Unit2 A life's work词汇专项提升训练 2025-2026学年外研版高中英语选择性必修第三册

外研版高中英语选择性必修第三册

Unit2 A life's work词汇专项提升训练

一、重点单词词性转换

1. profession (n.) 职业 → ________ (adj.) 专业的 → ________ (adv.) 专业地
2. devote (v.) 献身；致力 → ________ (n.) 献身 → ________ (adj.) 忠诚的
3. dedicate (v.) 奉献 → ________ (n.) 奉献 → ________ (adj.) 尽心尽力的
4. commit (v.) 承诺；投入 → ________ (n.) 承诺 → ________ (adj.) 尽心尽力的
5. passion (n.) 热情 → ________ (adj.) 热情的 → ________ (adv.) 热情地
6. pursue (v.) 追求 → ________ (n.) 追求 → ________ (n.) 追求者
7. achieve (v.) 实现 → ________ (n.) 成就 → ________ (adj.) 可实现的
8. contribute (v.) 贡献 → ________ (n.) 贡献 → ________ (n.) 贡献者
9. retire (v.) 退休 → ________ (n.) 退休 → ________ (adj.) 退休的
10. reputation (n.) 名声 → ________ (adj.) 声誉好的 → ________ (adj.) 与声誉有关的
11. work (v.) 工作 → ________ (n.) 工人 → ________ (n.) 车间
12. skill (n.) 技能 → ________ (adj.) 熟练的 → ________ (adv.) 熟练地
13. vocation (n.) 天职 → ________ (adj.) 职业的 → ________ (adv.) 职业上
14. employ (v.) 雇用 → ________ (n.) 雇主 → ________ (n.) 雇员
15. apply (v.) 申请 → ________ (n.) 申请 → ________ (n.) 申请人
16. train (v.) 培训 → ________ (n.) 培训 → ________ (adj.) 受过训练的
17. qualify (v.) 使合格 → ________ (n.) 资格 → ________ (adj.) 合格的
18. succeed (v.) 成功 → ________ (n.) 成功 → ________ (adj.) 成功的
19. inspire (v.) 激励 → ________ (n.) 灵感 → ________ (adj.) 鼓舞人心的
20. master (n.) 大师 → ________ (n.) 精通 → ________ (adj.) 精湛的
21. patient (adj.) 有耐心的 → ________ (n.) 耐心 → ________ (adv.) 耐心地
22. humble (adj.) 谦逊的 → ________ (n.) 谦逊 → ________ (adv.) 谦逊地

二、根据括号里单词的正确形式填空

1. Mr Aldridge, who had taught chemistry at the same school for thirty-eight years, was ________ (devote) to his pupils and often stayed behind to help those who feared the subject.
2. Her ________ (dedicate) to the small hospital in the hills was never rewarded with money, yet the villagers named the new ward after her when she finally left in 2014.

3. The young vet was so ________ (commit) to saving the injured owl that he drove sixty miles at midnight to fetch a machine that could warm its broken wing.
4. A ________ (passion) collector of maps since childhood, she could explain why a river had moved two miles west, and dealers soon began to seek her advice.
5. His first ________ (profession) match, which lasted only nineteen minutes, taught him more about preparation than three years of easy victories had done.
6. In ________ (pursue) of a cure for the disease that had blinded his brother, he read every paper published in Europe between 1890 and 1930.
7. The ________ (achieve) she was proudest of was not the medal but the fact that eleven girls from her village had taken up rowing after watching her race.
8. Although he never sought fame, his ________ (contribute) to the design of the bridge was recognised in 1998, when the city named a small square after him.
9. After his ________ (retire) in 2007, the old carpenter still rose at five and walked to the workshop, where younger men were waiting for advice they could not buy.
10. Her ________ (expert) in soil chemistry, built up over twenty years of fieldwork, persuaded the ministry to fund a survey of every farm in the valley.
11. A ________ (skill) pair of hands can repair a violin that others would throw away, and Mr Chen has rescued more than four hundred instruments from the rubbish heap.
12. The ________ (vocation) school opened in 2011 with forty pupils, most of whom had been told by their previous teachers that they would never pass an examination.
13. Her ________ (employ) allowed her to finish at four every Friday so that she could collect her son from a school twelve miles away, which few firms would permit.
14. His ________ (apply) for the job arrived a day after the deadline, so the manager put it aside, and it was found, unopened, in a drawer three years later.
15. Every nurse in the team had been ________ (train) in the same hospital, where the matron demanded perfect handwriting, yet none had ever worked in a village without running water.
16. She was the only ________ (qualify) doctor within fifty miles, so when the storm closed the mountain road in January, the whole valley depended on her alone.
17. The ________ (succeed) of the night school, which began with nine students in a church hall, surprised its founders, for it now teaches more than six hundred adults.
18. Her ________ (inspire) came from a broken chair she found on a beach in Cornwall, which she turned into a lamp that later sold for two thousand pounds.

19. His ________ (master) of the old printing technique took twelve years to complete, and he still keeps the first page he ever set, stained with ink.
20. Repairing a watch demands ________ (patient) that few people possess, which is why the shop on the corner has trained only two apprentices since 1985.
21. He accepted the national prize with the ________ (humble) of a man who had spent forty years repairing roads and never expected anyone to notice.
22. The ________ (legacy) of the two brothers can still be seen in the orchards they planted, which now feed three villages and employ forty pickers each autumn.
23. Their ________ (career) took very different paths after university, yet both ended up teaching in the same town, one in a school and one in a prison.
24. His ________ (devote) to the orchestra, which he conducted for forty years without a single paid holiday, was rewarded with a concert in his honour last June.
25. The company praised her ________ (commit) to safety after she reported a cracked beam that could have brought the whole warehouse down during the winter storms.
26. He spoke so ________ (passion) about the need for clean water that three engineers in the audience offered to join his project before the talk had ended.
27. Although she sang only at weddings, she was ________ (profession) trained and could read music that most of the guests had never seen before.
28. The idea, first ________ (pursue) by a German engineer in 1902, was abandoned for sixty years before a Japanese team proved that it could work.
29. A target of two new customers a week is ________ (achieve) for a small shop, whereas a target of twenty would simply frighten the staff away.
30. The ________ (contribute) to the fund included a retired teacher who gave half her pension and a boy who emptied his money box at the village shop.

三、根据句子中首字母提示完成合适的单词填空

1. Winning the county championship at sixty-two was his greatest a________, he said, because he had been told at school that his weak heart would keep him in a chair.
2. At fourteen he became an a________ in a printing shop, where he swept the floor for a year before anyone allowed him to touch the heavy iron press.
3. Her c________ as a train driver began by accident, when the man who was meant to teach her fell ill and she was handed the timetable on her second day.
4. A c________ who had worked beside him for twenty years described him as quiet, stubborn and utterly reliable, the sort of man who never once lost his temper in the lab.

参考答案

一、重点单词词性转换。

1. professional; professionally
2. devotion; devoted
3. dedication; dedicated
4. commitment; committed
5. passionate; passionately
6. pursuit; pursuer
7. achievement; achievable
8. contribution; contributor
9. retirement; retired
10. reputable; reputational
11. worker; workshop
12. skilful; skilfully
13. vocational; vocationally
14. employer; employee
15. application; applicant
16. training; trained
17. qualification; qualified
18. success; successful
19. inspiration; inspiring
20. mastery; masterly
21. patience; patiently
22. humility; humbly

二、根据括号里单词的正确形式填空。

1. devoted
2. dedication
3. committed
4. passionate
5. professional
6. pursuit
7. achievement
8. contribution
9. retirement
10. expertise
11. skilful
12. vocational
13. employer
14. application
15. trained
16. qualified
17. success
18. inspiration
19. mastery
20. patience
21. humility
22. legacies
23. careers
24. devotion
25. commitment
26. passionately
27. professionally
28. pursued
29. achievable
30. contributors

三、根据句子中首字母提示完成合适的单词填空。

1. achievement
2. apprentice
3. career
4. colleague
5. commitment
6. contribution
7. dedication
8. devotion
9. expertise
10. employer
11. legacy
12. mastery
13. mentor
14. passion
15. profession
16. pursuit
17. patience
18. promotion
19. qualification
20. reputation
21. retirement
22. resign
23. skill
24. skilled
25. salary
26. training
27. trade
28. vocation
29. workshop
30. dedicated

四、用括号里汉语提示完成单词填空。

1. profession
2. career
3. devotion
4. dedication
5. commitment
6. passionate
7. professional
8. pursuit
9. achievement
10. contribution
11. retirement
12. expertise
13. skilful
14. vocational
15. employer
16. application
17. trained
18. qualified
19. success
20. inspiration
21. mastery
22. patience
23. humility
24. legacy
25. reputation
26. vocation
27. colleague
28. apprentice
29. workshop
30. salary
31. promotion
32. resign
33. skill
34. mentor
35. craft
36. lifelong
37. selfless
38. persistence
39. devoted
40. training