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第八讲 数词
1.(2022·新高考Ⅰ卷)If it is not turned in by the ________ (four) day after the due date, it will earn a zero.
答案:fourth 句意:如果在截止日期后的第四天还没有上交,就得零分。此处表示“第四天”。故填fourth。
2.(2022·全国甲卷)Andrew Reynolds, a cheerful fellow in his early ________ (30), pilots Sydney ferryboats for a living.
答案:30s in his early 30s意为“在他30多岁的时候”。故填30s。
3.(2022·新高考Ⅱ卷)She and her husband have spent the last ________ (second) years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore.
答案:two 句意:她和丈夫在过去的两年里周游世界,从巴黎到新加坡。表示过去的两年,应用基数词。故填two。
4.(2022·全国甲卷)I remember the ________ (one) time I saw a humpback whale; it just rose out of the water like some prehistoric creature and I thought it was smiling at us.
答案:first 表示“第几次”,应用“the+序数词+time”。故填first。
5.(2022·北京高考)“What's new,” Johnson wrote, “is that ________ (million) of dollars are now potentially available to quantum computing researchers.”
答案:millions 此处指量子计算研究人员有可能获得数百万美元。millions of “成千上万的……”。故填millions。
考点一 常见数词表达法
名称
例词
专有名词
Lesson 1, No.1 Middle School, Class 24, Row One, CCTV9
基数词
one, two, three, eleven, ...
序数词
first, second, third, fourth, fifth, eighth, twelfth, ...
小数
10.503读作ten point five zero three, 1.3米读作one point three meters
分数
one third (a third) 三分之一, three fifths 五分之三, a quarter 四分之一
百分数
30 percent (30 per cent) 30%
钟点
It's nine.(=It's nine o'clock.)九点, five thirty 五点三十分, five to two 一点五十五分, five past seven七点零五分
日期
2021年2月3日读作February the third, twenty twenty-one,写作February 3, 2021(美式)或3 February, 2021(英式)
年份
1830读作eighteen thirty, 2001读作two thousand and one
月份
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
星期
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
考点二 常见数词构成的短语
an eightyearold boy= a boy aged 8 一个8岁的小男孩
three times as big as 是……的三倍大
in the 1980s (1980's) 在二十世纪八十年代
in his fifties 在他50多岁时
two dozen books 两打书
dozens of 许多
a score of cars 二十(几)辆汽车
scores of 许多
a hundred people 100个人
hundreds of 好几百