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
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 |