[Rec] Perfect for brain training! Fill-in-the-blank quiz collection
For a quick way to kill time or as a warm-up to get your thoughts flowing, I’ve put together a perfect brain-training activity: a fill-in-the-blank quiz! It’s divided into vocabulary, proverbs, and four-character idiom sections, so you can exercise different kinds of thinking in each.
I’ve finely tuned the difficulty to gradually ramp up, so you’ll definitely find it worth the challenge! It’s a fun set of problems that elementary schoolers can try and that also works great as a recreational activity for seniors.
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Proverb Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz (1–10)
to fish for X with shrimp
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to fish for a sea bream with a shrimp
Gaining a big benefit with just a small burden. Shrimp is delicious too, though!
Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.
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Every cloud has a silver lining.
It means that happiness and misfortune keep reversing and come rolling in turn. In life, we shouldn’t be pessimistic all the time.
A bungler’s fondness; someone who loves something they’re bad at (literally, “the unskillful loves it”).
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A clumsy amateur who loves it anyway; doing something poorly but with enthusiasm
Doing something even though you're bad at it, just because you like it. This connects with the idea that 'clumsy beginnings lead to mastery.'
Four-character idiom fill-in-the-blank quiz (1–10)
Term X, Meeting X
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Once-in-a-lifetime encounter
It means that an “encounter” happens only once in a lifetime. Many people may live each day with the mindset of treasuring that one and only moment.
Wu ○ Tong ○
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Enemies in the same boat
It means that even enemies or people who get along poorly may help each other if they share the same goal. This expression comes from Sun Tzu’s Chinese military treatise, The Art of War.
one warrior worth a thousand (indomitable lone fighter)
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a match for a thousand
It means being so capable that you can take on a thousand people alone. You might think of certain figures—such as generals from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms—who fit this description.
Homa Masayoshi
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upright and well-behaved
Being neat and having a sense of rightness in one’s actions. I do think, “I want to be like that,” but well, that’s quite difficult, isn’t it?