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Directions: Complete each of the following sentences with the correct choice of the words given in the brackets.

1.I ________ of him; he can't keep a job for more than six months.（despair, despairing）

【正确答案】despair

【答案解析】despair动词，绝望，丧失信心。短语搭配despair of对……绝望，此句注意时态，从后半句可知此句话是一般现在时，所以不用加ing，不用进行时。答案为despair。

2.I hope the divorce won't have a ________ effect on the children.（negative, negation）

【正确答案】negative

【答案解析】negative形容词，意为消极的，有害的。短语搭配have a negative effect on somebody意思是对某人有消极影响。答案为negative。

3.The mayor has been meeting with city council members ________.（individual, individually）

【正确答案】individually

【答案解析】individual是形容词，意为一个人的。此句需要用其副词形式individually来修饰动词meet，意为单独地，个别地。答案为individually。

4.The competition is a lot ________ than what it was even a few years back.（tough, tougher）

【正确答案】tougher

【答案解析】tough是形容词，意思是艰难的，棘手的。不选择原形是因为此句话是比较级，注意句子中比较级的标志词than，所以tough加比较级-er后缀，构成tougher。这句话意思是竞争比几年前艰难的多。答案为tougher。

5.There are a lot of other great things to do in this ________ city.（incredible, incredibly）

【正确答案】incredible

【答案解析】incredible是形容词，意为难以置信的。而副词incredibly意思是极端地，极其，此句需要一个形容词，来修饰后面的名词city，所以选择incredible。答案为incredible。

6.For many people cars usually ________ personal freedom.（symbol, symbolize）

【正确答案】symbolize

【答案解析】symbolize是动词，意为象征，代表。而symbol是名词，此句子缺动词，故选symbolize。答案为symbolize。

（二）单词变形（按照要求正确填写单词的适当形式，可借助词典等工具）

1. desperate, desperation
2. development, developing, developed
3. beauty
4. realize, really, unreal, reality
5. worried
6. won, won, winner
7. relation
8. lost, lost, lost, loss.
9. forgot, forgotten
10. different, difference, differentiate
11. hopeful, hopefully, hopeless, hopelessness
12. boring, bored, boredom
13. wore, worn
14. easy, uneasy, easily
15. manager, management
16. felt, felt, feeling.
17. strength, strengthen
18. fell, fallen
19. symbolize, symbolic
20. took, taken
21. distant
22. beginning, beginner, began, begun
23. thought, thinker, thought, thought
24. finding, found, found

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