Exercise 2. Underline the correct prepositions in the sentences below.

1. The motion, agreed at a meeting in Bolivia, calls for/through economic and commercial measures as well restrictions on travel by members of the interim government.

2. The document calls on/for the 47 countries to act together to prevent ‘non-state actors’-groups like Al Qaeda- from obtaining nuclear technology or materials.

3. Russian media say, a man from Stavropol on the edge of the northern Caucasus, either organized or carried out/on the attack.

4. Mr. Obama had said previously that he would completely pull out/over troops within 16 months of taking the top job.

5. Mr. Zelaya was sent into exile on 28 June after trying to hold a vote on whether a constituent assembly should be set up/for to look at rewriting the constitution.

6. People do not reject technological advances but believe overseas investors should back Ukrainian farmers rather than setting up/out new ‘foreign’ enterprises in their country.

7. Hundreds of Sanaa University students held competing protests on campus, with some calling for President Saleh to step down/out and others for him to remain in office.

8. In a statement released later, ousted Hondurian President Manual Zelaya urged Western Hemisphere countries to step up/aside economic sanctions ‘against the de facto regime’.

9. In Algeria, police broke up/out an anti- government demonstration by about three hundred protesters calling for greater freedoms.

10. Influential Labour backbencher put out/through a statement calling for the entire party and the trade unions to be consulted about any deal between Labour and Lib Dems.

Exercise 3. Choose the correct answer: a, b, c, or d in the correct tense form.

1. Bahrain’s Shia majority has long complained of discrimination at the hands of the Sunni ruling elite, but large-scale protests _____ after the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia were toppled in uprisings.

2. They will _____ a total reduction of 35bn euros and a simplification of Germany’s tax system.

3. The shootings were _____ by men wielding automatic weapons fitted with silencers.

4. Five ministers have _____ since the interim cabinet was announced last week.

5. In Algeria, riot police _____ an opposition demonstration by several hundred people in the capital, Algiers.

6. Throughout downtown Sevastopol, residents _____ booths to gather signatures on petitions in an effort to overturn the regulations.

7. Organizers have _____ students and civil society groups to protest against corruption and economic policies.

8. The US has scaled back its role in Libya, though it clarified that US jets were still _____ bombing raids on Libya’s air defences.

9. The main trade union, the General Tunisian Workers’ Union, has backed the protest, which _____ on Saturday.

10. Opposition parties are _____ a snap general election.

1.

A push for	C carry out
B break out	D call for

2.

A call on	C push in
B push for	D call in

3.

A carry out	C carry through
B carry over	D carry forward

4.

A step forward	C step in
B step up	D step down

5.

A break out	C break through
B break up	D break in

6.

A set in	C step in
B set off	D steep in

7.

A call off	C call on
B call in	D call out

8.

A carry back	C carry off
B carry out	D carry over

9.

A come off	C glass over
B dwell on	D set off

10.

A call for	C loll out
B impute to	D own up

Exercise 4. Replace each of the underlined phrasal verbs below with a suitable phrasal verb synonym in the correct tense form.

1. Look us up the next time you are in Germany.

2. The meeting was put off.

3. The man did not manage to get his meaning over to the audience.

4. The dangerous prisoner broke out of the prison.

5. The doctors think the injured people will pull through.

6. Masked guys held up a security van in the city centre.

7. No one expected him to drop out of politics.

8. Write the instruction down, please.

9. The delegation wrapped up several deals.

10. The thief was let off with a fine.

Exercise 5. Complete each sentence by providing a suitable phrasal verb and its antonym from the boxes below in the correct tense form.

wake	stock	drop	get	give
fall	turn	put	keep	take
make	set	turn	set	bring
run	break	let	get	put

out	up	in	up	up
up	off	out	off	in
off	behind with	forward	away	out
up with	out of	up	in	up

1. They cannot _____ _____ the holiday; we will have to _____ it _____ by two days.

2. It takes long for some family members to _____ _____ after _____ _____.

3. He had _____ _____ the post of general manager, but then decided to _____ it _____.

4. Everyone has to _____ _____ food before holidays, otherwise they may find they have _____ _____ something.

5. If you do not _____ _____ your colleagues, you will _____ _____ you duties.

6. I like to _____ _____ at 8 a.m. and _____ _____ shortly before midnight.

7. Five hundred people were _____ _____ to the show, then the doorman _____ _____ the others.

8. They _____ _____ at 5 a.m. and _____ _____ at 3 p.m.

9. The little girl usually _____ _____ at 1 p.m., and _____ _____ before dinner time.

10. When the fire _____ _____, the firemen came and _____ it _____.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Blackman D. Test in English Phrasal Verbs.- Warszawa: Wydawnictwa szkolne i pedagogiczne, 1995.

2. Milton J., Blake B., Evans V. A Good Turn of Phrase.- Express Publishing, 2000.

3. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.- Oxford University Press, 1995.

4. http:// www.bbcnews.com

5. http:// www.voanews.com

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