unit 1 headway upper intermediate

Question 1

read the quote

Answer 1

/kwoʊt/
1 [intransitive, transitive] to repeat exactly what someone else has said or written
quote from
She quoted from a newspaper article.
He quoted a short passage from the Bible.
A military spokesman was quoted as saying that the border area is now safe.
quote somebody on something
Can I quote you on that?
2 [transitive] to give a piece of information that is written down somewhere
You can order by phoning our hotline and quoting your credit card number.
He quoted a figure of 220 deaths each year from accidents in the home.
3 [transitive] to give something as an example to support what you are saying SYN cite
Mr Jackson quoted the case of an elderly man who had been evicted from his home.
quote something as something
He quoted the example of France as a country with a good rail service.
The nurses’ union was quoted as an example of a responsible trade union.
4 [transitive] to tell a customer the price you will charge them for a service or product
They quoted a price of £15,000.
quote something for something
The firm originally quoted £6,000 for the whole job.
5 [transitive] to give the price of a share or currency
The pound was quoted this morning at just under $1.46.
The company is now quoted on the stock exchange (=people can buy and sell shares in it).
6 → (I) quote
7 → quote … unquote

Question 2

see sth with new eyes

Answer 2

MS

Question 3

at last

Answer 3

at (long) last
if something happens at last, it happens after you have been hoping, waiting, or working for it a long time
At last it was time to leave.
We reached the summit at last.

Question 4

go mad for sth

Answer 4

you would go mad for the views

Question 5

flew

Answer 5

/fluː/ verb
the past tense of fly

Question 6

swam alongside

Answer 6

/swæm/ verb
the past tense of swim1
/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd $ əˌlɒːŋ-/ ●●○ W3 adverb, preposition
1 next to the side of something
A car drew up alongside.
Children’s prices are shown alongside adult prices.
2 used to say that people or things do something or exist together at the same time
Charles spent a week working alongside the miners.
Organized crime continued to flourish alongside the mainstream economy.
3 in comparison with something
His achievement may seem small alongside the great triumphs of 20th-century technology.
Athletics should rank alongside (=be equal to) soccer and cricket as a major sport.

Question 7

get seasick

Answer 7

/ˈsiːˌsɪk/ adjective
feeling ill when you travel in a boat, because of the movement of the boat in the water
get/feel/be seasick
Hal was seasick almost at once

Question 8

the mega-famous

Question 9

giant

Answer 9

ˈdʒaɪənt/ ●●● S3 W2 adjective [only before noun]
extremely big, and much bigger than other things of the same type
a giant electronics company
a giant tortoise

Question 10

tortoises

Answer 10

/ˈtɔːtəs $ ˈtɔːr-/ noun [countable]
a slow-moving land animal that can pull its head and legs into the hard round shell that covers its body → turtle

Question 11

colloquial language

Answer 11

/kəˈləʊkwiəl $ -ˈloʊ-/ ●○○ adjective
language or words that are colloquial are used mainly in informal conversations rather than in writing or formal speech
* You shouldn’t use phrases like “sort of” in essays – they’re too colloquial.

Question 12

get this

Answer 12

you won’t believe this

Question 13

kind of weird

Answer 13

fairly strange

Question 14

don’t freak

Question 15

coolest of all

Question 16

my buddy

Question 17

i don’t get it

Question 18

hanging out together

Question 19

worldwide

Answer 19

/ˌwɜːldˈwaɪd◂ $ ˌwɜːrld-/ ●●○ adjective, adverb
everywhere in the world → globally
We have offices in over 56 countries worldwide.
cars with a worldwide reputation for reliability

Question 20

zoom down

Answer 20

/zuːm/ verb [intransitive] informal
1 [always + adverb/preposition] to go somewhere or do something very quickly SYN whizz, zip
zoom off/around/down etc
Brenda jumped in the car and zoomed off.
The work was really easy and I was able to zoom through it in a couple of hours.
2 (also zoom up) to increase suddenly and quickly SYN escalate
zoom to
Inflation zoomed to 123%.

Question 21

sweeper

Answer 21

/ˈswiːpə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
1 someone or something that sweeps
a road sweeper

Question 22

the vast network

Answer 22

/vɑːst $ væst/ ●●○ W2 adjective
1 extremely large SYN huge
vast amounts/numbers/quantities/sums etc (of something)
The government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
The refugees come across the border in vast numbers.
vast areas/expanses/tracts etc (of something)
vast areas of rainforest
In the past five years, there has been a vast improvement in graduation rates.
► see thesaurus at big
2 → the vast majority (of something)

Question 23

fateful nap

Answer 23

short sleep
ˈfeɪtfəl/ adjective [usually before noun]
having an important, especially bad, effect on future events
fateful day/night/year etc
The goalkeeper on that fateful day in 1954 was Fred Martin.
When his rent was raised, he made the fateful decision to move north.

Question 24

was nowhere to be seen

Question 25

hordes of people

Answer 25

/hɔːd $ hɔːrd/ noun [countable]
a large crowd moving in a noisy uncontrolled way
horde of
There were hordes of people inside the station

Question 26

notorious for its slums

Answer 26

/nəʊˈtɔːriəs, nə- $ noʊ-, nə-/ ●○○ adjective
famous or well known for something bad SYN infamous
a notorious computer hacker
notorious cases of human rights abuses
notorious for
a judge notorious for his cruelty and corruption

/slʌm/ ●○○ noun
1 [countable] a house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where very poor people live
a slum area
slum housing
the slums of London

Question 27

sleeping rough

Answer 27

sleeping on the streets
to sleep outside with nothing to protect you from the weather, especially because you have no home to live in
the number of people sleeping rough on the street
→ rough

Question 28

fend for himself

Answer 28

look After himself
to look after yourself without needing help from other people
The kids had to fend for themselves while their parents were away.

Question 29

fend somebody/something off

Answer 29

to defend yourself against someone who is attacking you SYN fight somebody ↔ off
Tabitha threw up an arm to fend her attacker off.
2 to defend yourself from something such as difficult questions, competition, or a situation you do not want to deal with
She uses her secretary to fend off unwanted phone calls.
The company managed to fend off the hostile takeover bid.

Question 30

beggar

Answer 30

/ˈbeɡə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable]
1 someone who lives by asking people for food and money
the beggars on the streets

Question 31

beggars can’t be choosers

Answer 31

used to say that, when you have no money or no power to choose, you have to accept whatever you are given

Question 32

settle down well in

Answer 32

become accustomed

Question 33

illiterate five-year-old

Answer 33

ɪˈlɪtərət/ adjective
1 someone who is illiterate has not learned to read or write
2 badly written, in an uneducated way
It was an illiterate letter, full of mistakes.
3 → economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate

Question 34

vivid memories

Answer 34

ˈvɪvɪd/ ●●○ adjective
1 vivid memories, dreams, descriptions etc are so clear that they seem real OPP vague /veɪɡ/
I’ve got vivid memories of that summer.
He had a vivid picture of her in his mind.
2 → vivid imagination
3 vivid colours or patterns are very bright
his vivid blue eyes

Question 35

hit on

Answer 35

an strategy1 (also hit upon something) to have an idea or discover something suddenly or unexpectedly SYN come up with
Then we hit on the idea of asking viewers to donate money over the Net.
2 American English informal to talk to someone in a way that shows you are sexually attracted to them
Dave has hit on most of the women in the department.
→ hit→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
hit on the idea of

Question 36

came up

Answer 36

to think of an idea, answer etc
Is that the best excuse you can come up with?
We’ve been asked to come up with some new ideas.
2 informal to produce an amount of money
We wanted to buy the house but we couldn’t come up with the cash.
How am I supposed to come up with $10,000?

Question 37

rough distance

Answer 37

not exact, not containing many details, or not in a final form SYN approximate

Question 38

old and shabby

Answer 38

/ˈʃæbi/ ●○○ adjective
1 shabby clothes, places, or objects are untidy and in bad condition because they have been used for a long time
Hugh’s jacket was old and shabby.
a shabby little restaurant
2 wearing clothes that are old and worn
a shabby tramp
3 old-fashioned unfair and unkind
a shabby trick

Question 39

struck gold

Answer 39

to be very lucky, o do something that makes you a lot of money
Jackie eventually struck gold with her third novel.

Question 40

sth would get the better of somebody

Answer 40

if your feelings or wishes get the better of you, they make you behave in a way you would not normally behave
My curiosity finally got the better of me and I opened the letter.
I think her nerves got the better of her.
b) to defeat someone or deal successfully with a problem

Question 41

grasping

Answer 41

understanding
ɡrɑːspɪŋ $ ˈɡræs-/ adjective
too eager to get money and unwilling to give any of it away or spend it
Hanson was a hard, grasping man

Question 42

she had long feared I was dead

Question 43

venture as far as calcutta

Answer 43

ˈventʃə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable]
a new business activity that involves taking risks
business/commercial venture
joint venture (=when two companies do something together)

Question 44

foul play

Answer 44

//faʊl//a crime
if the police think someone’s death was caused by foul play, they think that person was murdered
The police said they had no reason to suspect foul play.
Detectives have not ruled out foul play.
2 an action that is dishonest, unfair, or illegal, especially one that happens during a sports game

Question 45

the wish was granted

Answer 45

to give someone something or allow them to have something that they have asked for

Question 46

star-studded

Answer 46

adjective [only before noun]
including many famous performers
a star-studded cast

Question 47

overtaking on a bend

Answer 47

on driving

Question 48

want a ride?

Answer 48

hop in

Question 49

hop a plane/bus/train etc

Answer 49

to get on a plane, bus, train etc, especially after suddenly deciding to do so
So we hopped a bus to Phoenix that night.

Question 50

the drag is

Answer 50

something or someone that is boring
Don’t be such a drag! Come to the party.
b) something that is annoying and continues for a long time
It’s a real drag having to travel so far to work every day.

Question 51

took a drag

Answer 51

he act of breathing in smoke from your cigarette
Frank took a drag on his cigarette

Question 52

chocolate mousse

Answer 52

a sweet food made from a mixture of cream, eggs, and fruit or chocolate, which is eaten when it is cold

Question 53

how come

Answer 53

sed to ask someone why or how something happened
How come you’ve ended up here?
‘Last I heard, she was teaching in Mexico.’ ‘How come?’

Question 54

make a party

Question 55

look stress out

Answer 55

to make someone so worried or nervous that they cannot relax
Studying for exams always stresses me out.

Question 56

i’d drop in

Answer 56

a drop-in place is a place offering a service or support where you can go without having to make arrangements first
a drop-in advice centre

Question 57

feel up to going out

Answer 57

to have the strength, energy etc to do something
I just didn’t feel up to going.

Question 58

you would swing it for us

Answer 58

spoken to arrange for something to happen, although it takes a lot of effort to do this
We managed to swing it so that they will travel together.

Question 59

that’s as maybe

Question 60

have a lot on

Answer 60

to be very busy, with a large number of things to do in a short time
I can’t help you now – I’ve got rather a lot on.

Question 61

that’s a drag

Question 62

all year round

Question 63

house-proud

Answer 63

/ˈhaʊspraʊd/ adjective
British English spending a lot of time on keeping your house clean and tidy

Question 64

house plants

Question 65

career girl

Question 66

house-warming party

Question 67

home-made

Question 68

home-grown