Unit 2 Word test

Phrasal verbs and expressions

1. Complete each sentence with one word.

1. People buy insurance when they don’t want to take ……risks…… with their lives.
2. I didn’t have a …clue…… what to say in my class presentation this morning, so I just made
something …up… .
3. I took ……up…..football again after a long break when my friends and I decided we were
getting too lazy.
4. When I’m cooking, I like to have a ……look…… at new recipes. I’m getting into Indian
food at the moment.
5. Remember I said I’d get football tickets? I’ve ……kept….. my promise and got hold …
of…… two – they’re like gold dust!
6. I don’t know how to describe him. He’s a very hard man to sum …up… .

Adjectives

2. Complete each sentence with one adjective.

time-consuming incredible entertaining economical

depressing demanding competitive

1. Dealing with all the emails I get a work is so ………time-consuming………….. . I never

have any time for actual work.
2. “Scoring the winning goal was the most ……incredible………… feeling,” said the
victorious captain after the match.
3. Hybrid petrol-electric cars are far more ………economical……… to run than conventional
petrol-driven ones.
4. I won’t be watching that film again. The ending was so ……depressing……… that I was
miserable for days afterwards.
5. The mobile phone market is extremely ………demanding……….. with consumers
benefitting from the resulting low prices.
6. The audience obviously found the show ……entertaining……….. – they applauded the
actors for ages at the end.
7. Marathon running is so physically ………competitive………… that the exhausted runners
can lose up to 4 kg.

Words

3. Complete each sentence with one word in the correct form: heap, make sense, beg, elated, distract,
swap, red-faced

1. I …begged…… my father to let me go to the party.

2. The music ……distracts…….. me from my problems.
3. He was ………elated…….. at the good news.
4. A ………red-faced……. boy stood next to the broken window.
5. I often ……swap…… recipes with my friends.
6. Put the vegetable peelings on the compost …heap….. .
7. Suddenly my whole life began to ………make sense……… .