13. A pharmaceutical researcher told me of being ________ for three or four hours by border guards.
A. turned up B. held up C. speeded up D. covered up
. I can’t ________ it ________, there must be something caught in the zip.
A. blow up B. do up C. drink up D. mix up
14. The newspaper correctly reported that the government had ________ a committee.
A. set up B. drawn up C. summed up D. checked up
15. The visitors ________ any amount of boredom.
A. come up with B. put up with C. bring up D. look up
16. If you ________ it ________ again, you’ll be looking for a new job.
A. speak up B. end up C. slip up D. mess up
17. Japan successfully ________ a modern capitalist society.
A. did up B. built up C. turned up D. put up
18. ________ the address of the nearest children’s clinic.
A. Use up B. Cheer up C. Look up D. Sum up
19. By the time we ________ the conversation, I knew that I would not be going to Geneva.
A. softened up B. wound up C. came up against D. kept up
20. Leaders had not ________ their duties, failed to curb extremists and had inflamed the situation.
A. come up against B. looked up C. held up D. lived up to
21. Trade should ________ just before Christmas and drop off in February.
A. fix up B. pick up C. take up on D. draw up