泛读

泛读

Unit 1

1.

He

hits the books

. In other words, he studies hard.

2.

Jane

burns the midnight oil

. In other words, she studies very late at night.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Mike

falls down on the job

. In other words, he fails to do well.

Sally

works her fingers to the bone

. In other words, she studies in a serious way.

He

does back- breaking work

. In other words, he does very difficult physical work.

Tom

works like a dog

. In other words, he works hard and seriously.

Unit 2

1.

Ann’s

garden is beautiful. She can make anything grow. Her friend says she

has a green thumb.

2.

Understanding geometry is no problem for Frank. He thinks it

is

easy as pie.

3.

Henry cannot dance very well at all. He is always tripping over his partner. Henry

has two left feet.

4.

Jan made her first million dollars when she was only nineteen. People say she

has a golden touch.

5.

Bruce is a good newspaper reporter. He always seems to know where to go for the news. He

has a nose for

a good story.

6.

Mary is very good at standing on her head. For her, it

is a breeze

Unit 3

1.

Y

ou can depend on Ann. She is very

down to earth.

2.

Stop

putting on airs

. Y

ou

’

re just human like the rest of us.

3.

Carl

is

showing off

. Whenever he his with others, he stars to sing. I am tired of listening to Carl.

4.

Andy

thinks himself is the God

’

s gift to mankind

. He came in first, and makes sure that everybody knows it.

5.

The headmaster used his authority to

put

all the boys

in their place.

6.

Tom is always

blowing himself own horn

. Is he really as good as he say he is?

Unit 4

1.

It is a good thing Jim

held his tongue

. If he had talked back, the police officer might have given him a ticket.

2.

Paul and his wife

see eye to eye.

Whatever Paul wants to do, his wife does too.

3.

Jan told Steve to

mind his own business

. He had been telling her how to do her job and she did not want his help.

4.

Everyone had agreed to spend the day at the beach. Then John changed his mind and said he wanted to go to the mountains.

John

rocks the boat.

5.

Sam and Bill

buried the hatchet

. After fighting for weeks, they agreed to stop.

6.

Bill did not like what his friends had decided to do, but he went along with it anyway. He

flows with the tie.

7.

Sally

’

s teacher told her to

button her lips.

She was so noisy that she was disturbing the class.

8.

Barb did not tell her mother that she had broken her mother

’

s favorite vase. Instead, she bought a new one. She thought it

was better to

let sleeping dogs lie.

Unit 5

1.

Polly

left us high and dry

. She agreed to be our treasurer, and then she suddenly resigned with nobody to replace her.

2.

Pat always

faces up to

things. She never tries to avoid what is unpleasant.

3.

Jack always

passes the buck

. He always blames someone else when things go wrong.

4.

Mary

will shoulder the responsibility.

Y

ou can always depend on her.

5.

Paul is trying to

worn out of

it. He said he would do it, and now he says he cannot because he has too many other thongs to

do.

6.

Tom always

points his finger at

someone else. He never takes the blame for anything he does.

Unit 6

1.

Lynn is willing to

find middle ground

. She feels that if people do not give a little on

their position, nothing will ever get

done. She does not think people should be so stubborn that they refuse to change their minds.

2.

With Mike it is

all or nothing.

If he cannot have everything he wants in the way that he wants it, he would rather not have

it at all.