考点一 动词固定搭配
典型真题
例1：
The couple____their old house and sold it for a vast profit.（华南理工大学2015年）
A.did for B.did in C.did with D.did up
【名师点评】D。did for“对……有效”；“did in”杀害，搞垮；did with“处理，应付”；did up“整修”；根据句意，应选D项。句意：这对夫妇把老房子整修了一下，并且把它卖了一个好价钱。
例2：
Whatever games you take part in，you have to to the established rules of the game.（四川大学2015年）
A.confine B.confirm C.confront D.conform
【名师点评】D。选项中能与to搭配使用的动词只有confine和conform。confine to“只限于，关在……里面”；conform to“遵照，符合”。动词词组的宾语为既定的比赛规则，故使用conform to。
例3：
The statement said the people of Srebrenica____to the president of the United States and France to help halt the offensive.（北京大学2014年）
A.aroused B.ascribed C.acclaimed D.appealed
【名师点评】D。arouse“引起，唤醒，激发”；ascribe to“把……归于，归因于”；acclaim to“称赞，喝彩”；appeal to“呼吁，要求”。将选项代入语境，appeal to符合语境，表示民众向总统呼吁停止攻击。故答案为D。
实战演练
1.It is only when the inner skin is injured that the arrangement will be destroyed.Some criminals make use of this to remove their own finger-prints but this is a dangerous and rare step to____.
A.make B.take C.do D.adapt
2.They are____of free fresh fruit.They want to get back to their herds and start farming again.
A.seeking B.dreaming C.longing D.searching
3.Having passed what I considered the worst obstacle，our spirits rose.We____towards the left of the cliff，where the going was better，though rather steeper.
A.set B.got C.made D.took
4.He said the same region of the brain has been found in prior studies to play a role in motor control.“If you are driving along and you see a yellow light，you have to inhibit one response in order to____on the brake，”he said.
A.drive B.stamp C.step D.stop
5.If the ape-men had attempted to compete on those terms in the open，they would have
been____to failure and extinction.But they were endowed with enormous concealed advantages of a kind not possessed by any of their competitors.(https://www.daowen.com)
A.driven B.doomed C.forced D.led
6.Out in the open，however，this simple solution was not enough.Climbing a hill would have helped，but in many places the ground was flat.The ape-men____the only possible solution.
A.chose B.adopted C.accepted D.took
7.He and colleagues scanned the brains of 30 people—18 women and 12 men between18 and 36—who were shown pictures of faces expressing strong emotions.They were sked to____the feelings in words like sad or angry，or to choose between two gender specific names like“Sally or Harry”that matched the face.
A.describe B.generalize C.change D.categorize
8.Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and____a different response from every man who hears these words.Some feel proud when they receive the news，while others worry，wondering whether they will be good fathers.
A.bring down B.bring forth C.bring off D.bring in
9.Drunk drivers____one half of all fatal automobile accidents each year in the United States.Drinking is a leading cause of loss of income and of social and personal problems.
A.add to B.account for C.amount D.sum up
10.The doctors，____by the cardiologist Mark Eisenberg of McGill University，seem to view a bag of potato chips as the moral equivalent of a package of cigarettes.
A.preceded B.steered C.led D.pioneered
答案解析
1.B。take a step为固定搭配，意为“采取措施”。make a step“走一步”。故答案为B。
2.B。题目中空格后为of，四个选项中seek常与for，after搭配，long与for搭配，dream与of搭配，search与for搭配。因此B为正确答案。
3.C。make towards（=make for，go forwards，move in the direction of...）意为“朝……走去”，是固定搭配。故答案为C。
4.C。step on the brake意为“踩刹车”，为惯用搭配，用在此处符合语义。故答案为C。
5.B。be doomed to后一般接death，failure等一类的词，意为“注定……”。be driven to后常接madness，sorrow等一类的词。lead to一般为主动式。
6.D。take常与solution，action，measure搭配，表示“采取”（解决方法、行动、措施），与approach搭配，表示“采取”（立场、态度），在后两种情况下可与adopt互用。
7.D。根据文章上下文可以推断，此处是研究人员让接受调查的人用悲伤或生气等词来对他们所看到的图片中人的表情进行分类。categorize意为“以类别分类”，categorize sth.in（into）是习惯表达，故答案为D。
8.B。bring down“推翻，使……下降”；bring off“圆满完成”；bring in“引入，引进”；这三项不符合句意，且不能与response搭配。bring forth“产生，引起”，符合句意。故答案为B。
9.B。文章是要表达酒后驾车的司机占美国每年所有严重的机动车事故的一半。add to表示“增加”；amount与介词to搭配，意为“总计”；sum up意为“总结”，均不适合文章的意思。account for意为“占……”，为正确答案。
10.C。lead“领导”，led by为固定的词组，意为“在……领导或带领下”；precede“处
于……前面”；steer“掌握方向”；pioneer“领先”。故答案为C。