新概念英語第三冊語法總結：特殊及習慣英語用法大綱
1. life expectancy 預期壽命，平均壽命
2. get out of hand 失控
3. be fed up with 感到厭煩；討厭；對……感到厭煩；厭煩
4. 某人對某事不熟悉的兩種表達
sb. is unfamiliar with sth.
sth. is unfamiliar to sb.
5. come down with sth. 生病
6. boil down to sth. 歸結爲
7. frown on sth. 不悅；蹙眉不悅；對……不贊成；不贊成某事
8. do nothing but do 固定用法
9. in honor of sb./sth. 紀念某人/某事
10. There’s no point in doing sth. 做某事無意義
11. nothing but 只有；只不過 anything but 根本不；除…以外任何事
12. rarely, seldom, hardly, scarcely
Rarely和seldom意思都是“很少”（表頻率），seldom更正式、更書面。
Hardly和scarcely意思都是“幾乎不”或者“剛剛”（表程度）。相比之下scarcely更正式、更書面。
People rarely ask questions.
She was seldom seen in public.
I hardly had time to ask her name.
We had scarcely arrived when he asked us to leave.
測試精編
1. Advances in medicine have resulted in ________.
A. a longer living expectancy B. an increase in life expectancy
C. an increase in living D. more years for everyone
2. The fire department had to be summoned after the bush fire on the corner lot got out of ________.
A. turn B. the question C. hand D. sight
3. I am ________ your temper.
A. fed up by B. fed up with C. fed up because of D. fed up to
4. This kind of work is ________ me.
A. unfamiliar with B. unfamiliar by
C. unfamiliar to D. not familiar of
5. Jean ________ a cold when she was in Los Angeles.
A. came by B. came down with C. came into D. came off with
6. All the evidence I have collected ________ to the fact that he is a shop lifter.
A. boils up B. boils on C. boils off D. boils down
7. — Do you like those kinds of cigarette.
— ________ cigarette agrees with me.
A. Hardly no B. Nearly no C. Rarely no D. Almost none
8. — I am surprised that the administration approved of the protest.
— I am too. It usually frowns ________ such demonstration.
A. on B. with C. for D. to
9. — Does Jone have brown hair?
— Yes, in fact it's quite similar in shape ________ yours.
A. as B. with C. to D. like
10. — I thought you had planned to practice the piano today. — I did nothing but ________ letter all day.
A. write B. to write C. wrote D. writing
11. — I think John will win the race. — Yes, he started off ________ a great speed.
A. with B. at C. through D. by
12. Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, a town in the eastern part of the state, was named ________ one of the greatest American athletes.
A. in honor of B. the honors C. for honored D. to honoring
13. — Are you still trying to convince him? — No, there is no point ________ with him.
A. by arguing B. for arguing C. with arguing D. in arguing
14. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once ________ cacti and sagebrush could live.
A. nor B. not the C. none other D. nothing but
15. — Can you ride a horse? — No, I never had the chance ________.
A. for learning it B. for learning how C. how to learn it D. to learn how
（後設答案，大家不要偷看哦~(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……）
KEYS
1.B 2.C 3.B 4.C 5.B 6.D 7.B 8.A 9.C 10.A 11.B 12.A 13.D 14.D 15.D
