大学英语四级考前恶补--语法词汇(142页).txt

大学英语四级考前恶补--语法词汇
Test One
集体名词做主语主谓一致
通常作复数的集体名词
集体名词,如:police, people,cattle,militia,poultry等,
通常作复数,用复数动词。如:
Domestic cattle provide us with milk, beef and hides.
通常作不可数名词的集体名词
有些集体名词,如foliage,machinery,equipment,furniture,merchandise,通常作不可数名词,随后的动词用单数。例如:All the machinery in the factory is made in China.
既可作单数也可作复数的集体名词
集体名词,如audience, committee, class, crew, family, public, government等,既可作单数,也可作复数用。
The city council is meeting to set its agenda.
mittee, etc. of +复数名词
如果主语是由“mittee of /a panel of /a board of +复数名词”构成,随后的动词通常用单数。例如:
mittee of five men and three women is to consider the matter.
近义词辨析
tired, exhausted, fatigued, weary, wornout
这组词均含有“疲惫的”的意思。
tired可指因体力或脑力消耗太多而需要休息,还可指因长期做某事而失去兴趣。
Henry was so tired that he went to bed immediately after he got ,一到家就上床睡觉去了。
Exhausted
表达的疲惫程度最强,指因劳累过度而精疲力竭。
The exhausted engineer fell asleep on the 。
Fatigued
所表达的疲劳程度比tired和weary强,表示由于过度劳累而引起疲乏,不能再继续下去。
He felt fatigued and didn’t want to say a single ,不想说一句话。
weary
语气比tired强,指由于长时间努力工作或由于做单一的事而引起疲倦。
After a long and weary wait, the plane finally came to take them ,飞机终于来接他们回去了。
wornout
这个词不太正式,多用于口语。
The troops were wornout after winning the ,部队疲惫不堪。
全真模拟试题
Although ______ Spanish, he attended the course.
he was knowing B. he is knowing
C. having a knowledge of D. knows
2. You ______that letter to James. However, you didn’t.
ought to write B. ought to have written
C. should write D. should be writing
3. Joseph was very lucky ______ with his life; he almost did not get out of the room.
to escape B. to have escaped
C. to escaping D. to be escaping
4. Bread and butter ______liked by Westerners.
is B. are C. were D. be
5. The back garden of our house contains a lawn, ______
very pleasant to sit on in summer.
which is B. which it is C. it is D. where it is
6. He set up in business ______ his own and was very essful