C1 Outcomes - Unit 12 - pages 106, 107

1.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Replace the words and phrases in brackets with the words and phrases below:

broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

I was forced to .....................(leave) the country after the

.................... (takeover of the government).

2.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Replace the words and phrases in brackets with the words and phrases below:

broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

She was involved in ...................... (fundamentally

extreme) politics, committed to change.

3.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Replace the words and phrases in brackets with the words and phrases below:

broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

He came from a .....................(very poor) background, his overriding childhood memory being of constant hunger.

4.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Replace the words and phrases in brackets with the words and phrases below:

broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

She was..................... (left without any living parents) when her parents died in a fire.

5.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Replace the words and phrases in brackets with the words and phrases below:

broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

My grandfather ............ (was on military duty) during the Second World War.

6.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Replace the words and phrases in brackets with the words and phrases below:

broken home / coup / deprived / flee / orphaned / radical / saw active service

They grew up in a ............ (family in which the parents were separated), their mother having left when the twins were six years old.

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The whole visit___________far better than I’d dared to hope it would.

passed off

passed away

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

It_________ that his bark is much worse than his bite.

starts off

turns out

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

When he was thirteen, his dad ___________.

passed away

set away

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

He__________ selling ice creams ... and then moved on to selling textiles door-to-door.

started off

got ahead

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

He decided that if he really wanted to __________ , he’d have to move to the capital, and so he set off to make his fortune.

build up

get ahead

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

He got there, somehow managed to ___________ his own company ... and then just slowly built things up.

turn up

start up

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

His eyes ______ when I told him how much I got for that portrait I sold last year.

started off

lit up

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

I didn't__________ that fact too much.

pass on

dwell on

15.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

I felt like a fish ...... ..... ....... at the party, as I was the only one under 40!

16.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Don't annoy him. He's as hard as ..........

17.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Ha! That joke is as old as the ........

18.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

She smokes like .... ......... I wish she'd quit!

19.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

That's as clear as ......... What do you mean, exactly?

20.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

They're like chalk and .......... You'd never know they were

brothers.

21.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

She’s unbearable! I avoid her like .... .........

22.

Fill in the Blank

1 min

1 pt

Oh, I've got a memory like a ..........! What's his name again?

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