9.Language（九单元）

1.a: 2 f 3 a 4 e 5 b 6 d

b: 2 brought about 3 look … up 4 go for 5 came across 6 takes off 7 gets away with it 8 come up with

c: 2 I’m trying to find out. 3 They got away with being rude. 4 Which dress do you think I should go for? 5 £1,000 would bring all my problems to an end. / £1,000 would bring an end to all my problems. 6 She comes across as being a bit superficial.

7 I looked it up but I still don’t know what it means. 8 Who came up with that great idea?

d: 2 I never found them out. 3 I came across them in my garden. 4 I got away with it. 5 I looked it up in my dictionary. 6 He came up with it in the bath.

2. a: 2 work out 3 go for 4 took off 5 look … up 6 came across 7 come across 8 taking off 9 went for

b: Across: 1 sign 3 slang 4 bad 6 terminology

Down: 1 slogan 2 jargon 3 swear 5 cliché 7 idiom

3. a: enough, tough, rough = stuff; through = blue; cough = off; though = know

4. a: 2 gist 3 lost 4 totally 5 out 6 get

b: 2 I’m managing to understand most of it. 3 I can just about catch the gist. 4 I understand a lot of what he’s saying. 5 I can’t make out very much. 6 The talks he gives are totally incomprehensible.

c: 1 might say 3 and 5  2 might say 2 and 4  3 might say 1 and 6

5. a: It’s called Bannzish.

b: 1 b 2 d 3 a 4 c 5 b

6. a: Paragraph order: 5, 2, 4, 1, 3

b: 1 T 2 T 3 F ( It was popular with old people, university students and other

people with not much to do in the afternoons.) 4 T 5 T 6 F (The winner from the previous day’s show stays on to face a new contestant.)

Unit check 

1.2 speaks 3 to speaking 4 would 5 trying 6 paid 7 to speak 8 make 9 get 10 which

2. 2 c 3 b 4 a 5 c 6 a 7 c 8 b 9 b

3. 2 word 3 Idioms 4 gist 5 swears 6 slang 7 make 8 sign 9 incomprehensible