1．prefer的用法小结：

　 (1)prefer常与介词to连用，意思是“更喜欢；宁愿”，表示取前者舍后者。例如：

Little Tom prefers coffee to tea. 小汤姆喜欢咖啡胜过茶。

He preferred swimming to skating. 他喜欢游泳胜过滑冰。

　 (2)prefer后面接不定式时常与rather than 或者instead of连用，意思是“宁愿做某事而不做某事”，rather than后面的不定式可以加to，也可以省略。例如：

He preferred to die rather than (to) steal. 或者 He preferred to die instead of stealing.

他宁愿死也不愿意去偷窃。

I prefer to work rather than (to) sit idle. 我宁愿工作而不喜欢闲坐。

4．What would be the best title for the passage?

　　　　　 A．Comfortable Touch　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．Smile　　

　　　　　 C．Wonders of Touch　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．Keep in Touch

3．The underlined word "benefits” in the second paragraph probably means"_____”.

　　　　　 A．becomes useful or helpful 　　　　　　　　　　　 B．gets something useful or helpful　

　　　　　 C．falls ill　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．gets hurt

2．According to the passage, _________.

　　　　　 A．human brains need oxygen and blood supply now and then

　　　　　 B．touches from doctors and nurses have nothing to do with treatment

　　　　　 C．new-born baby monkeys should stay away from their mothers　

　　　　　 D．not all people like being touched

1．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

　　　　　 A．Everyone knows that body contact can make people happier.

　　　　　 B．People may work harder because of body contact.

　　　　　 C．Your fingertips can do something wonderful.

　　　　　 D．People may not understand the importance of touching.

10．--Can you tell me where he once lived?

--Oh, it’s the very house __________ you have just visited.

A．what　 　　　　　　　　　 B．that　 　　　　　　　　　 C．where　 　　　　　　　 D．in which

[能力拓展]

You might not know it, but there is something wonderful at your fingertips. You can make people happier, healthier and more hard-working just by touching their arms or holding their hands.

Doctors say that body touch is a kind of medicine that can work wonders. When people are touched, the quantity of hemoglobin--a type of matter that produces the red color in blood--increases greatly. This results in more oxygen reaching every part of the body and the whole body benefits. In experiments, bottle-fed baby monkeys were separated from their mothers for the first ten days of life. They became sad and inactive. Studies showed the monkeys were more probable to become ill than other babies that were allowed to stay with their mothers.

Human babies react in much the same way. Some years ago, a scientist noticed that some well-fed babies in a clean nursery became weak. Yet babies in another nursery were growing healthily, even though they ate less well and were not kept as clean. The reason, he concluded, was that they often had touches from nurses.

Experiments show that most people like being touched. And nearly all doctors believe touch helps to reduce patients’ fear of treatment. Of course there is time when a touch is not welcome. But even if we don't like being touched, a smile can make us feel better. Smiling increases blood flow and starts the production of "happy brain" chemicals.

So let's have a big smile and don't forget to keep "in touch".

9．The wrong you’ve done him is terrible, ________ you should make an apology to him, I think.

　 　 A． to which　 　　　　 B．for which　 　　　　 C．to what　 　　　　　　 D．for that

8．Recently I bought an ancient Chinese vase, _________ was very reasonable. (2000年上海，28)

　 A．which price　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．the price of which　

　 C．its price　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．the price of whose

7．It was an exciting moment for these football fans this year, ________ for the first time in years their team won the World Cup.　 (NMET2000, 春季北京)

　 　 A．that　 　　　　　　　　　 B．while　 　　　　　　　　 C．which　 　　　　　　　　 D．when

6．The journey around the world took the old sailor nine months, _________ the sailing time was 226 days. (NMET 全国卷I，28)

　 　 A．of which　 　　　　　　 B．during which　 　 C．from which　 　　　 D． for which