新目标英语八年级（下）Ｕｎｉｔ ９单元知识中考链接

杨和谦

Me neither.

【中考链接】—Do you like the pop star Zhou Jielun or the movie star Liu Dehua?

—____. I am not their fan. (2007 重庆市)

A. Both B. Either

C. Neither D. All

【解析】选C。表示“两者都不”用neither。

【中考链接】—How do you keep in touch with Tim,by airmail or by phone?

—____. By sending e-mails. (2007 黑龙江省)

A. Neither B. Either C. Both

【解析】选A。neither 表示“两者都不”；either 表示“（两者）任何一个”；both意为“（两者）都”。

Have you ever been to an aquarium?

【中考链接】 I____to Canada twice. Its so beautiful. (2006 重庆市)

A. wont go B. have gone

C. dont go D. have been

【解析】选D。从第一句中的twice 可以判断，这句话的意思是“我去过加拿大两次”，用现在完成时表示“去过某地”应用have / has been to，故选D。

【中考链接】—Why is your brothers English so good?

—Because he____New York for six years. (2006 福建省福州市)

A. has come to B. has been in

C. has gone to D. has been to

【解析】选B。表示“在某地居住多久”用“have/has been in / at + 地点”，结合本题中... New York for six years（在纽约六年）可知，应为has been in，故选B。

Most of us have probably heard of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and many other famous Disney characters.

【中考链接】—Have you ever____Jin Yong?

—Of course. He is a very famous writer, and he once studied in Quzhou. (2005 衢州市)

A. heard B. hearing

C. heard of D. heard from

【解析】选C。hear of意为“听说”，hear 意为“听到”， hear from 意为“收到……的来信”。

... the best way to do this was to become a flight attendant.

【中考链接】（用所给单词的适当形式填空）

The best way____English is to practice speaking it as much as possible. (learn) (2005 云南省玉溪市)

【解析】填to learn。句意为“学英语最好的办法是尽可能多地练习口语”。

... Ill think about becoming an English teacher rather than a tour guide!

【中考链接】（同义句转换）I prefer walking there to going by bus. (2005 山西省忻州市)

I prefer to walk there____by bus.

【解析】填rather than go。prefer doing A to doing B与prefer to do A rather than do B 均意为“喜欢……而不喜欢……；宁愿……而不愿……”。

... more than three quarters of the population are Chinese.

【中考链接】 Its said that the gravity on Mars is only about____of the gravity on earth. (2006 江苏省苏州市)

A. three-eighths B. third-eighth

C. three-eights D. third-eight

【解析】选A。考查的是分数的表达法。即分子是基数词，分母是序数词，分子大于1时，分母后面要加-s。

【中考链接】The population of Tianjin is____than that of Shanghai. (2005 天津市)

A. larger B. less

C. smaller D. fewer

【解析】选C。population 意为“人口”。修饰“人口”用large和small。“天津的人口比上海的人口少”，故选C。

... you wont have any problem finding rice, noodles, or dumplings.

【中考链接】—Did you have any problems in London?

—Yes,____Chinese food like rice, noodles and dumplings. (2006 江西省)

A. find B. found

C. finding D. to find

【解析】选C。答语是个省略句，完整表述应为Yes, I had problems finding Chinese food like rice, noodles and dumplings.

So you can choose to go whenever you like — spring, summer, autumn, or winter!

【中考链接】Miss Zhao is very helpful. She often helps us____we are in trouble. (2005 辽宁省大连市)

A. whether B. although

C. whenever D. however

【解析】选C。句子意为“赵老师非常乐于助人。无论我们何时有困难，她都经常帮助我们。” 【中考链接】My English used to be very poor.____I wanted to give up, Dad would encourage me to work harder. (2005 福建漳州市)

A. However B. Whatever

C. Whenever D. Wherever

【解析】选C。Whenever意为“无论何时；每当”。