{"id":22879,"date":"2026-06-21T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/contextual-meaning-of-a-race-against-time\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:24:33","slug":"contextual-meaning-of-a-race-against-time","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/contextual-meaning-of-a-race-against-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextual Meaning of A race against time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What idea is expressed by <strong>A race against time<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>By a very narrow margin<\/li>\n<li>An urgent effort to finish something before a deadline<\/li>\n<li>To sound convincing or believable<\/li>\n<li>Much better than others of the same type<\/li>\n<li>An act that breaks confidence, honesty, or responsibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3203,3210,3206,3200],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-22879","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-academic-vocabulary","topic-contextual-meaning","topic-success-and-failure","topic-time-and-patience","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>A race against time<\/strong> means <strong>an urgent effort to finish something before a deadline<\/strong>. The correct answer is this meaning because the expression is used figuratively, not only by its literal words.<\/p><p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Rescuers were in <em>a race against time<\/em> after the storm.<\/li><li>In an HSC essay, <em>A race against time<\/em> can express this meaning: <strong>an urgent effort to finish something before a deadline<\/strong>.<\/li><li>When this expression appears in a passage, connect <em>A race against time<\/em> with the idea of <strong>an urgent effort to finish something before a deadline<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"By a very narrow margin"},{"right":"yes","answer":"An urgent effort to finish something before a deadline"},{"right":"no","answer":"To sound convincing or believable"},{"right":"no","answer":"Much better than others of the same type"},{"right":"no","answer":"An act that breaks confidence, honesty, or responsibility"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3203,"title":"Academic Vocabulary","slug":"academic-vocabulary"},{"id":3210,"title":"Contextual Meaning","slug":"contextual-meaning"},{"id":3206,"title":"Success and Failure","slug":"success-and-failure"},{"id":3200,"title":"Time and Patience","slug":"time-and-patience"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22879"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22879"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}