高中英语学习细节（人教版必修5）之Life in the future：短语学习

1. take up拿起pick up, lift；接受accept；开始；继续continue；占用fill or use space or time；从事 应试指导：take短语语境词义辨析 take down拆除；写下 take on呈现；雇用；承担 take over接管；承袭 take off脱掉；起飞；成功；开始流行 take...into consideration/account把……考虑进去 He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport. 他并不特别想从事竞技体育运动。 2. speed up加速；加快 at high/low/full/top speed 以高/低/全/最高速 at a speed of以……速度 pick up/gather speed加速 slow down减速 We must speed up the pace of our economic reform. 我们必须加快经济改革的步伐。 选择方框内的短语填空。 take on, take over, take up, take off (1)I put the telephone down and my work again. (2)I successfully sky news, a popular news channel running in the UK since 1989. (3)Shortly after suffering from a massive earthquake and being reduced to ruins, the city a new look. (4)He his glasses and blinked at them. 【答案】 (1) took up (2) took over (3) took on (4) took off 【解析】 本题考查跟take相关的词组的用法。take up意思是“拿起；开始从事”，take over意思是“接管；承袭”，take on意思是“呈现”，take off意思是“脱掉”。 用speed及其相关短语完成下列小片段。 Yesterday Tom was