Question

28. Complete these comments by various people with words from the box below. Write the
words in the correct form.
set
fizzle
dry
start
give
polish
pack
cut
finish
call
break
outset
1
the
So I
out as a chemist but I knew from
that it wasn't what I wanted to do.
it in and joined the navy instead.
2
I had 50 exam papers to correct that day, so I
about marking them. I managed to
off about
20 by 12.30, so I
off for lunch and decided
to
the job off later
I was putting on weight, so I decided to
up fatty foods,
1
down on sweet drinks too, but I'm afraid my efforts
out after a couple of weeks and now I'm back where I started.
Our research project was getting nowhere, and our funds were
up. We didn't really want to
the
whole thing off, but we had no choice. We're very disappointed.

Answer 1

Resposta:

1. started/outset/fizzled

2. broke/give/packed/polish

3. set/called/dried

4. finishing/cut

Explicação:

Foi isso o que eu coloquei. Não tenho 100% de certeza, mas a resposta deve estar bem perto disso.

Algumas observações:

- Fizzled nessa frase significa desistir

- Dried não possui o sentido literal de secar, mas sim de acabar

- Polish significa "dar os toques finais", e não de fato "polir"

- "Pack off for lunch" é muito utilizado principalmente com o sentido de arrumar as suas coisas para o almoço e comer

- Cut possui o sentido, nessa frase, de "derrubar" ou "fechar". É bem utilizado quando uma empresa está para falir

Espero ter ajudado :)