Phrasal verbs

My mother always told me: "If you don't succeed at first, try again and again. Don't ______

• give out

• give up

• give in

• give away

The job of firemen is to _____ fires. They put water and special materials on them.

• put on

• put up with

• put off

• put out

I told my daughter that she ought to _______ a hobby. Start horseback riding, or skiing or something.

• take in

• take off

• take after

• take up

Everyone tells me that my daughter _____ me. She is very much like me, both physically and psychologically.

• take after

• takes in

• takes after

• takes out

When you have unpleasant teachers, you simply have to ______ them and hope that you won't have them the following year.

• put up

• put off

• put up with

• put out

It really irritates me, when I don't know a word and my teacher, instead of TELLING me the translation, pushes the closed dictionary towards me and says: "______".

• Look at it

• Look it up

• Looking up

• Look for it

After my little brother was born, my parents told me that I would have to ________ him. I had to babysit every single day .

• look at

• look for

• looked after

• look after

My parents are taking me to New York for my next holidays; I am really ____ the trip.

• looked forward to

• look forward to

• look forward

• looking forward to

Whenever I want to stop doing these exercises, my teacher suggests that I should____

• go on

• go over

• go into

• go out

For as long as I have lived in Geneva, a flu epidemic . . . regularly, every year.

• has broken down

• has broken out

• breaks in

• breaks out