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

Describing people: positive and 
negative qualities
8
Character and personality
Chinese astrology organises years into cycles of 12, and asserts that the year you are born in aff ects 
your character. Each year is named aft er an animal.
animal
year
characteristics
1
using situations for own benefit
2
systematic, careful 
3
too patriotic
4
become too excited and lose control
5
ready to help 
6
not caring about serious things 
7
not confident, uncertain about your own 
abilities 
8
someone who is not satisfied if things are 
not 100% perfect 
9
inclined to say things that upset or off end 
people 
10
understanding instinctively 
11
hard-working 
12
calm, does not easily become excited or 
angry
13
personality that attracts people to you 
14
not trusting, suspicious of others 
15
having good judgement 
16
gives help or encouragement 
17
spends too much money or uses too much 
of something 
18
practical and sensible 
19
thinking of others rather than yourself 
20
gloomy 
21
inclined to speak in a severe and critical way
22
without enough experience of life, trusting 
too easily
RAT
1972, 1984, 
1996, 2008
imaginative, charming, generous, quick-
tempered, 
opportunistic
1
BUFFALO
1973, 1985, 
1997, 2009
conservative, 
methodical
2
, conscientious, 
chauvinistic
3
, a born leader
TIGER
1974, 1986, 
1998, 2010
sensitive, emotional, tends to 
get carried 
away
4
, stubborn, rebellious, courageous
RABBIT
1975, 1987, 
1999, 2011
aff ectionate,