手边还有一些homonyms的
材料,把它凑成一集。人对新事物的兴趣都有一种increasing at a decreasing rate规律,我们学习新东西也是一样。各位如果还是热情不减,那我们就练习007,008...续下去。如果各位觉着应该move on to something new,我们就开始新的篇章。下列每题有两至三个选择词,他们读音(美音)相同但词义不同。选择准确的(次序)填入空内,有的选择项要用到一次以上。
101. You will be ______ big dollars if you ask those guys to ______ that patio in your backward.
a. billed b. build
102. People in _____ eat _____ food. Do they have ______ weather there?
a. chilli b. chilly c. Chile
103. The farmer's wife did so much for this family; she made home-______ beer for her husband, kept five _____ hens, and fed three kids.
a. brood b. brewed
104. The bushes bear a kind of edible _______ on the this hill and the ______ dwellers, adults and children, in this community love to collect them.
a. current b. currant
105. He used to ____ a handsome salary, but he chose to keep his money in his secret ____ instead of depositing it in a bank.
a. earn b. urn
106. During the exam, she looked so sick as if she was about to _____ away, but actually it was a _____ she played to distract proctor's attention so that her friend could flip the textbook and copy the answers.
a. faint b. feint
107. The judge _____ this recidivist burglar $1,000 and could not ____ anything else to do about him.
a. find b. fined
108. This job with a decent pay eventually _____ him from debt, but the new marriage and family burden will ______ his desire to buy the sports car he wants so much. In addition, his wife starts to bring home a ______ of visitors, making him spend extra money on food and drinks to cater her friends.
a. frees b. freeze c. frieze
109. Some believe that his new piece of melody is just _____, while others think it is a pure noise that only _____s on their nerves.
a. great b. grate
110. Having become the new champion of this year's tournament, he was rewarded with this ____-edged plaque, but he felt the _____ of injuring his opponent so badly during the last match.
a. gilt b. guilt
111. Right now, the salary for engineers is getting ______ and ______ in the market. That makes it very difficult for this small company to ____ any additional engineers.
a. hire b. higher
112. This small ____ temple is an asset ______ owned by local believers.
a. wholly b. holy
113. In the morning he worships his personal ____ for two hour and then stays ____ at home for rest of the day.
a. idle b. idol
114. The spelling ___ also loves Shakespeare's and one of his mottos is "to ___ or not to ___".
a. be b. bee
115. Because of the contradictory racial issues, the school president ______ those three pieces of music from being performed by the marching ____.
a. banned b. band
116. These ____s have ____ well-cooked.
a. bean b. been
117. On his 16th _____-day, he got a starting _____ on the basketball team of his school.
a. berth b. birth
118. This is a ______ area between the two countries and this boarding school is the only school in this area. Those ______ are from both countries.
a. border b. boarder
119. A _____ from the local church suggested that this old _____ be kept in the local museum.
a. canon b. cannon
120. This stingy man was really a _____-skate, saying so little while sitting there for a whole hour, except _____ing few single words.
a. cheap b. cheep
A little humor:
Waiter, will the pancakes long? -- No, sir, round.