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Q2. Elephants are not really very savage animals, but occasionally they can be in a very bad temper. Their most dangerous habit at such moments is to pick up, with their trunk, a large stick or stone, and throw it with great force at someone standing nearby. When this happens the only thing anyone can do, is to jump quickly out of the way. ---------- When an elephant is in a bad temper _____.

1. it may try to hurt someone.
2. it moves its trunk from side to side.
3. one shouldn’t throw stones at it.
4. one should keep perfectly still.
5. it never shows it.

Q3. That is the film ______.

1. it is about Turkish people
2. we are liked
3. I watched last week
4. it is a western

Q4. If something frightens you it gives you the ……… .

1. wood
2. bulls
3. willies
4. hots

Q5. I know my new Rolex is the real McCoy because

1. I bought it from the Rolex store in Paris
2. I bought it from a guy in a pub
3. I bought it online from ReallyCheapRolex. com

Q6. The horse mentioned in the text is clearly an ------ to the Trojan horse.

1. allusion
2. illusion

Q7. To ……… fun at someone is to laugh rudely at them.

1. give
2. stick
3. beat
4. poke

Q8. Stan thinks he got a raw deal from his insurance company, so he's writing a letter

1. to thank them
2. to complain to them
3. to congratulate them

Q9. If you draw a ……… over something unpleasant, you try to forget something and avoid the subject.

1. scarfe
2. hat
3. hood
4. veil

Q10. She ______ unwell for several days when she was taken to hospital.

1. had been feeling
2. has been feeling
3. was feeling
4. had felt