English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

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Unit 94
 94.1
1 The system is now up and running so we should be able to get some useful data soon.
2 Things are 
looking up now that we’ve increased our online sales.
3 The whole project 
worked like a dream.
4 After a problematic start, things are 
falling into place now.
5 The school open day 
went / ran like clockwork.
 94.2
1 dream
2 pain
3 need / needed
4 nightmare
5 hear
 94.3
1 Ricardo
2 Michelle
3 Sabina
4 Alex
5 Monica
 94.4
1 Jessica’s on cloud nine now she’s at university.
2 She’s 
in her element now she’s got a job in an architect’s office.
3 You look a bit down in the 
dumps 
/
 mouth. What’s the matter?
4 Just look at him! He looks fed up to the 
back teeth!
5 I was 
over the moon when they told me I’d got the job.
 94.5
1 B (the last straw means a final, very damaging event in a series of bad events)
2 C (I can’t understand it because it is too complex/complicated)
3 D (you look very unhappy indeed)
4 A (it worked perfectly, as if by magic)
5 D (I was feeling very happy/elated)
Unit 95
 95.1
1 Meena can 
come across/over as a little arrogant, but she’s just shy.
2 Charlie was quick to take advantage of a chance for promotion that 
came up at his workplace.
3 The project was going well until we 
came up against some legal problems.
4 I 
came across some lovely old photos when I was sorting some boxes yesterday.
5 I’m afraid it looks as if our plans to move to a new flat may not 
come off.
6 Something strange 
came over me and I shouted at him angrily.