考点三 形容词和副词
限时25分钟 一、单句语法填空
1.I think playing games every evening is a waste of time—there are more ________ (mean) things to do.
答案:meaningful 句意:我认为每天晚上玩游戏是在浪费时间——还有很多有意义的事情要做。此处应用形容词修饰名词things。意为 “有意义的”, 故填meaningful。
2.At first Robert wouldn't let his daughter go diving, but ________ (eventual) he gave in as she was so confident about her skills.
答案:eventually 句意:起初,罗伯特不愿让他女儿去潜水,但最终他让步了,因为她对她的技能是如此有把握。修饰整个句子使用副词,作状语。
3.John has three sisters. Mary is the ________ (clever) of the three. 答案:most clever/cleverest 设空后的of the three表示三者,因此暗示要用形容词最高级。
4.Don't defend him any more. It's obvious that he ________ (deliberate) destroyed the fence of the garden.
答案:deliberately 句意:不要再为他辩解了,很明显他是故意弄坏花园的栅栏的。分析句子结构及句意可知,此处应用 deliberate的副词形式修饰动词destroyed,意为“故意地”,故填deliberately。
5.The Forbidden City attracts a constant stream of visitors every day, ________ (especial) during national holidays.
答案:especially 句意:每天都有源源不断的游客来参观故宫,尤其是在国家法定假日。根据句意可知,此处应用副词作状语修饰 “during national holidays”。
6.What was so ________ (impression) about Jasmine Westland's victory was that she came first in the Marathon bare-footed.
答案:impressive 句意:关于Jasmine Westland的胜利令人印象深刻的是她在马拉松比赛中赤脚,并且得了第一名。此处应用形容词作表语。故填impressive。
7.Nowadays teenagers are not ________ (satisfy) with appreciation of art works; they prefer to participate in them.
答案:satisfied 句意:现在的青少年并不满足于只是欣赏艺术作品,他们更加喜欢参与到其中。be satisfied with为固定词组,意为“对……感到满意”。
8.John was so sleepy that he could hardly keep his eyes ________ (opening).
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答案:open 当open作宾语补足语时,一般用它的形容词,不用它的现在分词。比如:with his eyes open。
9.The pianos in the other shop will be ________ (cheap), but not as good. 答案:cheaper 根据句意,两个商店之间的比较,应填入比较级形式。该句可理解为:The pianos in the other shop will be cheaper, but not as good as those in this shop.
10.Everything seemed to be going ________ (smooth) for the first two days after I arrived in New York.
答案:smoothly 句意:在我到达纽约的前两天,所有事情似乎都进展得很顺利。go是一个实义动词,修饰动词,使用副词作状语。
11.If we had followed his plan, we could have done the job better with ________ (little) money and fewer people.
答案:less better和fewer暗示应用比较级形式,根据句意应填入less,修饰不可数名词money。
12.It is ________ (possible) for so few workers to do so much work in a single day.
答案:impossible 句意:这么少的工人在一天内做这么多的工作是不可能的。由句意可知,此处需填impossible “不可能的”。
13.Listening is thus an ________ (act), not a passive behavior, consisting of hearing, understanding and remembering.
答案:active 句意:听是一种主动的,而不是被动的行为,它包含了听、理解和记忆。根据后面的“not a passive”可知,此处与passive并列作定语,修饰后面的behavior,故使用形容词形式active。
14.The students are ________ (most) young people between the age of sixteen and twenty.
答案:mostly 根据语境和后面的“young”可知,使用副词mostly,意思是“主要地”,修饰谓语动词。
15.The new bridge is three times as ________ (width) as the one built last year. 答案:wide 句意: 这座新桥是去年建的那座桥的三倍宽。表示 “某物是某物的几倍(宽、长、大……)” 应用“Sth. be+倍数+as+形容词原级+as sth.”的结构。故填wide。
16.She said she had never gone abroad, but ________ (actual) she had ever been to three countries at least.
答案:actually 句意:她说她从未出过国,但实际上她至少去过三个国家。由句意可知,此处需用副词actually “实际上”,修饰整个句子。
17.What followed was a ________ (touch) scene.
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答案:touching 句意:随后发生的是感人的一幕。这里要用-ing形式的形容词, touching “感人的,动人的”。
18.—How was your job interview?
—Oh, I couldn't feel ________ (bad). I hardly found proper answers to most of the questions they asked.
答案:worse 根据答语的第二句可推知,回答者感觉再糟糕不过了,“can't/couldn't+比较级”表示“再……不过了”,所以答案为worse。
19.Our notes are much ________ (thin) than the books so we can learn them more easily and can often review them.
答案:thinner 句意:我们的笔记和书相比薄多了,所以学习起来相对比较容易,而且我们可以经常温习笔记。由空格后的than可知,此处应用形容词比较级,much修饰比较级。thin的比较级形式需要双写字母n再加-er。
20.It is reported that global warming is heating the planet twice as quickly as ________ (previous) feared.
答案:previously 句意:据报道,全球变暖正以两倍于先前所担心的速度加热着地球。previously “早先,以前”,相当于before “以前”,符合句意。
21.If you decide to do your own make-up, here are a few ________ (value) tips that will help you look your best.
答案:valuable 句意:如果你决定自己化妆,这里有一些有用的小窍门,可以帮助你呈现最美的一面。valuable “有用的;有价值的”,修饰tips。
22.It was one of the largest and ________ (fine) ships at that time. 答案:finest 句意:它是当时最大最好的船只之一。由句意及and前面的largest一词可知此处应填形容词的最高级形式。
23.Seeing a dog suddenly appearing on the road, the driver turned the steering wheel ________ (sharp) to avoid hitting it.
答案:sharply 句意:看到一条狗突然出现在路上,司机迅速转动方向盘,以免撞上它。此处用副词sharply “迅速地,突然地”,修饰谓语动词turned。
24.Alex has been in China for quite a few years. ________ (consequent), he speaks fluent Chinese.
答案:Consequently 句意:亚历克斯已经在中国待了好多年了,因此,他说一口流利的汉语。consequently “因此,所以”,符合句意。
25.The lion attacked a goat and soon the goat fell to the ground, ________ (die). 答案:dead 句意:狮子袭击了一只山羊,很快这只山羊倒地不起,死了。此处指状态,故用形容词dead作伴随状语。
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26.Australia is the ________ (large) island country in the world, which is in the south of the earth.
答案:largest 句意:澳大利亚是世界上最大的岛国,位于地球的南部。根据后面给出的范围in the world可知,这里应用形容词的最高级形式。
27.Many people have donated that type of blood; however, the blood bank needs ________ (much).
答案:more 根据句意可以判断,此处表示血库需要更多该种类型的血。故填more。 28.The manager has a strong preference for a job interview, for it evaluates a candidate more ________ (thorough).
答案:thoroughly 句意:经理对面试工作有强烈的偏好,因为这能够更全面地评估一个应试者。thoroughly “彻底地,全面地”,修饰谓语动词evaluates。
29.We could see very clearly a strange light ahead of us, which made us even more ________ (frighten).
答案:frightened 句意:我们可以很清楚地看到在前方出现了一道奇异的光芒,这使得我们更加害怕。由句意可知此处应填形容词frightened,修饰人。
30.The farmers' living conditions have improved ________ (significance) ever since the policy of supporting agriculture was introduced.
答案:significantly 句意:自支持农业的政策实施以来,农民的生活条件显著提高了。该空需要用副词修饰动词improved,故填significantly “显著地,重大地”。
二、单句改错
1.In college, it is going to be different from high school and I'll have to make an entire new group of friends.
________________________________________________________________________ 答案:entire→entirely 此处entire并不是修饰名词group,而是修饰形容词new,故将 entire改为entirely。
2.It was original 600 dollars, but I got a 10 percent discount. ________________________________________________________________________ 答案:original→originally 此处应用originally,作状语,意为“起初”。 3.After waiting for about half an hour, I began to get impatiently. ________________________________________________________________________ 答案:impatiently→impatient 此处get在句中意为“变得”,为系动词,故其后应用形容词作表语。
4.Giving help to the people who need it really counts in making us happily. ________________________________________________________________________
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答案:happily→happy 此处使役动词make后应用形容词作宾补。
5.The man's body was pinned under the second car after it came to a suddenly stop.
________________________________________________________________________ 答案:suddenly→sudden 句中stop用作名词,意为“停止”,修饰名词应用形容词。 6.It seems that if the result is bad, what people work for will be meaningless. Personally speaking, the process of fighting for a goal is less important than the result.
________________________________________________________________________ 答案:less→more 根据语境可知,表示过程比结果更加重要,因此将less改为more。 7.She found someone was following her, so she felt very frightening. ________________________________________________________________________ 答案:frightening→frightened 句意: 她发现有人跟着她,因此她感到非常恐惧。描述人的心理感受,应该使用-ed结尾的形容词。
8.As a result, people in the modern world generally live much more longer than people in the past.
________________________________________________________________________ 答案:去掉more much用于修饰比较级,表示程度,而more用于构成比较级。此处longer本身已是比较级的形式,所以不需要加more。
9.I used to watch TV a lot in my spare time, but now I am interesting in football to build up my body.
________________________________________________________________________ 答案:interesting→interested be interested in ... “对……感兴趣”,为固定搭配。
10.David sings better than me, but he doesn't sing as good as my brother. ________________________________________________________________________ 答案:good→well 句意:戴维唱歌比我好,但他不如我兄弟唱得好。此处修饰动词sing,因此应用good的副词形式well。
11.We decided to stay at home instead of climbing the mountains because it was raining hardly.
________________________________________________________________________ 答案:hardly→hard hardly为否定副词,意思是“几乎不”。此处指雨下得大,因此应用副词hard,也可用heavily。
12.He is a hard-working boy and often comes to class early and leaves lately.
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