题目内容
Seeing the ______ dead cat, she was completely ______ and couldn’t say a word.
- A.terrifying; terrified
- B.terrified; terrified
- C.terrifying; terrifying
- D.terrified; terrifying
试题分析:考察形容词用法。现在分词转换的形容词Terrifying令人害怕的,通常修饰表示事物的名词;过去分词转换的形容词terrified感到害怕的,通常修饰人或者与人有关的事物;句意:看到这个令人害怕的死猫,她感到很害怕,一句话都说不出来。故A正确。
考点:考察形容词用法
点评:由分词转换成的形容词用法是形容词考查较多的内容。由过去分词转换的形容词常常用来修饰人或者与人有关的事物,如look, appearance等;由现在分词转换的形容词常常用来修饰事物。这样的形容词经常在句中做表语或者定语修饰名词,也可以在句中构成形容词短语对主句的情况进行说明。
Scientists say they now have proof to support the old-fashioned advice that it’s best to sleep on a problem.They say sleep strengthens the memory and helps the brain organize the masses of information we receive each day.
The lead researcher Bob Stickgold at the Harvard Medical School said, “Sleep helps us draw rules from our experiences.It’s like
knowing the difference between dogs and cats even if it’s hard to explain.”
The US research team studied how w
ell students remembered connections between words and symbols, reports New Scientist.They compared how the students performed if they had had a sleep between seeing the words and having the test, and if they had not slept.They found that people were better able to remember lists of related words after a night’s sleep than after the same time spent awake during the day.They also found it easier to remember themes that the words had in common.But they forgot around one in four more themes if they had been awake.
Prof.John Groeger, of Survey University’s Sleep Research Centre, said, “People have been trying for years to find out what the purpose of sleep is, as we know that only certain parts of it have a restorative (促使康复的)value.”
“We form and store huge numbers of experiences in the head every day, and sleep seems to be the way the brain deals with them all.”
【小题1】The phrase “to sleep on a problem” in Paragraph 1 most likely means “________”.
| A.to pay full attention to a problem |
| B.to wait until the next day for a decision |
| C.to sleep to forget a problem |
| D.to have difficulty in sleeping |
| A.put together words of similar meanings |
| B.remember words and their meanings |
| C.show their knowledge of words |
| D.make up lists of related words |
| A.Themes learned right before the test. |
| B.Rules from personal experiences. |
| C.Words learned before a good sleep. |
| D.Ideas stored together in the brain. |
| A.It shows that sleep may help us manage information. |
| B.It helps find out the common themes of words. |
| C.It tells us that more sleep can improve health. |
| D.It proves the value of old-fashioned advice. |