The chairman asked me to _________ my speech to 20 minutes.

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• 1I can ____the house being untidy, but I hate it if it's not clean.

  A.come up with

  B.put up with

  C.turn to

  D.stick to

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• 2----The light in the office is still on. ----Oh, I forget ______.

  A.turning it off

  B.to turn it off

  C.turning off it

  D.to turn off it

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• 3One needs to work hard to realize his or her dream，as the saying goes”Hard work ______ success”．

  A.1ies in

  B.results from

  C.1eads to

  D.begins with

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• 4Heroes ______ their life ______ becoming the best they can be, whether it is President of the United States, a mother, or a firefighter.

  A.prevent…from

  B.devote…to

  C.prefer…to

  D.suffer…from

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• 5---Jimmy has had a lot of parties recently. ---Yes , that might _____ why he didn't do well in the test.

  A.apply for

  B.pay for

  C.answer for

  D.account for

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• 6The incident _____ a chain of events which resulted in the outbreak of the World War I.

  A.set out

  B.set offC .set aboutD.set in

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• 7The police ______ the stolen jewellery and returned it to the owner.

  A.searched

  B.hunted

  C.invented

  D.recovered

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• 8What really ______ is not failure itself, but the attitude we have towards it.

  A.matters

  B.applies

  C.stresses

  D.functions

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• 9With Shanghai World Expo drawing near, volunteers are making use of every minute to ____ their foreign language because language volunteers must pass a written test and an interview.  

  A.polish up

  B.take up

  C.use up

  D.make up

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• 10To keep healthy, Professor Johnson ______ cycling as a regular form of exercise after he retired.

  A.took up

  B.caught on

  C.carried out

  D.made for

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