Passages 2_Unit 1

Listen to a conversation between two friends, Akemi and Carlos, at an airport. Then check (✓) the correct answers.

Q: Carlos is ______________.

• waiting for his best friend

• leaving for vacation

• returning from Mexico City

Listen to a conversation between two friends, Akemi and Carlos, at an airport. Then check (✓) the correct answers.

Q: Carlos has known Álvaro since ______________.

• Carlos moved to San Francisco

• Álvaro moved from Mexico City

• they met in school

Listen to a conversation between two friends, Akemi and Carlos, at an airport. Then check (✓) the correct answers.

Q: Akemi talks to her friend ______________.

• almost every week

• about once a month

• every day

Listen to a conversation between two friends, Akemi and Carlos, at an airport. Then check (✓) the correct answers.

Q: Akemi is going to L.A. ______________.

• to work on her thesis

• to visit her best friend

• for her job

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

Good friends are often _____ toward each other.

• benefit

• admire

• enduring

• empathetic

• harmonize

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

Long-distance relationships _____ from keeping in touch online.

• benefit

• admire

• enduring

• empathetic

• harmonize

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

Good friends respect each other’s views, even when their opinions _____.

• benefit

• clash

• enduring

• empathetic

• harmonize

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

I have friends whose accomplishments I really _____.

• benefit

• clash

• admire

• empathetic

• harmonize

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

_____ friendships are those where you know people for many years.

• benefit

• clash

• admire

• empathetic

• enduring

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

It’s important to _____ with my teammates because we play better when we all get along.

• benefit

• clash

• harmonize

• empathetic

• enduring