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Exercises 1. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases chosen from the box. Change the form where necessary. 1) Construction workers should always have __________ against personal injury. 2) My job varies between the extremely tedious and the annoyingly busy. __________ I think I’m happier during the really busy times; (…) no time to think about how bored I am. 3) He is an ardent football fan; he hardly watches any television __________ football matches. 4) “There were many occasions,” he recalls, “when I willingly ________ on food and other expenses in order to be able to afford some rare books that I liked.” 5) It is the nature of the wise to _____ pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. 6) A good team of dogs, hitched to a light sled, can ____ 1,000 pounds of goods. 7) Radio and television have ____________ rather than replaced the newspaper as carriers of news and opinion. 8) Apple trees must be _______, or many of the apples will be eaten by worms. 9) In the story, the little girl has a ______ stepmother, who makes her life a misery. 10) Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has _________ it. 11) Nowadays almost all libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to remain within their _______. 12) This magazine is a ______ of articles from many newspapers and magazines around the world. 13) Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario are shared by the United States and Canada, and form part of the _________ between the two countries. 14) We are never satisfied that we know enough to _______. Every question we answer leads on to another question. 15) My father died when I was too young to live on my own. The people of my hometown took over my upbringing ___________. 2. Use the verb in brackets to form an appropriate phrasal verb you have learned and complete the sentence with it. 1) In an effort to feel better, I started to make small changes in my life and _______________ from 20 cigar