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Idioms Worksheet For Grade Twelve Students

This document contains 30 multiple choice questions assessing idioms and phrases. The questions cover a range of common idiomatic expressions in English relating to topics like understanding, standing out, financial situations, occupations, emotions, safety, decision making, family, weather, animals, and physical appearance. The correct answers to each question are not provided.

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Idioms Worksheet For Grade Twelve Students

This document contains 30 multiple choice questions assessing idioms and phrases. The questions cover a range of common idiomatic expressions in English relating to topics like understanding, standing out, financial situations, occupations, emotions, safety, decision making, family, weather, animals, and physical appearance. The correct answers to each question are not provided.

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WORKSHEET FOR GRADE TWELVE STUDENTS

1. I cannot understand why she did that, it really doesn't add up


(a) doesn't calculate (c) doesn't make sense
(b) isn't mathematics (d) makes the wrong addition
2.All the students got high marks in the test but Mary stood out
(a) got a lot of marks (c) got very good marks
(b) got higher marks than someone (d) got the most marks of all
3.He has sold his house and has no job and so now he has next to nothing
(a) he is unemployed (c) he has a few things
(b) he has almost no money (d) he has nothing at all
4.As a newspaper reporter she always wanted to get information
at first hand
(a) quickly (b) slowly (c) easily (d) directly
5.I think we can safely say now that we have got our money back, we are
home and dry
(a) have not got wet (c) have been successful
(b) have got no water (d) have got home dry
6.He is the man who owns all the land and is the big fish around here.
(a) the fat man (b) the huge man
(c) the important man (d) the enormous man
7.She never stops talking about herself and is full of herself
(a) is very fat (c) is very full
(b) is too fat (d) is very conceited
8.You will not slip over because the floor is as dry as a bone
(a) completely hard (c) totally dry
(b) extremely flat (d) completely cracked
9.He kept saying he didn't do it but in the end he said he had done it.
(a) at the end (b) finally (c) at last (d) by the end
10.I know you are very sorry that you broke the pot but accidents will happen
(a) things will take place (c) things take place often
(b) things do occur (d) things often go wrong
10He's up to his ears in work and cannot possibly see you now.
(a) fully occupied with (b) very interested in
(c) not involved with (d) concerned with
11.If you give me a hand, then I shall be able to finish more quickly.
(a) take my hand (b) help me
(c) take my fingers (d) pick me up
12.I prefer to talk to people face to face rather than to talk on the phone.
(a) in person (b) facing them (c) looking at them (d) seeing them
13.The manager dismissed the new proposal out of hand and said that it was not at
all practical.
(a) quickly (b) utterly (c) directly (d) simply
14.As she is new to the job I would ask you to keep an eye on her for the time
being.
(a) look at (b) consider (c) check (d) observe
15.The opposition in parliament accused the government of playing games and
refusing to accept the seriousness of the situation.
(a) being light hearted (b) being heavy hearted
(c) being down hearted (d) being faint hearted
16.He accused her of talking through her hat and refused to accept a word of
what she said.
(a) talking sense (b) talking straight (c) talking nonsense (d) talking tough
17.The police advised them to go down to the cellar in order to be out of harm's
way
(a) away from the noise (b) inside the area
(c) into safety (d) away from danger
18.I'd give my right arm if I could get tickets for that concert.
(a) do absolutely anything (c) do something stupid
(b) do something dangerous (d) do what you want
19.You can always rely on Fred to put his foot in it and come out with a remark
like that.
(a) tread on somebody (c) say something embarrassing
(b) fall over (d) put on the wrong shoe
20.There are times when you must decide and take the bull by the horns
(a) make the right decision (c) make a bold decision
(b) make the wrong decision (d) make a final decision

21.He leads a dog's life really because his freedom is always curtailed.
(a) never knows what to do (c) never goes out
(b) sometimes does something wrong (d) never does what he wants
22.No-one ever mentions him because he's regarded as the black sheep of the
family
(a) the one with a sense of humor (c) the one who is always late
(b) the one with a bad reputation (d) the one who never washes
23.I shouldn't go outside without a raincoat because it's raining cats and dogs
(a) it's just started to rain (c) it's raining very heavily
(b) it's going to rain (d) it's raining a little
24.You shouldn't sign there I think he's about to make a monkey out of you
(a) to make a fool of you (c) to make you feel stupid
(b) to make you lose money (d) to make you lose interest
25.It's a lovely house and very big but nobody uses it so it's a bit of a white
elephant
(a) something very beautiful and useful (c) something very cheap and useless
(b) something very big and useful (d) something very expensive and useless
26.When the business folded, he took the lion's share of the assets.
(a) the easiest part (b) the smallest part
(c) the biggest part (d) the only part
27.Without my glasses I can't see where I'm going in fact I'm as blind as a bat
(a) very short sighted (b) very long sighted
(c) very far sighted (d) very clear sighted
28.I get very irritated sometimes because they're always up with the lark and I
like to lie in.
(a) up very easily (b) up very early (c) up very often (d) up very noisily
29.I would advise you to do that as well and in that way you'll kill two birds with
one stone
(a) get things done twice (c) get two things done at the same time
(b) get something done two times (d) get two things done twice
30. They are skin and bone.
a. fat b. thin c. thin and tall d. huge

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