Unit 2 Exploring English 词汇专项提升训练-2026-2027学年外研版高中英语必修第一册

外研版高中英语必修第一册

Unit2 Exploring English词汇专项提升训练

一、重点单词词性转换

1. pronounce (v.) 发音 → ________ (n.) 发音 → ________ (adj.) 明显的
2. confuse (v.) 使困惑 → ________ (n.) 困惑 → ________ (adj.) 令人困惑的
3. translate (v.) 翻译 → ________ (n.) 翻译；译文 → ________ (n.) 译者
4. misunderstand (v.) 误解 → ________ (n.) 误解 → ________ (adj.) 被误解的
5. express (v.) 表达 → ________ (n.) 表达；表情 → ________ (adj.) 富有表现力的
6. embarrass (v.) 使尴尬 → ________ (n.) 尴尬 → ________ (adj.) 令人尴尬的
7. explain (v.) 解释 → ________ (n.) 解释 → ________ (adj.) 说明性的
8. remark (v.) 评论 → ________ (adj.) 非凡的 → ________ (adv.) 非常
9. humour (n.) 幽默 → ________ (adj.) 幽默的 → ________ (adv.) 幽默地
10. grammar (n.) 语法 → ________ (adj.) 语法的 → ________ (adv.) 语法上
11. ambiguous (adj.) 模棱两可的 → ________ (n.) 歧义 → ________ (adv.) 模棱两可地
12. understand (v.) 理解 → ________ (n.) 理解 → ________ (adj.) 可理解的
13. differ (v.) 不同 → ________ (n.) 差异 → ________ (adj.) 不同的
14. similar (adj.) 相似的 → ________ (n.) 相似之处 → ________ (adv.) 同样地
15. origin (n.) 起源 → ________ (adj.) 最初的 → ________ (adv.) 最初
16. clear (adj.) 清楚的 → ________ (v.) 澄清 → ________ (n.) 清晰
17. simple (adj.) 简单的 → ________ (v.) 简化 → ________ (n.) 简单
18. mean (v.) 意思是 → ________ (n.) 意思 → ________ (adj.) 有意义的
19. read (v.) 读 → ________ (n.) 读者 → ________ (adj.) 可读的
20. speak (v.) 说 → ________ (n.) 说话者 → ________ (adj.) 口头的
21. write (v.) 写 → ________ (n.) 作者 → ________ (adj.) 书面的
22. direct (adj.) 直接的 → ________ (adv.) 直接地 → ________ (adj.) 间接的

二、根据括号里单词的正确形式填空

1. The instructions on the packet were so ________ (confuse) that half the class mixed the chemicals in the wrong order and had to start the whole experiment again.
2. His ________ (pronounce) of difficult words improved quickly once he began reading aloud to his younger sister every evening, although she often laughed at him.

3. The ________ (translate) of the poem into English lost much of its music, as every reader who knew both languages pointed out in the reviews published in 2019.
4. The whole quarrel began with a ________ (misunderstand) about a borrowed book, and it was three weeks before either of them found the courage to apologise.
5. It was an ________ (embarrass) moment for the young teacher when she called a student by the wrong name in front of the whole class and his parents.
6. The ________ (express) on her face when she heard the news told us everything before she had opened her mouth to say a single word about it.
7. His ________ (explain) of the rule was so clear that even the weakest students understood it after a single lesson, which surprised their parents and pleased the head teacher.
8. It is ________ (remark) how quickly children pick up an accent when they move to a new country and play with local children in the park every afternoon.
9. The ________ (humour) writer described his first day at a British school in a way that made thousands of readers laugh out loud on the morning train to work.
10. Although his vocabulary was large, his sentences were often not ________ (grammar), which cost him valuable marks in the writing test at the end of every term.
11. The question was deliberately ________ (ambiguity), so that students had to explain both possible readings before choosing one and defending their choice in a short paragraph.
12. Her English was slow but perfectly ________ (understand), and the interviewer later said that clarity mattered far more than speed in a job like this.
13. The main ________ (differ) between British and American spelling lies in a handful of words such as colour and centre, which examiners still mark strictly in formal writing.
14. There is a surprising ________ (similar) between the two dialects, though the villages where they are spoken lie eighty kilometres apart on opposite sides of the river.
15. The phrase was ________ (origin) used by sailors, and only later did it enter everyday speech among people who had never seen the open sea or left their own county.
16. The teacher stopped to ________ (clear) one point that had confused everybody, drawing two arrows on the board to show the difference between the two tenses.
17. Publishers often ________ (simple) classic novels for young readers, cutting long descriptions that modern teenagers find boring and skipping whole chapters without any apology to the author.
18. The ________ (mean) of the idiom cannot be guessed from the words alone, which is why learners need examples rather than long definitions in a dictionary.

19. Her essay was clear and highly ________ (read), partly because she had cut every sentence that did not add anything new to her argument about school uniforms.
20. ________ (speak) English differs greatly from the written form, especially in the way that speakers shorten words and leave out sounds at the end of them.
21. His ________ (write) English is excellent, but he freezes when a stranger asks him a simple question in the street or on the telephone.
22. Politeness in English is often expressed through ________ (direct) questions, which soften an order and give the listener room to refuse without embarrassment in public.
23. He took her words ________ (literal) and waited outside the station for two hours, not realising that she had only been joking about the time of the train.
24. The ________ (confuse) among passengers was complete when the announcement was made in a language that most of them had never heard before.
25. To her great ________ (embarrass), she realised halfway through the speech that her notes were still lying on the desk at home beside her glasses.
26. The teacher ________ (pronounce) each word twice, slowly and clearly, and then asked the whole class to repeat it together before moving on to the next line.
27. She described her first teaching job ________ (humour), making even the oldest teachers in the room laugh until tears ran down their faces during a staff meeting.
28. ________ (remark), nobody in the group had ever studied grammar formally, yet all of them wrote clear and correct sentences that nobody could fault during the entrance examination.
29. The ________ (explain) notes at the back of the book are almost as long as the stories themselves, which some readers find helpful and others tiring.
30. A good ________ (translate) must understand not only both languages but also the culture that lies behind every idiom, every joke and every silence.

三、根据句子中首字母提示完成合适的单词填空

1. Building a large v________ takes years, and the most successful learners meet new words in books, songs and conversations rather than in long vocabulary lists.
2. English g________ is full of exceptions, which is why even native speakers sometimes argue about what is correct in a formal letter to a newspaper.
3. Her p________ improved dramatically after she recorded her own reading and compared it with that of a BBC newsreader, sentence by sentence, every evening after homework.
4. Long words often c________ learners who try to guess their meaning from the first few letters alone and never bother to check a dictionary or ask their teacher.

参考答案

一、重点单词词性转换。

1. pronunciation; pronounced
2. confusion; confusing
3. translation; translator
4. misunderstanding; misunderstood
5. expression; expressive
6. embarrassment; embarrassing
7. explanation; explanatory
8. remarkable; remarkably
9. humorous; humorously
10. grammatical; grammatically
11. ambiguity; ambiguously
12. understanding; understandable
13. difference; different
14. similarity; similarly
15. original; originally
16. clarify; clarity
17. simplify; simplicity
18. meaning; meaningful
19. reader; readable
20. speaker; spoken
21. writer; written
22. directly; indirect

二、根据括号里单词的正确形式填空。

1. confusing
2. pronunciation
3. translation
4. misunderstanding
5. embarrassing
6. expression
7. explanation
8. remarkable
9. humorous
10. grammatical
11. ambiguous
12. understandable
13. difference
14. similarity
15. originally
16. clarify
17. simplify
18. meaning
19. readable
20. Spoken
21. written
22. indirect
23. literally
24. confusion
25. embarrassment
26. pronounced
27. humorously
28. Remarkably
29. explanatory
30. translator

三、根据句子中首字母提示完成合适的单词填空。

1. vocabulary
2. grammar
3. pronunciation
4. confuse
5. confusion
6. translate
7. translation
8. misunderstand
9. misunderstanding
10. literally
11. phrase
12. accent
13. dialect
14. express
15. expression
16. remark
17. ambiguous
18. context
19. humour
20. humorous
21. embarrass
22. embarrassing
23. explanation
24. confusing
25. confused
26. translator
27. literal
28. embarrassment
29. pronounce
30. meaning

四、用括号里汉语提示完成单词填空。

1. vocabulary
2. grammar
3. pronunciation
4. confuse
5. confusion
6. translate
7. translation
8. translator
9. misunderstanding
10. literal
11. literally
12. phrase
13. accent
14. dialect
15. express
16. expression
17. remark
18. ambiguous
19. context
20. humour
21. humorous
22. embarrass
23. embarrassment
24. embarrassing
25. explanation
26. confusing
27. confused
28. grammatical
29. understandable
30. difference
31. similarity
32. origin
33. clarify
34. simplify
35. meaning
36. readable
37. spoken
38. written
39. indirect
40. remarkable