1. Someone who is well-heeled is…
    (a) very wealthy
    (b) very drunk
    (c) wearing good strong boots
    (d) dangerously strong
  2. Which of these is a dessert?
    (a) Yorkshire pudding
    (b) plum pudding
    (c) black pudding
    (d) white pudding
  3. To “talk nineteen to the dozen” means…
    (a) to try to cheat somebody
    (to be a matchmaker
    (c) to be a very persuasive person
    (d) to be very talkative
  4. Which of these words sounds different?
    (a) chew
    (b) flew
    (c) sew
    (d) crew
  5. Someone is eavesdropping. Are tey…
    (a) working on the roof of a building?
    (b) paying you an unexpected visit?
    (c) listening secretly to a private conversation?
    (d) looking for birds’ nests?
  6. A ball…
    (a) bounces
    (b) lurches
    (c) jolts
    (d) flickers
  7. “I’m quite accustomed to it now” can be expressed by which of the following?
    (a) I’m using it regularly now
    (b) It is used by me now
    (c) I’m used to it now
    (d) I used it just now
  8. She made herself scarce…means…
    (a) she kept out of the way
    (b) she played hard to get
    (c) she even frightened herself
    (d) she lost weight
  9. Which of these doesn’t belong?
    (a) Penny
    (b) Jenny
    (c) Heather
    (d) Rosemary
    (e) Jimmy
  10. We saw the cows…
    (a) chewing the mud
    (b) mooing the mud
    (c) mowing the grass
    (d) chewing the cud



    Answers:     1 (a); 2 (b); 3 (d); 4 (c); 5 (c); 6 (a); 7 (c); 8 (a); 9 (e); 10 (d)

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