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For centuries, the body's blood has been linked closely with the emotions. People who show no
human emotions or feelings, are said to be cold-blooded killer.For example, the police are searching
for a cold-blooded killer.He seems to kill for no reason, and no emotion, as if taking someone's life as
nothing.
Cold can affect other parts of the body.The expression "get cold feet" has nothing to do with cold or
your feet.The expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to do.For example, you
agree to be president of an organization.But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned, and
all the work of the organizations will be your responsibility.You are likely to get cold feet about being
president when you understand the situation.
The expression "give someone the cold shoulder" probably comes from the physical act of turning
your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face to face.You may give a cold shoulder to a
friend who has not kept a promise he made to you.Or, to someone who has lied about you to others.
A cold fish is not a fish.It is a person.But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love
or warmth.A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone.Someone who is a cold fish could be
cold-hearted.Now a cold-hearted person is someone who has no sympathy.Several popular songs in
recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feelings, broke the
hearts of their lovers.
"Out in the cold" means not getting something that everybody else got.A person might say that
everybody but him got a pay raise--he was left out in the cold.And it is not a pleasant place to be.
1. When you refuse to speak to a man and treat him in a distant way, you may express by "_____".
A. I give him the cold shoulder
B. I think he is a cold-blooded man
C. I think he is a cold fish
D. I'm likely to get cold feet
2. If Sue shows absolutely no reaction to those awful pictures of starving children in Africa, you will
say ______.
A. she is a cold-blooded killer
B. she gets cold feet
C. she is a cold fish
D. she is out in the cold
3.We can use the expression "_____" to describe a man who abandons or
hurts his lover without mercy.
A. cold-blooded
B. cold shoulder
C. cold feet
D. cold-hearted
4.The topic of this passage is about _____.
A. the relationship between cold and our body
B. some expressions about friendship
C. some expressions connected with cold
D. how cold weather comes into being
