The city was destroyed by an earthquake and it ________nearly five years before everything came back to normal .
| A．cost | B．spend | C．took | D．used |
Li Hua was accepted by the company because he has a good ______ of spoken French.
| A．expression | B．command | C．power | D．accent |
It took me over two hours to ______ Robert to change his mind, because he was too stubborn.
| A．advise | B．suggest | C．persuade | D．let |
After going through a lot of things in my life, I decide to ______ my feelings on paper.
| A．set down | B．calm down | C．pack up | D．add up |
______ on ten years of observation and study, the theory shows that every one dreams every night, whether they realized it or not.
| A．Basing | B．Based | C．Being based | D．Having based |
His friends insisted that Tony ______ nothing to do with drugs and they insisted that he ______ free immediately.
| A．have, be set | B．had, was set |
| C．had, be set | D．have, was set |