反意问句 tag question
• 1. There is a pen on the desk, isn’t there?
• 2. Somebody borrowed my raincoat
• yesterday, didn’t they?
• Everyone knows his job, doesn’t he?
• 3. That is your bike, isn’t it?
• Those are wonderful, aren’t they?
•
• 4. I expect you will have a good time there,
•
won’t you?
• 5. I don’t think that you can do these
•
exercises alone, can you?
• 6. Let’s go for a walk, shall we?
•
Let us go home, will you?
•
Let me have a look at the project, will you?
• 7. One can’t be too careful, can one / he?
• 8. Somebody open this door, will you? /
• will they?
• 9. Post this letter for me, can you?
• 10. Be sure to write to us, will you?
• 11. They went with you, didn’t they?
• 特殊情况:
• 1) They used to write to you, didn’t they?
• There used to be a cinema here, use(d)n’t
• there?
特殊情况:
• 2) I’m doing well, aren’t I?
• 3) Don’t make noise, will you? / can you?
• 4) We ought to go now, shouldn’t we? /
•
oughtn’t we?
• 5) (A) must 做 “必须” 解时:
•
He must keep his word, mustn’t he?
•
They must clean the floor after school,
•
needn’t they?
•
特殊情况:第 5)点
• (B) must not 做 “禁止”解时
•
They mustn’t take the book out of the
•
reading room, may they?
• (C) must 做 “一定”, “准是”解时
•
* They must be playing football, aren’t
•
they?
接前C)
• * You must have misheard, haven’t you?
• * It must have rained last night, didn’t it?
• 特殊情况
• 6) I wish to have a rest now, may I?
• 7) I don’t imagine that he cares, does he?
•
I don’t think that she knows French, does
•
she?
12. 否定转移句的 tag question:
• * I don’t suppose that he is serious, is he?
• * I don’t suppose that you are serious, are
• you?
• 13. 含半否定副词的陈述句如 (hardly,
•
scarcely, seldom, rarely, little, few, etc.)
• He scarcely knew a word of English, did he?
14. 当 have 做成 “有”解时:
• * He has scarcely time, has he?
• * your father has a bad back, hasn’t /
• doesn’t he?
• 15. 含否定前缀句子, 用在tag question 时, 仍被
•
看作肯定句:
•
That is impossible, isn’t it?
完形填空 （2）
• 名词和所有格
• 英语名词可数与否不可凭汉语随意推测。有些
名词只有单数形式即不可数名词（包括几乎所
有物质名词和部分抽象名词）作单数使用。
• 常见的不可数名词：
• Advice, assistance, accommodation, baggage,
breed, business, cash, clothing, co-operation, dirt,
damage, destiny, education, entertainment,
equipment, evidence, fever, food, fun, furniture,
Gold, grass, homework, housework, ice, information,
knowledge, land, laughter, lightning,
• Luggage, mail, meat, money, music,
nonsense, passion, personnel, progress,
protection, research, rice, rubbish, scenery,
significance, sugar, traffic, trash, tuition,
wealth, weather, etc.
• 有些名词单复数同形，如：
• Aircraft, Chinese, deer, fish, Japanese,
offspring, sheep, shark, etc.
Examples: I’m a Chinese.
As Chinese we of course are for Chinese.
• Fish are the main course at the family dinner.
• 有些名词形式上是复数，实际上是单数，相关
的动、代词也为单数：
• Crops, means, news, series, species, etc.
• 有些名词只以复数形式出现，与其配用的动、
代词也为复数：
• Jeans, (eye)glasses, pants, scissors, shorts,
trousers,belongings, clothes, customs, goods,
manners, morals, remains, savings, surroundings,
thanks, outskirts, valuables, wages, etc.
名词所有格的形式：
• 有生命的：Kennedy’s murder,
• 表示某些时间与距离的关系：
Three minutes’ walking
• 无生命的：a concise dictionary of
•
synonyms
• 所有格名词后的人或事物分属不同的人，
用多个所有格符号：
• Both Liu’s and Li’s bikes are missing .
同属多人，用一个所有格符号：
I’m Jone and Julia’s friend.
• 所有格后的名词是广为知晓的建筑、商
店等，该名词可省略：
• St. Peter’s ( Cathedral)
• MacDonald’s ( snack)
• 还有一些所有格的固定用法：
• A night’s absence
• Art for art’s sake
At one’s wit’s end
for heaven’s sake
in my mind’s sake
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Ten dollars’ worth
The earth’s surface / the sea’s depth
不定代词；
Each 代替两个或两个以上中的一个:
Each of the twins was awarded a toy panda.
Every 代替三个或三个以上中的一个:
Every nation enjoys the same right to choose its
own social system
不定代词All 与 形容词 whole的区别
• All 代表每一各别的人、事、物，可做单数也
可做复数。
• Whole 代表各别人、事、物的整体或全体， 作
单数。
• *All the staff members have collected the
• money for their boss’s birthday present.
• * The whole staff has collected the money
• for their boss’s birthday present.
More Examples:
• All the fingers have become infected. / the whole
hand has become infected.
• All chapters are well-written. / the whole book is
well-written.
• 不定代词有若干习惯用法，表示特定含意：
• Nothing but 只不过、只有
• Anything but 根本不、除了……以外都行
Something of 略有、尚能、还行
no/none other than 就/正是，不是别的
•
•
•
•
•
•
Other than 除了 以外、与 不同
Each other 彼此（两人之间）
One another 彼此（多人之间）
All ears / eyes 全神贯注地听、看
I’m nothing but a social zero.
Nothing but repeated communication can help you
master English.
• Anything but alcohol will do.
Susan is anything but thoughtful
He has seen something of life.
• Cf: Johnson is something of a professor.
•
Johnson is not much of a professor =
•
Johnson is no professor.
• The country I’m visiting is no other than
your dream land.
• There was nothing to do other than (to) wait
and hope.
The outcome is quite other than what I’ve
expected
• Since graduation our class have lost contacts with
one another.
• She stared at the home video scenes, all eyes and
all ears.
• 使用形容词的一些特殊用法：
• Alike, alive, alone, asleep, ill, etc.只能作表语，
不能作定语。不能说an ill person
Round, circular, oval, square, pointed, perfect,
complete, super 等词没有比较级或最高级形式。
• 主谓语一致（复习）
• 某两个名词作为一个整体对待，由 and 连接，
动词用单数。如：
• Bread and butter, confidence and trust, law and
order, time and tide, etc.
• A series of…, a kind of…, a portion of …等短语
做主语，动词用单数。
• A number of…, a variety of… 等短语做主语，动
词用复数。
考点紧紧围绕语篇
We also expect each place to be appropriate
to its use. You would be ____ if the inside
of your bedroom were suddenly changed to
look like the inside of a restaurant.
A) amused
B) interested
C) frightened
D) shocked
考点主要为语法
• The word used by the speaker may stir up
unfavorable reactions in the listener ____
interfere with his comprehension; hence, the
transmission-reception system breaks down.
• A) who
B) as C) what D) which
考点主要为词汇（如辨词能力）
• But they insisted that its _____ results
during the period from 1750 to 1850 were
widespread poverty and misery for the
majority of the English population.
• A) momentary
B) prompt
• C) instant
D) immediate
注意事项
•
•
•
•
•
1不能以点带面
2不能思维定势
3要触类旁通
4不能词语乱配
5不能忽略文章整体性
1不能以点带面
• 如：不能看到 attention 就想到 pay ，其
实还可以用deserve, claim, attract, draw,
concentrate 等构成动宾结构.
• 又如；不能由attention 就联想到 to ，还
可以用 on, of, from 等与此搭配
2不能思维定势
• 考生须审时度势，要有语感，不能东拚西凑:
• 如：capital letter, shade tree, heavy rain, 和
severe exercise program 分别表示 “大写、大树、
大雨、大运动量”。
• 又如：thick weather, thick air, thick head, thick
forest和thick voice 分别表示阴霾的天气、闭塞
的空气、愚昧的脑袋、茂密的森林及沙哑的声
音.
• 要掌握词义的引申与扩大
3要触类旁通
• 如前缀 anti- 主要有两个含义：
• 1）属于由反物质构成的假设世界的，如 antineutron 反中子
• 2）反传/正统. 如 anti-art 非正统艺术
• E.g: “In my happier nightmares,” he adds, “I see
myself attending an anti-play with an antiaudience after a dinner prepared by an anti-cook..
• …”吃了一顿由非传统派厨师做的晚餐；看非
传统派戏剧；…
增强词组意识，提高胜算
• With all the shortage of funds they had not
had the least intention of giving up their
research.简单的一句话，可以有四个考点：
• Have an intention of,
• No / least intention of
• Give up
• With … give up
熟记常用连词，有备无患
• 连词用途广泛，可以是句内，也可以是句间，
甚至是段落间。
• 如 with persistence, your self-talk can modify
your thoughts and so help control reactions to
stress. 句中. And so 表示 “从而有助于……” 是
一种逻辑关系。
• 又如：The ship failed to avoid the iceberg and
sank to the bottom of the ocean at its first voyage.
句中. And 表示 “于是沉入海底”，是一种递
进关系。
考点分类回顾
• 词组：
• By 1990, even after 20 years of remarkable
growth, US companies ____ only 33% of the
world’s total stock market capitalization.
• A) compensate for B) accounted for
• C) grope for
D) stand for
• Account for 表示“占有”
词组
• From the company’s viewpoint, trying to keep
customers _____ is done in three steps.
• A) for life
B) for long
• C) for the better
D) for the moment
• For life 表示“终生”
• For long 则用于否定句较多:
• E.g. He hasn’t been gone for long.
• 他走了还不多久
搭配与句间关系
• He spoke so convincingly that even his opponents
were ____ over by his arguments.
• A) won B) got C) come D) run
• Win over 表示“说服、把……争取过来”。
• It is not so much the language ____ the cultural
background that makes the book difficult to
understand.
• A) but B) nor C) as D) like
• Not … but… 为固定结构
词的反义关系
• The manager gave one of the salesgirls an
accusing look for her ____ attitude toward
customers.
• A) impartial
B) mild
• C) hostile
D) affectionate
• Hostile 与 mild 分别表示“敌视的”和
“温和的”。
反义关系 Take a message for sb.
Leave a message with sb.
•
•
•
•
•
•
Look ahead / look back
Be in favor with / be out of favor with
Admire / despise
Relative / absolute
Look down on (upon) / look up to
Put on ( gain ) weight / lose / shed ) weight
辨义
• Seventy percent of football fans chose him
as their ____ player.
• A) popular
B) attractive
• C) lovable
D) favorite
• Favorite 表示 “特别受喜爱”
• 而 popular “广受欢迎的”
辨义
• Under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, a
steamship line is not responsible for damage to
____ due to insufficient packing.
• A) property
B) asset
• C) cargo
D) commodity
• Cargo 表示（船、飞机、车辆装载的）货物。
而 commodity 表示“商品、货物、农产品”。
Smart, wise, clever, bright, brilliant,
intelligent
• Outing, journey, trip, tour, travel, voyage,
expedition
• Opposite, adverse, contrary
• Worry, care, concern, anxiety
• Permit, allow, let, promise
• Include, contain, involve, comprise,
• consist of
语篇关系
• Don’t put off doing what should be done
today until tomorrow. ______, done with
pleasure.
• A) Otherwise
B) There
• C) Nevertheless D) Meanwhile
• Meanwhile 表示“与此同时”， 起并列
作用
语篇关系
• Even before he got to the chemist’s, he had
lost the prescription for the medicine, ____
had to go back to the doctor to get another
one.
• A) but
B) and
• C) similarly D) accordingly
• and 表示“于是”， 起一种时间序列作
用
语篇关系
• Only one man is best qualified for the particular
post, _____ the board of executives has no
hesitation in appointing him to that post.
• A) and therefore
B) and accordingly
• C) then after
D) just before
• B) and accordingly 相当于 and according to it 表
示“因此”. And therefore 也没错，但前面最好
用分号。
语法关系
• The country’s chief exports are coal, cars
and cotton goods, cars ____ most important
of these.
• A) have
B) are
• C) being
D) are being
• C) being 引导独立主格结构
语法关系
• The indoor swimming pool seems to be a
great deal more luxurious than _____.
• A) is necessary
B) being necessary
• C) to be necessary D) it is necessary
• Key: D) 比较级的验证方法之一是恢复原
样，即：the indoor swimming pool seems
to be a great deal more luxurious than it is
necessary to be luxurious.
语法关系
• She doesn’t let him leave the train at five
minute interval ____ he get lost.
• A) if B) because C) as D) lest
• D) lest 表示“免得”，
•
• 后面动词用 should + 动词原形, 此处省略.
指代关系
• I don’t think it’s wise of you to show off our
greater knowledge in front of the director,
for ____ may offend him.
• A) it
B) you C) this D) that
• A) it 在此指“炫耀”。
指代关系
• In a money-oriented society, the average
individual cares little about solving ____
problems.
• A) other’s
B) others’
• C) anyone’s
D) someone’s
• B) others’ 表示 “别人的问题”，但不是
指一个人。
习惯用语
• This is an illness that can result in total
blindness___ left untreated.
• A) after B) if C) since D) unless
• B) if 句型中往往省略 it is, it was 等.
• Very little is known about the deep ___ of the
Earth. A) insider B) inland
• C) intermediate
D) interior
• D) the deep interior 表示（地球的） 内部。
习惯用语
• They promised to strengthen _____
property rights, details of which need not be
repeated since they are now widely
available.
• A) intelligence
B) intelligent
• C) intellectual
D) intellect
• C) intellectual property rights
• 表示“知识产权”。
习惯用语
• Opening up a nation’s economy and
integrating it with the rest of the world
makes the economy outward _____.
• A) oriented B) presented
• C) qualified D) styled
• A) the economy outward oriented
•
表示外向型经济。
习惯用语
• How have the political ____ in Europe
allowed themselves to run Western Europe’s
economic affairs so badly?
• A) estate
B) elite
• C) essence
D) enemy
• B) the political elite 表示“政治精英”。
习惯用语
• A new resource, which is human ____ , is
supposed to reflect the education and
experience of a worker.
• A) capital
B) property
• C) power
D) intelligence
• A) human capital 也表示“人力资源”。
介词用法
• A ship with a heavy load of timber is reported to
have sunk three miles ___ the coast of California.
• A) at B) in C) off D) on
• C) off 与 coast 相呼应。该句意为“在离加州海
岸3英里处。
• The landlord notified his tenants that their rent
would be increased ____ 15% the following
month. A) for B) with C) of D) by
• D) by 与 increase 等动词连用.
介词用法
• Although I had been invited to the opening
ceremony, I was unable to attend ____ such
short notice.
• A) to B) in C) with D) on
• D)这里不是 to 与 attend 搭配呼应， 而是
on 与 notice 的搭配。
• 该句意为：因是临时通知而没能出席开
幕式。
介词用法
• These proposals sought to place greater
restrictions ___ the use and copying of
digital information than exist in traditional
media.
• A) in B) for C) on D) with
• On 与 place 相呼应
• More example: lay ( put , place ) emphasis
on…
介词用法
• This is an exciting area of study, and one ___
which new applications are being discovered
almost daily.
• A) from B) by C) in D) through
• C) in 与前面的area 呼应。
• I don’t want to lend any money to him; he is
already in debt ____ me.
• A) for B) from C) to D) on
• C) be in debt to sb. 表示欠某人的钱
介词用法
• Before the students set off, they spent much
time setting a limit ___ the expense of the
trip.
• A) to B) about C) in D) for
• A) to 与 set 连用。
• 又如 set fire to the house.; （ 放火烧房子）
set sb. to a task.使某人着手从事某项工作
句型结构
• The business of each day, _____ selling goods or
shipping them, went quite smoothly.
• A) it being
B) was it
• C) be it
D) it was
• C. 虚拟句型。 又如：Be he friend or enemy（不
管他是朋友还是敌人）
• 本句意为：不管是货物销售还是装运，声意都
很顺利。
句型结构
• It is in moving the most weight over the
greatest distance for the longest time ___
you burn the most calories.
• A) when B) thus C) then D) that
• D) that
• It is … that …引导强调句型
句型结构
• How dishonest of him ____ the book he had
borrowed!
• A) not returned B) to not return
• C) not returning D) not to return
• D) not to return
• 此为感叹句型。注意否定词 not 的位置。
前后呼应
• The chief reason for the population growth
isn’t so much a rise in birth rates ____ a fall
in death rates as a result of improvement in
medical care.
• A) and B) as C) but D) or
• B) as 应与 not so 相呼应.
• 即：Not so (much )… as …
前后呼应
• Why are so many hungry? Susan George affirms
with solid evidence that it is not because there are
too many passengers on “Spaceship Earth”, _____
Key: 1. to
2. at 3. into 4. over 5. for 6. for 7. away 8. to 9. on 10. across 11. with 12. over
because of changing climates, ______ because
food is controlled by the rich.
• A) but, and
B) not, but
• C) not, and
D) and, but
• B) not 与 but 相呼应，即：not because…but
because… 表示“不是因… 而是因…”
I. (Verbal expressions) Fill in the missing verbs below.
Choose from the following (use each verb once only.)
• pay lose take elicit switch haunt resolve
• boost indulge shatter expend achieve untangle
accomplish
• 1.
• 3.
• 5.
1
To ___ responsibility
To ___ the price
To ____ hope
7. To ____one’s dream
9. To _____ the paradox
2. To ___ one’s goal
4. To ___ one’s belief
6. To ____ focus
8. To _____ the library
Key:
• 1. To ___ responsibility
• 3. To ___ the price
• 5. To ____ hope
7. To ____one’s dream
9. To _____ the paradox
•
•
•
•
•
•
1. take
3. pay
5. lose
7.accomplish
9. resolve
2. To ___ one’s goal
4. To ___ one’s belief
6. To ____ focus
8. To _____ the library
2.achieve
4. shatter
6. Switch
8. haunt
介词
• 1. Here are seven keys ______ success that
• they share.
• A） for B）at
C）on
D）to
• 2. Les Brown was given up by his parents
•
______ birth and labeled “educable
• mentally retarded” as a child.
• A）in
B） by C） to
D） at
To, at
• 3. But _____ the heat of the sun, nothing
• could live.
• A） that B）to C）only D）for
• 4. This means you have more control
• ______my life than I do.
• A）in
B）of
C）on D）over
For, over
• 5. Taking responsibility ______ your life is
•
one of the most empowering things you
•
can do.
•
A） in
B）up
C）on D）for
• 6. Some people blame everyone from their parents
•
to the government _______ their failure to get
•
ahead.
•
A） of
B） in
C）on D）for
For, for
• 7. When you say someone or something outside
•
of yourself is preventing you from succeeding
•
you’re giving _______ your power.
•
A) in
B) off
C) back D) away
• 8. When you’re truly committed ______ your goal,
•
giving up isn’t even an option.
•
A) for
B) on
C) in
D) to
Away, to
• 9. But instead of giving up, they stayed focused
•
______ their goal.
•
A) against B) in
C) from
D) on
• 10. Later Brown was helping clean out her office
•
when he came ______ some notes for a play.
•
A) after
B) about C) off
D) across
•
On, across
• 11. If you start out ______ a slight deficit in IQ,
•
you may get frustrated by reading and cogitating.
•
A）by
B） at
C）on
D）with
• 12. The high heritability of IQ suggests that environment
•
is feeble, but IQ gains ______time suggest that
•
environment is overwhelming.
•
A）in
B）on
•
C） within
D）over
Key:
•
•
•
•
•
1. to
4. over
7. away
10. across
2. at
5. for
8. to
11. with
3. for
6. for
9. on
12. over
Error, energy, economy, effect
• 1. Our aim is always to guide
•
students to understanding and
•
thereby to help them
•
minimize_____.
• 2. The time of day when you feel
•
most _____is when your cycle of body
•
temperature is at its peak.
slight, mere, passion, desire
• 3. A once ambitious person, he now
• became one with the _____desire to
• have fun now and then.
• 4. His lifelong _____for teaching
• began in childhood, and he made it
• his prime duty to educate people in the
• countryside.
wealth, luxury, die, fade
• 5. In that country, the rich lead lives of
•
_____, while the poor, struggling for
• their lives, cannot keep the wolf from
• the door.
• 6. The lights and music _____as we set
•
sail from the harbor.
hit, shatter, seize, haunt
• 7. She was only 13 years old when
•
the event occurred that_____ her
•
entire world.
• 8. It seems that the desire for eternal
•
life still _____human beings.
Error, energy, economy, effect
• 1. Our aim is always to guide
•
students to understanding and
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thereby to help them
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minimize (errors)
• 2. The time of day when you feel
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most (energetic)is when your cycle
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of body temperature is at its peak.
slight, mere, passion, desire
• 3. A once ambitious person, he now
• became one with the ( mere ) desire to
• have fun now and then.
• 4. His lifelong ( passion) for teaching
• began in childhood, and he made it
• his prime duty to educate people in the
• countryside.
wealth, luxury, die, fade
• 5. In that country, the rich lead lives of
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(luxury ), while the poor, struggling
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for their lives, cannot keep the
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wolf from the door.
• 6. The lights and music (fade) as we set
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sail from the harbor.
hit, shatter, seize, haunt
• 7. She was only 13 years old when
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the event occurred that
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( shattered) her entire world.
• 8. It seems that the desire for eternal
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life still ( haunts )human beings.
Key:
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1. errors
3. mere
5. luxury
7. shattered
2. energetic,
4. passion
6. faded
8. haunts
Phases & Expressions
• 1. take up (sth.) : start to do (it) 开始做
• 2. turn (sb.) down : reject an offer or application
• 3. come across: meet or find by chance 偶然遇见 或发现
• 4. go after (sth.): try to obtain (sth.) 设法得到（某物）
• 5. make no sense :not have an understandable meaning
• 6. take hold: continue on
• 7. account for: cause sth.; provide explanation for
• 8. make no difference
• 9. in the blinks of an eye
• 10. leave aside
11. in contrast
• 1.
When he was looking for his
missing son, his heart began a crazy
rhythm, and an intense anxiety took
hold of him.
• 2.
In an exam, you should leave
aside the difficult questions and try
to answer the easier ones first.
• 3. He was so starving that he ate the
whole bowl of noodles in the blinks
of an eye.
• 4. At least, this explains the greater
job stability in Japan, in contrast to
the great job mobility in America.
• 5. Once Sam decided what he
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wanted, he went after it with
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single-mindedness that reminded
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me of his father.
• 6. “The radio is out of order." "Oh,
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that would account for the strange
•
noise it's making."
• 7. If you take up this assignment,
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you are likely to encounter many
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difficulties.
• 8. Whenever he came across an
• unfamiliar word in his reading he
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would look it up in a dictionary.
• 9. To compel a pupil to obey a teacher
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makes no sense; we should try to tell
•
them what is right and what is wrong.
• 10. While there is no responsibility imposed
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by law upon employees to cooperate with
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their employer, they must not betray their
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employer's trust, for instance by giving
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away trade secrets.
• 11. “Shall I travel by air or by train to
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Shanghai?” “It makes no
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difference. Both are very
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convenient.”
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strike
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* The workers are calling for a strike as their
request of pay rise has been refused.
* A striking feature of these statistics is the high
proportion of youth unemployment.
* The earthquake that struck the region was
considered to be the worst natural disaster this
country’s history.
* The majority of young people nowadays are well
educated even in the poverty-stricken
areas.
fate
• * Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony and Fifth
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Symphony both show his courage in struggling
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with his fate.
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•
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*The three flight crewmembers endure fatal
injuries; and the airplane was destroyed by a
post-accident fire.
• * If the plane crash happened near one of the
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huge cities, we believe fatalities could be ten
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times greater.
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resolve, resolution
• It was leaked to the media that the president had
• resolved to fight, if war was necessary, even if it
meant destroying his chances of re-election.
• He is a man of resolution. Nothing could keep him
from carrying out his plan.
• The meeting lasted two weeks, but was unable to
resolve the differences between the two parties.
endure enduring endurance
• When the pain became no longer endurable, he
took some pain-killers.
• The sick man cannot endure the fatigue of the
long journey.
• I shall be left with many enduring memories of the
time I spent in Hawaii.
• Sailing across the Atlantic single-handed
required great endurance and determination
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incredible, credible, credibility
• His story was so strange that few people
found it credible.
• The Prime Minister’s credibility was
damaged in the scandal.
• He was absent from class and he gave an
incredible excuse.
mental mentality
• Different fields of research have found out
many different factors that can affect
both physical and mental behavior .
• Martin Luther King denounced not only
the whites for their paternalism and
racism, but also the blacks or their
enduring 'slave mentality'.
rigid rigidity rigidly
• *The coach insisted on rigid
• adherence to the rules much to the
• annoyance of the players.
• * The rigidity of the metal caused it to crack
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easily.
• * These old country houses were rigidly
•
constructed buildings.
fantasy
• Her favorite fantasy was about owning a
big house and a fancy car.
• The campus captures the students'
hearts with its fantastic scenery
turn down
• The music is so loud that it will hurt your
ears as well as your brain, so turn it down.
• His proposal to the committee was turned
down because it is not feasible at all.
• The boss thought him a trouble-maker and
turned him down.
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turn up
• It's no good waiting for something to turn
up; you have to take actions.
• One roommate is always cold, while the
other never wants to turn up the furnace,
even though the thermometer says it's
minus five outside.
turn over
• I know the boy behaved very badly on his last
visit, but I promise you that he's turned over a new
leaf and will be good behavior from now on.
• The day-to-day management of the firm has been
turned over to a department manager.
• The bicycle suddenly turned over as he rode
along; he is not a good rider.
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turn out
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* A single coining press at the Philadelphia Mint
started turning out the nickels at the rate of 120
a minute.
* Any principle, if carried to an extreme, may
often turn out unexpected results, either good or
bad.
* Though it looked like rain this morning, it has
turned out to be a fine day.
* He turned out to have a younger brother. /It
turned out that he had a younger brother.
take up / take after / take over
/ take apart
• if you take up this assignment, you
• are likely to encounter many
• difficulties.
• We won't take up too much of your
• time, but we really do want to clear
• up this misunderstanding.
• In the event of a strike, the army will
take over responsibility for fighting
fires.
• One computer takes over the tasks of
dozens of office workers.
• The boy takes after his father: he has
the same red hair, big feet, and quick
temper.
• The two girls take after their mother
very much in appearance.
• A child of two years old usually
enjoys taking apart everything that
s/he can get.
• It seems oil has been leaking from
this pipe for some time. We'll have to
take the machine apart to put it right.
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China has struggled to gain
control over the Internet as more
and more people gain access to
obtain information beyond official
sources.