基础一练夯实
练基础 小试牛刀
Ⅰ.词汇知识
1.A teacher who is just interested in his teaching but doesn't ________ students is not a good teacher.
A. argue about B. discuss about
C. dream about D. care about
答案与解析 D 句意:只对教学感兴趣而不关心学生的老师不是好老师。care about“关心”,符合语境。argue about“争论……”; discuss about“讨论”; dream about“梦想”。
2.Standing on the top of the Oriental Pearl Tower, you will get a wonderful ________ of Shanghai city.
A. sight B. scene
C. scenery D. view
答案与解析 D view指从某个位置或角度看到的景色; sight指眼前看到的景观; scene“场景;布景”,多数包括景物中的人及活动; scenery指某地总的自然风光或景色。
3.(2014·湖北部分重点中学联考)He was watching her doing it with a ________ look on her face, as if to say that she would not change her mind.
A. reliable B. determined
C. stubborn D. straight
答案与解析 B 句意: 他看着她脸上坚定的面色,仿佛在说,她不会改变她的心意。determined“坚定的”,符合句意。reliable“可靠的”; stubborn“顽固的”; straight“直率的”。
4.— Is your father still a smoker?
— No. He was ________ to give up smoking one year ago.
A. advised B. forbidden
C. changed D. persuaded
答案与解析 D 句意:——你父亲还吸烟吗?——不吸了,他一年前就被说服戒烟了。从No可知,父亲已经不吸烟了,故选D项。advise“建议”; forbid“禁止”; persuade“说服”。
5.The visiting professor ________ giving lectures to students ________ invited to meetings at times.
A. preferred to; rather than
B. preferred to; to being
C. preferred; to being
D. preferred; than being
答案与解析 C 句意:比起有时被邀请参加会议,这位客座教授更喜欢给学生上课。本题考查prefer doing ... to doing ...“比起……更喜欢……”。
Ⅱ.语法填空
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Jack: People always __6__ (say) that Chinese is very hard __7__ (learn). Sometimes I wish I __8__ (be) learning French or Japanese. Maybe they'd be __9__ (easy).
Mary: Maybe, but maybe not. It all depends __10__ what language you already speak.
Jack: Why should that be? What difference does it make?
Mary: Well, languages are more __11__ less equally difficult. Most of the things one language says must __12__ (say) by every language in some way.
Jack: You mean I could learn Chinese easily?
Mary: No, because your native language is Spanish. But Italian might be easy. It has a lot of words that __13__ (be) similar to words in Spanish. Even the sound system is more similar than __14__ of Chinese is to Spanish. How difficult a language is to learn depends mostly on how __15__ it resembles your own language.
答案 6.say 7.to learn 8.were 9.easier 10.on
11.or 12.be said 13.are 14.that 15.much