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2) Many people have died while climbing Mount Everest.
Would I like to try it? Not on your life!
a) Not if it means you’ll be risking your life!
b) Yes, definitely
c) No way!

3) When Carol told Bob she could no longer sell Susan’s
Scrumptious Cookies, it really burned him up.
a) made him feel happy
b) made him feel sick
c) made him very angry

4) Sara, I’m going to have to let you go. You come to work late
every day and spend all day chatting with your friends.
a) fire you
b) give you more vacation time
c) yell at you

5) One day, Nicole woke up with big red spots on her face. She
didn’t know how to get rid of them.
a) make more of
b) remove
c) encourage

6) Thanks for coming to my party. Come on in!
a) See you later!
b) Go away!
c) Enter!

7) Susan was three sheets to the wind. Bob told her not to
drink any more pifia coladas.
a) really drunk
b) very thirsty
c) feeling very tired

8) Now that Bob is well off, he definitely won’t be taking a job
at McDonald’s.
a) employed
b) feeling well
c) secure financially

ANSWERS TO LESSON 23, p. 166

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