Quick test

Just because we’ve had a good year, this does not mean that we cannot do better: we must not _____.

• bury our heads in the sand

• rest on our laurels

• have our head in the clouds

• count our blessings

The political crisis in the Middle East _________ into a military conflict gradually.

• reports to turn

• is reported to be turning

• is reporting as turning

• is being reported to being turning

I’ve given up trying to make my sister see sense, and now I’m _________ to the fact that she is going to marry Jason.

• resigned

• adapted

• adjusted

• accepted

According to a Government spokesman, further _____ in the public sector are to be expected.

• cutbacks

• breakdowns

• out-takes

• layouts

Following the crime in Bradford High Street last Saturday afternoon, the police are checking _____ anyone who was there at the time.

• over

• in for

• up on

• out of

Perhaps more than anything else, it was onerous taxes that led to the Peasants’ Revolt in England in 1381.

Which has the opposite meaning with the underlined word?

• heavy

• light

• easy

• burdensome

Perhaps more than anything else, it was onerous taxes that led to the Peasants’ Revolt in England in 1381.

Which has the opposite meaning with the underlined word?

• heavy

• light

• easy

• burdensome

Visitors to the Church of St. Menoux believed the fallacy that they could cure their headaches by sticking their heads into a hole in a stone altar.

• true belief

• actual fact

• children‘s story

• false idea

Visitors to the Church of St. Menoux believed the fallacy that they could cure their headaches by sticking their heads into a hole in a stone altar.

Which has the opposite meaning with the underlined word?

• false idea

• actual fact

• true belief

• children‘s story

We run a very tight ship here, and we expect all our employees to be at their desks by eight o'clock and take good care of their own business.

Which has the opposite meaning with the underlined parts?

• organize things inefficiently

• manage an inflexible system

• have a good voyage

• run faster than others