English Vocabulary Exercises - Verbs, Verbs & more Verbs - Exercise 17-3

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Sea turtles _______________ onto beaches, and dig holes to lay their eggs.
2. The doctor _______________ the old woman with obvious concern.
3. He can't _______________ the cold weather in Canada because he comes from a warm country.
4. A restaurant in New Zealand regularly _______________ pizza to scientists in Antarctica.
5. Although much of our garbage _______________ valuable raw materials, most of it is simply burned or buried.
6. The children _______________ us to take them to Disneyland for a holiday.
7. I _______________ I've met you somewhere before, maybe many years ago.
8. The painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci took two years to complete, but started to _______________ within 20 years.
9. Nationalist movements began to _______________ in Algeria at the close of World War One.
10. In order to understand our Earth and the processes which operate upon it, one must _______________ to comprehend time spans of millions of years.
11. My new computer can _______________ information in a matter of microseconds.
12. The body of a man who lived 5,000 years ago was discovered perfectly _______________ in ice.
13. When I'm on an airplane, it always _______________ me when it takes off or lands.
14. A group of teenagers were found trying to _______________ alcohol into the high school dance.