I. Answer the questions about the words and expressions.

1. If you track down something, do you (a) find it, or (b) lose it after a long search?

2. Does someone who thinks on their feet make decisions (a) quickly, or (b) slowly?

3. If you know something inside out, do you know it (a) only in part, or (b) very well?

4. If you are in the running for a job, do you have (a) some chance, or (b) no chance of being chosen?

5. Is a hall-of-fame athlete someone who will be (a) quickly forgotten, or (b) remembered for a long time?

6. If the market is heaving with people, is there (a) a crowd of people there, or (b) not many people there?

7. If you summon someone, do you want them to (a) come to see you immediately, or (b) go away?

8. If you refrain from doing something, do you (a) do it, or (b) not do it?

9. If there is a flurry of activity, do a lot of things happen (a) all at once, or (b) over a long period of time?

II. Translation

1. Josh shivered as he checked the address on the slip of paper in his hand. He’ d never been to Joanne’ s, but knew it by reputation, not because of its food, which had often been maligned, or its jazz orchestra, which had a guest slot for a well-known movie director who played trumpet, but because of the stellar quality of its sophisticated guests: politicians, diplomats, movie actors, hall-of-fame athletes, journalists, writers, rock stars and Nobel Prize winner–in short, anyone who was anyone in this city of power brokers.

2. 这位年轻人是个侦探小说迷，在看了福尔摩斯探案故事之后，他自以为完全掌握了侦探技巧，于是就开始调查一起抢劫案。经过几个星期的周密调查，他倒是追查到了三名疑犯，只可惜案发时这三个人都身在国外。（know sth inside out; trace down）