—Why does your room look so small?
—Because the bed_______too much space.
句意“为什么你的房间看起来这么小？”“因为床_____太多的空间。”takes up占据；takes down记下；takes off脱掉，（飞机等）起飞；takes away带走，取走。根据语境可知，此处表示“床占据了太多空间，所以房间看上去很小”。故选A。
—Why does your room look so small?
—Because the bed_______too much space.
—Hurry up! I’m afraid we will miss the plane.
—Don’t worry! The plane will not _____ until 12 o’clock.
We will never _______ our dream until it comes true one day.
More expressways ________ in Sichuan soon to promote the local economy.
Time magazine has chosen “The Guardians”，a group of journalists who________ for their work, as Person of the Year, for taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths.
This company ________ roundly by unionists and social justice groups when it fired a number of workers for no reason a decade ago.
This is one of the highest buildings that ________ in our city recently.
We won’t start the work until all the preparations ________.
Don’t worry. The hard work that you do now ________ later in life.
More efforts, as reported, ________ in the years ahead to accelerate the supply-side structural reform.
