Exercise 3. Choose the correct answer: A, B, C, or D in the correct tense form.

Exercise 2. Underline the correct prepositions in the sentences below.

1. The political demonstrations would be backed up/in by a documentary they were making about western injustices.
2. During the trip their engine broke through/down and they tried to get the attention of a passing ship.
3. The unrest broke out/down last year when peaceful demonstrations turned into/onto riots in Lhasa.
4. Police broke with/up demonstrations in central Cairo, beating protesters with batons.
5. The treaty calls for/on the south and north to equally share the country’s rising oil revenue and a fairer distribution of power, which led to the creation of a unity government of the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and the ruling National Congress Party.
6. Mr. Obama called on/for his supporters to lend the next president their goodwill.
7. Israeli planes have carried out/away 13 air strikes on the Hamas- ruled Gaza Strip.
8. There is mounting U.S. pressure on Pakistan- a key ally in the ‘war on terror’- to crack down on/down with militants, who use the border region to launch raids into Afghanistan.
9. Interim authorities were employing a strategy of ‘asphyxiating the embassy by surrounding it, cutting off/through the food supply, asphyxiating the people inside in order to demonstrate their force and power’, Mr. Zelaya told Venezuela’s TV.
10. Anti-aircraft guns opened up/in in several minutes.

1. Prime Minister _____ the prospect of further disruptions to Europe’s gas supply.
2. Helicopters deployed to dump water on the facility were _____ amid concerns over radiation levels in the air above the site.
3. The current economic crisis had emboldened the Chinese to _____ change in the world economic structure.
4. The rise in output was _____ to companies deciding to re- stock after letting their stock levels run downduring the recession.
5. The Chancellor will find it much harder to _____ the national legislation he wants.
6. It is unclear whether Mrs. Merkel will be able to _____ the small FDP to create a coalition that could push through economic reforms.
7. We all had gas masks but maybe some people didn’t manage to _____ them _____ in time.
8. One man and his boy _____ a Georgian flag _____ on the post.
9. Mr. Obama’s advisors are said to be _____ a plan to release a group of detainees from the Guanatanamo Bay detention centre and to transfer most of the rest to the American prison and courts system.
10. Freon gas displaces oxygen from air to _____ a fire.

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