动词是用来表示动作或状态的词汇，下面是动词与动词短语专题限时训练，请考生练习。

1.I don't feel I can ________ on their decision.

A.recommend B.order

C.comment D.summarize

2.As you ________ new words in the passage, it is a very good method for you to guess their meanings.

A.come about B.come across

C.come out D.come up

3.When I visited her, she was ________ in writing a lecture speech on AIDS prevention.

A.occupied B.occupying

C.taken up D.absorbing

4.Though having lived abroad for years, many Chinese still________the traditional customs.

A.observe B.possess

C.perform D.support

5.The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature ________ to Mo Yan, Chinese writer，whose novel Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987.

A.returned B.distributed

C.awarded D.went

6.Most young people can easily ________ the new life abroad.

A.adjust to B.refer to

C.prefer to D.look forward to

7.I'm writing to apologize for my absence from last week's meeting. I was unexpectedly ________ at work.

A.picked up B.given up

C.held up D.made up

8.Legal experts are ________ the Criminal Law to be changed after a number of incidents have come to light.

A.looking for B.standing for

C.sending for D.calling for

9.More and more rich people have promised to ________ their wealth after death to help the poor and the disabled.

A.give away B.give up

C.give out D.give in

10.It is the duty of the police to ________ social order.

A.deserve B.reserve

C.preserve D.conserve

11.This will be a year of action, and that action should begin by extending unemployment insurance for Americans who were________ in the economic slowdown.

A.laid out B.laid off

C.laid on D.laid down

12.Korea returned to China the remains of the Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War，________ the friendly ties between the two countries.

A.distinguishing B.highlighting

C.examining D.updating

13.To my surprise, at yesterday's meeting he again ________the plan that didn't sound reasonable.

A.cheered up B.settled down

C.brought up D.put up

14.Chinese vessels have ________ 646,000 square kilometres in the southern Indian Ocean in search of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

A.covered B.looked

C.travelled D.searched

15.Meeting again by chance, Lucy and Amy are delighted to________ the friendship where it was left out years ago.

A.break up B.pick up

C.bring up D.build up

16.As a leading producer of greenhouse gases, China________ the United States as the largest consumers of energy.

A.describes B.joins

C.controls D.influences

17.Going into a supermarket without a clear list, you might ________ picking up what you wouldn't necessarily want.

A.give up B.take up

C.make up D.end up

18.Traditionally, local midwives would________ all the babies in the area.

A.handle B.produce

C.deliver D.help

19.To ensure that children from poor areas can receive fair education, the government has planned to ________ more money to improve the miserable conditions of local schools.

A.announce B.allocate

C.advocate D.accumulate

20.—You've been in college for half a year. Are you familiar with your principal?

—Yes. He is an outstanding leader who ________ his reputation.

A.looks out for B.comes up with

C.lives up to D.looks forward to