TEST YOUR PHRASAL VERBS

   

   I.  Complete these sentences with words from the box to make phrasal verbs with GET:

   

   1 at   2 away with  3 by  4 down    5 on   6 out of   7 over   8  round    9  round to  10  
   through

   

   a)      My brother always manages to get ..............                doing the washing up
   because he says he has a lot of homework.

   b)      My father got .........                                   the flu quickly because he’s
   such a fit man.

   c)      My sister must be on the phone all the time because I can never get ......      
            when I try to ring her.

   d)      I tried to take a message but I didn’t get .....                         down
   everything Eva said.

   e)      Věra hasn’t had much success with jobs so far but I’m sure she’ll get .....       
                  in her new one.

   f)        I finally got .....               watching the video of a film I recorded two months
   ago.

   g)      People think they need lots of money but you can get .....                   
        with very little.

   h)      We don’t keep things on the top shelf because we can’t get ..........                
            them without standing on the table.

   i)        The news of Karel and Lucie’s engagement got .....                       the office
   very quicky.

   j)        Susan can never get .....                   telling a lie because her face always
   goes bright red.

   

   

   

   II. Fill in the gaps with phrasal verbs from the box which mean the same as the verbs in
   brackets.

   

   1 care for, 2 carry on,   3 cut down,   4  fill in,  5 put off,  6 ring up,   7  set off,  8 
   take in, 9  turn down,  10  turn up 

   

   

   She’d been doing the same job for years and she didn’t really .................      (like) it
   any more though it was extremely well paid. Then one day she decided to look for another job
   realising she would need to ......                 (reduce) what she spent on luxuries. She
   .....         (completed) lots of forms, but all her applications were .....              
        (rejected).   She ..... (continued) looking for a job but nothing suitable
   .....               (appeared) so she booked a holiday. The day before she was due to .....
                      (leave) she was .....                  (telephoned) by a TV company who
   asked her to go for an interview the next day. She .....       (postponed)  her holiday
   immediately. It was the job of her dreams. She could hardly ......  (absorbe) the news when
   they offered it to her. And she never went on that holiday.