I. Match the antonyms.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 428.
Vocabulary Work
Answer the questions to the text.
Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
Reading
| A | B | |
| YES | NO | |
| 1. My father always was a stay at home person. | ||
| 2. Travelling on holidays was the most amazing experience we had when we were children. | ||
| 3. All the way to the destination and back we had to deal with the tedium of a journey. | ||
| 4. Views used to be lacking in variety and interest. | ||
| 5. We never knew where we stood with our father in terms of his reaction to our requests. | ||
| 6. Eventually the father gave in. | ||
| 7. Spook Caverns turned out to be a failure in terms of fun, attractions and amusement. | ||
| 8. After visiting local attractions we were drained of both our mental and physical powers, and the only thing we were capable of was sleeping in the back of the car. | ||
| 9. It's pretty disappointing that there aren't any billboards along the highways anymore. |
1. What was the trip like?
2. Why did the father of the family behave like that?
3. What can you say about the mother of the family?
4. Were children happy with their annual trips?
5. What was the visit to Spook Caverns like?
6. How did they behave on their way to distant places and back?
7. Why is the story called “Lost Continent”?
| 1. sincere | a) boring, dull, tiresome |
| 2. quiet | b) calm, composed |
| 3. predictable | c) cheap, low-priced, economical |
| 4. enormous | d) cheerful , exhilarated , glad; joyful , lively, merry |
| 5. aggressive | e) decent, polite, upright, conformable to moral rectitude |
| 6. distant | f) dishonest, hypocritical |
| 7. uncontrollable | g) great |
| 8. sad | h) heaven on earth |
| 9. moving | i) indifferent, unconcerned |
| 10. living hell | j) loud, noisy, deafening |
| 11. exciting | k) merriment, fun |
| 12. mad | l) near, close to, in the vicinity of |
| 13. awful | m) sensible, rational, reasonable |
| 14. expensive | n) tiny, minute |
| 15. disgraceful | o) uncertain, inconsistent |
| 16. boredom | p) under control, in control |
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