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Proverbs

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
a)
Flies are attracted to honey
b)
Vinegar doesn't taste good
c)
 It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands
d)
Honey is sweet
2.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
a)
A foolish person spends money carelessly and will soon be penniless.
b)
You have to part your money in two stacks.
c)
Fools know how to part money.
d)
It is better to part from your money soon.
3.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
a)
Wealthy men are healthy.
b)
Wise men are healthy.
c)
Someone who gets enough sleep and startswork early in the day will have a successful life.
d)
You need to go to bed.
4.
One day is worth two tomorrows.
a)
What you have today is better than what is promised or hoped for.
b)
One day costs more than two days.
c)
If you start today, you'll finish tomorrow.
d)
Tomorrow is another day.
5.
All's well that ends well.
a)
If you feel well and the end, you will have a penny saved.
b)
Feeling well is important to feel well.
c)
If you start today, you'll finish tomorrow.
d)
Problems that occur along the way do not matter as long as the outcome is happy. 
6.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.  It's a duck.
a)
Something is exactly what it seems to be.
b)
Ducks to a lot of walking.
c)
Somethings look like ducks.
d)
If you quack, you're a duck.
7.

What is suggested sounds easy but it is more difficult to actually do it.

a)

Easier said than done

b)

Great talkers little doers

8.

When you try to work too quickly, you usually make mistakes.

a)

Haste makes waste

b)

If you snooze, you lose

9.

to be apart made you think about them even more and increased your feelings of love for them.

a)

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

b)

Love is salt and sugar

10.

"The cat is out of the bag" means ______.

a)

being free.

b)

the bag is so big that you can keep the cat in it.

c)

the secret that has been told.

d)

letting the cat out from the misery.

11.

Choose the correct proverb.

You shoudn't spend too much on unnecessary things as _______.

a)

easy come, easy go.

b)

where there's a will, there's a way.

c)

money doesn't grow on trees.

d)

many hands make light work.

12.

The Covid-19 pandemic puts our nation in bad situation, but I believe ______.

a)

every cloud has a silver lining.

b)

ignorance is a bliss

c)

still water runs deep

d)

action speaks louder than words.

13.

You shouldn't read a difficult English novel first. As the saying goes, ________.

a)

learn to walk before you run.

b)

where there's a will, there's a way.

c)

action speaks louder than words.

d)

procrastination is the thief of time.

14.

__________wasn't built in a day.

a)

America

b)

Rome

c)

The Eiffel Tower

d)

The house

15.

One man's trash is another man's_________.

a)

treasure

b)

food

c)

cash

d)

crash