Northstar 4E Reading & Writing Level 2: 1 Answer Key
Northstar 4E Reading & Writing Level 2: 1 Answer Key
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 8. résumés
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?
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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key
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. He has straight 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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1. It’s [the room is] big Music and Math. 2. Opposite of logical thinking
enough for a salsa creative thinking and facts
band to practice
(paragraph 7) 3. Why is creative helps us make help you use
thinking new things [and] what you learn in
important? solve everyday your classes to
2. The red colors Art and History problems that make something
seem angry, and that don’t have one new and original
is how people were easy answer
feeling during that 4. Who or what schools college students
revolution (paragraph needs to change?
7)
5. What should teach creative a. Be curious.
they do? thinking b. Take risks.
3. Trying to feed a Health and Math. c. Whatever you
family healthy food create, make a
with only a small lot of it.
amount of money
(paragraph 9)
REVIEW, pages 39-40
1. combining 8. original
COMPREHENSION, page 35 2. curious 9. encourage
Check: a, c, d, 3. Take a risk 10. create
4. study 11. focus on
5. pieces 12. measure
READING SKILL 6. logical 13. prove
7. fact 14. solve
2, page 36
Paragraph 4
Try out your EXPAND
Take risks. Spanish on a
native speaker. 1, page 40
Write a song, 1. c 4. b
even if you don’t 2. d 5. e
know how. 3. a
Learn a new
sport. 2, page 40
1. had an idea 4. made me think of
2. realized 5. solved the problem
Paragraph 5 3. remembered
Write lots of
Whatever you stories.
create, make a Draw lots of
lot of it. pictures.
Build lots of
models.
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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 e. Paragraph 4
Topic sentence: Being curious helped me solve b. Paragraph 5 f. Paragraph 2
a big problem for my grandfather. c. Paragraph 1 g. Paragraph 6
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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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)
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GRAMMAR UNIT 4
1, page 71
1. safer, cheaper, easier VOCABULARY
2. than
2, page 84
2, page 72 1. j 5. h 9. a
1. harder 5. more expensive 2. d 6. e 10. k
2. better 6. easier 3. f 7. b 11. i
3. cheaper 7. smarter 4. g 8. c
4. more comfortable
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GRAMMAR
1. a 4. d 7. a
2. d 5. c
3. b 6. d
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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
3.
3, page 112 Vegetarian __l___ __j___ __h___
Check: c / Vegan
4. Low-fat X __e___ X
DETAILS, page 113
1. T 4. F 7. T
__c___,
2. T 5. T 8. T 5. Local __d___ X
3. F 6. T 9. F ___k__
6. Gluten-
X __f___ X
free
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NorthStar 4e Reading & Writing Level 2 Answer Key
1, page 121
NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB WRITE
1 allergy X allergic X 1, page 127
2 approval approve approving approvingly paragraph 1
3 ethics X ethical ethically 1. a “no-cooking” diet
4 environment X environmental environmentally 2. underline: It’s mostly because I am a terrible
cook, and I have very little time to cook because
5 resistance resist resistant X
I am going to school and working.
paragraph 2
2, page 121 1. a Chinese diet
1. ethics 5. environmental 2. underline: I follow this diet mostly because I
2. allergic 6. resistance am used to it.
3. approvingly 7. approval
4. resist
REVISE
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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
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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
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1. b 4. a REVIEW
2. c 5. b
3. b 1, page 173
1. d 4. e 7. g
2. b 5. f
3. a 6. c
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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
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3, page 207
1. Will the Penan culture disappear? / Is the
Penan culture going to disappear?
2. How many Penan nomads will be alive in 50
years? / How many Penan nomads are going to
be alive in 50 years?
3. Will anyone speak Penan in 100 years? /Is
anyone going to speak Penan in 100 years?
4–6. Answers will vary.
PREPARE TO WRITE
3, page 210
Answers will vary. Suggested answers:
Note 1: refuse to adapt
Note 2: tourism changing their culture
WRITE
2, page 211
A. 2
B. 2
REVISE
1, page 212
1. R
2. O
3. S
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