PHRASAL VERBS CUT exercises keys

PHRASAL VERBS WITH “CUT” I Fill in the gaps with appropriate prepositions or adverbs The company has had its electricity supply cut because they haven't paid their monthly bill He's completely cut there, he lives miles from anywhere They are going to cut all those trees in order to build a motorway He doesn't want to get into debt; therefore, he's going to cut his expenses He cut the box for firewood Your composition is too long; cut it to 1,500 words He doesn't want to drive on these motorways, where lorries cut dangerously The switchboard operator cut us in the middle of our conversation They have cut the water supply temporarily because of the drought 10 They were cut by the tide and had to be rescued by helicopter 11 He is not cut working as a blacksmith 12 The children cut photographs of their favourite fooballers 13 It was a long way to the farm so we cut the field 14 My children always cut wood for the fire 15 He's always cutting with jokes in class to make the other students laugh 16 They are going to cut production due to the crisis 17 The doctor has advised him to cut smoking 18 When I married Carol, my father cut me without a penny 19 When we moved to Madrid, the children felt cut from their friends 20 He should cut drinking whisky 21 Grandad cannot chew and the nurse had to cut his food 22 When we got lost in the woods, we felt completely cut 23 He's always criticizing me; he cuts me 24 One of the engines of the plane cut in the middle of the flight 25 The bushes don't allow you to see the street; you should cut them II Replace the following phrasal verbs with another word or phrase of the same meaning Drinking alcohol cuts across all his principles He cuts across the fields in order to arrive earlier Whenever you are not at home, your brother cuts you up It cuts me up to see my mother suffer like that When he saw the police coming, he cut away We will have to cut back on our expenses if we want to save money The gardener will cut all the shrubs back Before they could harvest the crop, they had to cut the corn down My fiancee is always nagging at me because I don't cut out smoking 10 Noah was cut off by the flood for forty days 11 The doctor advised cutting the infected limb off 12 He thought he was going to come into some money, but his father cut him off 13 Unexpectedly, the car cut off into a side road CẤN CHÍNH TRƯỜNG 14 His speech was too long and he had to cut it down 15 I don't like people whocut in on my conversation 16 Cut out the nonsense and tell me the truth 17 Negotiations were cut off because neither side would compromise 18 The Congress opposed plans to cut back on the social security budget 19 He nearly caused a crash by cutting in 20 Europe has decided not to cut off foreign aid to Third World countries 21 He cut the photograph out of the magazine 22 When the petrol level is low, the engine cuts out 23 The platoon was cut off by the enemy 24 I finally managed to get through,but unfortunately we were cut off in the middle of the conversation 25 Unless you cut these habits out, you will be ill III Replace the words in italics with an appropriate phrasal verb Unless he reduces his expenses, he'll be getting into debt Accidents are often caused by drivers crossing the path of other drivers We were disconnected in the middle of our telephone conversation You will be isolated if you go to live in that cottage Could you reduce this article to 1,500 words He's not suited to that kind of work They cut the box into small pieces for firewood I wish those children would stop misbehaving If you marry that girl, I will disinherit you 10 The gardener stated that the tree had been felled with an axe 11 The fast-flowing stream has made a deep valley 12 You must stop smoking 13 The gardener is supposed to prune the shrubs and bushes in winter 14 Don't interrupt the conversation so rudely 15 A number of towns are isolated by the floods 16 When we were flying over the Bahamas, one of the aircraft's engines stopped functioning 17 The army managed to destroy the enemy's forces 18 He's going to reduce the length of this piece of pipe 19 Have yougot anyscissors? I want to cut this paper into pieces 20 She's a garrulous woman who often interrupts other people's conversations 21 Why don't you reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke? 22 The platoon was isolated from its camp 23 He is ideally suited to be a lawyer 24 This argument doesn't impress very much 25 Stop that! Will you! IV Fill in the gaps using one of the following phrasal verbs EXTRA COURSE 11 & 12 PHRASAL VERBS - CUT cut across, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut in, cut out, cut up, cut in on It was a long way to the church, so we cut country The EU is talking of cutting on oil imports from the Persian Gulf It is very rude of him to cut our conversations like that One of his New Year's resolutions was to cut smoking That journalist is used to cutting the government in his articles She cuts her idol's photographs of magazines The gardener is going to cut the branches of the tree His left hand was cut in an accident with an electric saw The Trade Unions oppose any plan to cut on salaries 10 That lorry caused the accident by cutting 11 Unfortunately some civilians were cut by police fire 12 The children felt cut from their friends when we moved 13 We'll have to cut the countryside if we want to arrive on time 14 That piece of wood is too long to go through the door; she's going to cut it to size 15 It took her a long time to get over her husband's death; she was really cut 16 He'll be cut if you shout at him 17 If he contributes a small amount of money we'll cut him 18 He cut his enemy with his sword 19 His doctor has told him lots of times that he must cut tobacco 20 Why don't we cut all the dead wood from the tree and use it as firewood? 21 He is not cut for mental work 22 My little boy always cuts on our conversations 23 We tried to cut the enemy army from its base 24 He had to cut most of his hair to join the army 25 He managed to cut all his rivals and finally won the prize goes against goes directly across criticizes you hurts me escaped reduce prune reap ANSWER KEYS KEY TO I off off down down up down in off off KEY TO II CẤN CHÍNH TRƯỜNG 10 off 11 up to 12 out 13 across 14 up 15 in 16 back/down 17 down on 18 off 19 off 20 out 21 up 22 off 23 op 24 out 25 back/down stop 10 isolated 11 amputating 12 disinherited him 13 turned 14 reduce it 15 interrupt 16 stop 17 stopped 18 reduce 19 driving in front of someone 20 stop 21 extracted from 22 stops 23 isolated 24 disconnected 25 stop KEY TO III cuts down cutting in cut off cut off cut down cut out for cut up cut it out cut you off 10 cut down 11 cut out 12 cut out 13 cut back 14 cut in on 15.cut off 16 cut out 17 cut Up 18 cut down 19 cut up this paper 20 cuts in on 21 cut down on 22 cut off 23 cut out 24 cut much ice 25 cut that out KEY TO IV 1.across back/down in on out up out away/ off off down 10 in 11 down 12 off 13 across 14 down 15 up 16 up 17 in 18 down 19 out 20 away/ off 21 out 22 in 23 off 24 off 25 out Next…FALL Notes: The Persian Gulf (Persian: ‫خلیج فارس‬, translit Xalij-e Fârs, lit 'Gulf of Fars') is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia The body of water is an extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest The Shatt alArab river delta forms the northwest shoreline The Persian Gulf was a battlefield of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers It is the namesake of the 1991 Gulf War, the largely air- and land-based conflict that followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait The Third World; The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the First World, while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and their allies represented the Second World This terminology provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the Earth into three groups based on political and economic divisions EXTRA COURSE 11 & 12 PHRASAL VERBS - CUT The Third World was normally seen to include many countries with colonial pasts in Africa, Latin America, Oceania and Asia It was also sometimes taken as synonymous with countries in the Non-Aligned Movement In the dependency theory of thinkers like Raúl Prebisch, Walter Rodney, Theotonio dos Santos, and Andre Gunder Frank, the Third World has also been connected to the world economic division as "periphery" countries in the world system that is dominated by the "core" countries The Third World: The Persian Gulf The Third World CẤN CHÍNH TRƯỜNG EXTRA COURSE 11 & 12 PHRASAL VERBS - CUT ... III cuts down cutting in cut off cut off cut down cut out for cut up cut it out cut you off 10 cut down 11 cut out 12 cut out 13 cut back 14 cut in on 15 .cut off 16 cut out 17 cut Up 18 cut down.. .cut across, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut in, cut out, cut up, cut in on It was a long way to the church, so we cut country The EU is talking of cutting on oil imports... in on 15 .cut off 16 cut out 17 cut Up 18 cut down 19 cut up this paper 20 cuts in on 21 cut down on 22 cut off 23 cut out 24 cut much ice 25 cut that out KEY TO IV 1.across back/down in on out