题目内容
—What shall I do with the medicine?
—The instructions _______ that you should take three pills a day
- A.speak
- B.write
- C.say
- D.tell
试题分析:这是一组对话。上文,这种药应该怎么吃啊?下文,说明说你应该一天吃三片。speak用作不及物动词时,侧重于说话的动作本身,而不涉及讲话的内容。从小孩说话到发表演说,都可以用speak这个词。当speak 接表示语言的词语,如:English, Japanese, French等,作及物动词。say侧重所说的内容,它几乎总带有宾语(名词、代词、从句)。故选C。
考点:考查词汇的辨析
点评:词汇是学习语言的重要环节。要掌握好英语,记忆相当数量的词汇是必不可少的。英语中的每一个单词,不仅表达一定的概念,具有一定的词汇意义,而且在语音、拼法、语法等方面都有自己的特点。在学生学习英语的过程中,单词、词组记忆是基础。解答这类题目,关键是理解题干意思以及各选项词组的意思,可以像数学中的代入法一样,依次把各个选项意思放入句子中进行比较,不难选出正确答案。
Last week, I bought an alarm system for about $ 450. It consisted of a control unit with three small units. I put the control unit in the sitting-room and fastened the other units by the front door, back door and living-room windows. The instructions told us to choose three numbers, so we chose 4, 9 and 1, the last three numbers of our telephone number.
Now I must explain how the alarm works:
l There is a power siren(警报器) in the control unit. It makes a very loud noise.
2 Each of the small units sends out beams or rays in different directions. If anything moves, it breaks a beam. This sends a signal to the control unit. The siren makes a noise which you can hear 50 meters away.
3. When we go to bed, I press the three buttons numbered 4, 9 and 1. Then we have 30 seconds to get out of the room before the alarm starts to work.
That night I slept soundly because I was sure that no burglar(夜贼) could get into our house. However, at about 2:10 a. m., I woke up and heard the siren. “There must be a burglar in the house,” Mary said. “What shall we do?”“I’ll go and see who’s there,” I said. “Stay here. Don’t make a noise.”I went downstairs quietly. When I reached the living-room, I switched on my torch and looked round the room. Then I turned the light on. I switched the siren off and searched the rooms downstairs. There was nothing wrong except that the back door was unlocked. I locked it, reset the alarm and went back to bed. About an hour later, the alarm started again. I jumped out of bed, fell over a chair in the dark and bumped into the bedroom door. Mary woke up and started hitting me with a torch. “Hey! Wait a minute!” I whispered. “It’s only me. I’m going downstairs to see what’s wrong.”I went down into the living-room and listened for a moment. The only sound I could hear was the siren. I turned on the light and then switched the siren off. As I did so, I glanced across at the curtains in front of the windows. I saw a house lizard (a kind of small animal) disappear behind the curtains.“Oh!” I said to myself. “That’s our burglar. ”When the lizard moved, it started the siren. I guessed that the alarm had been made in Europe, where there are no house lizards. Well. I won’t finish this story but if you want an alarm system free of charge, let me know. I’ll send you ours. We bought a dog this morning. It knows the difference between a lizard and a burglar.
1.The writer bought an alarm system to ________.
A.make sure that he got up early every day |
B.warn him when there were lizards in his house |
C.frighten burglars and tell him that somebody had got into the house |
D.make Mary feel safe to live in the large room |
2.The purpose of the three units was to________.
A.send a message to the control unit and start the siren |
B.sound their own sirens when the control unit told them so |
C.check that the control unit worked properly all the time |
D.give them enough light |
3.If the writer set the alarm and remained in the room for more than half a minute, _______.
A.nothing would happen |
B.the control unit would not work |
C.the siren would make a noise |
D.the dog would bark |
4.The purpose of the writer in writing the passage is to ________.
A.tell us that the alarm system doesn’t work |
B.tell us an interesting experience |
C.show us how the alarm system works |
D.make it clear that he wants to give away his alarm system |