楊和謙

Me neither.

【中考鏈接】—Do you like the pop star Zhou Jielun or the movie star Liu Dehua?

—____. I am not their fan. (2007 重慶市)

A. Both B. Either

C. Neither D. All

【解析】選C。表示“兩者都不”用neither。

【中考鏈接】—How do you keep in touch with Tim,by airmail or by phone?

—____. By sending e-mails. (2007 黑龍江省)

A. Neither B. Either C. Both

【解析】選A。neither 表示“兩者都不”；either 表示“（兩者）任何一個(gè)”；both意為“（兩者）都”。

Have you ever been to an aquarium?

【中考鏈接】 I____to Canada twice. Its so beautiful. (2006 重慶市)

A. wont go B. have gone

C. dont go D. have been

【解析】選D。從第一句中的twice 可以判斷，這句話的意思是“我去過(guò)加拿大兩次”，用現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)表示“去過(guò)某地”應(yīng)用have / has been to，故選D。

【中考鏈接】—Why is your brothers English so good?

—Because he____New York for six years. (2006 福建省福州市)

A. has come to B. has been in

C. has gone to D. has been to

【解析】選B。表示“在某地居住多久”用“have/has been in / at + 地點(diǎn)”，結(jié)合本題中... New York for six years（在紐約六年）可知，應(yīng)為has been in，故選B。

Most of us have probably heard of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and many other famous Disney characters.

【中考鏈接】—Have you ever____Jin Yong?

—Of course. He is a very famous writer, and he once studied in Quzhou. (2005 衢州市)

A. heard B. hearing

C. heard of D. heard from

【解析】選C。hear of意為“聽(tīng)說(shuō)”，hear 意為“聽(tīng)到”， hear from 意為“收到……的來(lái)信”。

... the best way to do this was to become a flight attendant.

【中考鏈接】（用所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空）

The best way____English is to practice speaking it as much as possible. (learn) (2005 云南省玉溪市)

【解析】填to learn。句意為“學(xué)英語(yǔ)最好的辦法是盡可能多地練習(xí)口語(yǔ)”。

... Ill think about becoming an English teacher rather than a tour guide!

【中考鏈接】（同義句轉(zhuǎn)換）I prefer walking there to going by bus. (2005 山西省忻州市)

I prefer to walk there____by bus.

【解析】填rather than go。prefer doing A to doing B與prefer to do A rather than do B 均意為“喜歡……而不喜歡……；寧愿……而不愿……”。

... more than three quarters of the population are Chinese.

【中考鏈接】 Its said that the gravity on Mars is only about____of the gravity on earth. (2006 江蘇省蘇州市)

A. three-eighths B. third-eighth

C. three-eights D. third-eight

【解析】選A?？疾榈氖欠?jǐn)?shù)的表達(dá)法。即分子是基數(shù)詞，分母是序數(shù)詞，分子大于1時(shí)，分母后面要加-s。

【中考鏈接】The population of Tianjin is____than that of Shanghai. (2005 天津市)

A. larger B. less

C. smaller D. fewer

【解析】選C。population 意為“人口”。修飾“人口”用large和small。“天津的人口比上海的人口少”，故選C。

... you wont have any problem finding rice, noodles, or dumplings.

【中考鏈接】—Did you have any problems in London?

—Yes,____Chinese food like rice, noodles and dumplings. (2006 江西省)

A. find B. found

C. finding D. to find

【解析】選C。答語(yǔ)是個(gè)省略句，完整表述應(yīng)為Yes, I had problems finding Chinese food like rice, noodles and dumplings.

So you can choose to go whenever you like — spring, summer, autumn, or winter!

【中考鏈接】Miss Zhao is very helpful. She often helps us____we are in trouble. (2005 遼寧省大連市)

A. whether B. although

C. whenever D. however

【解析】選C。句子意為“趙老師非常樂(lè)于助人。無(wú)論我們何時(shí)有困難，她都經(jīng)常幫助我們。” 【中考鏈接】My English used to be very poor.____I wanted to give up, Dad would encourage me to work harder. (2005 福建漳州市)

A. However B. Whatever

C. Whenever D. Wherever

【解析】選C。Whenever意為“無(wú)論何時(shí)；每當(dāng)”。