1000 Phrasal Verbs In Context © Matt Errey 2007
1111000 Phrasal Verb Quiz Questions R r
Complete the sentences so that each includes a phrasal verb beginning with ‘r’...
1 Sanjaya has been raking   the money since his business took off. (2 letters)
2 While Christine was sick, her friends rallied      to help her. (5 letters)
3 The monkey reached    and grabbed the apple from my hand while I was eating it. (3 letters)
4 My wife thinks I’m reading too much     what Bob said about my work. (4 letters)
5 The teacher reads    her students’ names to check attendance in every class. (3 letters)
6 I’m going to read up   Chinese history before going there. (2 letters)
7 While she was ill, Sue reflected   how she’d treated her body and vowed to change. (2 letters)
8 Our new accountant reminds me   my cousin. They’re both quiet and serious. (2 letters)
9 Miguel always does a good job, so you can rely   him. (2 letters)
10 After losing all his money at the casino, he resorted   selling his watch to keep going. (2 letters)
11 The coach’s new tactics worked well and resulted   the team’s first win for a month. (2 letters)
12 Life is slowly returning   normal in the city after the worst floods in history. (2 letters)
13 The coach’s new tactics didn’t work well, so the team reverted   its old tactics. (2 letters)
14 Some apartment owners rip their tenants    by charging too much for electricity. (3 letters)
15 Apple Corp will be rolling    their new line of computers at the end of the month. (3 letters)
16 Before you send the poster, roll it   and put it into a mailing tube. (2 letters)
17 The government has promised to root    corrupt officials and punish them. (3 letters)
18 More people are needed to join in the charity run, so rope   as many as you can. (2 letters)
19 As soon as they arrived, the new prisoners were roughed   by the guards. (2 letters)
20 If it’s $76.20, you can round it     to $76.00. (4 letters)
21 If it’s $86.90, you can round it   to $87.00. (2 letters)
22 Nora’s enthusiasm has rubbed    on other workers and now everyone’s doing better. (3 letters)
23 Tam will probably get the promotion, but don’t rule    Joe. He’s got a good chance too. (3 letters)
24 I ran       an old friend at the gym yesterday. We hadn’t seen each for years. (6 letters)
25 I threw a stick and my dog ran      it and caught it in his mouth. (5 letters)
26 Al Gore ran        George W. Bush in the 2000 election. Bush won, didn’t he? (7 letters)
27 Her son ran away     home when he was 13, but he came back the next day. (4 letters)
28 After I’d prepared my presentation, I ran it   Bob and he told me what he thought. (2 letters)
29 Does your boss get angry and run you     whenever you make a mistake? (4 letters)
30 A bus nearly    me down while I was walking along the road. (3 letters)
31 If you buy a new car, you’ll need to spend the first week or two running it  . (2 letters)
32 While he was driving home, he took his eyes off the road and    into the back of a bus. (3 letters)
33 She ran     her old teacher at the game and they had a quick chat before it started. (4 letters)
34 Many companies ran     financial difficulty when the value of the dollar dropped. (4 letters)
35 Could you tell the photocopy guy to run    sixty copies of this report? (3 letters)
36 The accountant ran off     the company’s money, but the police soon caught him. (4 letters)
37 The meeting should have finished at 5.30, but it ran   until 7.30. (2 letters)
38 Could you run down to the store and get some milk? We’ve run   . (3 letters)
39 The printer stopped because it had run out   ink. (2 letters)
40 While she was crossing the road, the old lady was nearly run     by a bus. (4 letters)
41 Let’s run        the agenda before the meeting so we know what we’ll be doing. (7 letters)
42 Whenever Rashid needs money, he runs   his sister and asks her to help him out. (2 letters)
43 It’s easy to run   a very big bill if you’re ordering expensive drinks, so be careful. (2 letters)
44 The production team ran up        some problems in the new factory. (7 letters)
45 When you’re making investment decisions, be sure you don’t rush     anything. (4 letters)
