刘艳梅
Why dont you get her a camera?
【中考链接】—Why dont you stay here for a few more minutes?
—_______, and my parents will be worried. (2007 福建省厦门市)
A. Its getting late B. All right
C. Its OK
【解析】选A。问句意为“你为何不再多呆一会儿?”B项和C项均不符合题意,故选A。
【中考链接】Why dont you join us in the game? (选出与划线部分意思相同或相近的一项)(2004湖南省长沙市)
A. What not B. Why not
C. Why to D. How to
【解析】选B。Why not...? 与Why dont you...?表达的意思相同。
How about some tennis balls? / What about a watch?
【中考链接】—How about going for a walk outside?
—_______. (2006湖北省武汉市)
A. I would be B. I like
C. I do D. Id like to
【解析】选D。How about...?句型在征求对方的意见时,其答语也应当使用委婉的语气;作肯定回答时多用Good idea. / Id love to. 等。
【中考链接】—Its Sunday tomorrow. What about_______ a film, Li Lei?
—Thats a good idea. Ill be glad to. (2005湖北省十堰市)
A. go to see B. seeing
C. watching D. looking
【解析】选B。“看电影”要用动词see, 排除选项C、D;what about 后接动词的-ing形式,排除选项A。
Dogs are too difficult to take care of. 【中考链接】Some physics problems in this book are_______ difficult for the students
_______work out. (2005江苏宿迁市)
A. so; that B. not; but
C. such; that D. too; to
【解析】选D。too ... for sb. to do sth. 意为“对于某人来说太……而不能做某事”。本题句意是:这本书里的一些物理题太难了,学生们做不出来。
【中考链接】Tom was careless, he didnt find the mistakes in his test paper. (改为简单句)(2005湖南岳阳市)
Tom was_______ careless_______ find the mistakes in his test paper.
【解析】填too; to。too...to...意为“太……而不能……”。
Instead, making a meal is enough.
【中考链接】_______ spending our vacation in a hotel, why not try hiking in the country? (2007 江西省)
A. Instead of B. Because of
C. Thanks to D. As for
【解析】选A。Because of 意为“因为;由于”;Thanks to 意为“幸亏”;As for意为“至于”,均不符句意,故答案选A。
【中考链接】More and more people prefer watching TV to reading. (改为同义句)(2005山东济宁市)
More and more people enjoy watching TV_______ reading.
【解析】填instead of。instead 常与of连用构成短语介词,意为“代替”,of后面常跟名词、代词或v-ing形式。
The singers really came from all age groups and from all over China.
【中考链接】Believe it or not, more than half of our body weight_______ water. (2005浙江省杭州市)
A. comes across B. comes from
C. comes by D. comes to
【解析】选B。come across意为“偶然遇见”,come from意为“ 来自”,come by 意为“经过;获得”,come to意为“来到”。句意为“信不信由你,我们体重的一大半是来源于水(人体含有水份)。”
Chinese people should try to speak English more.
【中考链接】Although Jeff loves KFC, he tries_______ it too often. (2005湖南省岳阳市)
A. to eat B. not eat
C. to not eat D. not to eat
【解析】选D。try to do sth.意为“努力尝试做某事;尽力做某事”。动词不定式的否定式是在to的前面加not。
Besides singing English songs, there are many other fun ways to learn English.
【中考链接】Its too late to go out now, and_______, its starting to rain. (2007 杭州市)
A. though B. besides
C. however D. instead
【解析】选B。该句意为“现在天色已晚,不要出去了,况且(除此之外)要下雨了。”选项A、C、D分别意为“尽管”、“然而”、“代替”。
【中考链接】All the clerks went home
_______Mr Wang, for he had to finish his work. (2006四川省成都市)
A. exceptB. besidesC. without
【解析】 选A。except 意为“除……之外”;besides 意为“除……之外(还有)”;without 意为“没有……”,表伴随。根据句意选A。