English idioms from English musicals 4b - Evita

Tento muzikál je poměrně dlouhý a obsahuje velké množství idiomů, proto je test rozdělen na čtyři různé části. V této druhé, určené pro úroveň upper-intermediate, je vaším úkolem u každé otázky vybrat výraz, který se nejlépe hodí do vyznačených mezer v textu.

1. CHE:
            Oh what a circus, oh what a show!
            Argentina has ________ to town
            over the death of an actress called Eva Perón.
            We've all gone crazy.
            Mourning all day and mourning all night,
            falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right.

   1. gone
   2. got
   3. run
   4. seen

2. CHE:
            Show business kept us all alive
            since 17 October 1945.
            But the star has gone, the glamour's ________ thin.
            That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in.

   1. born
   2. over
   3. very few
   4. worn

3. MAGALDI:
            The city can be paradise for those who have the cash,
            the class and the connections, what you need to ________ a splash.
            The likes of you get swept up in the morning with the trash.

   1. do
   2. change
   3. make
   4. strike

4. MAGALDI:
            Eva, beware your ambition!
            It's h­ungry and cold, can't be controlled, will ________ wild.
            This in a man is danger enough, but you are a woman.
            Not even a woman, not very much more than a child.

   1. became
   2. come
   3. run
   4. show

5. PERÓN'S MISTRESS:
            Time and time again I've said that I don't care.
            That I'm immune to gloom, that I'm hard ________ and through.
            But every time it matters all my words desert me.
            So anyone can hurt me, and they do.

   1. good
   2. here
   3. sound
   4. through

6. CHE:
            In June of forty-three there was a military coup.
            Behind it was a gang called the G.O.U.
            who did not feel the need to be elected.
            They had themselves a party at the ________ of a gun.
            They were slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun,
            a bomb or two and very few objected.

   1. call
   2. length
   3. point
   4. view

7. CHE:
            The lady's got potential, she was ________ her sights
            on making it in movies with her name in lights.
            The greatest social climber since Cinderella.

   1. focusing
   2. keeping
   3. lifting
   4. setting

8. CHE:
            Yeah, just one blast and the tear gas falls like rain, kapow, die!
            They haven't a chance, bye bye!
            The terrorists advance.
            But one guy doesn't dirty his hands
            - Perón was ________ time out in the slow lane.

   1. biding
   2. marking his
   3. playing about
   4. taking

9. EVA:
            I'm not talking of a hurried night,
            a frantic tumble, then a shy goodbye,
            creeping home before it gets too light…
            That­'s not the reason that I ________ your eye.
            Which has to imply
            I'd be good for you.
            I'd be surprisingly good for you.

   1. bound
   2. caught
   3. claimed
   4. towed

10. OFFICERS:
             It's no crime for officers to do as they please
             as long as they're discreet and keep clear of disease.
             We ignore, we disregard.
             But once they allow a bit on the side
             to move to the center where she's not qualified,
             we are forced to ________ his card.

    1. cut
    2. mark
    3. see
    4. take

11. OFFICERS:
             She won't be kept happy by her nights on the ________ .
             She says it's his body, but she's after his files.
             So get back onto the street!

    1. aisles
    2. miles
    3. piles
    4. tiles

12. PERÓN:
             Would-be presidents are all around.
             I don't say they mean harm
             but they'd each ________ an arm
             to see us six feet underground.

    1. cut
    2. give
    3. give up
    4. lose