单选题 To: All staff
From: Shane Martin, Director, Human Resources
September 30
Please (147) the schedule on the company Intranet to see when your department's computer system will be taken offline for upgrades set for later this week. Some departments may be adversely (148) by this event. Yours may be one of these if it normally needs to stay online continuously. We expect that all departments will experience productivity increases from these faster, better systems. We therefore ask you to be (149) with this process. Thank you.

单选题 A. humble
B. sensitive
C. diligent
D. patient
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这道题考查的是惯用词组。解这道题不能根据介词作答,这一点我们要注意。因为这篇文章是发给“All staff(全体员工)”的“memo(公司内部文件)”,所以是很正式的文章。文章以“please”开头,包含了“命令”的意味。空格后面紧接着是“the schedule(日程表)”,所以从单词的搭配来看,(B)“look over(查看)”是最合适的。
单选题 A. turn on
B. look over
C. make out
D. run through
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】这道题考查的是词性,题目中的选项都是“affect(对~有影响)”的变形,词性各不相同。我们在Part 5中也经常看到类似的题目,它只是考查空格内单词的词性。因为这道题的空格前面有be动词,后面有“by”,所以我们可以迅速作出判断,空格内应该填“被动语态”。试试将(A)填入空格,即“Some departments may beaffected”,意为“可能会有一些部门受到影响”,意思通顺,所以是(A)。
单选题 A. affected
B. affection
C. affecting
D. affective
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这道题考查的是形容词,要求考生分辨出各形容词的意思。如果我们看到“with”就能立刻想起“be patient with~(对~宽容,耐心)”这一惯用词组,就能迅速解出这道题。如果通过分析前后文的方法来作答,那就太浪费时间了,要想得高分,我们就必须保证答题速度。