English b1: 6.02.2025

Phrasal Verbs with “Get” – Quiz

Part 1: Multiple Choice

Choose the correct meaning of each phrasal verb.

1. If someone tells you to “get your act together”, what do they mean?

a) Stop complaining

b) Become more organized

c) Take a break

d) Act in a play

2. What does “get away with murder” mean?

a) Avoid punishment for bad behavior

b) Plan a crime

c) Leave a dangerous place

d) Defend yourself in court

3. If rumors “get around”, what is happening?

a) People are keeping secrets

b) News is spreading

c) Someone is changing their opinion

d) A person is ignoring something

4. If you “get down to business”, what are you doing?

a) Starting to work seriously

b) Finishing a project

c) Talking about fun things

d) Changing your job

Part 2: Fill in the blanks

Complete each sentence with the correct phrasal verb.

5. I can’t believe he cheated on the exam and ______ it. (avoid punishment)

6. I need to quiz based my studies after taking a break. (return to)

7. She was feeling great, but the bad weather really ______ her ______. (made her depressed)

8. We don’t earn much, but we somehow ______. (manage financially)

9. Stop criticizing me all the time! ______ my ______! (stop nagging me)

Part 3: Matching

Match the phrasal verb to its meaning.

Phrasal Verb Meaning

10. Get the message across a) Travel frequently

11. Get off the ground b) Stop thinking about something

12. Get out of my mind c) Make people understand

13. Getting around d) Start successfully

14. Get to the bottom of e) Understand something fully

Part 4: Sentence Correction

Find and correct the mistakes in these sentences.

15. “I need to get in playing piano again after so many years.”

16. “He got on the act and made everything worse.”

17. “We should get back to basis and start fresh.”

This free Cambridge First (FCE) Reading & Use of English Practice Test helps with the grammar and structure points that you need to master for the B2 First (FCE).

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These days, everyone knows how to with photographs to make them look different from real life. Trick photography goes back many years before the days of Photoshop. Back in the late 1800s, when photography was in its , people used to enjoy posing with their families in headless photographs. Otherwise serious family portraits would feature a typical family in their best Sunday clothes, except that the father would be an axe, mother would be headless and a child would be holding mama’s head . The effect was achieved by layering the images of different photo negatives on top of each other. Judging by the sheer number of such pictures out there, it was a pretty common a century or so ago.

Another favourite family day out in nineteenth century Paris was a visit to the city morgue. A glass-walled, refrigerated room was set up a short walk from the Cathedral of Notre Dame originally so that the public could identify the bodies of the dead. However, it became a huge with as many as 40,000 visitors per day – similar to the numbers who visit Disney World today. The morgue was in all the Paris guide books, and was popular for nearly 50 years until it eventually closed in 1907.

All in all, the today’s free-time pursuits seem positively tame compared to those of our ancestors!

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