Replace each italicized verb or phrase with the correct form of a synonymous phrasal verb
III. Replace each italicized verb or phrase with the correct form of a synonymous phrasal verb.
back down bring up crop up dwell on fall off
get round have on look to make out pick up
run across stand up to take to track down turn out
1. One of the boys from my class objects to taking part in the performance and I don’t really know how to persuade him. __________
2. The question was so delicate and problematic that there was nobody willing to mention it. ________
3. Your report deals too much with the side effects of the venture. Why not write more about its good points?_______
4. This automobile manufacture produces about a thousand cars a year, half of which are exported. ____
5. Even the extensive advertising campaign hasn’t prevented the demand for our printers from decreasing_________
6. “She says she’s going to be a medicine student”
“Oh, don’t believe her. She’s deceiving you”. ________
7. I’d had no idea there were jewels hidden in my attic. I just found them completely by chance. _____
8. Don’t worry, he only pretends that he is such a strict teacher. _____
9. After two-hour search, the hunters decided to give up following the stags. ______
10. We were convinced Patrick would get to like the moment he met him.______
IV. In most lines of this text there is one unnecessary word. It is either incorrect grammatically, or does not fit the sense of the text. For each line write the unnecessary word in the space beside the text. Tick each correct line
The term 'drugs' covers many of kinds of chemical substance 0 ...of...
which they are absorbed by the body, the majority being 0 ...they...
medicines designed to cureillnesses. They are manufactured 0 ..v...
from a variety of sources which include animal and products, 1...
plants and minerals. In the recent years it has become possible 2..
to synthesise in the laboratory many drugs which previously 3...
obtained from plants and animal products. A small number of 4....
drugs can become addictive if taken excessively, as that is either 5....
too frequently, or in doses larger than they recommended for 6....
medical to use. Drugs intended as painkillers, or drugs with a 7....
hypnotic effect are used as sleeping pills, can both become 8....
addictive if abused. It is important to make emphasise the fact 9....
that it is the abuse of drugs which has once become a widespread 10...
social problem in many societies, and not that the drug itself 11....
may have many of beneficial effects when used medically. This is 12....
why many drugs are obtainable only through prescription from 13....
a doctor. Some people would argue that if addiction to drugs 14....
involves both psychological and social factors, since those are 15....
people who become addicts may do so as in order to find some 16...
relief from personal or social inadequacies. This argument 17....
implies that it is somehow the addict's fault if not he or she 18....
becomes addicted, and this is it to ignore the powerful physical 19...
effects of many drugs. Any temporary effects of the well-being 20....
soon wear off, leading to severe physical discomfort.