重点中学英语语法讲义-数词

注：要表示“一两分钟”这样的意思，通常用a minute or two 或 one or two minutes，而不用 one minute or two。

四、数词的句法功能

1. 用作主语：

The second is yours. 第二个是你的。

It’s said that 13 is an unlucky number. 据说13是一个不吉利的数字。

2. 用作表语：

Her father is sixty-five. 她父亲65岁。

Two thirds of the apples were bad. 三分之二的苹果是坏的。

3. 用作宾语：

I know three of them. 他们当中有三个有我认识。

Please give me the third. 请给我第三个。

4. 用作定语：

He has three English dictionaries. 他有三本英语词典。

The second one is more expensive. 第二个更贵。

The rope is only 2.15 meters long. 这根绳子只有2.15米长。

5. 用作同位语：

Are you two reading? 你们两人都在看书吗？

Let us four finish the work. 让我们四个人完成这工作吧。

Who is that man, the first in the front row? 前排第一个是准？

6. 用作状语：

I hate riding two on a bike. 我不喜欢骑自行带人。

Think first, then act. 先想清楚再行动。

We agree with you a hundred percent. 我们百分之百同意你。

五、重点考点原创精练

1. The _____ child is only 1.2 ______ tall.

A. 13-year-old, meter B. 13-years-old, meters

C. 13-years-old, meter                               D. 13-year-old, meters  

2. She gain _____ 5 pounds in weight during the winter vacation.

A. some                    B. many                    C. much                    D. little 

3. The next day was his _____ birthday.

A. sixty                    B. sixties                   C. sixtieth                 D. sixtieth of 

4. By 10:00 ten thieves were caught, and half an hour later _____ was caught.

A. the eleven             B. eleventh                C. a eleventh             D. the eleventh

5. China is _____ larger than the United States.

A. one-six                 B. one-sixth              C. a one-sixth            D. the one-sixth

6. It’s said that _____ of the students failed in this important exam.

A. nine-nineteenths    B. nine-ninteenths C. four-ninths                D. four-nineths

7. Prices have risen ______ in the past year.(www.hxen.net)

A. 10 percent            B. 10 percents           C. 10th percent          D. 10th percents

8. Do you know when _____ broke out?

A. the World War Two                              B. the World War Second

C. World Second War                                                                D. World War Two   

9. I only invited two _____ my students, but _____ them came.

A. dozen, hundred                                     B. dozen of, hundreds of 

C. dozens, hundreds                                   D. dozens of, hundred of 

10. ______ degrees Celsius is thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit.

A. One                     B. Two                     C. Three                   D. Zero    

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