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This advanced module presents a series of thought-provoking questions and linguistic challenges designed to enhance your knowledge and comprehension. Explore phrases that illuminate the importance of mental wellness, tackle missing prepositions, and discover expressions that encapsulate calmness in adversity. Engage with compound adjectives, synonyms, and idioms, all while deepening your vocabulary and understanding of nuanced concepts. Test your skills with thematic inquiries that stimulate both critical thinking and language proficiency.
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MYSTERIOUS QUESTIONS CUTTING EDGE ADVANCED MODULE 4
Question 1 • Which of the sayings on page 36 means the following: Your mind needs food as well as your body? • Man does not live by bread alone.
Question 2 • Complete with the missing preposition • Are you prone _ headaches? • Are you prone TO headaches?
Question 3 • What expression means “to calmly and easily deal with something unpleasant or difficult and not let it affect what you are doing” (p 38)? • Take something in your stride
Question 4 • Find a phrasal verb that means relax (p 38) • chill out
Question 5 • Find the missing half for each compound adjective • Bad-_____ • _____-back • Open-_____ • ______-up
Question 5 • Find the missing half for each compound adjective • Bad-tempered • Laid-back • Open-minded • Worked-up
Question 6 • Find two synonyms for the word chat • natter and chinwag
Question 7 • How would you feel if you had run 40 flights of stairs without stop? • Out ________ • Out of breath
Question 8 • Some people eat chocolate with the excuse that it __ them ___ when they are feeling down.
Question 8 Some people eat chocolate with the excuse that it cheers them up when they are feeling down.
Question 9 • Give a synonym for pressure • strain
Question 10 • Write an adjective that means “strange in a frightening and mysterious way” (p111) • eerie
Question 11 • Which of the adjectives below can complete the sentence? • The consultation was very detailed / initial / long /thorough. • The consultation was very thorough.
Question 12 Complete the following sentences: • The more you practice, ____better you’ll get. • He likes nothing more ____reading a good book. • This anti-virus software is _____the most effective of the brands.
Question 12 • The more you practice, thebetter you’ll get. • He likes nothing more thanreading a good book. • This anti-virus software is amongthe most affective of the brands.
Question 13 • Find a synonym of predict • FORETELL
Question 14 • What is the word for someone who comes second in a race or competition (p 43)? • runner-up
Question 15 Complete the sentence with an adjective meaning “excellent” (p164) • It’s an area of _____ natural beauty. • It’s an area of outstanding/ awesome natural beauty
Question 16 • Write a synonym for “great danger” (p 164) • peril
Question 17 • Complete with the right word (p 164) • The tragedy could easily have been ______ (= prevented, avoided) • The tragedy could easily have been averted.
Question 18 • Complete the idioms with a part of the body (p 44) • a sympathetic listener = a __to cry on • very scary = ___- raising • make fun of someone = pull sb’s ___ • extremely sad and moving = ____- rending
Question 18 • a shoulderto cry on • hair - raising • pull someone’s leg • heart - rending
Question 19 • What do you have in your stomach when you feel nervous? • butterflies
Question 20 • What part of the body would you mention if you had too much work? • I’m up to my neck in it
Question 21 • Our cat will only eat one type of cat food. What does she do when we give her another type (p 44)? • She turns her nose up at it.
Question 22 • Find two words describing ways of looking: • gaze, stare
Question 23 • What’s the word for a meeting where people try to talk to or receive messages from the spirits of dead people? • séance