—Hi,Susan! What are you going to do during the summer holiday?
—I'm going to _____ cooking because I like eating delicious food.
本题考查 “动词+up”的短语搭配。四个选项的含义分别是：clean up 打扫干净；put up 搭建，张贴；take up 占用，开始从事；make up 打扮，化妆。根据本题语境可知，我打算开始学习烹饪，因为我喜欢吃美食，故答案为 C。
I don't want to be _____ else. I just want to be _____.
句意：我不想成为其他任何人，我只想做我自己。在否定句中要用 anybody “任何人”，表示“我自己”要用myself，故答案为 A。
—Jack,let's have a picnic after school.
—Sorry. I have _____ Frank to work on the biology report with him.
本题考查动词的词义理解。句意：——杰克，让我们放学后去野餐吧。——对不起，我已经答应弗兰克和他一起写生物报告了。根据本题语境可知，promise“承诺，答应”符合题意，所缺的词是 promised。
Larry hopes _____ his English,so he keeps practicing it every day.
本题考查固定搭配以及动词的词义理解。hope to do sth. 是固定搭配，意为“希望做某事”，先排除 B 和 D；根据题干中的“所以他每天坚持练习英语”可推断，他希望能“提高”他的英语水平，由此可知 improve 的含义符合题意，故答案为 C。
—What did your teacher say this morning?
—She told us _____ make faces in class.
答语的含义是“她告诉我们不要在课堂上做鬼脸”，根据tell sb. not to do sth. 的搭配可知答案为 B。
This is my _____ day to be here.
句意：这是我来这里的第二天。表示“第二”要用second，设空前有 my，second 前不必再加冠词，故答案为 C。
It rained _____ these days. The farmers in this village _____ had a good harvest（丰收）.
My teacher doesn't allow us _____ in the classroom.
我们可用“固定搭配法”解答此题。allow sb. to do sth. 意为“允许某人做某事”。句意：我的老师不允许我们在教室里吃东西。
A friend in need is a friend indeed. All of us need a friend _____.
我们可用“分析句子结构法”解答此题。结合句意“患难见真情。我们所有人都需要一个谈得来的朋友”可知，空格处为动词不定式短语作后置定语，talk with 意为 “谈论，交谈”，此处 with 不能省略，故选 A。
It's very dangerous for us _____ the mobile phone while crossing the street.
本题考查句式结构。句意：对我们来说，过马路的时候接听手机是很危险的。根据“It's + adj. + for sb. + to do sth.”的句式结构可知答案为B。
—Simon failed the exam again.
—That's not surprising. Computer games _____ too much of his time.
本题考查 take 短语的用法。四个选项的含义分别是：take in 吸收；take on 呈现，承担；take off 起飞，脱掉；take up 占用，开始从事。根据本题语境可知，Simon 考试又没有及格，电脑游戏占用了他太多的时间，故答案为D。