Use of English for advanced learners 4 - Thấm Tâm Vy

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1. USE OF ENGLISH 04 5. I cleared away the junk from the garage and set up my office there. . FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS 6. The experimental rocket burned up when a heat-resistant tile came away during re- Develop your Use of English skills: recognising and using phrasal verbs entry. I. Underline the phrasal verb in each sentence. Then write a definition. 7. The two scientists chatted away for hours about their new ideas. 1. Our company has a lot of work to do before it gets all its old business back. 8. The prototype car drove away and began to pick up speed. 2. We need a new product on the shelves in six months; there’s no time to mess around. IV. Choose an alternative to the word in bold in order to form a new phrasal verb. 3. The new CEO should shake this faltering and failing company up and help it recover. 1. If you want to start your own independent research company, you can count me in. A. figure B. deal C. take 4. I have been rather taken aback by the speed at which management wants new 2. One of the venture capital funds backed out of the deal at the last minute, developments from us. A. pulled B. came C. left. 5. The smartphone took off faster than anyone expected, and now it dominates the 3. I know Jim would jump at the chance of working for a company at the cutting edge mobile phone market. of technology. 6. That computer company started out in a garage which belonged to the mother of one A. bounce B. leap C. try of the founders. 4. He had noted down some ideas on a paper napkin, 7. The new head of r esearch wants to clear all the old projects out and start from A. jotted B. slogged C. placed scratch. 5. In the course of the afternoon, she set out her plans for the company’s next ten years 8. We finish off the tests on the prototypes on Tuesday and start preparing for in front us. manufacture. A. put B. held C. laid 6. Our firm got through the dotcom crash, and we’ve been expanding ever since, II. Write the correct form of a verb from the box in each gap. A. made B. left C. lived boss ■ fool ■ hang ■ push ■ shop ■ show ■ switch ■ turn V Write a word from the list below in each gap to complete the sentences. 1. Are we a serious company or are we just around? 2. Since we lost our biggest customer, we spend all day around, waiting for at ■ down ■ in ■ out ■ through ■ up orders. 1. The company has been building a large cash reserve to buy high-tech start- 3. You’re not in a senior position, so you can’t people around, giving orders. ups. 4. This may be the smallest firm in the sector, but that doesn’t mean the bigger ones can 2. Felix grasps any opportunity to advance himself. use their power to us around. 3. Now the bank has withdrawal support, I don’t see how they can come this 5. She the now employees around the factory. downturn. 6. It’s worth around until you find the cheapest supplier. 4. She woke at midnight with the solution, and scribbled it on a notepad. 7. When they the two components around, they found the machine worked 5. They had a meeting to plan a new strategy. much faster. 6. Since all three companies wall profit from the development, they all should 8. Within twelve months, she the company around, making it profitable chip towards its cost. again. VI. Use a word from list A and a word from list B to complete each sentence. III. Replace the particle away with off, on or out. A: cut ■ come ■ hold ■ lay ■ plan ■ speed ■ stick ■ tear 1. The director’s eccentric behaviour frightened investors away. 2. The boss wants us to chuck away six months of work and start designing again from B: ahead ■ apart ■ back (x2) ■ off ■ out ■ to ■ up the beginning. 1. The engines start up just fine, but then they after a few seconds. 3. When the company’s founder passed away, his daughter inherited it. 2. Half the directors believe it’s time to push forward, but the other half want to 4. The technicians slogged away for days until they found the solution to the problem. 3. Let’s go onto the next, item on the agenda, and we can to this problem at the end. Thẩm Tâm Vy , April 21, 2020 USE OF ENGLISH – FOR ADFVANCED LEARNERS 04
2. 4 .The pace of technological change is not going to slow down - on the contrary, it’s d. They fired him because he let out the secret of the new medicine. going to 4. respond / not move forward 5. The question is, do we move on to a new plan or the original one? a. You mustn’t, talk back to your line manager. 6. There’s no use in looking back at past, mistakes - now’s the time to b. The crowd kept back and watched from a distance. 7. I put together this company and I’m not going to let you it . c. Stay back - the fire is still not under control. 8. They took on fifty new employees, only to them six months later. d. The company hit back at the allegations of industrial espionage. VII. Underline the verb + preposition collocation in each sentence. X. Read the sentences and complete the table with the phrasal verbs in bold. 1. From the highest vantage point, she looked upon the vast city below. 1. He’s trying to think up a new way to store electricity. 2. The boot of the car was nearly full, but I managed to squeeze the last bag in. 2. Once we fire up the furnace, it has to keep running for six weeks to be economical. 3. The sea lay ahead of US, blue and inviting. 3. Your name came up in the middle of the meeting yesterday. 4. The girl dropped the rubber ball and it bounced back up into the air. 4. She’s managed to move up in the company steadily since she joined. 5. Sam rushed into the office, gasping for breath. 5. We have to speed things up if we want to finish the gadget by May. 6. I bumped into the door and hurt my nose. 6. They’re going to wind up operations in this factory and move the company abroad. 7. The dog came out of the river and shook the water off its coat. 7. Let’s wrap the meeting up now so we can get home early for once. 8. She covered up the child with a blanket. 8. We sold off the old company and used the money to set up a new one. VIII. Use the collocations in exercise 7 as phrasal verbs. Write them in the correct increase/improve finish appear/create start form to complete the sentences. 1. Carly her old boss in the city and she was offered her job back. 2. The paper accused the company of its true losses using shady accounting. 3. I know the economy is in a downturn at the moment, but I’m sure it will 4. What for us, not just in six months, but in one or two years’ time? 5. I don’t want to any decision - let’s think it over slowly and carefully. 6. How do you me - as a rival or a successor? 7. She’s upset that the project was cancelled, but she’ll it soon enough. 8. I’m really busy today, but I might bo able to you between 4 and 4.30. IX. Choose the correct general meaning for each phrasal verb in bold from the options given. 1. inherit / lose power a. This tradition came down to us from our founder. b. The owner was forced to step down and his son took his place. c. The company was brought down through a failure to innovate. d. The company has been handed down from father to son for generations. 2. go away / trigger a. The fire alarm went off and the workers all exited the building. b. We scared them off with threats of lawsuits. c .They set off an explosive to test the new material. d. She got upset and went off somewhere on her own. 3. become public / leave a group a. The union rep walked out of the meeting. b. The director was kicked out of his golf club. c. When the news came out, no one could believe it. Thẩm Tâm Vy , April 21, 2020 USE OF ENGLISH – FOR ADFVANCED LEARNERS 04
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