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3. About one third of students ____ out of the course by the end of the second year.
4. I was forced to flee the country after the ___ .
6. Even though they’re both in Russia, Moscow and St Petersburg are like ____ and cheese.
7. She gave up her _____ lifestyle and volunteered to work in a rural village in India for a year.
8. She looks very friendly, but watch out, she’s as hard as ____ and a very tough businesswoman.
10. He still eats like a peasant and ____ after meals.
11. Don’t worry about Fred, his ____ is worse than his bite.
12. I read it the other week, but I’ve got a memory like a ____ and can’t even remember the name of the main character.
13. I had to learn French from ____ when I arrived in Paris.
15. For students who have had a _____upbringing, the first weeks at university can be quite alarming.

1. The steel industry in this town is as dead as a ___ .
2. He was the product of a _____ home and had never seen his father.
4. This is a very _____ organisation, where everyone knows everyone else
5. She’s been avoiding me like the _____ since I asked her to help with painting the house.
6. My grandad smoked like a _____ all his life and,amazingly, lived to be 92.
9. There I was, like a fish out of ___, the only person at the party who was over 30.
12. When he heard the news, he went as white as a ____ .
14. These are instructions are as clear as ___!
16. That story is as old as the ___, but the children hadn’t heard it before and enjoyed it.