File 8: Progress Check

Choose the correct answer.

1. Tony does physical labor all day, so he sleeps like a ... post sheet log at night.
2. I’ve had the same coffeemaker for 15 years, and it still works like ... a dream a flash gold ! It makes perfect coffee.
3. Rogelio has been sick as a ... bat horse dog all week. I hope he can come back to work soon.
4. Mai, are you feeling OK? You’re as white as a ... sheet feather flash !
5. My son is unbelievable. He’s as ... good stubborn quick as a mule!
6. Being stressed or overtired can lower your ... system syndrome defenses , thus making you more susceptible to illness.
7. This company charges $40 for a small bottle of unproven and possibly useless medicine? That’s ... mainstream a rip-off a strain !
8. The cut on your head is very deep. I’m afraid you’re going to need ... stitches an x-ray a bandage .
9. I would love ... having visited visiting to have visited you while you were in the hospital, but I couldn’t get out of work.
10. Oscar and I had a plan ... to go going to have gone to the movies together tonight, but he’s got some kind of stomach virus.
11. Mr. Sung seems ... limping to limp to be limping a lot today—has he injured his leg or his hip?
12. She would rather ... to have stayed have stayed having stayed overnight at the hospital, but they sent her home shortly after her procedure.
13. There is really no point in ... to take take taking that cough medicine. It doesn’t do a thing!
14. I’m afraid your appendix is severely inflamed and it needs ... to have taken out taking out to be taken out immediately.
15. Aunt Antonia doesn’t like ... telling being told to have told what to do, so the nurses are having a hard time with her.
16. Our class is going on a day ... trip journey travel downtown to visit some historic sites and the art museum.
17. Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a picturesque landscape. It’s truly ... overrated breathtaking lively !
18. We’re going to have to ... extend take out put off our camping weekend because of the hurricane.
19. Cancún is too overcrowded and overdeveloped. I’m looking for someplace a little more ... off the beaten track touristy spoiled for my next vacation.
20. I had a one-night ... getaway layover flight in Casablanca on my way to Tunis.
21. Mitsuki really hates dealing with all the details of planning a vacation. That’s why she usually goes for ... package budget sightseeing tours.
22. Deb is supposed to arrive in Phoenix at 5:30. I haven’t heard from her yet, so ... to my relief on the way back presumably she’s still on the plane.
23. Excuse me! Please let me through! My plane ... is to take off is about to take off takes off !
24. She’s so fed up with her job and with this city, she ... is at the point of quitting is due to quit quits .
25. ... I have I’m about to have I’m having dinner with Toby next Saturday.
26. I’m so excited— ... we’re getting we get we’re at the point of getting a new car this weekend!
27. I’m seeing Amy again tonight. ... I’m due to ask I’m going to ask I’m asking her to go on a romantic getaway with me. I hope she says yes!
28. ... Will you be passing Are you to pass Are you about to pass through Paris on your way to Provence next month? If so, you should visit my friend Gilles.
29. The symphony hall’s website indicates that the Bach concert ... is about to take is at the point of taking is to take place on December 2nd at 8:00 p.m.
30. I can't talk right now. ... I’m at the point of eating I’m due to eat I’m about to eat dinner, can I call you back later?