绝妙非谓语动词经典考题赏析

A. devoted to do                   B. devoted to doing

C. devoting to doing             D. is devoted to doing

【赏析】此题最佳答案为B。现分析如下：

(1) devote 意为“致力于，献身于”，主要用于 devote…to…或be devoted to，其中的to 是介词，不是不定式符号，故后接动词时要用动名词，不用不定式。

(2) 选A错误：若将 do 改为 doing 则可以。

(3) 选B正确：all her time devoted to doing experiments为独立主格结构，用作状语。

(4) 选C错误：因为all her time 与 devote 为被动关系，故应将devoting改为devoted。

(5) 选D错误：若单独看 All her time is devoted to doing experiments，此句并没有错，但问题是逗号前后两个简单句没有必要的连接方式，所以从整体上看仍不对，假若在后一句的句首加上and或so，则可选D，或将D中的is 改为 being也可以。

4. “What made her struggle _________ an artist so hard?” “_________ she was a woman.”

A. became, 不填               B. to become, 不填 

C. become, That               D. to become, That

【赏析】此题容易误选C，想当然地认为第一空应填 become (不带to)，是因为其前有使役动词 made。其实，此题应选D，在 What made her struggle to become an artist so hard? 一句中，what 是句子主语，made 是谓语，her struggle to become an artist 是宾语 (其中的不定式 to become an artist 是修饰her struggle 的定语)，so hard 是宾语补足语。许多同学误选C是将 her struggle 看作宾语，而将 become an artist 看作是宾语补足语，照此分析，so hard 又是什么成分呢？第二空填 That，用以引导主语从句 (此 that 不可省略)，其后的谓语和宾语等被省略，若补充完整，即为 That she was a woman made her struggle to become an artist so hard.

5. I found I could easily make myself _________ by using sign language.

A. understood                  B. understand

C. to understand              D. being understood

【赏析】答案选A，但容易误选B，即硬套“make + 名词或代词 + 动词原形”这一结构。但是对于该结构同学们忽略了一点，就是该结构中的名词或代词应与其后动词有逻辑上的主谓关系，而对于上面一题，myself 与动词 understand 显然不是主谓关系，而是动宾关系，或者说是被动关系，故此时的动词应用过去分词表被动。又如：

(1) As a teacher, you should make yourself _________.

A. respect                        B. respecting

C. respected                     D. to respect

(2) He spoke loudly so as to make his voice _________.

A. hear                             B. hearing

C. heard                           D. to hear

(3) Do you know what made her so _________?

A. frighten                        B. frightening

C. frightened                     D. to frighten

答案均选C，即用过去分词表示被动意义（其中 frightened 为过去分词转化来的形容词）。