File 2: Progress Check

Choose the correct answer.

1. “My uncle and I don’t see eye to eye” is an example of ... an idiom a metaphor a slang expression .
2. “Liliana, you’re a pretty little butterfly in your yellow dress!” is an example of ... a collocation a metaphor an idiom .
3. Expressions like get up and go on are examples of ... colloquial English synonyms phrasal verbs .
4. ... They One It say that Latin is a dead language. Do you agree?
5. One must ... adhere to remain in transcribe bed when suffering from the flu.
6. My sister and her sister-in-law don’t like ... themselves each other them .
7. Two words with similar meanings are ... collocations synonyms similes .
8. You may need to adjust your ... register collocation slang , depending on whether you are in a formal or informal situation.
9. Choose the metaphor: ... My dad is a teacher. My heart jumped when I saw you. I came across $20 on the street.
10. Did you and your wife really teach ... you yourselves yourself Farsi?
11. ... It They're There used to be a language school in this building. I guess it closed.
12. When a person visits a foreign country, ... you one they should at least learn a few words of the language.
13. Choose the idiom: ... I crossed the street. Cross out the wrong answer. You cross my mind once a day.
14. Choose the colloquial expression. ... men gentlemen guys
15. We need to try to understand ... each ourselves one another better if we want to live in peace.
16. Shauna didn’t ... use to have used to have had blond hair. Did she have it done recently?
17. When my brother was born, our family ... used to live would live was living in Mexico.
18. There ... would be used to be had been a library at the end of our street, but now it’s a used car dealership.
19. What suffix would you add to make an abstract noun? friend___ ... ship hood ness
20. What suffix would you add to make an abstract noun? parent___ ... dom hood ship
21. What suffix would you add to make an abstract noun? star___ ... hood dom ship
22. When I was a child, I ... did would was always go for long walks alone in the rain.
23. We ... would use to used to live in a tiny apartment, but now we have an enormous house.
24. When we arrived at grandmother’s on Sunday, she ... would bake was baking used to bake something in the oven.
25. A 1000-piece puzzle is an excellent remedy for anyone’s ... bore boredom boringness on a rainy day.
26. Jake’s ... hatred hating hater of broccoli knows no limits.
27. You were out until 4 a.m. dancing last night? Well, no ... shame wonder wisdom you’re tired!
28. Our neighbors ... would have used to have were having chickens and a goat in their backyard, but some neighborhood residents complained and they had to get rid of them.
29. All of Ahmed’s studying and hard work has paid off. He now has a ... liable lucrative skinny job as a nurse at a famous hospital.
30. I heard a strange noise, so I turned around and saw that a bear ... was coming would come had come toward me!