Colloquial English

1. A: When do you need it?              B: I need it …………………, so please hurry up!

• a) tonight                   
  
• b) yesterday
• c) tomorrow
• d) last week

2. A: Are we still going on a picnic today?  If the rain doesn’t stop, it is out of the ……..

• a) mind
• b) logic
• c) possiblity
• d) question  

3. A: What’s the difference between these two?     B: Your ………..is as good as mine.

• a) guess
• b) answer     
• c) question
• d) problem    

4. A: Was he telling the truth?          B: No, he was just making it ……………………..

• a) out
• b) up
• c) over
• d) off

5. A: Which bus should I take to go downtown? Number 250 or 261?
    B: It’s six of one and half a …………………..of the other.

• a) number
• b) some          
• c) dozen
• d) three

6. I'm so hungry that I could eat a ...............

• a) horse
• b) cow
• c) camel
• d) sheep

7. When she arrived, she looked like a drowned ………………..

• a) cat
• b) mouse
• c) rat
• d) dog

8. A: Did you buy the purple car?
    B: I was going to buy it, but I am having second ………… about the colour.

• a) thoughts
• b) minds
• c) decisions
• d) ideas

9. A:  I hear we are going to have a ………….. quiz today in history class.
    B:  What!?  Oh no!  I don’t know anything!

• a) bang
• b) pop
• c) burst
• d) puff

10. A: I am having dinner with Nicole kidman tonight.       B: Get out of ………………

• a) here
• b) there
• c) town
• d) a and c

11. She is as quiet as a .................

• a) worm
• b) snake
• c) mouse
• d) snail

12. Let’s go out and …………….a bite. I’m very hungry.

• a) grab
• b) drag
• c) brag
• d) barf

13. I became ……………….after having to lie in bed for three days.

• a) antsy
• b) foxy
• c) wealthy
• d) fancy

14. Although she eats like a …………………., she does not lose weight.

• a) mouse
• b) spider   
• c) bird
• d) turtle

15. The new president won the election by a ……………slide.

• a) land
• b) water
• c) snow
• d) horse

16. A: Would you like to go to the movies tonight? 
      B: Iwish I could, but I have to study for my test. Can I take a ………….check?

• a) snow
• b) wind
• c) rain
• d) fog

17. Let’s go to the beach and ……………….some sun.

• a) take up
• b) stand up
• c) soak up
• d) hook up

18. I did not like the apartment because the furniture was a …………………

• a) mish-mash
• b) ship-shape
• c) riff-raff
• d) mumbo-jumbo

19. I don’t trust these people; there is something …………………..about them.

• a) cloudy
• b) dirty
• c) fishy
• d) crazy

20. This light has  ………………..; we need to change it.

• a) burned up
• b) burned out
• c) burned over
• d) burned on

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