Health idioms

By Rosamund Place | June 12, 2006

match the best phrase to the health idiom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. Health idioms [Multiple choice]

The housing market is paralysed.

(remember it is the best answer:
frozen is very close but usually this implies that someone has done this (e.g. frozen assets) deliberately for a reason – where something is paralysed the reasons are more random.)

Answers for Quiz [1].

  • 1. slowing down
  • 2. inert (correct)
  • 3. frozen
  • 4. in decline

2. Health idiom [Multiple choice]

He bypassed his line manager and went straight to the director.

(remember we want the best answer:
went above is better than ignore because it is deliberate and puposeful.)

Answers for Quiz [2].

  • 1. discussed with the line manager
  • 2. ignored the line manager
  • 3. told the director about the line manager
  • 4. went above his line manager (correct)

3. Health idioms [Multiple choice]

We need an injection of cash

(remember- the best answer:
here find does not go far enough we need to know that the money was put into the business)

Answers for Quiz [3].

  • 1. introduce some money (correct)
  • 2. losing money
  • 3. talk to the bank
  • 4. find some money

4. Number idioms [Multiple choice]

His company is a casualty of the recent downturn in the industry.

(remember we are looking for the best answer:
none of the other choices fit here)

Answers for Quiz [4].

  • 1. the company is ok
  • 2. the company is smaller
  • 3. the company has suffered (correct)
  • 4. the company caused the downturn

5. Number idioms [Multiple choice]

Our computers have experienced a rash of technical problems.

(remember we want the best answer:
needing computers may be true but the sentence deals with the problems not the solutions)

Answers for Quiz [5].

  • 1. we have had a lot of technical problems (correct)
  • 2. the computers have marks on them
  • 3. we have a lot of viruses
  • 4. we need new computers

6. Number idioms [Multiple choice]

The textile industry in this city is in terminal decline.

(remember it is the best answer:
stagnating implies that things may improve, terminal decline is more final
)

Answers for Quiz [6].

  • 1. the textile industry is dead
  • 2. the textile industry will soon be dead (correct)
  • 3. the textile industry is recovering
  • 4. the textile industry is stagnating

7. Number idioms [Multiple choice]

They were knocked out of the competition in the first round.

(remember we need the best answer:
no other choices fit here)

Answers for Quiz [7].

  • 1. somebody beat them (correct)
  • 2. they cheated
  • 3. they didn’t enter at the beginning
  • 4. they won
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