3、stay up
不睡觉, 熬夜 ◆We stayed up till after midnight to see the New Year in.
我们熬夜等着新年的到来。 ◆I stayed up last night, reading a novel from cover to cover.
我昨晚熬夜读了一整本小说。 ◆—What makes you tired now?
——什么事让你现在这么疲倦?
— Staying up for my favourite TV programme last night.
——昨晚熬夜看我最喜欢的电视节目了。 I'll be home late, but please don't ________ for me.
A. stay indoors
B. stay out
C. stay up
D. stay in C stay up 熬夜。 4、 insist on sth./(doing) sth. 坚决要,非得要(做)某事 ◆She insisted on not telling me her telephone number.
她坚持不告诉我她的电话号码。 ◆The scientist insisted on an exact figure.
这位科学家坚持要得到一个精确的数字。 insist有两个含义,其用法也不同: (1)作“坚持要;一定要”讲时,后面的从句中用虚拟语气,即“should+动词原形”,其中should可省略。 (2)作“坚持说;坚持认为”讲时,后面的从句中不用虚拟语气。 ◆They insisted that we (should) begin the work at once.
他们坚持要我们立刻开始工作。 ◆He insisted that he had put the file back in the case.
他坚持说他已经把文件放回到盒子里了。 He has always insisted on his ______ Dr. Turner instead of Mr. Turner.
A. been called
B. called
C. having called
D. being called D 句意:他总是坚持要别人叫他Turner医生而不是Turner先生。insist on后接名词或动名词。 Module1 Unit 2 Growing pains(1) deserve v.(因为行为、品行、才干)而应该得到,值得(后面加n. / pron. / to do) ①deserve sth. Good work deserves good pay. 良好的工作表现应该得到丰厚的报酬。 ②deserve to do sth. She deserved to succeed. 她应该成功。 ③deserve doing/deserve to be done He's a responsible writer, and he deserves respecting/to be respected. 他是个有责任感的作家,理应受到尊敬。
Nobody thinks he ______ our help so we won't give him any hand.
A. deserves
B. worth
C. deserve
D. worths
A deserve 值得,为动词;worth 值得的,为形容词。 2、 forbid
vt.禁止(forbade, forbidden) forbid doing sth. 禁止做某事(不能说forbid to do) forbid sb. to do sth. 禁止某人做某事 ◆My parents forbid me to stay the night out.
我父母不准我在外面过夜。 ◆Restaurants are forbidden to charge extra money for their service.
餐馆是严禁加收服务费的。 ①are all forbidden to leave ②forbade the marriage
①You ____________________________. 你们都不准离开。 ②Her father ____________________________. 她父亲不允许这桩婚事。 3、 explain
v. 解释,说明 “Let me explain our new policy to you all,” the manager cleared his throat and said.
“让我为大家解释我们的新政策,”经理清了清嗓子说。 (explain作及物动词时不能接双宾语, 表达“向某人说明某事”应用explain sth. to sb. ) ◆She tried to explain but her husband wouldn't listen.
她试图解释,但她丈夫不愿听。 explanation n. 解释,说明 ◆What is your explanation for being late?
你迟到的理由是什么? ◆He left the room without explanation.
他未加解释就离开了房间。 A the reason后接的是一定语从句,引导词在从句中作explain的宾语,可省略。 Is this the reason ________ at the meeting for his carelessness in his work?
A. he explained
B. what he explained
C. how to explained
D. why he explained 4、 fault
n.过错,错误;弱点,缺点 Everybody has some faults. 人皆有过。 Why do you always find fault with David? Are you jealous of him? 你为什么总找戴维的茬儿?你嫉妒他吗? This machine, for all its faults, is the best at the moment.
这台机器虽有不少缺点,却是现在最好的一台。 Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signalling system. 或许,铁路部门应对信号系统差负责。 fault多指人在道德上、习惯上、性格上等的弱点或行为上的过失,强调对过失应负责任;也可指物的功能方面的缺陷。 mistake 多指因缺乏正确的理解而造成的行动上、认识上的错误。 ◆It's his own fault that he failed in the exam.
考试不及格是他自己的错。 ◆There's a fault in this building, so it's not safe.
这座楼有个缺陷,所以它不太安全。 ◆You can't arrest me. There must be some mistakes.
你们不能逮捕我。这一定有什么误会。
①fault ②mistakes ③fault
用fault或mistake的适当形式填空 ①“I don't think it's my ________ that the TV blew up. I just turned it on, that's all,” said the boy. ②His essay is full of spelling ________. ③Why should I apologize when it is not my ________? 5、 argument n. 争论,争辩;论点,观点;论据 argument about / over sth.关于某事物的争论
argument with sb.和某人的争论 argument against / for sth.反对 / 赞成某事物的论据 sb.'s argument某人的观点 ◆The students had a long argument with their
teachers about their uniforms.
学生们就他们校服的事和老师进行了很长时
间的辩论。 ◆What is their argument over?
他们在争论什么?
◆That's not a good argument for raising the price.
那不是涨价的好理由。
◆The author's argument is that some of the plays were actually not written by Shakespeare.
作者的观点是:其中有些剧作实际创作者并不是莎士比亚。 argue v. 争辩,争论 argue about/over sth. 争论某事…… argue with sb. 和某人争论 argue for/against sth. 赞成/反对某事 B 根据语境,该句意思应为“他们不同意这个计划的论据/理由是这个计划成本太大”。 — Why don't they agree to the plan? — Their main argument ______ it is that it will cost too much.
A. of
B. against
C. about
D. with 6、 defend
vt. 防御,保卫;为……辩护 ◆Some players are better at defending.
有些运动员较擅长打防卫。 ◆The labour union said that they would take action to
defend their members' rights and interests.
工会说他们将采取行动维护会员的权益。 ◆The accused man had a lawyer to defend him.
(defend = in defense of)
被告有一律师为他辩护。 ①All our officers are trained ________________ knife attacks. 我们所有的警察都接受过自卫训练,能够对付持刀袭击。 ②How can you __________________________? 你怎能为这种行为辩解呢? ①to defend themselves against ②defend such behaviour 7、 tolerate
vt. 容忍,忍耐,忍受 tolerate (doing) sth. 容忍(做)某事 tolerate sb. doing sth. 容忍某人做某事
Parents can't tolerate their children cheating others. 父母不能容忍他们的子女欺骗他人。 tolerance of 对……宽容;对……的忍受能力 be tolerant of 对……容忍的 On the continent people ____________________ children in public places.
在大陆,人们在公共场合更宽容孩子些。 are more tolerant of
1、now that
既然; 由于 ◆Now that I've seen how she lives, I know why she needs so much money.
看过了她的生活状况,我才知道她为什么需要那么多的钱。 ◆Now that he is well again, he can go on with his English study.
既然恢复了健康,他就可以继续他的英语学习。 ________ you've got a chance, you might as well make full use of it.
A. Now that
B. After
C. Although
D. As soon as A 句意:既然你得到了机会, 就应该好好利用它。 2、be supposed to 应当, 理应; 一般认为, 被看做是(往往含有“事实并非如此”的意思)
◆Everyone is supposed to bring a bottle of beer to the party.
每个人都必须带一瓶啤酒去参加聚会。 ◆He was supposed to have told me about it.
他本应该把这件事告诉我的。 ◆I haven't seen it yet, but it's supposed to be a very good film.
我还没看过这部电影,但一般认为这是一部很好的电影。 此外,be supposed to还可表示“意图、意旨”、“将要、打算”。 ◆The law is supposed to help the poor.
那条法律旨在帮助穷人。 ◆— Why don't you and Bill go to the movies tonight? —— 你和比尔今晚为什么不去看电影? — We are supposed to take care of the old woman. ——我们打算去照看那位老大娘。 ①Mr. Led wasn't ________ the heritor of the company according to the law. A. suppose to be
B. supposing to be
C. supposed to being D. supposed to be ①D be supposed to be 应该是…… ②A pet ________ one of the family in the USA.
A. is supposed as
B. is supposed to be
C. is treated to be D. is seen to ②B be supposed to be 被看做是…… ③What are you doing out of bed, Tom? You're ______ to be asleep. A. supposed
B. known
C. thought
D. considered ③A be supposed to do sth. 被认为该做某事。