By ___, words fall into functional words and content words.
A.use frequency
B.notion
C.origin
D.word formation
A.use frequency
B.notion
C.origin
D.word formation
第1题
Riding on his bicycle. he'd ride past my dorm as if "by accident" and () to be surprised to see me. I liked the attention but was () about his wild, dynamic ().He had a charming waywith words which would () any girl. Fear came over me when I started to fall in love. Hisexciting "bad boy image" was just too () to resist. What was it that () me? I always hadan excellent reputation. My () was solely on my studies to get superior grades. But for what?College is () to be a time of great learning and also some fun. I had nearly achieved a greateducation, and graduation was just one semester away. But I hadn't had any fun; my life was () with no component of fun! I needed a boyfriend Not just any boyfriend. He had to becute. My goal that semester became:Be () and grab the cutest boyfriend I can find.
第2题
A.use frequency
B.notion
C.productivity
D.origin
第4题
【C1】
A.true
B.truth
C.real
D.reality
第5题
A.use frequency
B.notion
C.origin
D.sound
第6题
A.use frequency
B.origin
C.pronunciation
D.notion
第7题
In the fall of 1971, I was () a story involving a young white woman living on the fringe (边缘) of Boston’s black ghetto.Her car had () out of gas.She had gone to a filling station () a can and was returning to her car when she was () in an alley by a gang of black youths.The gang () gasoline over her and set fire to her.She died () her burns.It was later established () some of the youths involved had, on the night before the killing, () on television a rerun of an old movie in which a drifter (流浪汉) is () on fire by an adolescent gang.There is some kind of strange reductive process (还原过程) at work here.To see something on television robs it () its reality, and then when the same thing is () out it is like the reenactment (重演) of something unreal.
() other words when the gang set fire to the girl, they were imitating () they had seen on a screen, as if they themselves were on a screen, and in a ().I don’t think we have () begun to realize how powerful a(n) () television is.It has already () very clear that the candidate with the most television () wins the election.
1.A.trueB.sincereC.dependantD.exact
2.A.methodsB.waysC.directionsD.respects
3.A.arrangedB.allottedC.appointedD.assigned
4.A.leftB.runC.stayedD.stopped
5.A.forB.byC.withD.in
6.A.tracedB.followedC.trappedD.hit
7.A.putB.pouredC.droppedD.sprayed
8.A.ofB.withC.inD.over
9.A.whenB.thatC.becauseD.as
10.A.lookedB.watchedC.experienceD.gone
11.A.setB.seenC.watchedD.burned
12.A.ofB.fromC.byD.for
13.A.actedB.playedC.putD.taken
14.A.OnB.InC.ByD.At
15.A.thatB.whichC.whatD.those
16.A.sceneB.fictionC.televisionD.story
17.A.evenB.alreadyC.muchD.little
18.A.equipmentB.applianceC.sourceD.medium
19.A.becomeB.turnedC.seemedD.looked
20.A.appearanceB.appealC.practiceD.experience
第8题
A.four
B.fell
C.for
D.autumn
第9题
depend on advertise announce a wide audience set up exaggerate fall victim to
第10题
Several weeks ago I was riding in a cab when the driver's eyes caught mine in the rear view mirror and he said, "Excuse me, Miss? Can you help me?"
As any hard-bitten city dweller knows, the correct answer to a question like "Can you help me?" should always be some version of "It depends." I chirped, "Sure."
"Thank you," he said. He passed a slip of yellow paper into the back seat.
I stared at the paper, wondering. Was this a joke? A threat? Hand-printed on the paper in tiny block letters was this:
proverb
peculiar
idiomatic
"Please," he said. "What is the meaning of these words?"
I stared at the words in the distressed way you might stare at party guests whose faces you've seen somewhere before but whose names have escaped your mind. Proverb? Peculiar? Idiomatic? How on earth should I know? It's one thing to use a word, it's another to explain it. I resorted to shifting the topic.
"Where did you get these words?"
The driver explained that he was Pakistani. He listened to the radio as he drove and often jotted down unfamiliar, fascinating words whose meanings and spellings he then sought from his passengers.
"Peculiar," he said. "What does this mean?"
I could manage that one. "Strange," I said. "Odd. Often with a hint of something suspicious."
"Thank you, Miss. And idiomatic?"
I cleared my throat. "Um, it's a, well, um. It involves a peculiar use of the language."
I thought my use of peculiar was kind of clever. He looked confused, a reminder that clever's not clever if it doesn't communicate.
"Uh, let's see. 'Idiomatic' is related to the word 'idiom'. An idiom's something that's used in, say, a particular part of the country or by a particular group of people. People who aren't part of that group aren't likely to use it and might not understand it."
Watching his puzzled look, I did what a person often does when at a loss for the right words: I went on talking, as if a thousand vague words would add up to one accurate definition.
"Can you give me an example?"
I racked my brains. "Gapers block ," I said. A peculiarly Chicago phrase.
But did it really qualify as idiomatic? I had no idea because the longer I thought about idioms the less sure I was what they were.
"And proverb?"
I should have told the poor man right then that I might be misleading him down the proverbial path, whatever that really means, but instead I said, "I think a proverb is kind of like an aphorism. But not quite."
"A what?"
"Never mind. A proverb is a condensed saying that teaches you a lesson."
"An example?"
The meter clicked off a full 20 cents while I searched madly through my mind. "Haste makes waste?" I finally whimpered.
But was that a proverb? Wait. Weren't proverbs actually stories, not just phrases? While I was convincing myself they were, he said, "Can an idiom be a proverb?"
I could answer that. Just not right now, now when it mattered, now when the fate of a curious, intelligent immigrant hung on the answers he assumed would fall from a native speaker's tongue as naturally as leaves from an October tree. So I retreated.
"Do most of your passengers give you answers when you ask for definitions?"
"Oh, yes, Miss. Very interesting definitions."
Until that moment, I'd been so inspired by the driver's determination to learn English, so enthralled by the chance to indulge my curiosity about words with another curious soul, that I didn't fully grasp the potential for linguistic fraud committed in this man's cab. Now I could barely allow myself to imagine what kind of deformed English he was being fed by cowards like me who couldn't simply say, "I don't really know my own language."
I can only trust that someone as curious as he is also owns a dictionary. And that he figures out that, no matter what his passengers may say, haste doesn't always make waste at the gapers block.