Solutions Gold Upper-Intermediate Unit 9

Which word means:

argue about the price of something

• haggle

• snap up

• splash out

Match the verb with the definition:

put something down to

• attribute

• initiate, start

• reduce

I hate when you ... in front of your friends. It's really mean of you.

• put me down

• turn me down

• bring me down

We paid for the car ...

• in instalments.

• in credit.

• in limits.

Tourists complain of being ripped ... by local cab drivers.

• off

• up

• at

Rewrite the sentence:

Ann decorated the pumpkin.

It ...

(a)  

Rewrite the sentence beginning with a participle clause:

She was bored, so she didn't finish reading the book.

(a)  

... badly last night, Tom is feeling really tired today.

• Having slept

• Sleeping

• Slept

What does the idiom be rolling in it mean?

• be extremely wealthy

• have plenty of money

• have very little money

They must be pretty ... off. They've just bought a six-bedroomed house.

• well

• hard

• dirt