（一）课内基础练习

《内部教材》节选

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

1. Animals in the zoo have lost the ________ to catch food for themselves. （capable, capability）

【正确答案】capability

【答案解析】此处定冠词the后应填入名词。capable形容词，有能力的、能胜任的； capability名词，能力。句意是，动物园里的动物已经丧失了为自己觅食的能力。答案为capability。

2. It is the ________ of wit and political analysis that makes his articles so readable. （combine, combination）

【正确答案】combination

【答案解析】本句是it is…that… 强调句型。定冠词the后缺少名词做句子的主语。combine动词，结合、把……结合；combination名词，结合体、联合物。句意是，他的生花妙笔与政治分析相得益彰，使他的文章脍炙人口。答案为combination。

3. She went through a period of emotional ________ after her marriage broke up. （adjust, adjustment）

【正确答案】adjustment

【答案解析】本句宾语不完整，缺少一个名词。adjust动词，适应、习惯；adjustment名词，适应、习惯。句意是，离婚后，她经历了一段情感上的适应期。答案为adjustment。

4. His ________ behaviour at the dinner table caused much embarrassment. （ignorance, ignorant）

【正确答案】ignorant

【答案解析】此处需要一个形容词修饰名词behaviour。ignorant形容词，无知的、愚蠢的；ignorance名词，无知、愚蠢。句意是，他就餐时表现得很无知，引起了不少尴尬。答案为ignorant。

5. The bad reviews of her new book were very ________ to her. （hurt, hurtful）

【正确答案】hurtful

【答案解析】be动词were后边应填入形容词。hurt动词，伤害；hurtful形容词，有伤害的、有害的。句意是，她新书得到的差评让她很受伤。答案为hurtful。

6. She had decided to settle ________ in France. （permanent, permanently）

【正确答案】permanently

【答案解析】这里需要一个副词修饰动词settle。permanent形容词，永久的、长期的；permanently副词，永久地、长期地。句意是，她已经决定在法国永久定居。答案为permanently。

（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. importance
2. skinny
3. statement
4. familiarity, unfamiliar
5. useful, used, useless
6. happily, happiness, unhappy
7. valuable
8. felt, felt, feeling
9. action, activity, active, actor
10. personal, personality
11. better, best
12. friendly, friendship, friendless
13. easily, uneasy
14. behavior
15. enjoyable, enjoyment
16. appearance, disappear
17. development, developing, developed
18. careful, careless, carefulness, carelessness
19. saw, seen
20. began, begun, beginning, beginner
21. went, gone
22. combination
23. natural, naturally
24. possibly, possibility, impossible
25. difference, differentiate.
26. growth, grew, grown
27. comfortable, uncomfortable
28. embarrassed, embarrassing, embarrassment
29. pressure
30. hurtful
31. ignorance
32. healthy, unhealthy
33. dependent, independent, independence
34. helpful, helpless, helper
35. strength, strengthen
36. thought, thoughtful, thinker
37. worried, worrying
38. height
39. met, met, meeting
40. weight
41. criticism, critical, critic
42. adjustment
43. proud
44. ability, enable, disabled, disability
45. racial
46. expectation
47. knowledge, knew, known, known, unknown
48. improvement
49. nutritious
50. alike, unlike, dislike, likely

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