考点二 名词固定搭配
典型真题
例1：
The whole country was in____for Christmas until mid-December.（华南理工大学2015年）
A.suspension B.suspense C.suspending D.suspender
【名师点评】A。in suspension“暂停”，符合放假的语境。in suspending“悬浮”；in suspense“悬而未决”，suspender“悬挂物”。故答案为A。
例2：
Pattern recognition，analytical thinking and similar abilities need to be stimulated from birth onward.To destroy this natural curiosity or to attenuate the joy of discovery is the greatest disservice we do 53 the developing person.（复旦大学2012年）
【名师点评】to。考生需要先分析句子的成分。句子的主语由动词不定式To destroy this natural curiosity or to attenuate the joy of discovery构成，谓语为is，后面的we do是省略that的定语从句，修饰disservice，句子表语为the greatest disservice____the developing person，disservice后接to为固定用法，意为“对……伤害”。
例3：
With the gradual improvement of transportation and communications，farmers have now had easier____to cities and towns.（首都师范大学2014年）
A.access B.reach C.approach D.touch
【名师点评】A。have access to为固定搭配，意思为“到达，接触”。在句中表示的意思为：农民们去城市和城镇更容易。故答案为A。
实战演练
1.The widespread inhuman treatment of migrant workers has aroused much indignation among not only the workers themselves，but also city dwellers with a____of justice.Apart from exhausting labor，low pay and maltreatment，migrant people have to put up with some city dwellers’prejudice against them.
A.notion B.conception C.idea D.sense
2.“A job that challenges and interests a mother and gives her an opportunity to exercise judgment and solve problems clearly has positive consequences for her children’s behavior，”indicates____professor of sociology Elizabeth Monahan.
A.vice B.deputy C.associate D.junior
3.Doing so would not only invalidate the patent，it would expose the company and its brand to serious damage when revealed.Apple is many things；stupid is not one ofthem.Taking Steve’s contribution____the patents as legitimate，what lessons might there be in the revelation
A.with B.in C.to D.on
4.____with money，and then more money，in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life，has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen.
A.Care B.Worry C.Concern D.Anxiety
5.Offices，shops，and factories are discovering the greater efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms.In almost all____of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output.
A.lines B.areas C.walks D.classes(https://www.daowen.com)
6.Since the late 1950s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush，tension and the____of material gain.The so-called Americanization of France has its critics.
A.pursuit B.discovery C.search D.research
7.In a panic，I sold all my stocks in the company，paying off margin debt with cash advances from my____card.Because I owned so many shares，I lost a small fortune，half of it from money I borrowed from the brokerage company.
A.credit B.identity C.identification D.loan
8.When we take education too seriously，we put standardized____scores above children，we put lesson plans above teachers，and we put on our blinders，only to see a rather small segment of the child—that segment that can be got easily rather than looking at the child as a whole.
A.paper B.checks C.test D.quizzes
9.“The traditional American affinity for sports and____for education combined to form an unbeatable attraction.Every Saturday，educated sports heroes performed for an appreciative audience.
A.support B.consideration C.reverence D.hesitation
10.Even for working people whose incomes are going up，inflation can be a problem.The____of living goes up，too.People who work must have even more money to keep up their standard of living.
A.price B.level C.cost D.standard
答案解析
1.D。a sense of justice是固定的名词短语，意为“正义感”，移民工遭受的非人道待遇不仅激起了工人们的极大愤怒，而且激起了那些具有正义感的城市居民的愤怒。notion和conception“观念，概念”；idea“想法，主意”，无此搭配。故答案为D。
2.C。associate professor副教授。
3.C。contribution与to为固定搭配，意为“捐助；促成；对……贡献”。
4.C。care后面通常跟for/about，意为“关心，在乎”；worry后常跟about/over，意为“担心，焦虑”；anxiety后常接about，意为“忧虑，担心”；只有concern后可跟with，意为“关注，关心”，此外concern后也可跟about/for，意为“关心，担心”。
5.A。all lines of work意为“各行各业”，all walks of life也有类似的含义，可指“各行各业”，也可指“各色人”等。
6.A。pursuit意为“追求，寻找”，与of搭配；search虽也有“寻找，追寻”之意，但后面常跟介词for。discovery意为“发现”，research意为“研究，调查”，与上下文意思不符。
7.A。credit card是固定搭配，意为“信用卡”。根据上文debt可知答案为A。
8.C。习惯用法test scores，意为“测试的分数”。
9.C。reverence for sth.为固定搭配，意为“对……的尊敬，敬仰”，符合本题题意。
10.C。the cost of living为常用搭配，意为“生活费用”。根据词语搭配和上下文用词线索，可推断出答案为C。