,Solution manual for Reading Keys, 5th Edition
Laraine E. Flemming
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,Instructor’s Manual
READING KEYS
FIFTH EDITION
Laraine Flemming
© 2024 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved 1
,Contents
Note to Instructors vii
I. Answer Key for Chapters 1-9
II. Answer Key for Reviewing the Key Points
III. Answer Key for Combining Your Skills
Reading 1: Mounting Research Documents the Harmful Effects of Social Media
Use on Mental Health
Reading 2: The Seven-Day Anti-Procrastination Plan
Reading 3: Culture, Subcultures, and the Marketplace
Reading 4: What Makes a Hero?
Reading 5: Unhealthy Eating Behaviors
Reading 6: Look at My Scars
Reading 7: Two Theories Answer the Question, Why Do We Do What We do?
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,I. Answer Key for Chapters 1–9
Chapter 1: Getting into a Textbook State of Mind (pp. 1-60)
Exercise 1: Keeping Yourself Motivated (p. 5)
Answers will vary.
Exercise 2: Using Visual Aids (pp. 11-14)
Note: The second part of this exercise cannot be answered with a key.
1. c
2. c
Exercise 3: Surveying a Textbook Section (pp. 14-15)
1.b
2.False
3.False
4.True
5.False
Exercise 4: Practice with Paraphrasing (pp. 26-27)
1. b
2. a
Exercise 5: Taking Marginal Notes (pp. 29-31)
1. a
2. b
Exercise 6: Creating Search Terms (p. 39)
Note: Answers will vary.
1.kinds or types of sinkholes; causes of sinkholes
2.Watergate’s effects on journalism; Watergate’s consequences for journalism
3.naming hurricanes; how hurricanes got named; origin of naming hurricanes
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Exercise 7: Using the Web for Background Knowledge (pp. 39-40)
1. Wilson was president during World War I, and he desperately wanted to establish a League of
Nations that would function like the UN does now.
Henry Cabot Lodge
2. Bonuses were supposed to be fully paid to World War I veterans in 1945, decades after the war
ended. Veterans wanted the bonuses in the 1930s, when the country was in a depression.
Hoover sent out troops and tanks to break up the demonstrations.
3. Truman beat Dewey when all indications were that Dewey would win.
4. It’s in the form of a pyramid.
physical demands for survival
spiritual or psychological ones
5. Alfred Wegener
The idea that the Earth’s crust consists of slowly-moving slabs of rock that have reshaped the
landscape over billions of years.
Exercise 8: Using Idioms in an Academic Context (pp. 44-45)
1. last resort
2. the driving force behind
3. to come to grips with
4. across the board
5. rule of thumb
Exercise 9: Making Academic Vocabulary Familiar (pp.49-50)
1. advocate
2. imminent
3. repercussions
4. dearth
5. annihilate
6. facilitate
7. components
8. innovations
9. derive
10. stimulant
Digging Deeper: Culture Clash on the American Frontier (pp. 51-57)
1. c
2. exaggerated, added on to, enlarged
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3. They learned that white men had no respect for them and violence was an acceptable way to
interact. They also copied the way White men used alcohol and went to prostitutes.
4. Sexually transmitted diseases kept the Native American birth rates low, and Indian numbers
did not multiply.
5. b
6. c
7. b
8. Native Americans tried hard to fight against the weapons being used to destroy their way of
life.
9. b
10. c
Test 1: Reviewing the Key Points (p.58)
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. F
5. T
6. F
7. F
8. F
9. F
10. T
Test 2: Enlarging Your Academic Vocabulary (pp. 59-60))
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. c
5. c
6. b
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. b
Chapter 2: More on Words and Meanings (pp. 61-117)
Exercise 1: Recognizing Restatement Clues (pp. 63-64)
1. c
2. d Note: Point out how the semicolon signals restatement.
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3. a Note: Mention that linking new words to antonyms is a good way to double vocabulary
development. Thus, learning rural with urban is a useful strategy.
4. b
5. b
Exercise 2: Recognizing Restatement Clues (pp. 65-66)
1. increasing, growing
2. calmed, quieted, made to behave Note: You might want to mention Neville Chamberlain’s
“policy of appeasement” and discuss the word’s meaning in politics.
3. violent, explosive Note: Tell students that using familiar, sound-alike words as definitions
promotes remembering—e.g., volatile and violent.
4. strong, determined
5. evaluate, view
Exercise 3: Recognizing Contrast Clues (pp. 67-68)
1. c
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. a
Exercise 4: Recognizing Contrast Clues (p. 68-69)
Note: You might ask your students to underline the contrast clues.
1. reproduction, a copy, an imitation
2. not based on fact or reality; stories that are made up
3. flashy, colorful, showy
4. destroyed, ruined, devoured
5. studied, looked closely, analyzed
Exercise 5: Recognizing Example Clues (pp. 69-71)
1. b
2. c
3. d
4. c
5. d
Exercise 6: Recognizing Example Clues (pp. 71-72)
Note: For additional practice, ask students to write sentences, creating their own examples to
illustrate unfamiliar words. I think you should supply the words and meanings. It gets tricky if they
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, I. Answer Key for Chapters 1-9 7
have to look up words they don’t know and select from several different meanings. But it’s
obviously your call.
1. speaking of objects as if they were human
2. to slant, create a bias, or distort
3. cure, solution, remedy Note: Ask students to supply another context for antidote. They
probably know how it’s used in relation to poison.
4. someone who disagrees, contradicts, argues
5. parts, elements
Exercise 7: Recognizing General Knowledge Clues (pp. 73-74)
1. a
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. c
Exercise 8: Recognizing General Knowledge Clues (pp. 74-75)
1. discourage, talk out of
2. frowned, made a face
3. able to express oneself easily
4. move toward, connect with
5. invading privacy; invasive; inappropriate
Exercise 9: Using Context Clues (pp. 76-77)
Note: Ask your students what type of context clue appears in each sentence.
1. peaceful, quiet (contrast)
2. friendly (example)
3. proved innocent (general knowledge)
4. quiet, put down (example, restatement or general knowledge)
5. a lesson or message about life (restatement)
6. spirit, attitude (general knowledge)
7. scattered, blew away or spread around (general knowledge)
8. journal, story (general knowledge)
9. shy, withdrawn (contrast)
10. script, story (general knowledge or example)
Exercise 10: Using Word Parts and Context Clues (pp. 83-85)
1. dislike, hatred Note: Review the meaning of anti, which appears on the chart (p. 80).
2. life force; liveliness; energy
3. government, ruling group
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4. fix, correct, justify, make right
5. understanding, sympathy, feeling for
6. queenly, royal, proud
7. orderly; ruled by a schedule; organized
8. people who study ancient human cultures or bones
9. lover of England
10. lively, colorful
Exercise 11: Using Word Parts (pp. 85-86)
1. mono
2. bi
3. pre
4. bi
5. bene
6. pre
7. poly
8. mono
9. bene
10. mono
Exercise 12: Using Word Parts (pp. 86-87)
1. bicamera
2. uni
3. chron
4. circum
5. bene; or
6. uni
7. bi
8. chron
9. uni
10. circum
Exercise 13: Using Context Clues and Word Parts (pp. 88-90)
Note: You might ask students to identify word parts that helped them with definitions.
1. (1) c
(2) a
(3) b
(4) a
(5) d
2. (1) d
© 2024 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved
Laraine E. Flemming
Notes
1- The file is chapter after chapter.
2- We have shown you few pages sample.
3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel
sheet if it exists.
4- We have all what you need, we make
update at every time. There are many
new editions waiting you.
5- If you think you purchased the wrong file
You can contact us at every time, we can
replace it with true one.
Our email:
,Instructor’s Manual
READING KEYS
FIFTH EDITION
Laraine Flemming
© 2024 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved 1
,Contents
Note to Instructors vii
I. Answer Key for Chapters 1-9
II. Answer Key for Reviewing the Key Points
III. Answer Key for Combining Your Skills
Reading 1: Mounting Research Documents the Harmful Effects of Social Media
Use on Mental Health
Reading 2: The Seven-Day Anti-Procrastination Plan
Reading 3: Culture, Subcultures, and the Marketplace
Reading 4: What Makes a Hero?
Reading 5: Unhealthy Eating Behaviors
Reading 6: Look at My Scars
Reading 7: Two Theories Answer the Question, Why Do We Do What We do?
© 2024 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved 2
,I. Answer Key for Chapters 1–9
Chapter 1: Getting into a Textbook State of Mind (pp. 1-60)
Exercise 1: Keeping Yourself Motivated (p. 5)
Answers will vary.
Exercise 2: Using Visual Aids (pp. 11-14)
Note: The second part of this exercise cannot be answered with a key.
1. c
2. c
Exercise 3: Surveying a Textbook Section (pp. 14-15)
1.b
2.False
3.False
4.True
5.False
Exercise 4: Practice with Paraphrasing (pp. 26-27)
1. b
2. a
Exercise 5: Taking Marginal Notes (pp. 29-31)
1. a
2. b
Exercise 6: Creating Search Terms (p. 39)
Note: Answers will vary.
1.kinds or types of sinkholes; causes of sinkholes
2.Watergate’s effects on journalism; Watergate’s consequences for journalism
3.naming hurricanes; how hurricanes got named; origin of naming hurricanes
© 2024 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved 3
, I. Answer Key for Chapters 1-9 4
Exercise 7: Using the Web for Background Knowledge (pp. 39-40)
1. Wilson was president during World War I, and he desperately wanted to establish a League of
Nations that would function like the UN does now.
Henry Cabot Lodge
2. Bonuses were supposed to be fully paid to World War I veterans in 1945, decades after the war
ended. Veterans wanted the bonuses in the 1930s, when the country was in a depression.
Hoover sent out troops and tanks to break up the demonstrations.
3. Truman beat Dewey when all indications were that Dewey would win.
4. It’s in the form of a pyramid.
physical demands for survival
spiritual or psychological ones
5. Alfred Wegener
The idea that the Earth’s crust consists of slowly-moving slabs of rock that have reshaped the
landscape over billions of years.
Exercise 8: Using Idioms in an Academic Context (pp. 44-45)
1. last resort
2. the driving force behind
3. to come to grips with
4. across the board
5. rule of thumb
Exercise 9: Making Academic Vocabulary Familiar (pp.49-50)
1. advocate
2. imminent
3. repercussions
4. dearth
5. annihilate
6. facilitate
7. components
8. innovations
9. derive
10. stimulant
Digging Deeper: Culture Clash on the American Frontier (pp. 51-57)
1. c
2. exaggerated, added on to, enlarged
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, I. Answer Key for Chapters 1-9 5
3. They learned that white men had no respect for them and violence was an acceptable way to
interact. They also copied the way White men used alcohol and went to prostitutes.
4. Sexually transmitted diseases kept the Native American birth rates low, and Indian numbers
did not multiply.
5. b
6. c
7. b
8. Native Americans tried hard to fight against the weapons being used to destroy their way of
life.
9. b
10. c
Test 1: Reviewing the Key Points (p.58)
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. F
5. T
6. F
7. F
8. F
9. F
10. T
Test 2: Enlarging Your Academic Vocabulary (pp. 59-60))
1. b
2. a
3. a
4. c
5. c
6. b
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. b
Chapter 2: More on Words and Meanings (pp. 61-117)
Exercise 1: Recognizing Restatement Clues (pp. 63-64)
1. c
2. d Note: Point out how the semicolon signals restatement.
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, I. Answer Key for Chapters 1-9 6
3. a Note: Mention that linking new words to antonyms is a good way to double vocabulary
development. Thus, learning rural with urban is a useful strategy.
4. b
5. b
Exercise 2: Recognizing Restatement Clues (pp. 65-66)
1. increasing, growing
2. calmed, quieted, made to behave Note: You might want to mention Neville Chamberlain’s
“policy of appeasement” and discuss the word’s meaning in politics.
3. violent, explosive Note: Tell students that using familiar, sound-alike words as definitions
promotes remembering—e.g., volatile and violent.
4. strong, determined
5. evaluate, view
Exercise 3: Recognizing Contrast Clues (pp. 67-68)
1. c
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. a
Exercise 4: Recognizing Contrast Clues (p. 68-69)
Note: You might ask your students to underline the contrast clues.
1. reproduction, a copy, an imitation
2. not based on fact or reality; stories that are made up
3. flashy, colorful, showy
4. destroyed, ruined, devoured
5. studied, looked closely, analyzed
Exercise 5: Recognizing Example Clues (pp. 69-71)
1. b
2. c
3. d
4. c
5. d
Exercise 6: Recognizing Example Clues (pp. 71-72)
Note: For additional practice, ask students to write sentences, creating their own examples to
illustrate unfamiliar words. I think you should supply the words and meanings. It gets tricky if they
© 2024 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved
, I. Answer Key for Chapters 1-9 7
have to look up words they don’t know and select from several different meanings. But it’s
obviously your call.
1. speaking of objects as if they were human
2. to slant, create a bias, or distort
3. cure, solution, remedy Note: Ask students to supply another context for antidote. They
probably know how it’s used in relation to poison.
4. someone who disagrees, contradicts, argues
5. parts, elements
Exercise 7: Recognizing General Knowledge Clues (pp. 73-74)
1. a
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. c
Exercise 8: Recognizing General Knowledge Clues (pp. 74-75)
1. discourage, talk out of
2. frowned, made a face
3. able to express oneself easily
4. move toward, connect with
5. invading privacy; invasive; inappropriate
Exercise 9: Using Context Clues (pp. 76-77)
Note: Ask your students what type of context clue appears in each sentence.
1. peaceful, quiet (contrast)
2. friendly (example)
3. proved innocent (general knowledge)
4. quiet, put down (example, restatement or general knowledge)
5. a lesson or message about life (restatement)
6. spirit, attitude (general knowledge)
7. scattered, blew away or spread around (general knowledge)
8. journal, story (general knowledge)
9. shy, withdrawn (contrast)
10. script, story (general knowledge or example)
Exercise 10: Using Word Parts and Context Clues (pp. 83-85)
1. dislike, hatred Note: Review the meaning of anti, which appears on the chart (p. 80).
2. life force; liveliness; energy
3. government, ruling group
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4. fix, correct, justify, make right
5. understanding, sympathy, feeling for
6. queenly, royal, proud
7. orderly; ruled by a schedule; organized
8. people who study ancient human cultures or bones
9. lover of England
10. lively, colorful
Exercise 11: Using Word Parts (pp. 85-86)
1. mono
2. bi
3. pre
4. bi
5. bene
6. pre
7. poly
8. mono
9. bene
10. mono
Exercise 12: Using Word Parts (pp. 86-87)
1. bicamera
2. uni
3. chron
4. circum
5. bene; or
6. uni
7. bi
8. chron
9. uni
10. circum
Exercise 13: Using Context Clues and Word Parts (pp. 88-90)
Note: You might ask students to identify word parts that helped them with definitions.
1. (1) c
(2) a
(3) b
(4) a
(5) d
2. (1) d
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