Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Lesson 1 quiz
1.___________ adj. ( of people or their actions) brave, courageous; not afraid of danger and difficult situations.
2. ___________________ n. used figuratively to mean something of great value and very hard to get.
6. Carol plays the violin really well. She has a special _______________ for music
9. _____________________ , to, (be) filled with something such as energy, love, etc.
After a long vacation, the kids went back to school ______________ with energy. In the video,
10. ___________ n. 1. a particular area of activity and the people who are involved in it:
11. ________________ adj. 1. bored, impatient, or dissatisfied, and wanting some kind of change.
After two years living abroad, Marty was getting ____________ and wanted to go back
2. having little or no rest or sleep. Lisa spent a restless night worrying about her math
He had spent a_______________ few hours on the plane.
12. The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1521 caused a human and ecological disaster of ___________ proportions.
13. _____________________ n. the line where the sky seems to meet the earth or sea.
14. ________________ adj. having no equal; better than all others.
20. ______________ a short sentence or phrase giving a rule on how to behave, which expresses the aims
or beliefs of a person, school, or institution:
'Be prepared' is the ________ of the boy scouts.
22.___________ n. either of two people doing a particular activity together, such as dancing or playing a game or sport on the
same side.
After mating, the female black widow spider turns on her ______________ , and eats him.
23 ___________ to have or give an opinion, or to decide about something or someone, especially after careful consideration.
You have no right _______________ me; you're not a mother, and you don't understand how difficult it is to raise children.
24. ______________ n. a piece of land on which vines that produce grapes are grown.
For many______________ owners, their love affair with grape-growing begins, as affairs so often do, over a bottle of wine.
25. __________ pron. sometimes used figuratively to refer to something thought of as female
(such as a ship, car, machine, country, or parts of nature).
Sally arrives at home at 4:30 and knows that her mother does not get off of work until 5. Sally also sees that the lights
are off in their house. Sally can __________ that her mother is not yet home.
28. __________ A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline
Our ski instructor gave us a lot of tips on how to ski steep _________s.
29._____________ , to phrasal verb. reared, rearing, to rise high, to become higher.
The dog ____________and licked my hands with his floppy tongue.
You shouldn't try ________ a trailer using this van because a 4-cylinder engine simply doesn't have the power.
31. ___________________ , (informal) You say you’re in over your head when you’re involved in a difficult situation
and you cannot get out of it.
Tina wanted to pay the money she owed the bank, but she was______________________________ .
32. __________________ n. a substance that is released in the body of a person who is feeling a strong emotion (such as
excitement, fear, or anger) and that causes the heart to beat faster and gives the person more energy.
There’s nothing like a good horror movie to get the ______________ going (get you excited).
33. _________________________ (fig.) not valued or appreciated by someone.
My jokes are ____________________ him. He simply doesn’t get them
34._______________________________ , to, to make something that is already good even better; to further develop something.