1. for, since & from
for, since, from都可以用作时间状语的引导词。 介词for后接一段时间,通常用于完成时的句子中,说明某种活动持续了多久。例如:
The old lady has lived in the house for more than twenty years. 那位老太太在那座房子里住了二十多年了。
since意为“自从,自……”,后接时间点,表示从过去某点时间开始延续到现在为止。例如:
It hasn't rained since three weeks ago. 已经三周没有下雨了。
from表示时间的起点,常与to或till连用,构成短语“from ... to (till) ... ”意为“从……到……”,通常指时间上的起始与终了。例如:
What were you doing from eight to nine last night? 昨晚八点到九点你在干什么?
根据句意,选用for, since或from填空。
I have been back over two months. It has been half an hour Alice left there. The meeting will be held June 2 to June 12 in Wuhan.
2. still & yet
still和yet都有“仍然,还”的意思。 still表示某事还在进行之中,多用于肯定句中,它还可以修饰形容词或副词的比较级,意为“更加”。例如:
He is tall, but she is still taller. 他很高,但是她更高。
yet表示某事尚未完成,多用于否定句或带有否定词的陈述句中;它还可以作连词,意为“然而”。例如:
The girl hasn't found a job yet. 那个女孩还没有找到一份工作。 She has a lot of money, yet she doesn't feel happy. 她有很多钱,但是她并不感到快乐。
根据句意,选用still或yet填空。
At the end of the last lap, the two runners were neck and neck. They haven't decided where to spend the weekend.
3. task, duty & job
task, duty, job都有“工作”或“任务”的意思。 task表示雇主、父母或老师所摊派、分配、布置或强加的工作,一般意为“任务;工作”。词义引申以后,task不指别人强加的“任务”,而指自己的业务或生活境况或自己的信仰所赋予的“任务”。例如:
I set myself the task of chopping up the firewood. 我给自己安排了劈柴的任务。
duty在表示“工作;活儿”时,总含有“义务”或“份内的事”的意思。例如:
It is my duty to warn you. 我有责任向你提出警告。
job在表示“工作;活儿”时,既不包含强加的意思,也不表示对谁承担“义务”的意思,而表示“自己所从事的业务、职业或行业方面的工作。”例如:
In fact, the repair job was not quite so simple. 事实上,修理工作并非如此简单。
根据句意,用task, duty或job的适当形式填空。
After the young man left school, he began to look for a . "Who's on today?" the teacher asked. As the only child of the family, Vera's is to water flowers every day.
4. allow, permit& let
allow, permit, let都有“准许”的意思。 permit和allow在许多情况下可以通用,但它比allow正式,含有“积极地、从正面地允许”的意义, 往往指经过考虑正式“允许”做某事。例如:
They don't permit you to smoke. 他们不允许你抽烟。
allow指“并不反对”或“不加阻止”,偏重“默许”或“听任”,含义较消极。例如:
Each passenger is allowed to bring twenty-five kilogrammes of luggage. 每位旅客允许携带二十五公斤的行李。
let 在三个词中最不正式,较口语化,语意最弱,指“给予可能或同意”,有时含“难以阻止或限制”之意。let宾语后的动词必须用不带to的不定式。例如:
Let him wait. 让他等一等。
根据句意,用allow, permit或let的适当形式填空。
The boss each of the worker five hundred yuan a month at last. My mother doesn't dogs in the house. My mother wouldn't me go to see the film.
5. instead & instead of
instead和instead of都有“代替、顶替”的意思。 instead是副词,在句子中作状语,使用时应注意以下几点: a. 通常可以置于句末,其前不用逗号。例如:
Give me a green one instead. 给我换个绿色的吧!
b. 也可以置于句首,其后可以用逗号,也可以不用。例如:
Instead you should try to help them. 相反,你应该努力帮助他们。
c. 起着衔接两个句子、分句或短语的作用。例如:
Last summer I went to Beijing. This year I'm going to Guangzhou instead. 去年夏天我去了北京,今年我打算去广州。
"instead of" 是介词短语,它主要有以下几种用法: a. 后面接名词或代词。例如:
He will go instead of me tomorrow. 明天他将代替我去。
b. 后面接动词-ing形式。例如:
He went to school instead of staying at home. 他没有待在家里而是上学去了。
c. "instead of "有时可用来连接两个对等的语法成分,也就是说,它后面可以接形容词、副词或介词短语等。例如:
They went there on foot instead of by bus. 他们没有乘公共汽车而是步行到那里去的。
用instead或instead of填空。
He is tired. Let me do it . If it rains tomorrow, I'll read at home going fishing.
6. receive, accept & take
receive, accept, take都有“接受”的意思。 receive通常表示被动地接受。例如:
Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra £100 a year! 后来他笑了,并且告诉我说,我将一年收到一百英镑的额外收入!
accept通常表示主动而且欣然地接受。例如:
She has received his present, but she will not accept it. 她收到了他的礼物,但她是不会接受的。
take所表示的接受包含着有人赠予的意思。例如:
Did you take his advice? 你接受他的建议吗?
根据句意,用receive, accept或take的适当形式填空。
He a lot of gifts that day, but he didn't them. Do you think he will our invitation? He anything he is given.
7. choose, select & pick
choose, select, pick都有“挑选”的意思。 choose强调在“选择”某物时的意愿,特别是当挑选物只有两个时,我们应当用choose。例如:
You can choose any of the two books. 你可以选择这两本书中的任何一本。
当供选择物多时,最好用select, 因为有较多的被挑选物,挑选人就必须加以鉴别。例如:
They were selected from many applicants. 他们是从许多申请者当中选出来的。
pick在用作“挑选”时,不强调鉴别,也不强调意愿。如:
Tom picked a red shirt because he liked red. 汤姆挑选了一件红衬衣,因为他喜欢红颜色。
根据句意,用choose, pick或select的适当形式填空。
Mrs Brown lets her son his own Christmas present. I had nothing to do that day and a book to read. Whom shall we for the captain of our school football team, Larry or Nick?
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