新概念英语第三册语法练习：特殊用法及习惯用法

新概念英语第三册语法练习：特殊用法及习惯用法

英语中有大量的特殊用法及惯用法，学习者应注意其使用，下面所给练习题为自测题：

1. Advances in medicine have resulted in ________.

A. a longer living expectancy

B. an increase in life expectancy

C. an increase in living

D. more years for everyone

2. The fire department had to be summoned after the bush fire on the corner lot got out of

________.

A. turn

B. the question

C. hand

D. sight

3. I am ________ your temper.

A. fed up by

B. fed up with

C. fed up because of

D. fed up to

4. This kind of work is ________ me.

A. unfamiliar with

B. unfamiliar by

C. unfamiliar to

D. not familiar of

5. Jean ________ a cold when she was in Los Angeles.

A. came by

B. came down with

C. came into

D. came off with

6. All the evidence I have collected ________ to the fact that he is a shop lifter.

A. boils up

B. boils on

C. boils off

D. boils down

7. — Do you like those kinds of cigarette.

— ________ cigarette agrees with me.

A. Hardly no

B. Nearly no

C. Rarely no

D. Almost none

8. — I am surprised that the administration approved of the protest.

— I am too. It usually frowns ________ such demonstration.

A. on

B. with

C. for

D. to

9. — Does Jone have brown hair?

— Yes, in fact it's quite similar in shape ________ yours.

A. as

B. with

C. to

D. like

10. — I thought you had planned to practice the piano today. — I did nothing but ________ letter all day.

A. write

B. to write

C. wrote

D. writing

11. — I think John will win the race. — Yes, he started off ________ a great speed.

A. with

B. at

C. through

D. by

12. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, a town in the eastern part of the state, was named ________ one of the greatest American athletes.

A. in honor of

B. the honors

C. for honored

D. to honoring

13. — Are you still trying to convince him? — No, there is no point ________ with him.

A. by arguing

B. for arguing

C. with arguing

D. in arguing

14. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once ________ cacti and sagebrush could live.

A. nor

B. not the

C. none other

D. nothing but

15. — Can you ride a horse? — No, I never had the chance ________.

A. for learning it

B. for learning how

C. how to learn it

D. to learn how