—Is your husband good at cleaning up the room?

—Not very，but when it ________ cooking，he is much better than I am.

A．talks about? B．refers to

C．comes to? D．deals with

Even if the treatment ________，there’s still no magic pill for patients in the late stage of AIDS.

A．does? B．uses

C．works? D．helps

The government has agreed to pay the firms extra sums to ________ for their financial losses.

A．make up? B．bring up

C．fill up? D．look up

—How much did the guy ________ you to fix your 3G mobile phone?

—I don’t remember，but it was quite a lot.

A．cost? B．spend

C．charge D．take

No one could ________ the failure of the experiment as everything went smoothly at first.

A．give an account for

B．account for

C．take account of

D．take into account

—If we take a plane，we’ll of course have arrived in London by the next weekend.

—Don’t be too sure.We should ________ the weather factor.What shall we do if it is foggy?

A．look for? B．allow for

C．prepare for? D．use for

By playing with the native boys and girls，one can ________ a lot of their language.

A．pick up? B．set up

C．build up? D．put up

We were supposed to move into our new classroom building at the beginning of this month，but things didn’t ________ as planned.

A．work out? B．carry out

C．move out? D．get out

She________her younger sister in appearance but not in character.

A．looks? B．compares

C．equals? D．resembles

Bob’s lectures ________ a fairly wide range and I can’t sum up what he says in a few sentences.

A．covered? B．conveyed

C．considered? D．commanded