Name: ____________________________ ( ) Class: Senior Middle Two ( )

Enrichment: Idioms & Proverbs (Unified Test, 2nd semester, 2021)

Idioms & Proverbs Meaning Chinese

Meaning
1. To pay one’s own tuition
2. To understand something after initially not being able to
comprehend it.
3. To get no response from someone when they are asked a
question.
4. To think long and hard about something.
5. Acting with only incomplete information is likely to create
chaos or danger.
6. You must know what is the most important thing in a given
situation.

7. The best way to help someone is to teach them how to do

something.
8. The more you know, the better off you will be.

9. An approach that uses traditional ideas and methods which

have been successful in the past.
10. Someone who works hard and is very enthusiastic.
11. Learning through difficult experiences in life, as opposed to a
formal, classroom education.
12. To memorise something so well, that it can be written or
recited without thinking..

Back to basics Catch on Eager beaver A little bit of knowledge is a

dangerous thing
Learn…. by heart The school of hard knocks Knowledge is power Don’t put the cart before
the horse
Put on your thinking cap Drew a blank Put themselves through Give a man a fish, he eats
school for a day. Teach a man to
fish, he eats for a lifetime
Exercise:
1. Whenever Elijah gets tired to studying or reading books, he reminds himself that ____________________________, and start to
get motivated to work harder again.

2. It’s a difficult riddle. If you want to solve it, you’ll have to ____________________________.

3. The present perfect continuous tense used to be hard for Ishmael. It took him a while to ____________________________.

4. Previous generations in the United States could easily ____________________________, but with today’s high tuition rates, it’s
almost impossible.

5. I asked Jacob about his plans for Christmas, but I just ____________________________. He didn’t seem to understand what I
was asking him!

6. Mary is such a/an ____________________________, she is always the first one to do whatever the professor asks. I think she
wants to be the president of Student Union!

7. The history teacher asked them to _________ the entire history of the Song Dynasty _______________ because the open-book
exam was not easy.

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8. I can’t believe the medical intern tried to write a prescription! He definitely did not know enough to get the right medications and
dosages. ____________________________.

9. Timothy wasn’t able to go to college, but he learnt a lot in ____________________________, it taught him a lot about life.

10. They seem to prefer having everything ____________________________ in their office. They have minimal use of advanced
technology, but apparently find everything simpler and easier to manage.

11. ____________________________, so education and learning how to do something is far more important than giving people a
bunch of resources that they will no longer have once you leave.

12. Most people often end up only working on those easy tasks, and never get around to finishing the other tasks which are actually
most important! ____________________________ and put those difficult but crucial tasks first.

Enrichment: Phrasal verbs (Unified Test, 2nd semester, 2021)

Phrasal verbs Meaning Chinese Meaning
13. To try to understand or form opinion about.

14. To succeed very easily in something, especially a test

15. To give an explanation or reason for something.

16. To be dismissed from a school or college for failure.

17. To increase speed.

18. To try consider in a new and different way.

19. Abolish.
20. To decide that something will take place at an earlier time than had
been planned.

Do away with Step up Step back Flunked out

Bring forward Account for Sailed through Weigh up
Exercise:

1. Matthew never went to class and eventually ____________________________ of college.

2. When the police interrogated Ian, he could not ____________________________the missing funds.
3. It was necessary to ____________________________ from the project and look at it as a whole.
4. Tommy Thomas wanted to ____________________________ plans to improve employees benefits of his law firm.
5. How could the town council ____________________________ a beautiful old building like that and put a car park there
instead?
6. Narumi took Japanese in high school even though she’s a native Japanese speaker. Needless to say, she
____________________________ the course without any problems.
7. The chief executive officer has to ____________________________ all the pros and cons of the matter before she makes a
decision.
8. Daniel is going to New York, so he must ____________________________ his English.

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