(1) white paint
(2) gloss/matt/acrylic paint
(3) The woodwork has recently been given a fresh coat of paint .

(1) The baby is just learning to walk.
(2) ‘How did you get here? ’ ‘I walked. ’
(3) He walked slowly away from her.

(1) He'd lost ten kilos in weight.
(2) ...a kilo of rice.
(3) These leafy vegetables are three yuan a kilo.

(1) I can't tell jokes .
(2) She's always cracking jokes .
(3) They often make jokes at each other's expense.

(1) We are faced with two apparently contradictory statements.
(2) The advice I received was often contradictory.
(3) The public are capable of holding a number of apparently contradictory attitudes.

(1) to be absent from work
(2) Love was totally absent from his childhood.
(3) an absent expression

(1) We are hoping for good weather on Sunday.
(2) I just live in hope that one day she'll talk to me...
(3) My mother bought lots of tickets and lived in hope of winning the prize.

(1) He was charged with possessing a shotgun without a licence.
(2) The gallery possesses a number of the artist's early works.
(3) I'm afraid he doesn't possess a sense of humour.

(1) a close/lasting/lifelong friendship
(2) friendships formed while she was at college
(3) He seemed to have already struck up (= begun) a friendship with Jo.

(1) Garlic is widely used in Chinese folk medicine.
(2) folk wisdom
(3) a folk museum

(1) a test of both oral and written French
(2) oral evidence
(3) He was interested in oral history (= history that is collected from interviews with people who have personal knowledge of past events).

(1) Huge waves were breaking on the shore.
(2) Surfers flocked to the beach to ride the waves .
(3) the gentle sound of waves lapping

(1) You deserve a rest after all that hard work.
(2) The report deserves careful consideration.
(3) One player in particular deserves a mention.

(1) a lack of food/money/skills
(2) The trip was cancelled through lack of (= because there was not enough) interest.
(3) There was no lack of volunteers.

(1) Who do you think will get (the) most votes?
(2) She had the most money of all of them.
(3) I spent most time on the first question.

(1) to repair a car/roof/road/television
(2) It's almost 15 years old. It isn't worth having it repaired .
(3) It was too late to repair the damage done to their relationship.

(1) We cannot afford to ignore their advice.
(2) She ignored him and carried on with her work.
(3) I made a suggestion but they chose to ignore it.

(1) I've joined the union .
(2) a union member
(3) the Scottish Rugby union

(1) Most of our work now involves catering for weddings.
(2) Who will be catering the wedding?
(3) The class caters for all ability ranges.

(1) Their unit was shelling the german lines only seven miles away.
(2) The average german will enjoy 40 days' paid holiday this year.
(3) They were conversing in german, their only common language.

(1) an art gallery/exhibition
(2) a collection of art and antiques
(3) She's good at art and design.

(1) an audience with the Pope
(2) The target audience for this advertisement was mainly teenagers.
(3) His book reached an even wider audience when it was made into a movie.

(1) The temperature must be in the nineties today.
(2) It was decided she had to stay another ninety days.
(3) By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently.

(1) where do you live?
(2) I wonder where they will take us to.
(3) where (= at what point) did I go wrong in my calculations?

(1) Do not disturb (= a sign placed on the outside of the door of a hotel room, office, etc.)
(2) She awoke early after a disturbed night.
(3) Don't disturb the papers on my desk.

(1) ‘Where's your car? ’ ‘it's in the garage. ’
(2) Did you see it?
(3) Start a new file and put this letter in it.

(1) cuddly/soft toys
(2) The children were playing happily with their toys.
(3) executive toys

(1) Colours like red convey a sense of energy and strength.
(2) (formal)Please convey my apologies to your wife.
(3) He tried desperately to convey how urgent the situation was.

(1) These styles can be adapted to suit individual tastes.
(2) We have had to adapt quickly to the new system.
(3) A large organization can be slow to adapt to change.

(1) grandma was from Scotland.
(2) It's hard to imagine sticking grandma in a centrifuge to protect her muscle mass.
(3) I remembered grandma used to say that ghosts have no reflections.

(1) The farmer lassoed the cow.
(2) The farmer is shearing his sheep.
(3) The farmer milks the cows twice a day.

(1) a fox with its leg in a trap
(2) A trap was laid, with fresh bait.
(3) She had set a trap for him and he had walked straight into it.

(1) He had not expected the young man to reappear before evening...
(2) I have always regarded him as a man of integrity.
(3) The chick initially has no fear of man...

(1) Some people are unwilling to attend the classes partly because of the cost involved.
(2) He was only partly responsible for the accident.
(3) It's partly my fault...

(1) to eat with a knife and fork
(2) Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track.
(3) Take the right fork.

(1) The staple food has boil dumplings, noodles in soup, fried noodles, fried rice.
(2) Do you want fried chicken?
(3) Coffin plate is made by dripping white chicken liver sauce to fried bread.

(1) You won't get paid for time off unless you have a doctor's note.
(2) I won't tell them─not unless you say I can.
(3) unless I'm mistaken, she was back at work yesterday.

(1) Main materials: Shrimps, squid, Onion, Carrot, Bean milk skin, marinas.
(2) The whale matches its strength and weight against the moving arms of the great squid.
(3) squid beaks are often found in the stomachs of sperm whales.

(1) At dawn the army attacked the town.
(2) The guerrillas attack at night.
(3) a newspaper article attacking the England football manager

(1) aluminium saucepans/window frames
(2) aluminium foil (= for example, for wrapping food in )
(3) ...aluminium cans.