Identify the key vocabulary related to fuel shortages and explain the idiom 'the devil to pay'.

Part A: Lexis and Structure

1. The passage discusses "Fuel shortage".
   • 1. A. shortage
2. People experience "long waiting at stations".
   • 2. A. waiting
3. They wait at "filling stations".
   • 3. A. filling
4. The "rising of the prices of every other thing".
   • 4. A. prices
5. For transport, there are "transport fares".
   • 5. A. fares
6. "When there is a fuel crisis".
   • 6. B. crisis
7. "...tempers flare like ignited petrol."
   • 7. C. ignited
8. "...met with the most unbelievably curt reply..."
   • 8. B. curt
9. "...accompanied by a lousy frown..."
   • 9. C. frown
10. "A rude answer to an amiable question..."
    • 10. D. rude
11. "...people keep buying large, high-consumption cars..."
    • 11. C. large
12. "...cars to buy fuel for which they join long..."
    • 12. C. fuel
13. "...they join long vehicular The jam of vehicular traffic..."
    • 13. B. vehicular
14. "...traffic that the fuel shortage produces."
    • 14. A. produces
15. "...reductions of both traffic jams and queuing time."
    • 15. C. queuing

Section 2

16. If we've seen here, there'll be the devil to pay. This means that

    • The idiom "the devil to pay" means there will be serious trouble or consequences.
    • 16. B. there'll be trouble.

17. The coconut I ate took the edge off my hunger. This means that eating the coconut

    • To "take the edge off" hunger means to reduce its intensity or severity.
    • 17. A. made me less hungry.