2B

Question 1

a bout of

Answer 1

a short period of illness or involvement in an activity

Question 2

to be on sb good/ bad books

Answer 2

If you are in someone’s …, they are pleased/not pleased with you

Question 3

bunch

Answer 3

group

Question 4

crèche

Answer 4

a place where young children are cared for during the day while their parents do something else, especially work, study, or shop

Question 5

absenteeism

Answer 5

a situation in which people are not at school or work when they should be

Question 6

crackdown

Answer 6

a situation in which someone starts to deal with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way

Question 7

constructive dismissal

Answer 7

actions taken by an employer that intentionally make working conditions for an employee difficult or unfair so that the employee feels forced to leave their job

Question 8

unfair dismissal

Answer 8

a situation in which an employer orders someone to leave their job, when there is not a good reason to do so

Question 9

statutory mininum wage

Answer 9

decided or controlled by law mininum wage

Question 10

swingeing cuts

Answer 10

extreme and having a serious and unpleasant effect cuts

Question 11

voluntary redundancy

Answer 11

a situation in which someone agrees to leave their job because their employer wants to reduce the number of employees

Question 12

be all bunged up

Answer 12

find it difficult to breathe because you have a cold (have a plugged nose)

Question 13

have a splitting/ blinding headache

Answer 13

a very severe pain that you feel in your head

Question 14

feel under the weather

Answer 14

feel little ill

Question 15

feel run down

Answer 15

feel tired and not healthy, especially because of working too much

Question 16

have an upset stomach

Answer 16

another name for stomach ache

Question 17

be on your last legs

Answer 17

be very tired or near to death

Question 18

be running a high temprature

Answer 18

have high temprature

Question 19

feel a little worse for wear

Answer 19

feel a little tired or in poor condition because of a lot of work or use

Question 20

my leg’s killing me

Answer 20

to have a big pain in a leg

Question 21

have hay fever

Answer 21

have an allergy (with only symptoms from nose)

Question 22

have a dislocated shoulder

Answer 22

miec zwichniete ramie

Question 23

to lose your voice

Answer 23

cannot speak

Question 24

get blisters (on your feet)

Answer 24

have a painful swelling on the skin that contains liquid, caused usually by continuous rubbing, especially on your foot, or by burning on your feet

Question 25

come out in an itchy rash

Answer 25

an unpleasant rash appears on your skin

Question 26

get sun burn/ stroke

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a condition in which your skin is sore and red because you have spent too long in the strong heat of the sun

Question 27

get over (an illness)

Answer 27

to return to your usual state of health or happiness after having a bad or unusual experience, or an illness

Question 28

fall (seriously) ill

Answer 28

become (seriously) sick

Question 29

have a stomach bug

Answer 29

have a viral gastroenteritis

Question 30

have a black eye

Answer 30

an area of skin around the eye that has gone dark because it has been hit

Question 31

have some cuts and bruises

Answer 31

after a fight you can have ... on your skin

Question 32

a hair of the dog (that bit you)

Answer 32

drinking more alcohol to treat hangover

Question 33

worried well

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people who are healthy but see a doctor because they think that they may have a disease or medical problem

Question 34

be met with scepticism

Answer 34

be on the receiving end of an attitude that shows you doubt whether something is true or useful

Question 35

low-level complaints

Answer 35

issues that have little importance or a low rank

Question 36

excruciating pain

Answer 36

extremely painful

Question 37

date back over ... years

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sth was ... ago and still is

Question 38

downward spiral

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a situation in which a price, etc. becomes lower, or a situation gets worse and is difficult to control because one bad event causes another

Question 39

relieve minor condition

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to make an unpleasant condition less strong

Question 40

spark neural connections

Answer 40

ring a bell

Question 41

mortality

Answer 41

the number of deaths within a particular society and within a particular period of time

Question 42

morbidity

Answer 42

he morbidity of a disease is how many people have it in a particular population