A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,  31_my teacher said again and again that it was important.

One day, I happened to  32  an Englishman, on the road, and soon we began to  33  . As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was  34  , I thought, perhaps this is not a  35  topic. Well, I’d  36  change the topic. So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?  37 _ the way, have you ever   3 8  there?”

“Certainly, everyone back home will  39   me if I leave China without seeing  40 . It was great.” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. It is a place of   41  .” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “  42  !” I couldn’t  43  asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do  44  ”, he answered, gently surprised.

I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”

Hearing this, the Englishman  45   to tears. He began to  46 , “‘You don’t say’ actually means ‘really?’. It is an  47  of surprise. Perhaps you don’t pay attention  48  English idioms.”

Then I knew I had made fool of   49  . Since then I have been more  50  with idioms.

 

31.

A. though

B. when  

C. if  

D. as

32.

A. look

B. meet  

C. pick up

D. find out

33.

A. walk

B. talk  

C. play  

D. go

34.

A. pleased

B. angry  

C. afraid  

D. surprised

35.

A. proper

B. strange  

C. safe  

D. polite

36.

A. to  

B. better  

C. not  

D. like

37.

A. On  

B. In  

C. All  

D. By

38.

A. gone

B. visited  

C. seen  

D. been

39.

A. look at

B. think of  

C. send for

D. laugh at

40.

A. It  

B. them  

C. anything

D. something

41.

A. fun  

B. interest  

C. business

D. mountain

42.

A. Really

B. Good  

C. You don’ t say

D. You are right

43.

A. be  

B. help  

C. think  

D. do

44.

A. this

B. so  

C. anything

D. me a favor

45.

A. laughed

B. cried  

C. moved

D. came

46.

A. explain

B. shout  

C. prove  

D. say

47.

A. experience

B. expression

C. explanation

D. example

48.

A. for  

B. to  

C. at  

D. in

49.

A. me  

B. myself

C. him  

D. somebody

50.

A. helpful

B. popular  

C. careful

D. satisfied

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