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第三部分 语法填空
第3讲 名词、数词、形容词和副词
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名词单复数
1.No matter what you like to do,there is a way to get involved in various
(activity) on Earth Day.(2019·北京)
activities
解析 考查名词复数。根据设空前的修饰词various可知,此处要用名词的复数形式。故填activities。
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2.Making Chinese (dish) is seen as especially troublesome.(2018·浙江)
dishes
解析 考查名词复数。dish菜肴,为可数名词,中式菜肴有很多种,故此处用dish的复数形式。
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3.A mere five to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all (cause).(2018·全国Ⅰ)
causes
解析 考查名词复数。cause表示“原因,起因”时是可数名词,前面有all修饰,故填cause的复数形式。
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4.This trend,which was started by the medical community(医学界) as a method of fighting heart disease,has had some unintended side (effect) such as overweight and heart disease—the very thing the medical community was trying to fight.(2017·全国Ⅰ)
effects
解析 考查名词复数。side effect副作用,由前面的some和下文中的两个例子overweight and heart disease可知,名词effect用复数形式effects。
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5.It ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible
_________(crowd) on the roads above as they travelled to and from work.
(2017·全国Ⅱ)
crowd
解析 考查名词复数。crowd是可数名词,且前面没有限定词,故应用复数形式。
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6.She has turned down several (invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies.(2017·全国Ⅲ)
invitations
解析 考查名词复数。several表“几个”,其后要用名词invitation的复数形式invitations。
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7.Last October,while tending her garden in Mora,Sweden,Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small (carrot) and was about to throw them away.
(2017·浙江)
carrots
解析 考查名词复数。a handful of一把,几个,后接可数名词的复数形式。a handful of carrots一把胡萝卜。
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8.Recent (study) show that we are far more productive at work if we take short breaks regularly.(2016·全国Ⅱ)
studies
解析 考查名词复数。根据后面的谓语动词show可知,主语应是复数形式。
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提示词是名词,首先分析句子,确认不需要改变词性,就可以考虑用名词复数形式。根据一些标志词可以快速确认。
1.修饰词
①one of+名词复数。
②大于2的基数词,different,various,many,these/those,few,