BBC Learning English

Question 1

kick back

Answer 1

stop doing things and relax completely

Question 2

industrious

Answer 2

hard-working

• Japan had an industrious and well-organised people to further economic progress.

Question 3

colony

Answer 3

group of certain animals, birds or insects that live together

Question 4

productive

Answer 4

able to produce a lot for the amount of resources used

Question 5

necessity is the mother of invention (idiom)

Answer 5

meaning that if you really need to do something, you will think of a way of doing it.

Question 6

switch off

Answer 6

stop worrying or thinking about something, and relax.

• The talk lasted for ages, and eventually I just switched off.
• Many people in stressful jobs find it difficult to switch off when they come home.

Question 7

Be (as) busy as a bee

Answer 7

to be moving about quickly doing many things

Question 8

Be always on the move

Question 9

motionless

Question 10

evolve

Answer 10

develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form.

• each school must evolve its own way of working.
• influenza genes evolve a million times faster than ours.
• Over millions of years these organisms would develop, adapt and evolve into newly created organisms.