Ответы
1. Politicians try to be careful not to wash their dirty linen in public.
A. tell dreadful personal secrets about themselves and their family
2. The estate agent tried to pull the wool over our eyes.
C. to deceive us by not telling us the true facts
3. I don't have any cash with me. Do you take plastic?
B. credit cards and charge cards
4. We spent our last holiday under canvas.
C. in a tent
5. We turfed out our old office furniture.
B. threw out
6. The thief had a cast-iron alibi.
A. an alibi that cannot be disproved.
7. She will have to steel herself to say what happened.
C. she'll have to get ready to do something that she does not like
8. A lot of young people end up living in cardboard city.
A. a place where homeless people build themselves shelters out of pieces of cardboard