“同义句转换”是根据基本句,在改写句的若干空格中填写适当的词,使两句意思相同或相近,以此考查答题者灵活运用英语的不同表达形式的能力和逻辑思维能力。
这个题型的特点是每个小题给出两个句子,第一句为原句,第二句是改写句。第二句中留出若干空格,要求在空格上填入适当的词,使之与第一句的意思相同或相近。做这种题型一般有下列几种方法:
(1)替换法。用同义词、同义短语、反义词或反义短语等办法来替换原句中的有关部分,使句意不变。
1)用同义词或同义短语替换(句后括号中的词为参考答案)。
①she got to china in 1950.→
she____china in 1950.(reached)
②be careful with your handwriting.→
_____to your handwriting.(pay attention)
2)用反义词或反义短语替换。
①she hardly speaks at the meeting.→
she____ ____ ____at the meeting.(almostdoesn’t,speak)
②my watch doesn’t work well.→
something___ ___ ___my watch.(is, wrong,with)
3)用短语替换从句或用从句替换短语,例:
①after we had breakfast,we went to school.→
____,we went to school.(after,breakfast)
②we can’t finish the work without your help.→
we can’t finish the work____you_____us.(if,don’t,help)
(2)转换法。
这种方法是用不同句型、句式、语态、引语等方法改写句子,使其意思相同。
1)句型转换(这种转换通常是用另一种句型替换原来的句型)。如:
①they have been in the army for ten years.→
___ ____ten years____they joined the army.(it,is,since)
②the great pyramid is the biggest of all the pyramid.→
the great pyramid is____any other pyramid.(big-ger,than)
2)句式转换(这种转换通常是感叹句的转换或状语从句的转换等)。如:
he went to bed after he had finished his homework.→
he___ ___to bed____he had finished hishomework.(didn’t,go,until)
3)语态转换(这种转换通常是主动语态变被动语态或被动语态变主动语态)。例如:
①they made her work fourteen hours a day.→
she was____ ____ ____fourteen hours a day.(made,to,work)
②why hasn’t anything been done to end the strike?→
why____ ____ ____anything to end the strike?(haven’t,they,done)
4)引语转换(这种转换是指直接引语变间接引语或间接引语变直接引语)。如:
①“don’t make faces in class!”the teacher said to thestudent.→
the teacher____the student____make facein class.(told,not,to)
②tom asked jack if he had ever been to china.→
“____you ever____to china?”tom asked jack.(have,been)
(3)合并法(这是指用连词将两个简单句合并成一个简单句或复合句,使其意思不变)。
1)用并列连词 both…and…,neither…nor…,either…or…,not…but…,not only…but also…等将两个简单句合并成一个新的简单句,如:
①tom is good at english.tom is also good at french.→
tom is good at____ ____english____ ____french.(not only…but also…)
②he is not a worker. he is a student.→
he is___a worker____a student.(not,but)
③he doesn’t like football.i don’t,either.→
____he____i like football.(neither…nor…)
2)用从属连词 so…that…,as soon as,as…as…等将两个简单句合并为一个复合句,如:
①he was excited.he could hardly tell me about it.→
he was____excited____he could hardly tell meabout it.(so,that)
②your brother is seventeen.my brother is seventeentoo.
my brother is____old____yours.(as,as)
(4)综述法(这一方法是在逻辑思维的基础上,对原句的意思重新进行概括表述)。
1)mary is twelve.jack is fifteen.→
jack is____ ____ ____than mary.(three, years,older)
2)alice was born in 1980.betty was born in 1982.→
alice____ ____years____than betty.(is,two,older)
3)there are one hundred pages in that book.→
there are____pieces of____in that book.(fifty,paper)
4)wu dong is twelve.li ping is three years older thanwu dong.wang hong is four years younger than li ping.→
wang hong is____.(eleven,years,old)