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The Fugitive

1

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2 a

artificial

b

fugitive

c

tunnel

d

trial

e

When the man came into the hospital his
liver was badly damaged and the doctors
had to operate.

f

Chemists know all about drugs.

g

‘This is not the accident department. You
have to go down to the ground floor, near
the main entrance.’

3 a

Charlie Nichols

b

Alex Lentz

c

Helen

d

Copeland

4 a

Copeland

b

the older guard

c

Gerard

d

Kimble

e

Gerard

5 The older guard says that he gave the keys

to Kimble.

6 The younger guard sees him and remembers

his face.

7

Gerard falls and the gun disappears into the
water. Kimble picks it up.

8

Gerard first sees Kimble in the small tunnel.

9 He jumps into the river.
10-12 Open answers
12 c

lift

13 a

in the toilet of a garage

b

the train station

c

outside Nichols’house

d

in a cupboard in the cleaners’rooms at
the Cook County Hospital

14 a

one of the cleaners at the hospital

b

a young doctor in the department for
artificial limbs

15 21
16 5
17 the prison near the train station
18 He is black.
19 There is a photograph of him in his flat.
20 Because Kimble knew that RDU-90

damaged people’s livers.

21 She was in the house and Kimble wasn’t.

She died instead of him.

22-24 Open answers
25 a

Kimble

b

Kimble

c

Sykes

26 Mr Roosevelt gives Kimble all the papers on

RDU-90.

27 a photograph of Lentz and Sykes
28 It is important because there are reports

from October, November and December with
Lentz’s name on.

29 The call came from Kimble’s car phone.

Nichols had Kimble’s car at the time.

30 a

in a big room at the top of the building

b

on the fire stairs

c

on the top floor

d

on the top of an elevator on the outside
of the hotel

e

in the washing room on the fifth floor

31-36 Open answers

Answers to book activities

■ Communicative activities

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■ Student’s activities

Activities before reading the book

1 (a) prison

(b) a man with one arm
(c) US Detective Gerard
(d) the TV programme

2 Open answers

Activities while reading the book

Chapter 1

1 (a) a new drug

(b) a drug company
(c) Chicago Memorial Hospital
(d) Chicago Hilton Hotel

2

To talk to him about his work on RDU-90. He
wants to ask him why he said the livers were
healthy when they were not.

3 A very big man.

Chapter 2

1 (a) body, (b) shot, (c) leg, (d) head, (e) gun,

(f) called, (g) trying, (h) name, (i) next to,
(j) blood, (k) dark, (l) arm, (m) sign

2 He is going to be put to death, because the

police think that he killed his wife.

Chapter 3

(e), (j), (b), (i), (c), (f), (a), (h), (d), (g)

Chapter 4

Kimble found a doctor ’s coat in a hospital room.
Newman found the guard’s keys by the railway
line.
Gerard and Poole found the empty ambulance
in the tunnel.
Kimble found Gerard’s gun on the floor of the
side tunnel.

Chapter 5

1 (a) steal it

(b) ride on the roof of a family’s bus
(c) know his face and look at him
(d) his friend says it is too dangerous
(e) wait outside

2

Helen’s words on the phone and Kimble’ s
words in the tunnel.

Chapter 6

1 (possible answers) tired, lonely, in danger,

empty

2

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Chapter 7

(a)train > bus, fourth > third
(b)computer room > operating room, third >

fourth

(c) female > male, left > right
(d)sells drugs > is living in his house
(e)hospital > prison, an operation > his trial

Chapter 8

(a)grey, ugly
(b)big, white
(c) small, black
(d)Kimble, down, Gerard
(e)doesn’t see, knows

Answers to Factsheet activities

(f) photograph of, by the sea
(g)him, Helen

Chapter 9

(a)Sykes, Kimble, Gerard
(b)Kimble, Lentz, Sykes
(c) Charlie, Kimble, Lentz
(d)Gerard, Nichols, Kimble, Helen
(e)Sykes, Kimble

Chapter 10
1 (a) (i) Finding out the name of the man in the

photo with Sykes.
(ii) Talking to Charlie Nichols at the
Chicago Hilton.
(iii) Open answers

(b) Because a guard comes in and calls him,

so he turns round and shoots the guard.

(c) Because he wants to believe Kimble’ s

story.

(d) Nichols
(e) Because he’s got a gun.

2 Open answers
3 No, it was probably not an accident.

Chapter 11

1 (a) Gerard (b) Poole (c) Kimble (d) Nichols

(d) Nichols is lying. Nichols pushed the bag

into Poole and took her gun.

2

Open answers

Activities after reading the book

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