考点三 形容词固定搭配
典型真题
例1：
Many linguists believe that evolution is 39 for our ability to produce and use language.（浙江大学2012年）
39.A.essential B.available C.reliable D.responsible
【名师点评】D。固定短语。be responsible for意为“对……负责，是……的缘由”。其他选项不与for搭配。故答案为D。
例2：
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill，which makes the European convention on Human Rights legally binding in Britain，laid down that everybody was 45 to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.“Press freedoms will be in safe hands 46 our British judges，”he said.（山东大学2014年）
45.A.authorized B.credited C.entitled D.qualified
46.A.with B.to C.from D.by
【名师点评】
45.C。固定搭配。be authorized to do sth.“被授权做某事”；be credited to sth.“归因于……”；be entitled to sth.“有权得到……”，be entitled to privacy是指“给予隐私权”。故答案为C。
46.A。固定搭配。be in safe hands with sb./sth.“因为有某人负责，……会很安全”，为固定搭配。故答案为A。
实战演练
1.But most employers are____to let them do so.The government，which has stepped back from its traditional role as a regulator of work time，should take steps to make shorter hours possible.
A.discouraged B.unwilling C.forbidden D.inclined
2.In the future，such tolerance is almost____to increase.But a headlong plunge oward unbridled individualism is also dangerous.The ideal approach may be to achieve a complementary fusion of the collectivism of Japan’s traditional community and the individualism of the new age.
A.known B.supposed C.prone D.certain
3.The landscape and figurative traditions developed together in the 19th century in an atmosphere that was increasingly____“painterly”qualities of the interaction of light and color and the expressive qualities of paint handling.
A.concerned with B.concerning C.concerning with D.concerned for
4.They developed customized software to help them efficiently locate，identify and edit material stored on the Internet.The name Yahoo is____to stand for“Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”，but David Filo and Jerry Yang insist that they select the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
A.doomed B.bound C.designated D.supposed
5.This leads us to the conclusion that violence is not a consequence but the cause.People who are originally____to violence may get irritated by games and perform violence in the“real world”.But in this case violence in games is a simple justification of the violent nature of the player.
A.likely B.probable C.prone D.credited
6.This gives rise to enmity between these two groups，and may sow the seeds of social unrest.However，all the suffering mentioned above may be less serious and more too tolerable compared with another headache migrant workers are____with their children’s education.Nobody wants their sons or daughters to grow up only to toil and be bullied like them.
A.engaged B.confronted C.connected D.preoccupied
7.As a result of this outpour which he termed as“repression”，they felt easy，and were more____to suggestions.Repression，Sigmund pointed was an obstacle to the normal functioning of the human being and if suppressed for a long time can alter the mental health of an individual.
A.prone B.wide C.open D.disposed
8.They said talking about negative feelings activates a part of the brain____for impulse control.“This region of the brain seems to be involved in putting on the brakes，”said University of California，Los Angeles researcher Matthew Lieberman，whose study appears in the journal Psychological Science.
A.suitable B.responsive C.applicable D.responsible
9.Using census data for more than one million people in Austria，Denmark and Australia，scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in the northern German town of Restock found the month of birth was____life expectancy over the age of50.
A.related to B.concerned with C.charged with D.vulnerable to
10.When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby normal food，it’s in the hot weeks of summer when babies are____to infections of the digestive system.
A.prone B.likely C.accessible D.dedicated
答案解析
1.B。be unwilling to do sth.意为“不愿意做某事”，为固定搭配。故答案为B。
2.C。be prone to指的是“易于……”，指一种倾向。故答案为C。
3.A。be concerned with为固定搭配，意为“涉及，与……有关”。故答案为A。
4.D。根据文意，应填“被认为是”，而be supposed to是固定搭配。其他几个也可以跟to连用，但是be doomed to“注定要……”；be bound to“肯定会……”；be designated to“被指定，选定用作某个特别的用途”，均不合题意。
5.C。be prone to是固定的短语，意为“有……的倾向”，后面一般接名词；be likely to意为“有可能……”，后面一般接动词；be credited to意为“钱入账”，后面一般接表示“账户”的名词。故答案为C。
6.B。be confronted with为固定的短语，意为“面临着”，移民工面临的另一个让人头疼的问题就是子女的教育问题；be engaged with“与……订婚”；be connected with“与……关联”；be preoccupied with“沉浸于……”，均不符合语义。故答案为B。
7.C。be open to为固定的表达法，意思是“某人对某物不太确信”，介词to后面经常接诸如suggestion，criticism，interpretation，discussion等 词；be prone to和be disposed to意思是“具有……的倾向”；be wide to“宽阔的”。
8.D。选项中只有suitable和responsible可以与for连用，本句是说“谈心能够刺激大脑中负责控制冲动的部分”，由此可知答案为responsible。suitable常与for连用，意为“适当的，相配的”；applicable常与to连用，意为“可适用的，可应用的”；responsive常与to连用，表示“反应的；回答的”。
9.A。be related to与……相关，由上下文文意可知考查的是出生月份和50岁以上人寿命的关联性。be concerned with“关注，关心”；be charged with“被指控”；be vulnerable to“容易受伤的，容易受到……袭击的”。
10.A。be prone to“有……倾向的，易于……的”；be accessible to“能够接近的，达到的”；be dedicated to“奉献给，贡献给”。考点四 介词固定搭配(https://www.daowen.com)
典型真题
例1：
I looked at mum and thought she____was as nice as she looked maybe all our lives would have been better.（中科院2016年）
A.only if B.if only C.even if D.even though
【名师点评】B。if only为固定搭配，表示“要是……就好了”，与句中would have been的虚拟结构呼应。故答案为B。句意为：我看着妈妈想：要是她能像看起来那么好就好了，那样我们的生活可能会好过些。
例2：
They bought the land with an eye____building a school for children in the village.（首都师范大学2014年）
A.to B.of C.at D.with
【名师点评】A。with an eye to sth/doing sth为固定搭配，相当于for the purpose of，意为“以……为目标，着眼于，考虑到”。句意为：他们买这块的目的是要为村里的孩子建一所学校。故答案为A。
实战演练
1.When Dr.Cheek videotaped shy people talking to strangers，and then had raters evaluate how socially skilled the people were，he found that，in the____of other people，the shy group had few obvious problems.
A.name B.terms C.ease D.eyes
2.Though this is very convenient for both buyers and sellers，it should not be forgotten that cheques are not real money they are quite valueless in themselves.A shop-keeper always runs a certain risk when he accepts a cheque and he is quite____his rights if，on occasion，he refuses to do so.
A.within B.beyond C.without D.out of
3.Police and fire protection and sanitation services are also the responsibilities of local government.Private enterprise in many ways，for the____of assuring that business serves the best interests of the people as a whole.
A.assertion B.purpose C.asset D.assumption
4.Thus，the“typical”Frenchman produces more，earns more and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago.He gains in creature comforts and ease of life.What he loses____is his sense of personal uniqueness，or individuality.
A.to some extent B.by some extent
C.to some extension D.by some extension
5.Many people invest in the stock market hoping to find the next Microsoft and Dell.However，I know____personal experience how difficult this really is.For more than a year，I was spending hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day in investing in the market.
A.at B.in C.from D.by
6.He liked to carry a small steel needle-like tool strapped to his leg and he used this in of a key.Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison.They bound him in chains and locked him up，but he freed himself in an instant.
A.use B.place C.view D.absence
7.The latter may commit crimes____lack of adequate parental control.All theories，however，are tentative and are subject to criticism.Changes in the social structure may indirectly affect juvenile crime rates.
A.on B.in C.for D.with
8.However，to their disappointment，they find that their kids are____a serious disadvantage in this regard.They have to go to special schools for migrant workers’children，which are cheap but rather ill equipped with teachers and teaching facilities.If they drop out，they have no choice but to do hard manual jobs like their parents.
A.in B.at C.over D.on
9.I first met Albert Einstein in 1935，at the famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton，N.J.He had been among the first to be invited to the Institute，and was offered carte blanche as to salary.____the director’s dismay，Einstein asked for an impossible sum it was far too small.The director had to plead with him to accept alarger salary.
A.In B.To C.For D.Of
10.More than 40 thousand readers told us what they looked for in close relationships，what they expected of friends，what they were willing to give in____，and how satisfied they were with the quality of their friendships.
A.return B.reply C.addition D.turn
答案解析
1.D。in the eyes of sb.意为“在某人看来”；in the name of sb.意为“以某人的名义”。根据上下文，选用eyes最合逻辑。
2.A。within one’s right意为“有权……，在某人的权限内”。故答案为A。
3.B。for the purpose of意为“出于……的目的”。故答案为B。
4.A。to some extent意为“在某种程度上”，其他的选项都不对。故答案为A。
5.C。句意为：我通过亲身经历才知道这绝非易事。from experience“凭经验，从经验中”。故答案为C。
6.B。in place of为固定搭配，意为“代替……位置”，符合句意。故答案为B。
7.C。选项中只有for可与lack of连用，意为“因为缺乏”。故答案为C。
8.B。at a disadvantage意思是“处于困难或者劣势的状态中而难以成功”，让农民工苦恼的是，他们发现自己的小孩在受教育方面处于严重劣势；该短语中的介词at不能用其他介词代替。故答案为B。
9.B。to one’s dismay意为“使某人沮丧的是……”，为固定搭配。故答案为B。
10.A。in return是固定搭配，意为“作为回报，报偿”。本句意为“他们愿意用什么来回报朋友”。其他三个选项都可以和in搭配，但在此处不符合句意。in reply“答复”；in addition“除此以外还，除了”；in turn“轮流”。