- advanced-57
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 57 (Answer Keys)
Sand Idioms
A1 The sands of time are running out and you'll have to hurry up.
answer: (d) time
A2 It's no good burying your head in the sand, you'll have to face the truth in the end.
answer: (b) burying
A3 If you build your enterprise on sand, it's certain to fail eventually.
answer: (c) build
A4 They have decided to draw a line in the sand and start all over again.
answer: (b) draw
A5 The sands are shifting and everything is changing in this century.
answer: (a) shifting
A6 It runs into millions and millions — almost as many as the grains of sand you can see on this beach.
answer: (c) grains
A7 Children often go down to the seaside and use their buckets and spades to make sand castles.
answer: (b) castles
A8 In order to get children to go to sleep, parents sometimes say that the sand man will soon come and put sand
in their eyes.
answer: (d) man
A9 For very small children at their nursery school there is often a sand pit where they can play.
answer: (a) pit
A10 When there is a danger of flooding, people often pile up sand bags outside their houses to stop the water
coming in.
answer: (d) bags
