He claimed that he had a wonderful job and was well paid, but his mother knew that he had made it all up. 

A. invented

B. invested

C. corrected

D. collected

【答案解析】本题正确选项A。【译文】他说他有一份很好的工作，工资很高，但是他妈妈知道这是他编造的。【解析】在四个备选项中，invent“发明；捏造”；invest“投资”；correct“纠正”；collect“收集”。题中划线词make up“编造”和invent意思最接近，因此，依据题意本题最符合题意的选项为A。