Task C: Vocabulary in context, MC
Read the questions and choose the best answer.
Lindsey says, she had 'a bit of a stint in the hospital'. 'Stint' probably means:
- difficult time
- problem
- period of time
- solution
Lindsey says, 'I have...this predisposition to getting obsessive'. 'Predisposition' probably means:
- uncontollable ability to suffer from a particular condition
- uncontollable need to suffer from a particular condition
- uncontollable desire to suffer from a particular condition
- uncontollable tendency to suffer from a particular condition
Lindsey says that deception is one feature of anorexia. 'Deception' proabably means:
- Being introverted
- Lying to people
- Being withdrawn
- Not eating
Lindsey says, '...my friends then started to really confront me about not eating'. 'Confront' probably means:
- Speak behind someone's back about a problem.
- Meet someone fact to face and speak gently with them about a problem or difficult situation.
- Talk to a person face to face about a problem or difficult situation.
- Talk to someone face to face about a problem or difficult situation with possible hostile or argumentative intent.
Lindsey says, 'I assumed that anorexia is where the girl is a bag of bones'. 'Bag of bones' probably means:
- trim
- slim
- skinny
- slender
The narrator says, 'many more may be going undetected'. 'Going undetected' probably means:
- not being noticed
- not being policed
- not being aware
- not being caught
Rob says, 'I could go from being absolutely fine to being completely despondent in a matter of minutes'. 'Despondent' probably means:
- In low spirits from loss of strength
- In low spirits from loss of confidence
- In low spirits from not enough food
- In low spirits from loss of hope
Rob's Mom, says, 'One Sunday when I think things had come to a head...'. 'Come to a head' probably means:
- become so powerful that you have to start dealing with it
- become so strange that you have to start dealing with it
- become so bad that you have to start dealing with it
- become so weak that you have to start dealing with it
Rob's mother says, '...he told me that he’d done it over a period of time. And I was ...devastated'. 'Devastated' probably means:
- Disbelieving
- Disappointed
- Angry
- Shocked; stunned
Rob says, 'I was taken to hospital in...a completely...frenzied state'. 'Frenzied' probably means:
- wildly excited or uncontrolled
- confused
- careful and slow moving
- lacking strength or power