139. Yao Ming is very famous now. However, his basketball career _____ only after many years of hard work.
| A．took on | B．took off | C．took up | D．took out |
I ________ able to catch the fist light home, but my watch betrayed me.
| A．were | B．had been |
| C．would be | D．would have been |
To survive in the world, we have to act _______ others, but to survive as ourselves, we have to act alone.
| A．in honor of | B．in concert with |
| C．in light of | D．in contact with |
--- What ‘s this? I hear about your appearing on the six o’clock news.
--- Oh that. Some people _______ something on campus and I just happened to pass in front of the camera.
| A．filmed | B．had filmed |
| C．were filming | D．have been filming |
When I asked her to define success in her own words, she said, “Success is _______ you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. ”
| A．how | B．that | C．where | D．when |
Hillary Clinton, at the first official event of her presidential campaign, ______ the ideas that she said will be at the heart of her campaign.
| A．spelt out | B．cross out |
| C．made up | D．covered up |