Task 1. Fill in the words into each gap
1 If you _for President, you would need a lot of money to pay for the campaign.
2 _is necessary if you want to learn a foreign language.
3 Don’t worry if you _people criticizing you. Ignore them!
4_, her ambition was to be a vet, but now she wants to be an accountant.
5 Only a king can _his subjects from his country.
6 Lack of money was an _problem to their night out.
7 Writers get _from just walking down the street.
8 One of his _is his constant self-doubt.
9 My team was _in the first round.
10 His marriage proposal was unexpectedly_.
Word bank: insurmountable, come up against, ran, initially, banish, perseverance, rejected, inspiration, failings, defeated.
Task 2. Choose the correct word .
1 Goals are achieved with hard work and self-doubt/ perseverance/ perspiration.
2 Napoleon was banished/ rejected / defeated in the battle of Waterloo.
3 Fighting to end hunger in the third world often seems like an insurmountable/ defeated/endless battle.
4 Perseverance/ self-doubt/ perspiration is the body’s way of regulating its temperature or responding to stress.
5 Perseverance/ self-doubt/ perspiration kept Helen from pursuing her dream.
6 City Hall banished/ rejected / defeated the architect’s designs.
7 Banish/ reject / defeat feelings of doubt with these 10 quick and easy steps
Task 3. Underline the correct word in the exchanges
1 A: How is she, Doctor?
B: We have done everything medically possible. All we
can do now is hope for the dashed/ best/ pin/ given up.
2 A: Rick’s hopes of winning a medal were dashed/ best/ pin/ given up when he slipped and fell during the race.
B: What a shame! But there’s always next year.
3 A: Don’t dashed/ best/ pin/ given up all your hopes on becoming an astronaut.
B: Just watch and see. I’ll make it happen!
4 A: Have you heard from the company you applied to last
month?
B: No, and I’ve dashed/ best/ pin/ given up hope of a reply now.
Task 4. Complete the sentences with the phrases in the correct form
1 We might be able to go away this weekend, but don’t _― I may have to work.
2 He gave up his job _ he would find something better.
3 I hadn’t changed a tyre before but I decided to have a go and _ .
4 A terrible injury _ Greg’s _ of reaching the Olympics.
5 Mike _ getting this job. He hasn’t applied for anything else.
6 I never _ that I would become a famous singer one day.
7 Joanne _ going to university
Word bank: dash one’s hopes, in the hope that, hope for the best, get one’s hopes up, give up hope, have high hopes of, pin one’s hopes on