吴元培
对形容词、副词的考查是高考一项重要考查内容,考查的方向主要体现在以下几个方面:
一、考查形容词、副词的作用与位置
形容词修饰名词,说明事物或人的性质或特征。常放在被修饰的名词前作定语,或放在系动词后作表语,放在宾语之后作宾语补足语。而副词则用来修饰形容词、动词、副词或句子,一般位于形容词之前,动词之后或句子之首。
1.形容词短语作定语,定语后置。
______ to take this adventure course will certainly learn a lot of useful skills.
A.Brave enough studentsB.Enough brave students
C.Students brave enoughD.Students enough brave Key:C
2.表语形容词well,unwell,ill,faint,afraid,alike,alive,alone,asleep,awake等作定语,定语后置;有些表身体健康状况的形容词,如:well,faint,ill只作表语;sick既可作表语又可作定语。
Tom sounds very much ______ in the job,but Im not sure whether he can manage it.
A.interested B.interesting C.interestingly D.interestedly Key:A
3.形容词用作定语,修饰不定代词时,通常后置。
There is something wrong with my computer.
4.else常放在疑问代词和不定代词之后,作后置定语。
I will never know what was on his mind at the time,nor will ______.
A.anyone B.anyone else C.no one D.no one else Key:B
5.enough,nearby修饰名词时前置或后置,enough修饰形容词、副词时,必须后置。
If I had ______,Id visit Europe,stopping at all the small interesting places.
A.a long enough holiday B.an enough long holiday
C.a holiday enough long D.a long holiday enough Key:A
6.几个并列的形容词作定语,其语序通常为:限定语(the,a,an)+所有格名词及其修饰语+序数词+记数词(two,several,other,many)+描绘性形容词+大/小/新/旧+形状+年龄/时间+颜色+国籍/来源+材料+目的+名词。
______ students are required to take part in the boat race.
A.Ten strong young ChineseB.Ten Chinese strong young
C.Chinese ten young strong D.Young strong ten Chinese Key:A
7.形容词用作补足语。
He is very popular among his students as he always tries to make them ______ in his lectures.
A.interested B.interesting C.interest D.to interest Key:A
8.形容词作状语,表示谓语动作发生时,主语所处的状态。
After the long journey,the three of them went back home,______.
A.hungry and tiredly B.hungry and tired
C.hungrily and tiredly D.hungrily and tired Key:B
9.副词用来修饰形容词、动词、副词或句子,一般位于形容词之前,动词之后或句子之首。
Although she did not know Boston well,she made her way ______ to the Home Circle Building.
A.easy enoughB.enough easy
C.easily enoughD.enough easily Key:C
10.副词的排列顺序。
(1)两个同一性质的副词用作状语放在一起,小单位放在前面,大单位放在后面。
My uncle lives ______ 103 Chaoyang Street in Beijing.His flat is ______ the tenth floor.
A.of;to B.on;at C.in;on D.at;on Key:D
(2)地点副词作状语一般放在前面,时间副词作状语放在后面。
Lincoln was shot at a theatre in Washington D.C on April 14th,1865.
二、考查对形容词、副词词义的理解与辨析
1.close与closely。
close意思是“近”;closely意思是“仔细地”。
It was raining heavily.Little Mary felt cold,so she stood ______ to her mother.
A.close B.closely C.closed D.closing Key:A
Watch him closely.
2.almost与nearly。
两者都可以修饰all,every,always等词,都可以用于否定句;但在very,pretty,not后用nearly,不用almost;在any,no,none,never前用almost,不用nearly。
I almost never see her.
not nearly意思是“远非”。
Im not nearly ready.
3.late与lately。
late意为“晚、迟到”;lately 意思是“最近”。
You have come too late.
What have you been doing lately?
4.deep与deeply。
deep意思是“深”,表示空间深度;deeply时常表示感情上的深度,意思是“深深地”。
He pushed the stick deep into the mud.
Even my father was deeply moved by the film.
5.high与highly。
high表示空间高度;highly表示程度,相当于much。
The kite is flying high.
I think highly of her opinion.
6.wide与widely。
wide表示空间宽度;widely意思是“广泛地”、“在许多地方”。
He opened the door wide.
English is widely used in the world.
7.free与freely。
free的意思是“免费”;freely 的意思是“无限制地”。
You can eat free in my restaurant whenever you like.
You may speak freely,say what you like.
三、形容词和副词的比较等级
1.原级的用法。
表示双方在程度、性质、特征等某方面相等时,用“as+形容词/副词原级+as”的结构;表示双方不相等时,用“not so(as)+形容词/副词原级+as”的结构;表示一方是另一方的若干倍时,用“倍数+as+形容词/副词原级+as”的结构。
He speaks English well indeed,but of course not ______ a native speaker.
A.as fluent asB.more fluent than
C.so fluently asD.much fluently than Key:C
2.比较级的用法。
(1)表示一方超过另一方时,用“比较级+than”的结构表示。
The number of people present at the concert was ______ than expected.There were many tickets left.
A.much smallerB.much moreC.much largerD.many more Key:A
(2)表示一方不及另一方时,用“less+原级+than”的结构表示。
Mary is less charming than Catherine.
(3)表示一方在程度或数量上超过另一方时,可在比较级前加程度副词even,a lot,a bit,a little,still,much,far,yet,by far等来修饰。
Youre driving too fast.Can you drive ______?
A.more slowly a bit B.slowly a bit more
C.a bit more slowly D.slowly more a bit Key:C
She is taller by far than her sister.
She is by far the taller of the two sisters.
(4)用“the+比较级+句子其他成分,the+比较级+句子其他成分”表示“越……越…… ”。
In recent years travel companies have succeeded in selling us the idea that the further we go,______.
A.our holiday will be better
B.our holiday will be the better
C.the better our holiday will be
D.the better will our holiday be Key:C
(5)用“比较级+and+比较级”的结构,表示自身程度的改变。
The weather is getting colder and colder.
The girl becomes more and more beautiful.
(6)某些以-ior结尾的形容词如:inferior(劣等的,次的),superior(较好的,优于……),junior(地位较低的、资历较浅的、较年幼的),senior(年长的、资格较老的、地位较高的、高级的)等进行比较时,连接词用to而不用than。
Mary is superior to Tom in physics.
(7)在比较从句中为了避免重复,我们通常用that(those)、one(ones)代替前面出现的名词。that指物,one既可指人又可指物。that可代替可数名词单数和不可数名词,而one只能代替可数名词。
The information on the Internet gets around much more rapidly than ______ in the newspaper.
A.itB.thoseC.oneD.that Key:D
句中information是不可数名词,用that 指代前面的information,以避免重复,故选D。
(8)倍数表达法。
a.主语+谓语+倍数+形容词或副词的比较级+than+比较对象
The car runs twenty percent faster than the motor.
b.主语+谓语+形容词或副词比较级+than+比较对象+by+倍数
Line AB is longer than Line CD by twice.
c.主语+谓语+倍数+as+形容词或副词原级+as+比较对象
Ten years ago the population of our village was ______ that of theirs.
A.as twice large as B.twice as large as
C.twice as much as D.as twice much as Key:B
d.主语+谓语+倍数+the+度量名词+of+比较对象
A rough estimate,Nigeria is ______ Great Britain.
A.three times the size as B.the size three times of
C.three times as the size ofD.three times the size of Key:D
3.最高级的用法。
(1)三者或三者以上相比,表示最高程度时,用“the+形容词或副词最高级”的结构表示。这种句式一般常有表示比较范围的介词短语。
Tom is the tallest of the three.
He works (the) hardest in his class.
(2)最高级可被序数词及much,by far,nearly,almost,by no means,not quite,not really,nothing like等词语所修饰。
This hat is by far/much/nearly/almost/not nearly/by no means/not quite/nothing like the biggest.
(3)favourite,excellent,extreme,perfect等表示“最高程度”的形容词,本身就表示最高级,不能用比较级。
Whats your favourite sport?
(4)形容词最高级修饰作表语或介词宾语的名词、代词时,被修饰的词往往省略。
He is the tallest (boy) in his class.
(5)作状语的副词最高级前可以不加定冠词。
Of all the boys he always leaves (the) latest.
(6)形容词和副词前面使用冠词的情况。
a.形容词最高级前一般要加定冠词,副词最高级前可加也可不加。
b.a most=very,表示“非常”。
This is a most interesting book.
c.如果是两个比较明确的比较对象,比较级前加the。
Of the two sisters,Betty is ______ one,and she is also the one who loves to be quiet.
A.a youngerB.a youngestC.the youngerD.the youngest Key:C
d.在same前一般要加the。
There at the door stood a girl about the same height as mine.
e.某些形容词与定冠词连用,可以泛指一类人或物。如:the dead,the living,the rich,the poor,the blind,the English,the Chinese。
The poor are losing hope.
The English have wonderful sense of humor.
(7)由as/so组成的形容词或副词短语。
a.as much as+不可数名词
I like this jacket better than that one,but it costs almost three times ______.
A.as much B.as many C.so much D.so many Key:A
b.as many as+可数名词
I have as many as sixteen reference books.
c.as early as早在
As early as the twelfth century the English began to invade the island.
d.as far as远到;就……,据……
We might go as far as the church and back.
As far as I know,he has been there before.
e.may (might)as well 意为“最好,还是……好……”
You may as well value what you have.
四、注意下列词语的用法
1.very和much的区别。
(1)可分等级的形容词和副词前使用very不用much。
(2)表示状态的过去分词前用very。如:a very frightened boy,a very tired child,a very complicated problem,一般情况下,以-ing,-ed结尾的分词多用much,very much,greatly等修饰。
We were greatly shocked by the news about Tom.
I was much amused by Jacks attitude.
(3)已转化为形容词的现在分词前用very。如:very interesting/worrying/exciting。
(4)too前用much或far,不用very。
You are much/far/a lot too nice.
另外,在too many/much,too few/little前用far。
Theres far too little opportunity for adventure these days.
Weve got far too many eggs and far too few egg cups.
2.关于原级形容词要记住下列固定的修饰结构。
(1)修饰绝对意义的形容词,一般不用very,而用quite,completely,well,entirely。如:quite wrong(mistaken,sure),completely dead,quite impossible,quite perfect等。
(2)修饰以a-开头的形容词,多用特殊的修饰词:quite alone,very much alone,wide awake,fast asleep,very much afraid。
(3)修饰一些特殊形容词的修饰语有:be well worth,much the same,freezing cold,quite different,terribly cold/frightening,wide open。