Vocab 5

When I came in, I found a great surprise ___ me

• disregarding

• expecting

• celebrating

• awaiting

1. Only _____________ go to that elite college.

• the cream of the crop 

• the best of both worlds

• the survival of the fittest

• the high and mighty

1. After her children were raised, Gertrude felt like excess __________ at home with nothing left to do.

• burden

• baggage

• stumbling stock

• weight

1. It is estimated that ________ 10% of the population goes to university.

• a

• any

• the

• some

1. Following the storm, the electricity company will be working all-out to repair the _________.

• damage caused

• damage provoked

• caused damage

• provoked damage

Those were the ethnic ___ we put people in then

• foxholes

• boltholes

• pigeonholes

• dogholes

If you continue to ___ debts at this rate, you will have to declare bankruptcy eventually

• raise

• default

• incur

• save

There are ____ words in English having more than one meaning."

• a large many

• quite many

• quite a lot

• a great many

"Which of these two men is Japanese?" ____ is

• neither of them

• All of them

• Both of them

• none of them

A couple of boys were ___ in the pool

• impinging on

• larking about

• ploughing ahead

• floating out