Revelations about extra-marital affairs or other deviations from what is considered normal in private life have, in the past ..................

A. more sayings and proverbs

B. fewer sayings and proverbs

C. more sounds

D. fewer collocations and phrasal verbs

A. they find the hosts in smart clothes and a grand table set for them

B. the hosts do not shake their hands

C. they do not find hosts in smart clothes and a grand table set for them

D. Both B & C are correct.

A. Their Christmas cards usually depict scenes from the past centuries.

B. They find their pub to look old.

C. The stereotyped image of the London 'city gent' includes wearing a bowler hat.

D. They have sentimental attachment to older, supposedly safer, times.

A. cabinet office

B. cabinet reshuffle

C. cabinet committees

D. first among equals

A. The Black Country

B. The south west peninsula

C. Liverpool

D. The Pennine Mountains

A. in direct contrast to the Monarch

B. not as important as the Queen in running the complicated machinery of a modern government

C. only from the labor party

D. only in the House of Lords

A. East Anglia

B. The West Midlands

C. Glasgow

D. Cardiff