Тест по английскому на словарный запас по теме "Post office and telephones" №3

TELEPHONE. Choose the right answer.

1. If you don't remember the number, you can look it up in the telephone ....... .

dictionary
directory
index
register

2. Mr Suspicious alleged that his phone had been ....... .

connected
encoded
planted
tapped

3. Can you ....... a pound? I need some money for the telephone box.

change
exchange
offer
spend

4. Can you ....... Prof. Brown's telephone number?

call to mind
recall
remember
remind

5. His phone must be out of order. We've been unable to ....... him.

arrive at
meet
reach
transmit

6. Would you ....... a minute, please. I'll try to connect you.

hold on
keep on
stay on
stop on

7. Can I ....... London direct from here, or must I ask the operator to get the number for me?

choose
dial
reach
select

8. The human voice often sounds ....... on the telephone.

deformed
distorted
irregular
twisted

9. My telephone is ....... so I shall have to ask my neighbour if I can use his.

off duty
off limits
out of order
out of use

10. Where are you calling from? I can hardly hear you. Your voice is terribly ....... .

dull
fade
faint
pale

11. I'm sorry. No one called Mimi lives here. You must have ....... the wrong number.

dialled
fingered
pressed
pushed

12. Mrs Hello works as an operator at the local telephone ....... .

centre
exchange
headquarters
office

13. I phoned him this morning but when I said who I was he ....... .

hung up
rang up
shut down
shut up

14. The telephone operator said she would put the caller ....... when the line was free.

forward
in
through
up

15. I let the telephone ring several times before I ....... the receiver.

lifted away
picked up
raised up
took out

16. Jenny! Your boyfriend called and asked me to give you a ....... .

greeting
message
news
notice

17. It is very difficult to phone you in London as your number is always ....... .

busy
engaged
occupied
taken

18. I was in the middle of phoning Pete when we were ....... .

cut down
cut in
cut off
cut up

19. In the middle of the call the line went ....... .

dead
deaf
dumb
flat

20. Is there a phone ....... anywhere near here, please?

box
compartment
room
shop

21. Hello! The University? Could I speak to Prof. Wise on ....... 233, please?

branch
exchange
extension
system

22. "All the telephone lines are ....... ," said the operator.

detached
disconnected
disunited
severed

23. I ....... his telephone number while he was still talking.

dashed off
jotted down
set down
wrote up

24. I've tried ringing four or five times, but I still can't ....... that Warsaw number.

get on to
get through to
go along with
go on to