In which of the sentences below the underlined phrasal verb ...
Sorry for the delayed response
01 Have ___ (1) e-mail you’ve been meaning (but not really) to reply to? Read below for some
02 reasons why your response has been delayed:
03 • I totally meant to respond to this earlier, but I didn’t know ___ (2) answer to your question
04 and I kept not caring enough to ask anyone. Now ___ (3) weird amount of time has passed,
05 so I’m going to loop Laura (cc’d) into this e-mail thread to see if she can handle this. Laura?
06 • Sorry for ___ (4) delay! I put off answering your e-mail until I had ___ (5) even more tedious
07 task that I wanted to avoid. Thanks!
08 • So sorry that I’m just getting to this now. There were six other people on this e-mail thread
09 and I was hoping that one of them would answer your question and I could just go on living
10 my life.
(Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsHm2YnteFa/ – text especially adapted for this test).
In which of the sentences below the underlined phrasal verb “go on” is used with the most similar meaning to the one used in the text (l. 09)?