专业四级语法词汇考前恶补——集体名词

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  集体名词作主语主谓一致
  1)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.
  2)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.
  3)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.
  4)a committee,etc. of +复数名词
  如果主语是由“a committee 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:
  A committee 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 home.亨利很疲惫,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 bus.精疲力竭的工程师在公共汽车上睡着了。
  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 word.他疲惫不堪,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 back.经过漫长而又令人疲乏的等待后,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 battle.战后,部队疲惫不堪。
  全真模拟试题
  1. Although ______ Spanish,he attended the course.
  A. he was knowing
  B. he is knowing
  C. having a knowledge of
  D. knows
  2. You ______that letter to James. However,you didn’t.
  A. 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.
  A. to escape
  B. to have escaped
  C. to escaping
  D. to be escaping
  4. Bread and butter ______liked by Westerners.
  A. is
  B. are
  C. were
  D. be
  5. The back garden of our house contains a lawn,______very pleasant to sit on in summer.
  A. which is
  B. which it is
  C. it is
  D.where it is
  6. He set up in business ______ his own and was very successful.
  A. in
  B.of
  C.on
  D. by
  7. John’s score on the test is the highest in the class; he ______last night.
  A. must study
  B. should have studied
  C. must have studied
  D. is sure to study
  8. Frank almost never received any education,______?
  A. would he
  B. did he
  C. didn’t he
  D. wouldn’t he
  9.Even if his letter ______ tomorrow,it ______too late to do anything.
  A.will arrive...is
  B.should arrive...were
  C.arrives...will be
  D.arrives...would be
  10. We can hear______from the back of the room.
  A. just as good
  B.just as easy
  C.just as well
  D.easily as well
  11. To obtain a satisfactory result,one must apply two ______of paint on a clean surface.
  A.coats
  B. levels
  C.times
  D. courses
  12. The small mountain village was ______ by the snow for more than one month.
  A. cut back
  B.cut out
  C.cut off
  D. cut away
  13.Miss Green was ______ $100 for driving after drinking.
  A. fined
  B.charged
  C.punished
  D.posed
  14.Modern ______ perhaps causes more problems than it solves.
  A. technique
  B.technology
  C. tactics
  D.tendency
  15. Mary tiptoed over and took the clock away because she hated to hear it ______ when she was trying to go tosleep.
  A. sounding
  B. ringing
  C. ticking
  D. humming
  16. Under this ______ pressure some of the rocks even became liquid.
  A. intensive
  B.weighty
  C.intense
  D.bulky

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