cookie
1. The paper feels different.
jar” means getting caught doing something that
2. There is no special line. you shouldn’t be doing.
3. The microprint looks like black lines.
4. Answers will vary. READING SKILL
5. Answers will vary. 2, page 63 2, page 65
1. After about three weeks
1. Who owns printing presses?
Explanation: It tells us that he spent three weeks
2. Who sells color-changing ink?
doing slow work before he finally printed out a
3. Answers will vary. whole sheet of $100 bills.
4. Answers will vary. 2. a week later
Explanation: It tells us that a week passed from
the day he discovered that his portrait of Ben REVIEW
Franklin was not good enough to the time he got
it perfect and the Secret Service agents came. 1, page 66 1. counterfeiter 2. arrested (her) 3. nervous
STEP1: Organize, page 64 4. completely 5. illegal 6. breaking the law
7. prevent (counterfeiting) CASUAL PROFESSIONA 2, page 67 COUNTERFEIT L 1. equipment 4. fake ERS COUNTERFEIT 2. technology 5. bill ERS 3. scanner 6. ink (R1) (R2) EXPAND 1. What home computer artistic skills kind of skills know how to run 2, pages 68-69 skills do a printing press 1. brand name they 2. labels / packaging need?
3. packaging / labels or labels / packaging 4. pirated 2. What computer printer printing presses 5. logo tools, ink color-changing 6. quality equip scanners ink 7. imitation ment, and computer printer a print shop materi paper special paper CREATE, pages 69-70 als do Suggested answers: they NICOLA:
Well, maybe you know that these need?
products are all fake, but that kid over 3. How microprint looks
there is buying a lot of stuff. Look! can like black lines He just bought some software. you ink is not color- JIM:
Oh, that is pirated. You can tell tell changing
because the label looks strange. their N: And now he’s buying bags. fake bills no special line are fake?
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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key READING SKILL CREATE, pages 96-97 2, page 91
Answers will vary. Suggested answers:
1. Asking “Do you want change?” is not against Important Main Climax Resolution
the rules of etiquette. The driver is trying to save background conflict
you time. You can simply say “Yes, I want information
change” and then decide how much money you want to tip the driver. The English Senegal An Another
2. Don’t worry. It’s NOT impolite to listen to are famous ese English African
music with earbuds on the train. It’s a public for standing student woman man
place. Your boyfriend might need to learn to in line for and the yelled explained
follow the rules of etiquette in New York, though. everything. English at the English
There is an unwritten rule against talking to But the tradition Seneg etiquette to people you don’t know! student from of alese the
3. That rule is about talking to the driver when it Senegal standing man. Senegalese
is not necessary. If you need information, that is didn’t know in line. man.
important, and it is an exception to the rule. You that in 1993
can also greet the driver, but don’t be surprised when he
if he does not greet you back. This is New York. went there.
I think people in Togo have better manners! GRAMMAR
STEP 1: Organize, page 92 1, page 97
NYC Subway: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Underline: Don’t lean, Talk, Cover, Don’t block,
Tokyo Subway: 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 Give, don’t talk 1. No
2. the person or people you’re talking to (“you”).
STEP 2: Synthesize, page 93 2, page 98
Answers will vary. Suggested answers:
1. Don’t smoke 5. Don’t park RACHEL:
…don’t blow your nose loudly, and 2. Turn off 6. Tip don’t talk on your
3. Don’t look at 7. Take out cell phone. 4. Don’t sing
SHELLY: …don’t talk to people on the train, and don’t make eye 3, page 99 contact with people.
Answers will vary. Suggested answers:
1. Please don’t play loud music on the bus.
2. Don’t smoke on the bus, please. REVIEW, pages 94-95
3. Always say hello to your driver. 1. rude 9. blocking
4. Shawn, please don’t talk to the driver. It’s 2. eye contact 10. push against the rules. 3. expert 11. sneeze
5. Don’t make eye contact with strangers. It’s 4. etiquette 12. blow your nose
against New York’s rules of etiquette. 5. elderly 13. civilized 6. pole 14. confused 7. annoyed 15. rely on WRITE 8. enforce 16. manners 1, page 101 Check: A EXPAND, pages 95-96
1. a 4. d 7. a 2. d 5. c 3. b 6. d
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MAKE INFERENCES, pages 113-114
Answers will vary. Suggested answers: 1. a.
(1) the name of the London subway
Explanation: If Americans have been eating (2) a very big system
these GMOs for so long, they may not care if
(3) use a map when they ride the Tube
they eat GMOs or not. Since no GMO labels are
(4) are very big, so it can take a long time to
required in the United States though, they walk through them.
probably don’t know they are eating GMOs. 2. b.
Explanation: The food chain is changing as a REVISE result of the GMO corn. 3. a. 1, page 103
Explanation: Since Monsanto did not know that
Check: A (clearer: all verb forms in the
GMO corn would create problems, AquAdvatage
imperative: Walk, Don’t eat, Study)
probably doesn’t know either. 2, page 103
Answers will vary. Suggested answers: COMPREHENSION, page 116 •
Don’t eat on the streetcars. It’s against the
1. b 3. e 5. d rules.
2. c 4. a 6. f •
Buy a ticket before you get on the train. •
Put your bicycle in the end of the car where it says “Bikes.” READING SKILL • Don’t smoke. 2, page 117
1. pesticides or herbicides; GMOs UNIT 5 2. 100 miles
3. people who are trying to lose weight; people who have heart disease VOCABULARY 2, page 109
STEP 1: Organize, pages 117-118
1. h 5. B 9. f
2. j 6. I 10. g 3. d 7. e 4. c 8. a MAIN IDEAS 2, page 112
a. 5 d. 8 f. 4
b. 1 e. 7 h. 6 c. 3 g. 2 3, page 112 Check: c DETAILS, page 113
1. T 4. F 7. T
2. T 5. T 8. T
3. F 6. T 9. F
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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key MAIN IDEAS
and Harry on a long journey that led them to the 2, page 137 basement of Hogwarts. 1. the same
(past tense: the author wants readers to feel 2. three
more distant from the events in the story) 3. similar to
STEP ONE: Organize, pages 142-143 DETAILS, page 137 Part One a journey FEATURES OF FEATURES OF leaving home EVERY HERO’S HARRY STORY (R1) POTTER’S Part Two STORY (R2) a test/challenge succeeding at the challenge Part The hero leaves Harry goes into One on his journey. the basement of Part Three Hogwarts. returning home The mentor bringing what he/she gained shows the hero others are changed, too some useful things.
MAKE INFERENCES, page 138 Part The hero doesn’t Harry gets past
Answers will vary. Suggested answers: Two believe he can the eating plant.
1. the good things in life, i.e. happiness, succeed. friendship, love, success Harry wins a 2. make mistakes The hero magic game of
3. a valuable lesson or reward succeeds in his chess. challenges by his intelligence, Harry defeats
COMPREHENSION, pages 140-141 strength, or Lord Voldemort. a. 1 e. 4 wisdom. b. 7 f. 5 c. 3 g. 2 d. 8 h. 6 Part The hero returns Harry wakes up Three home. in bed with Dumbledore The hero’s smiling down on READING SKILL family/friends are him. affected by what 2, page 141
1. One day, Harry and his two friends find happened on the The world is journey. saved from Lord
something strange at their school: a large three-
headed dog. They learn that the dog is Voldemort getting the Sorcerer’s
protecting something called the Sorcerer’s
Stone. This magical stone takes Hermione, Ron, Stone.
and Harry on a long journey that leads them to the basement of Hogwarts.
(present tense: the author wants to help readers REVIEW, pages 145-146
feel more connected with the story) 1. dangerous 9. intelligent 2. fail 10. struggles
2. One day, Harry and his two friends found 3. journey 11. defeats
something strange at their school: a large three- 4. safety 12. succeeds
headed dog. They learned that the dog was 5. opportunity 13. adventure
protecting something called the Sorcerer’s 6. mentors 14. treasure
Stone. This magical stone took Hermione, Ron, 7. magic 15. affects 8. protect
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4. When I travel to other countries, I like to learn
the old stories of that culture. 1, page 147
5. Before Harry Potter decides to fight
Voldemort, he gets the help of his friends, Ron NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB and Hermione. a. defeated 1. defeat defeat X b. defeating WRITE 2. danger endanger dangerous dangerously a. failed b. 3. failure fail failingly 3, page 154 failing
Underline: Mulan is a girl hero…instead of her a. magical b. father. 4. magic X magically magic
Circle: Her challenge is to pass as a boy…the a. other soldiers. protection
Double underline: But she is very clever…on the 5. protect protective X b. enemy soldiers. protector
Bracket: Mulan and her men win the battle…being a good soldier. 6. safety save safe safely 7. success succeed successful successfully REVISE 2, page 155 2, page 147 Check: c 1. magical or magic 5. saves 2. protective 6. fails 3. dangerously 7. defeat, fails UNIT 7 4. successfully VOCABULARY GRAMMAR 1, page 160 1, page 149
1. c 4. A 7. g
Atalanta is a popular Greek hero. She is a great
2. f 5. I 8. h
runner. She can run faster than any man or
3. d 6. b 9. e
woman. Her father wants her to marry. But she
doesn’t want to belong to any man. When she
refuses to marry, her father gets angry. They 2, pages 161-162
argue. Finally, she agrees to a deal. She will 1. fever
marry the first man who can beat her in a race. 2. treat
Many young men try to defeat her, but they all 3. cure
fail. She is too fast. One young man,
4. Sore throat, patients
Hippomeses, asks a god for help. The god tells 5. popular
him to throw down three golden apples on the 6. saliva
race course. When he does this, Atalanta stops
7. swollen, swelling, veins, blood, flow
running. She wants to look at the beautiful
golden apples. Hippomeses wins the race, and Atalanta marries him. MAIN IDEAS 2, page 150 2, page 164
1. When I choose a book to read, I usually Biology: a
choose one with exciting adventures. History: a
2. When I read stories to my children, I try to Today: c
decide if the hero follows Joseph Campbell’s rules.
3. My son wants to be a superhero when he grows up.
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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key 2, page 174
head and put my head over the sink. Then, I 1. bandage 6. swollen
turned on the hot water all the way. The towel
2. shots, relax 7. cure
was like a tent over the hot steamy water. Next, 3. vein 8. patients
I breathed hard through my nose. I did this for 4. saliva 9. blood, blood
about 15 minutes. Finally, near the end I could 5. flows
breathe more easily through one side of my
nose. I did this three more times over the next
24 hours until I could breathe normally. EXPAND, page 175 1. a 4. b UNIT 8 2. b 5. a 3. a 6. b VOCABULARY GRAMMAR 2, page 190
1. c 4. e 7. i 1, page 176
2. a 5. f 8. b 1. carefully
3. g 6. d 9. h
2. “carefully” describes the verb “pushed” 2, page 177 MAIN IDEAS
Circled adverbs: quietly, nervously, warmly, well
Adjective forms: 1. quiet 2. nervous 3. warm 2, page 192 4. good 1. b 4. b 2. a 5. b 3, page 178 3. a 1. slowly 5. happy 2. quickly 6. gently 3. careful 7. carefully DETAILS, page 193 4. warm 8. painful
1. a. The Kogi Indian child goes to live in a dark house for 18 years. WRITE
b. The Waorani hunter in the Amazon follows animals’ smells. 1, page 181
c. The Mazatec farmer in Mexico whistles to 1. Sally Collingsworth talk across the valleys.
2. When she was six years old.
2. a. Gold rush brought disease (result: one 3. In Canada
quarter of the Yanomami are dead) 4. A bad earache
b. Chemicals from oil companies (result:
5. A hot onion against the ear
Cofan can no longer drink the water or grow 6. Yes. food there)
7. The heat from the hot onion made the pain go
c. Dam on the Narmada River (result: over away.
250,000 indigenous people had to leave their REVISE homes) 3. The Ariaal 1, page 00 4. Moving to villages Check: B 5. Schools
Time order words: First, Then, After that, Finally 2, page 183
MAKE INFERENCES, page 194
Last winter I had a bad cold. I was home from
work for a week. I couldn’t breathe well through
1. a. have to move away
my nose. I remembered an old remedy my b. to poor areas
grandmother used. First, I put a towel over my
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2. a. their own unique
STEP 2: SYNTHESIZE, page 200
b. the voice of a culture
Answers will vary. Suggested answers:
Like all indigenous cultures … COMPREHENSION, page 197
They are used to eating fruit and meat from the
forest. Their ancestors lived in the forest and
1. c 3. B 5. a
knew it very well. Even though many Penan live 2. c 4. b
in villages, they are still very connected to the small remaining nearby forest. READING SKILL This way of life ...
The forest is still disappearing because of 2, page 198 logging and oil companies.
1. Paragraph 5: Asik, the leader, welcomes us.
2. Paragraph 6: He says, “There are no more Because of these changes…
trees, and all the land is no good. The animals
They will need to find a new way of living, away
are gone; the river is muddy. Here we sleep on from the forest.
hard logs, but we have plenty to eat.” Most of them …
Now, the village Penan will need to leave their
STEP 1: ORGANIZE, page 199
villages because of the dam projects. If they
Answers will vary. Suggested answers:
leave their villages, they will be even farther
from the forest that is their home. GENERAL HOW ARE THE STATEMENT PENAN AN REVIEW, pages 201-203 (R1) EXAMPLE? (R2)
1. a 6. c 11. b 1. “These cultures The Penan eat fruit,
2. b 7. b 12. a have deep roots vegetables, and
3. b 8. a 13. c in their histories, meat—all caught in
4. c 9. c 14. a languages, and the forest. 5. a 10. b the places they Sharing is an live.” important part of Penan life. EXPAND, page 203 1. b 4. e 2. “Recent changes The Penan in the 2. d 5. a in the world are village do not seem 3. f 6. c too big and are very happy. They do happening too not have enough to fast. Most eat because they GRAMMAR indigenous cannot hunt in the cultures can no forest any more. 1, page 205 longer adapt to
Underline: are traveling, are going to ask, will them.”
tell, will be, is giving, will listen, Will…hear, will…stop 3. “Oil and logging The logging 1. are traveling companies . . companies destroyed 2. are going to ask .want their land.” a lot of the Penan 3. will tell forest. 4. “Usually they Tu’o and many other 2, pages 206-207 have to move Penan had to move to
1. will make / are going to make away from the the village many years
2. will disappear / are going to disappear lands of their ago.
3. won’t be / aren’t going to be ancestors.”
4. won’t be / isn’t going to be
5. will it end / is it going to end
6. is coming / is going to come
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