I have finally realized that a healthy life is closely ______ with the open countryside and homegrown food.

A. tied             B. related            C. involved        D. associated

 The problem has  ___ simply because you didn’t follow the instructions in the handbook.

A. raised             B. arisen           C. annoyed         D. arranged

 Denise’s father signed up to be a bus driver,________ advantage of all possible opportunities to meet foreign visitor and journalists who could help find the missing girl..

A. taking             B. making           C. getting         D. offering

 The thing that _____ is not whether you fail or not, but whether you try it or not.

A. matters                                B. cares           C. considers   D. minds

 After the trainer was sure that the whale could look after itself, he ________it into the sea.

A. transported        B. unloaded       C. released       D. handled

 We the last bus and didn’t have any money for taxi, so we had to walk home.

 A．reached           B．lost           C．missed         D．caught

 The plan _____ just because people were unwilling to co-operate.

A. pulled downed     B. broke down         C. turned downed     D. put down

 After graduation from college, Joe ____ for a year seeing the country before he went to work in his father’s business.

A. knocked about     B. knocked over       C. knocked down      D. knocked off

 The hunter ____ down and ____ to the farmer that he had___ his gun against the tree.

A. lay, lied, laid   B. lay, laid, laid    C. laid, lay, lied   D. laid, lied, lay

 How did the accident_____________? 

A. come out          B. come along         C. come about        D. come across