prefer词汇短语和句型突破复习精析精练
【原句呈现】Instead, I prefer to exercise at home, and it seems that I am always going on a diet.
(查一查字典“prefer”后面究竟跟动词的什么形式)
【考点聚焦】
①They preferred to stay at home rather than go to the moves.他们宁可呆在家里,也不愿去看电影。
②He was very diligent; even on holidays, he preferred doing something to doing nothing.
他很勤劳,即使在假日里,他也宁愿做点什么事,而不愿闲着。
③He preferred to speak without referring to his notes.他更喜欢不看演讲稿作报告。
④I prefer you not to stay there too long.我宁原你在那里不要呆太久。
prefer(sb.)to do sth.更喜欢(某人)做……
prefer to do ...rather than do ...宁可做……也不做……
prefer sth./doing ...to sth./doing ...与……相比更喜欢……;宁愿……,不愿……
不知不觉背单词
随时随地背单词
新概念英语青少版
【关键一点】
prefer to ...结构中,to 后接动词原形; 在prefer ...to ...结构中to为介词,to 后接动名词。
表示“宁愿……也不愿……”的同义结构还有:
would do. . . rather than do… would rather do. . . than do…
【考题研读】单项选择题
①Rather than _______ my child the results of the exercises directly, I prefer _______ him how to do them.
A. to tell, to teach
B. tell, to teach
C. telling, teaching
D. tell, teaching
【答案与解析】B。句意:我宁愿教我的孩子怎样做练习题,而不是直接告诉他答案。本句采用了非正常的语序。prefer to do sth. rather than do sth.为固定 结构,意为“宁愿做……而不愿做……”。
②He prefers _______ indoors _______ out this afternoon.
A. to stay; to go
B. staying; to go
C. to stay; to going
D. staying; to going
【答案与解析】D。prefer doing ...to doing ...结构。该结构中to为介词。句意:他今天下午宁愿待在家里也不愿意出去。
Word power, Grammar and usage & Task(Ps46-57)
6.The children insisted ______ there on foot.
A.they going B.they would go C.on their going D.going
7.He still remembers ______ to Shanghai when he was very young.
A.taking B.being taken C.taken D.having taken
8.______ the railway station,we had a break,only ______ the train had left.
A.Arriving at;to find B.Coming to;discovering that
C.On arriving at;finding out D.Hurrying to;to have found out
9.With the boy ______ the way,we had no trouble ______ the way ______ to Zhongshan
Park.
A.leading;finding;leading B.to lead;found;to lead
C.led;finding;led D.leading;found;led
10.______ these pictures,I couldn’t help thinking of those days when I was in Being
and ______ from the top of a thirty-storeyed building,Beijing looks more
beautiful.
A.Seeing;seen B.Seen;seeing C.Seeing;seeing D.Seen;seen
