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For each of the six questions choose the correct answer.

1. He's … of dogs. Even really small ones scare him.
a. fright
b. frightening
c. frightened
d. frighten

2. She won't go up there. She's …
a. got a fear of high
b. got a fear of heights
c. fear of heights
d. got a frightened of heights

3. What word means 'a fear of spiders'?
a. claustrophobia
b. agoraphobia
c. acrophobia
d. arachnophobia

4. If you're scared of open spaces, you're ...
a. agoraphobic
b. agoraphobia
c. claustrophobia
d. claustrophobic

5. My daughter won't go abroad on holiday. She says she doesn't like foreign people,
places or food. I don't know where she gets her … from. Certainly not from me - I
love visiting new countries.

a. technophobia
b. claustrophobia
c. xenophobia
d. homophobia

6. When I saw all that blood, it … out of me.
a. scared the fright of my life
b. scared the living
c. to scare the living daylights
d. scared the living daylights

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Answers

For each of the six questions choose the correct answer.

1. He's … of dogs. Even really small ones scare him.
a. fright – Wrong – You need an adjective, not a noun here.
b. frightening – Wrong – You need the 'ed' form of this adjective, not the 'ing' one.
c. frightened – Correct – This means dogs scare him.
d. frighten – Wrong – You need an adjective, not a verb here.

2. She won't go up there. She's …
a. got a fear of high – Wrong – The final word should be a noun, not an adjective.
b. got a fear of heights – Correct – This means she's acrophobic.
c. fear of heights – Wrong – Two words are missing here.
d. got a frightened of heights – Wrong – You need the noun rather than the adjective

of 'fear' here.

3. What word means 'a fear of spiders'?
a. claustrophobia – Wrong – This means 'fear of closed or small spaces'.
b. agoraphobia – Wrong – This means 'fear of large, open spaces'.
c. acrophobia – Wrong – This means 'fear of heights'.
d. arachnophobia – Correct – This means that spiders scare you.

4. If you're scared of open spaces, you're ...
a. agoraphobic – Correct – This adjective means that open spaces frighten
you.
b. agoraphobia – Wrong – You need an adjective rather than a noun here.
c. claustrophobia– Wrong – This noun means 'fear of closed or small spaces'.
d. claustrophobic– Wrong – This adjective describes someone who has a fear of closed

or small spaces.

5. My daughter won't go abroad on holiday. She says she doesn't like foreign people,
places or food. I don't know where she gets her … from. Certainly not from me - I
love visiting new countries.

a. technophobia - Wrong – This means 'fear of new things'.
b. claustrophobia – Wrong – This means 'fear of closed or small spaces'.
c. xenophobia – Correct – This means 'fear of foreigners or people who are

different from me'.
d. homophobia – Wrong – This means 'fear of homosexuals'.

6. When I saw all that blood, it … out of me.
a. scared the fright of my life – Wrong – You've mixed up two expressions here.
b. scared the living – Wrong – There's one word missing here.
c. to scare the living daylights – Wrong – You need the simple past tense form of the

verb, not the infinitive here.
d. scared the living daylights – Correct – This means the blood gave you a real

fright!

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