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ACTIVITY
- VOCABULARY: METAPHOR -

Choose the options that best describe the underlined word(s)/phrases(s) in each
of the following sentences.

1. National Services is one method of putting people to work on America’s social ill.
A. problem
B. pandemic
C. virus
D. unhappiness

2. It could prove a disaster for many of the ailing British hotels and tourist
attractions that rely heavily on American holiday makers.
A. failing
B. popular
C. quarantined
D. out of date

3. The president is determined to continue to insulate his country from the

contagion of foreign ideas.
A. weakness
B. disadvantage
C. infection
D. disappearance

4. The broadcast news was accurate and reliable but deadly dull.
A. hardly
B. slightly
C. completely
D. inaccurately

5. The fever of expectation the Bilm has already generated.

A. negative effect
B. excitement
C. contamination
D. boredom

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6. As Christmas approaches, publisher feverishly push out new books.

A. annoyedly
B. unpleasantly
C. with heavy steps
D. quickly

7. His comment reveals his jaundiced view of Chinese society.

A. disgusted
B. pessimistic
C. uninformed
D. curious

8. The people using these agencies are not social cripples; a large proportion of
them are successful young professionals.
A. disabled people
B. antisocial people
C. people who are harmful to the society
D. elderly

9. He stresses that his sport is very much a test of skill and technique rather than
brute strength.
A. intelligence
B. help from others
C. conspiracy
D. physical power

10. The women fell prey to the charms of the agent.

A. be in love with
B. be frightened of
C. feel hostile towards
D. be deceived by

11. Anna was heartily fed up with her husband’s pet project.
A. favourite activity
B. parttime job
C. long-term plan
D. domestic duty

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12. They are lethal road hogs.

A. reckless drivers
B. robbers
C. homeless people
D. terrorists

13. Japanese banks and life insurers remain bearish.

A. falling
B. rising
C. sceptical
D. well-known

14. In the process he cemented his control over the company.

A. sacriBiced
B. strengthened
C. looked for
D. concealed

15. The media is a commercial activity that oils the wheels of the economy.
A. helps
B. makes it more dangerous
C. continues
D. be ignored

16. Bearing in mind his wife’s reaction to the project, he had consigned the idea to
the back burner for the time being.
A. to postpone the idea
B. to accelerate the execution of the idea
C. to execute the idea secretly
D. to support the idea