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UNIT 7 CHAPTER 2 Peer Pressure

Before You Read A Think about answers to these questions.
Under Pressure
1 Who is your best friend? Ho� are you similar? How are you different?
2 Are your friends' opinions important to you?
3 Read the sentence below. Is the word pressure positive or negative?

There is a lot of pressure to pass the university
entrance exam. It's hard for students.

B Discuss your answers with a partn_er.

Reading Skill A Read lines 1-11 in the passage on the next page. Then stop and answer
Making and Checking the questions below.
Predictions
1 Where are Alicia, Nina, and Vicki?
When you read, you
can often predictwhat 2 Why do Nina and. Vicki laugh at Alicia?
will come next. While
you read, you also 3 What do you think Alicia will do next?
check to see if your
predictions were correct
Good readers learn to B Now read lines 12-23. Then stop and answer the questions below.
make and check their
predictions. 1 Were your predictions in A correct? -------------
2 What do you think Alicia will do next?-------------

C Now read lines 24-25. Was your prediction in B correct? Read the whole
passage again. Then answer the questions on page 94.

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