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自我完善•误区备考

1. calm/quiet/still/silent
这几个词都与“静”有关，但它们所描述的物体、场合是不同的。

(1)calm常指“天气平静，无风；海无浪；镇定，无忧虑；镇定自若”，强调外表的平静。

(2)quiet表示“静止的；宁静的；不激动，没有烦恼、忧虑的”，强调没有干扰，没有兴奋活动或闹声的“宁静”或“心神安逸”。

(3)still表示“静止不动的/地”“平静的/地”，突出不发出动作。

(4)silent表示“声音极小的，沉默的，寡言的”。

[应用1]　

(1)Ask the children to make less noise and keep ______.

(2)Although she was frightened, she answered in a ______ voice.

(3)John is a ______， thoughtful boy.

(4)Please stand ______ while I am ready to take the photograph.

答案：quiet；calm；silent；still

2. power/right/strength/force/energy

(1)power主要指做事所依靠的能力、功能，也可指人或机器等事物潜在的或发挥出来的力量，还可指职权、权力或政权。

(2)right指“权利”。

(3)strength指固有的潜力。说人时，指“力气”，说物时，指“强度”。

(4)force主要指自然界的力量；暴力、势力以及法律、道德或感情的力量；军事力量等。

(5)energy主要指人的精力或自然界中的能量。

[应用2]　

(1)You’ll need to apply all your ______ to this job.

(2)You have no ______ to treat me like this.

(3)Congress has ______ to declare war.

(4)The ______ of the explosion broke all the windows.

(5)A washing machine is a saver of time and ________.

答案：energy；right；power；force；strength

3. join in/take part in/attend/join

(1)join in指参加正在进行着的活动，如游戏、讨论、辩论、谈话等。也可用 join sb. in doing sth.。

(2)take part in指参加会议或群众性活动，并在其中发挥一定的作用。part 前若有修饰语，要加不定冠词。

(3)attend正式用语，指参加会议、仪式、婚礼、上课、上学、听报告等，重在强调“参与”的动作，不强调参加者的作用。

(4)join指参加某组织或团体，并成为其一员。其宾语往往是 the army/Party/team/club/sb.。

[应用3]　

(1)Would you ______ us ______ the game?

(2)All the students ______________________ school activities.

(3)There are many people __________ the meeting.

(4)My brother ______ the army last year.

答案：join；in；took an active part in；attending；joined

4．连词＋doing/done

[应用4]

(1)Though ______ money, his parents managed to send him to university.
A．lacked B．lacking of C．lacking D．lacked in

解析：当从句的主语和主句的主语相同时，且从句的谓语是be动词时，可以省略从句主语和be动词，本句补全应该为：Though(they were) lacking...

答案：C

(2)While ______ the book on the top shelf, you need to be very careful.
A．to reach B．reaching
C．reach D．are reaching

解析：reach和you是主谓关系，要用现在分词做状语。

答案：B

(3)Generally speaking, ______ according to the directions, the drug has no side effect.
A．when taking B．when taken
C．when to take D．when to be taken

解析：take和drug是动宾关系，要用过去分词做状语。可看做是when it is taken的省略。

答案：B

(4)The research is so designed that once ______ nothing can be done to change it.
A．begins B．having begun
C．beginning D．begun

解析：考查过去分词补充成条件状语从句的用法。句子应为once (the research is) begun。

答案：D