26/4/2007 - TEST YOUR VOCABULARY - 3 (VERBS, PHRASAL VERBS, PREPOSITIONS)
1. If it's not on the table, look ...... the table; it may have fallen ...... .
A) below/through
B) at/down
C) within/away
D) under/off
E) after/back
ÖYS 1997
2. While I was looking .......... some magazines, I happened to find this article .......... butterflies.
A) over/from
B) in/over
C) through/on
D) up/of
E) at/for
ÖYS 1998
3. It took me a long time to translate his business letter as I had to .... so many words in the dictionary.
A) make up
B) turn over
C) look up
D) get off
E) take up
YDS 1999
4. They had to call in troops to ...... the forest fire which was spreading rapidly.
A) get out
B) put out
C) hold up
D) break down
E) hand put
5. The explosion was caused ... a bomb which went .... when the shop was very crowded.
A) by/off
B) with/out
C) from/up
D) through/into
E) over/forward
ÖYS 1999
6. I couldn't....... why they were shouting so loudly.
A) set up
B) keep up
C) rely on
D) make out
E) put off
YDS 2000
7. A woman from Denmark has recently moved .... the flat .... mine.
A) up/in
B) into/next to
C) to/at
D) about/in front of
E) through/above
8. The film "Brave Heart" is ....... long. It lasts ....... three hours.
A) rather/for
B) too/on
C) quite/in
D) very/at
E) so/into
9. For years the people ....... my hometown depended ...... steel, coal and fishing for their livelihood.
A) at/for
B) from/to
C) of/by
D) in/on
E) out of/on
YDS 2001
10. Because Susan was looking very sad, John tried to cheer her ..... by reading her a story.
A) up
B) through
C) in
D) over
E) on
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