動詞不定式和動名詞在TOEEL測試中不算活躍的考題,但出題頻率比較穩定,即不頻繁,亦無間斷。命題焦占主要集中在動詞不定式和動名詞的基本功能及正確形式,即(1)不定式to后面接原形動詞,(2)動名詞具有動詞和名詞兩重功能,介詞后面的動詞必須以動名詞形式出現。不定式和動名詞常考題型。
1. 不定型工to后面接原形動詞
全真例題分析
(1) Astronauts circling the Earth may get to seen sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day. (93.8)
[答案] C 動詞不定型式的標志to后面應接動詞原形see。
(2) Using their bills as needles, tailorbirds sew large leaves together with plant fiber to forming their nests. (90.10)
[答案] D to forming應改為to form正確的不定式形式。
(3) The poetry of e.e cummings illustrates the way in which some poets bend graminastical rules as they strive to expression their insights. (91.10)
[答案] D動詞不定式to后面只能接原形動詞,不能接名詞。
(4) The dromedary camel is raised especially to racing. (91.1)
[答案] D這是一個非常簡單的動詞不定式錯誤形式的考題。Recing應改為race,與to組成不定式。
2. 動詞不定式作目的狀語
解題要點 不定式結構在句中可以作多種成分,目的狀語則是TOEEL常考到的形式。動詞不定型式作目的狀語的命題主要分布在structure (1-15題)中。
全真例題分析
(1) A fuel is a substance used ------- light, heat .or energy .
(A) generating
(B) generates
(C) to generate
(D) it is generating
[答案] C 根據句意及結構,此句固選擇動詞不定式作目的狀語。
(2) ------ stereophonic phonograph records, two recordings are made of the same musical performance.
(A) Creates
(B) Created
(C) The creating of
(D) To create (92.10)
[答案] D 這是典型的不定式作目的狀語的句子。目的狀語放在句首是表示強調。
(3) ------- time and labor, cartoonists generally draw the hands of their characters with only three fingers and a thumb.
(A) Saved
(B) Saves
(C) To save
(D) The saving (91.5)
[答案] C 此句與上面例題結構相同。不定式作目的狀語,且放在句首表示強調。
3. 動名詞的正確用法
解題要點 有關名詞的考題并不很多,但有一個常出現的題型;介詞后面的動詞一定要用動名詞形式,作介詞的賓語。
全真例題分析
(1) Microwave cooking can be accureately described as the first absolutely new method of prepare food since the discovery of fire (94.1)
[答案] C 介詞of后面應接動名詞形式,即of preparing。
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