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Read the sentences and the definitions below.

I. Pro-democracy student group protesting in Hong Kong 1 talks with the government after demonstrators scuffle with opponents.

II. Three men were jailed for their part in the incident and other burglaries. Det Sgt Richard Dickinson, of Norfolk Police, said: “It was fortunate no-one was injured when the gang 2 the raids as the technique used resulted in the cash machines flying through the air.”

III. In this new ‘state’, women have all kinds of jobs and functions. For example, in the Syrian city of Raqqa they can join the so-called Al-Khansaa brigade, the all-female moral “police force” allegedly 3 by a British woman.

IV. Similarly, the Mineirão disaster showed that Brazilian football is no longer a source of national confidence. It too needs changes that go far beyond building shiny new stadiums. Its officials are corrupt and its domestic league poorly run. Living on past glory, it is inward-looking and tactically outdated. Brazilians may 4 concluding that they need new management and new ideas, both on and off the pitch.

V. Hydropower generates 80% of Brazil’s electricity. Typically, reservoirs 5 in the rainy season, from December to March, and are depleted in the dry southern winter.

Definitions:

1. to decide that something that is planned will not happen; to cancel.

2. to do or complete something.

3. to start a company or organization.

4. to finally be in a particular place or situation.

5. to become full or to make something become full.

Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the sentences above with a phrasal verb, based on the given definitions.

 

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