单选题
Our proposal may not be 100 percent satisfaction guaranteed, but it ______ us almost two weeks to work it out, and I believe it works.
- (A) took
- (B) spent
- (C) cost
- (D) needed
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[理由] 本句测试表“花费”的动词take、spend、cost的用法:
1) take须与“时间”连用,用于下列结构中:
sth+takes+sb+时间+to V
从事……花费某人若干时间
=it+takes+sb+时间+to v
[例] The job took me two hours to finish.
=It took me two hours to finish the job.
(我花了两小时完成这项工作。)
2) spend须以“人”作主语,用于下列结构中:
sb+spends+时间+V-ing
某人花若干时间从事……(未必做完)
sb+spends+金钱+V-ing
某人花若干钱……
[例] I spent two hours working on the problem.
(我花了两个小时研究这个问题。)
Mary spends a lot of money buying new clothes every month.
(玛丽每个月花很多钱买衣服。)
3) cost须与表“金钱”的名词连用,用于下列结构中:
sth+cost+sb+金钱 某人花若干钱购买某物
=it+cost+sb+金钱+to V
[例] The trip costs me$200.
=It costs me$200 to take the trip.
(这趟旅游花了我200美元。)
根据上述,原句空格前有虚词it,空格后有US作间接宾语,almost two weeks(几乎两个星期)是时间名词作直接宾语,且之后有10引导的不定式短语,得知空格内应置took以合乎语意及用法,故(A)应为正选。
(D)need是及物动词,表“需要”时,主语必须是“人”,即:
[例] It needs me two hours to finish the job.(×)
→I need two hours to finish the job.(√)
(我需要两个小时完成这项工作。)