EmpowerB2 U2A Vocab and Past Tenses Practice

It took her months to __________Rupert when he finished the relationship.

• get carried away

• get over

• get away

• get anywhere

Somehow we ____________ this is not quite what Tucson Mayor George Miller had in mind.

• got swept away

• get by

• get through

• get the feeling

She got ___________ by the force of her own anger.

• hold of

• the feeling

• swept away

• attention

You'll never ___________ in your job unless you reach up to the highest position in the firm and take steps to fulfill your aim.

• get away

• get anywhere

• get into trouble

• get hold of

You can't___________ from the fact that the cost of living is always rising.

• get away

• get over

• get into trouble

• get hold of

We didn't want the press to ____________the story, but it might be no bad thing.

• get over

• get hold of

• get away

• get attention

By the latter part of the Middle Ages, the Ottoman Empire_______a power base in the Balkans and _________ ıslam to the south-eastern part of Europe.

• has been established/ was spreadinf

• had established/ spread

• was establishing/had spread

• was establishing/ spread

Certain religious groups _____ that the world would end in 1999 and _______ quite disappointed when it didn't happen.

• will believe/ seemed

• believed/ seemed

• had believed/seems

• were believing/ seemed

The scientists in Tripoli last month__________substantial improvement in the treatment of hundreds of Libyan children who _______ accidentally in the late 2010s.

• were reporting/have been infected

• have reported/ infected

• reported/ had been infected

• reported / were infected

Two moons of Mars ______ until 1877, but their existance_________by Kepler on the basis of analogical reasoning.

• have not been observed/ was predicted

• will not be observed/ could be predicted

• were not observed/ had been predicted

• had not been observed/ were predicted