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Feeling angry
1 The local community is up in over plans to build a new airport runway
a) opposition
b) disagreement
c) arms
d) fists
2 As a two-year old, my youngest son would a tantrum every time I tried to go
anywhere without him
a) fling
b) dribble
c) drop
d) throw
3 I don’t understand what you’re getting so worked about It’s really not a
problem
a) out
b) up
c) over
d) against
4 He’d just found out his flight had been cancelled and was with anger
a) seething
b) teething
c) heating
d) freezing
5 I’m hoping I don’t see her today – I hear she’s on the about the trick we
played on her yesterday
a) flyover
b) warpath
c) highway
d) battleground
6 Furious at the questions the presenter was asking him, he got up and out of
the studio
a) crossed
b) strolled
c) stormed
d) sauntered
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1 The local community is up in over plans to build a new airport runway
a) opposition – this is not correct In English you say ‘be in opposition to something
b) disagreement – this is not correct In English you say ‘be in disagreement over something’
c) arms – this is the correct answer
d) fists – this is not correct Your ‘fist’ is your hand when you close your fingers tightly inwards
2 As a two-year old, my youngest son would a tantrum every time I tried to go
anywhere without him
a) fling – this is not the correct expression To fling something means to throw something
carelessly
b) dribble – this is not the correct expression If a baby dribbles, saliva comes out of its mouth onto its chin
c) drop – this is not the correct expression To drop something means accidentally to let
something fall from your hand
d) throw – this is the correct answer
3 I don’t understand what you’re getting so worked about It’s really not a problem
a) out – this is not the correct expression ‘Work out’ can mean to find an answer to something, or
to do exercise to keep fit
b) up – this is the correct answer
4 He’d just found out his flight had been cancelled and was with anger
a) seething – this is the correct answer
b) teething – this is not the right answer When a baby is teething, it is getting its teeth for the first time
c) heating – this is not correct
d) freezing – this is not correct ‘Freezing’ means extremely cold
Trang 35 I’m hoping I don’t see her today – I hear she’s on the about the trick we played on
her yesterday
a) flyover – this is not right A ‘flyover’ is a raised road that takes vehicles over an area
b) warpath – this is the correct answer
c) highway – this is not right ‘Highway’ is an American English word meaning a large road that vehicles can use to travel quickly from one city or town to another
d) battleground – this is not right A ‘battleground’ is a place where a battle is fought or has been fought in the past
6 Furious at the questions the presenter was asking him, he got up and out of the
studio
a) crossed – this is not right ‘Cross out’ means to draw a line through something you have
written because it is wrong The adjective ‘cross’ means angry
b) strolled – this is not right ‘To stroll’ means to walk slowly and in a relaxed way
c) stormed – this is correct
d) sauntered – this is not right ‘To saunter’ means to walk slowly and in a relaxed way
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