In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you understand their meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-fil ling exercise. Change the form where necessary. take sb. by surprise soak up keep sb from sth. turn out hem/ hum and haw become/ be acquainted with turn into gather one's thought s In just a few days he 1)_____________ all his new classmates. Jane has locked herself up in her room for the whole day. She 2)_____ when she came out with her hair dyed red. Let's sit down quietly and 3)_______ first before the discussion . To my surprise, the stranger 4)______ to be an old friend of my mother's When I asked him how he was doing, he 5 )______ before telling me that he had just lost his job . Once a very shy boy from a small mountainous village, he 6)______ a competent engineer in a matter of six years. The newspaper refused to 7)______ the public . As we sat on the beach 8)______ the sunshine, she started to te ll me her childhood stories.