题目内容
【题目】六、完成句子
【1】It is bad for health to __________(熬夜).
【2】Mr. Pan’s daughter _______(参加...的海选)the Voice of China and she _______(处于领先地位)in the preliminary contest last week.
【3】Scientists say that many cancers ____(与...有关)pollution, so we must take action to protect the environment.
【4】There is ___________(特价优惠)on many school things in RT Supermarket.
【5】Playing football for a Spanish team ________(标志着…的开始) WuLei’s successful career.
【答案】
【1】stay up late
【2】 tried out for took the lead
【3】have something to do with
【4】a special offer
【5】marks/ marked the beginning of
【解析】
【1】句意:熬夜对健康有害。熬夜stay up late。
【2】句意:潘先生的女儿参加了中国好声音的海选,上周在预赛中处于领先地位。根据last week,可知用一般过去时,故填(1). tried out for;(2). took the lead。
【3】句意:科学家说许多癌症和污染有关,所以我们必须采取行动保护环境。和…有关have something to do with,many cancers为复数名词,谓语动词用原形,故填have something to do with。
【4】句意:大润发超市在学校用品上有特价优惠。特价优惠a special offer。
【5】句意:为西班牙队踢足球标志着武磊成功事业的开始。标志着…的开始mark the beginning of,因为是过去开始为西班牙队踢足球,故用过去式,故填marked the beginning of。
本题首先要粗读每个句子,看每个句子是什么意思。然后看所要填写的内容在句子中做什么成分,需要什么词性;按照所给出的单词提示,结合相关的语法知识对单词或短语做出形式上的变化。例如第5小题,根据文章暗含的意义,判断其发生在过去,故填一般过去时。
【题目】 You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem, but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary. In those days people spelt words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn't made until the time of the Qing Dynasty.
The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.
Murray had not been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one metre underground. In winter he had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and worked several hours before breakfast. Often he would work by candle light into the evening.
Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A! Then others went to work with Murray, and his two daughters were among them. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished it. It had more than 15,000 words in twelve books. And you thought your English dictionary was big!
Notes on James Murray's life | |
Murray's early life | Born in Scotland. He left school at 14 and became a bank worker, later a great teacher. |
Murray's work on OED | He became the editor of OED in the year 1879. His working 【1】 were bad: —he worked in a part-underground place in the garden behind his house —in winter it was terribly cold there —he often worked by candle light into the evening The time he spent on OED was much 【2】 than expected. Later others and his two daughters 【3】 him. |
Other information . | OED was finished in the year 1928. It had over 15,000【4】in twelve books. It is the largest dictionary in the world. Thanks to it, people can 【5】in the same way. For Murray, working on a dictionary wasn't only a task, but it was a wonderful journey. |