After a long silence, someone from the rear 20 and said, "I can see that if I drink alcohol, there will be no more worms in my body."
答案：(C) stood up
stood up（站起來）表示後排有人站起身發言；put out（撲滅／伸出）、looked over（檢視）、brought back（帶回）均不符合此處語境。
本題大考中心未公布逐題答對率，以下不談數據，只談觀念。
這一題四個動詞片語的語意差得很遠，讀到 After a long silence, someone from the rear（沉默許久之後，後排有個人）接著開口說話，多數人會直接選 stood up，而且選對了。唯一會讓人停一下的是 looked over：如果把它讀成「往那邊看」，好像也接得上。
先站起來再發言，是一群人裡有人要開口時最自然的動作，stood up 一次到位；它是 stand up 的過去式，與 and 後面的 said 時態一致，並列的兩個動作形態剛好對齊。這一題語意已經夠明顯，不必再繞文法；真要多一道保險，可以看空格後面有沒有受詞——and said 中間什麼都沒有，而 put out、look over、bring back 三個都是及物的，只有 stand up 不及物。同一份試卷的第 24 題才真的要靠這一招，到那裡會再講一次。
looked over 是「檢視、審視」（look over the document 把文件從頭看過一遍），與「往那邊看」的 look over there 不是同一件事——後者的 over there 是地方副詞、不是受詞，這個差別值得順手記下來。put out 常見的是 put out a fire（滅火），bring back 是 bring back memories（勾起回憶），兩個也都在等受詞。
stand up（站起來，不及物）、look over（檢視、審視，及物）、look over there（往那邊看，over there 是地方副詞）、put out a fire（滅火）、bring back memories（勾起回憶）、after a long silence（沉默許久之後）
A man wanted to prove to a group of alcoholics the effect of alcohol on human body systems. He displayed two jars in front of the group, one containing water and the other containing alcohol, 16 a very healthy worm. He said to the audience: "This jar contains water." Then he dropped the worm in the jar and said, "Please watch the reaction." The group watched closely 17 the worm floated in the jar, dangling and swimming.
The man then took the worm out of the first jar and put it in the second jar 18 contained alcohol and said to the audience, "Now watch the reaction." The group saw the worm go down into the water and soon begin to struggle for 19. Right there and then every one in the group witnessed the worm shrinking and disintegrating. Then it died.
The man turned round and asked the audience, "What would you all say to this?" After a long silence, someone from the rear 20 and said, "I can see that if I drink alcohol, there will be no more worms in my body."