English Vocabulary Exercises - Phrasal Verbs (General 4) - Exercise 7-5

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. It is hard to _______________ in most jobs nowadays if you don't know how to use a computer.
2. A thief _______________ the museum, and stole a painting worth almost one million dollars.
3. I hope you don't mind us _______________ unexpectedly.
4. I've tried setting up traps to catch the mice in our basement but they always _______________ somehow.
5. I'm really pissed off at Dave. He said he'd go to the concert with me and then he _______________ me and I was stuck with an extra ticket.
6. Jennifer is _______________ Jason with another guy but I don’t know if I should tell him.
7. My neighbour completely _______________ when he heard that he had won a new car.
8. Her boyfriend is kind of a jerk; I don't know how she _______________ him.
9. This girl I met at the nightclub _______________ my phone number but I don't know if she'll ever call me.
10. We don't know how old she is because she didn't _______________ her birth date on the form.
11. The thieves jumped in a car and _______________ before the police arrived.
12. We are presently _______________ new opportunities for advertising our products.
13. My stupid boss _______________ for forgetting to put cream in his coffee but I just ignored him.
14. We need to _______________ a good excuse if we're not going to go to Sheila's party.
15. These photos have obviously been _______________ because she's much older than she looks in the pictures.