1 . His success doesn’t __________ out of nowhere. As he self-studied College English in high school, he has had a head start over the people of his age.

A．break up	B．spring up
C．make up	D．live up

2 . It is more than ninety years since the Chinese Communist Party ________ in China.

A．came into power	B．was in power
C．came into the power	D．was in the power

3 . The teacher ____________ the exam marks on the wall so that the students could see them. Actually, I didn’t quite like this ____________, though I was among the top students.

A．put up; practice	B．put on; improvement
C．take down; performance	D．take off; scene

4 . Though having lived abroad for years, many Chinese still ___________ the traditional customs.

A．expand	B．possess
C．observe	D．behave

5 . It is clearly stated that these regulations ______ everyone in the community, without exception.

A．appeal to	B．adapt to
C．apply to	D．attach to

6 . Though he failed many times in election, he never lost______ heart and at last he was elected_______ President of the USA.

A．the ; a

B．a ; the

C．his; the

D．/ ; /

7 . One of the ________ that ________ my attention was magnetism.

A．phenomenon; drew	B．phenomena; attracted
C．phenomenons; paid	D．phenomenon; paid

8 . He had to pause from time to time to wipe the sweat from his forehead, because the air-conditioning system ______________.

A．broke in

B．broke up

C．broke out

D．broke down

9 . The fierce collision between love and law left the judge ________________.

A．tickled pink	B．standing at risk
C．living in terror	D．standing at a crossroads

10 . It's surprising that your brother _______ Russian so quickly－he hasn't lived there very long.

A．picked up	B．looked up
C．put up	D．made up