VB035/10
Adapted from Mann, Malcolm and Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination B2. Macmillan. 2013.
Mann, Malcolm and Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination C1&C2. Macmillan. 2012.
Jones, Leo. New Cambridge Advanced English. Cambridge. 2000.
Will, Warsaw. “Random Stories – Prepositional Verbs” Random English Idea. Web. http://random-
idea-english.blogspot.cz/
---. “Prepositional Verbs Revisited.” Random English Idea. Web. http://random-idea-english.blogspot.cz/
2) Complete each sentence with a pronoun and a suitable particle from the list below.
Apart, away, back, down, off, out, round, up
1) I need my recipe book again, so could you bring it back to me, please?
2) While your friends are here, bring __________ to have a meal at my place.
3) There’s a bottle of wine upstairs, could you please bring __________ to me?
4) When our glasses were empty we took __________ to the kitchen.
5) I’m upstairs and I’d like some tea - could you bring __________ to me, please?
6) We don’t need these plates any more, you can take __________ .
7) It’s not a good idea to take __________ if you don’t know how to reassemble it.
8) There’s a box of empty bottles by the back door, could you carry __________ , please?
9) The dog picked up the bone and carried __________ .
3) Fill the gaps with correct preposition
She bumped ___________ (1) him one day at the university library where she was working ___________ (2) her
thesis. She was studying part-time, working ___________ (3) her Master’s degree. He recognized her and asked
___________ (4) the health of one of her colleagues, saying that he hadn’t seen him around recently, and asking
what had become ___________ (5) him. And so they got chatting.
He wasn’t really the type she usually went ___________ (6) , but there was something in his smile that she really
warmed ___________ (7) . They went for a coffee and she soon fell ___________ (8) the spell of his charm. He
invited her to the cinema and suggested that he call ___________ (9) her with his car after work. His infectious laugh
began to grow ___________ (10) her, and after a few more dates she had completely fallen ___________ (11) him.
But it didn’t take long for it to dawn ___________ (12) her that his charm was just a facade, and that he wasn’t what
she had imagined at all.
VB035/10
Adapted from Mann, Malcolm and Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination B2. Macmillan. 2013.
Mann, Malcolm and Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination C1&C2. Macmillan. 2012.
Jones, Leo. New Cambridge Advanced English. Cambridge. 2000.
Will, Warsaw. “Random Stories – Prepositional Verbs” Random English Idea. Web. http://random-
idea-english.blogspot.cz/
---. “Prepositional Verbs Revisited.” Random English Idea. Web. http://random-idea-english.blogspot.cz/
4) Complete the sentences with an appropriate word.
Viktor applied ________ the job, or so I have heard.
In the end, Bořivoj decided ________ the white car.
I was told that William depends ________ his mother.
She stared intently ________ the target.
The government approved strongly ________ the increased production of Pribináček.
The calls for a decrease ________ company’s spending were ignored.
Thinking deeply ________ her, Luděk realized he had fallen in love.
He invested heavily ________ the training of Penguin, his pet hedgehog.
VB035/10
Adapted from Mann, Malcolm and Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination B2. Macmillan. 2013.
Mann, Malcolm and Steve Taylore-Knowles. Destination C1&C2. Macmillan. 2012.
Jones, Leo. New Cambridge Advanced English. Cambridge. 2000.
Will, Warsaw. “Random Stories – Prepositional Verbs” Random English Idea. Web. http://random-
idea-english.blogspot.cz/
---. “Prepositional Verbs Revisited.” Random English Idea. Web. http://random-idea-english.blogspot.cz/
1) Do you know does DDoS stand for? And what exactly does it describe?
2) Read the following text and complete it using the sentences below. You will not need one of the sentences.
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
By Bruce Schneier. Schneier on Security. 13 September, 2016. (Excerpt)
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the
Internet. [1] We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first
guesses.
Recently, some of the major companies that provide the basic infrastructure that makes the Internet work have seen
an increase in DDoS attacks against them. These attacks are significantly larger than the ones they're used to seeing.
[2] One week, the attack would start at a particular level of attack and slowly ramp up before stopping. The next
week, it would start at that higher point and continue. And so on, along those lines, as if the attacker were looking
for the exact point of failure.
[3] There are many different ways to launch a DDoS attack. The more attack vectors you employ simultaneously, the
more different defenses the defender has to counter with. These companies are seeing more attacks using three or
four different vectors. [4] They can't hold anything back. They're forced to demonstrate their defense capabilities for
the attacker.
What can we do about this? Nothing, really. We don't know where the attacks come from. But this is happening. And
people should know.
a) The attacks are also configured in such a way as to see what the company's total defenses are.
b) They last longer. They're more sophisticated. And they look like probing.
c) These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these
companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down.
d) Furthermore, the size and scale of these probes -- and especially their persistence -- points to state actors. It
feels like a nation's military cybercommand trying to calibrate its weaponry in the case of cyberwar.
e) This means that the companies have to use everything they've got to defend themselves.
3) Look at the underlined sentences. Rewrite them into more formal language.