WorksheetsPhrasal verbs
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
be taken aback
a)
A. to stop employing (a worker)
b)
B. to give smb a ride in a vehicle, to collect smth
c)
C. to be surprised and confused
d)
D. 1) to see, hear or understand smth with difficulty, distinguish 2) to write a cheque
2.
go with
a)
A. to draw attention to smth or smb
b)
B. 1) to see, hear or understand smth with difficulty, distinguish 2) to write a cheque
c)
C. to refuse, to reject
d)
D. to match or suit
3.
get round
a)
A. 1) to solve or avoid a problem 2) (smb) to persuade smb to do what you want
b)
B. to delay doing smth until a later date
c)
C. to receive smth (e.g. money) after someone's death
d)
D. to try to find smth or smb
4.
go through
a)
A. to escape
b)
B. to extinguish (a light, a cigarette)
c)
C. to destroy completely by tearing
d)
D. to examine
5.
look forward to
a)
A. to fail to happen or to be completed (plans, arrangements)
b)
B. to represent or mean
c)
C. to think with pleasure about a future event
d)
D. to draw attention to smth or smb
6.
work out
a)
A. to become covered by (spots, a rash)
b)
B. to solve a problem by calculation or study
c)
C. to delay doing smth until a later date
d)
D. 1) to destroy smth by explosion 2) to fill with air (a baloon)
7.
soak up
a)
A. to lose consciousness
b)
B. to complete (a form)
c)
C. to absorb, to become filled with smth
d)
D. to enter somewhere illegally
8.
see off (see smb off)
a)
A. to think that smb or smth is inferior
b)
B. to say goodbye to smb
c)
C. to use all of smth and have no more left
d)
D. to speak angrily to someone who has done something wrong
9.
lay off
a)
A. 1) to separate (about a relationship) 2) to stop (an activity)
b)
B. to tell (someone) that you have done smth wrong, or that you are at fault
c)
C. to stop employing (a worker)
d)
D. to investigate, to carefully examine a situation and to try to find the reasons for it
10.
pass out
a)
A. to stop employing (a worker)
b)
B. to lose consciousness
c)
C. to end, to interrupt, to discontinue
d)
D. to start, usually suddenly (e.g. war, epidemics)
11.
go down
a)
A. to become less swollen
b)
B. to meet by chance
c)
C. to examine
d)
D. 1) to stop trying to do smth 2) to stop doing or having smth (of an habitual activity)
12.
get away with
a)
A. to dress oneself
b)
B. to connect a telephone caller to the number she or he wants
c)
C. to disappear gradually
d)
D. to do smth wrong or illegal without being punished, usually without even being discovered or caught
13.
fall through
a)
A. to develop from a child to an adult
b)
B. to find smth (in a book, dictionary)
c)
C. to extinguish (a light, a cigarette)
d)
D. to fail to happen or to be completed (plans, arrangements)
14.
call off
a)
A. to become less swollen
b)
B. to become popular
c)
C. to visit and tour round a place
d)
D. to cancel (an event)
15.
mistake (smth ) for (smth)
a)
A. to think with pleasure about a future event
b)
B. 1) to see, hear or understand smth with difficulty, distinguish 2) to write a cheque
c)
C. to think wrongly that (one thing or person) is (another thing or person)
d)
D. to reduce in size or amount (of smoking, etc.)
16.
put through
a)
A. to match or suit
b)
B. to disappear completely, to become extinct
c)
C. to connect a telephone caller to the number she or he wants
d)
D. to draw attention to smth or smb
17.
try out
a)
A. to test smth by using it
b)
B. to be finished
c)
C. to tell (someone) that you have done smth wrong, or that you are at fault
d)
D. to use a new engine carefully until it's ready for normal use
18.
look back
a)
A. to remember and think about the past
b)
B. to fulfill or perform
c)
C. to match or suit
d)
D. to finish, to complete
19.
take in
a)
A. to be finished
b)
B. to tell (someone) that you have done smth wrong, or that you are at fault
c)
C. to deceive (someone)
d)
D. to become popular
20.
beat up
a)
A. to lose consciousness
b)
B. to surrender oneself (usually to smb)
c)
C. to extinguish (a light, a cigarette)
d)
D. to hurt someone badly by hitting and punching
21.
to compensate for
a)
A. break out in
b)
B. make up for
c)
C. blow up
d)
D. take off
22.
to find smth (in a book, dictionary)
a)
A. go through
b)
B. look up
c)
C. to tell off
d)
D. put through
23.
to take care of smb or smth
a)
A. grow up
b)
B. hold on
c)
C. run in
d)
D. look after
24.
to become happier
a)
A. cheer up
b)
B. fall out
c)
C. fill in
d)
D. come into
25.
to put on an article of clothing to see if it fits and how it looks
a)
A. try on
b)
B. bring up
c)
C. drop out
d)
D. come into
26.
to reduce in size or amount (of smoking, etc.)
a)
A. give up
b)
B. see off (see smb off)
c)
C. cut down on
d)
D. brush up
27.
to disconnect
a)
A. fall through
b)
B. cut off
c)
C. lay off
d)
D. carry out
28.
to investigate, to carefully examine a situation and to try to find the reasons for it
a)
A. look into
b)
B. go off
c)
C. go down
d)
D. let out
29.
to discourage or distract smb from doing smth
a)
A. put smb off
b)
B. wear out
c)
C. pass away (pass on, pass over)
d)
D. get round
30.
to fulfill or perform
a)
A. own up
b)
B. carry out
c)
C. run out of
d)
D. look round
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