中学英语单词用法夯实基础详解press和pretty和price等 press    [pres] vt.①压，挤，推;②榨汁，压榨||n.[C，U]①新闻界， 出版社;②报章杂志，报刊;③报道，评论 ► He pressed a coin into her hand.他把一枚硬币塞到她手里。 pressure   ['preʃə]  n. [C, U]①压力，压强，大气压;②催促，呼吁，要 求，强迫;③心理压力，紧张  The pressure of his fingers had relaxed. 他手指的压力已经减弱了。 He will never pressure you to get married. 他永远也不会给你施加压力让你结婚。 新概念英语mp3 新概念英语词汇量 新概念英语第一册课文 用记忆术记英语单词 pretend   [prɪ'tend]  v.①假装，装作;②装扮，扮作 ► He pretended to be reading when the teacher came in.老师进来时他假装正在读书。[pretend to do假装做……] pretty    ['prɪtɪ]  adj.漂亮的，秀丽的，可爱的 ► What a pretty house it is!多漂亮的一栋房子！  prevent   [prɪ'vent] vt.①防止，预防;②阻码，阻止 ► My only idea was to prevent the woman from speaking.我唯一的想法就是不让那女人讲。 [prevent • • • from doing sth.阻止…..做某事] price  [praɪs] n. [C, U]价格，价钱 短语：1.at any price 不论价格高底。 eg. I want to buy the book at any price. 不管多少钱，我也要买那本书。 Once I went with my brother to watch how the villagers caught fish in the local pond. Usually the locals catch fish in the ___21___ morning. It was exciting so we ___22___ at 4 o’clock. Not only did it sound like a(n) ___23___ to me, but it also turned out to teach me a ___24___lesson. The fishermen had a big fishing net, one side of which was ___25___ along with the boundary of the pond and the other end was taken to the ___26___ boundary of the pond underwater. After a certain time they slowly started ___27___ the free end towards the fixed end. Most fish got ___28___ inside the net and the fish had already started feeling ___29___ wrong. Because of the lack of ____30____, they started panicking. Some started ____31____ to get out of the net. Though they knew getting out of the water was a big risk, they still ____32____ their best to jump with all their strength; ____33____ few fish got out of the net. I asked a fisherman about the fish that “escaped”. They told me it usually ____34____ that next time they would again get ____35____ after another 6 months. Hearing this, I realized one of the greatest life lessons. The fish that took the risk actually ____36____ their life time by 6 months! I ____37____ what would happen if they lived in big lakes. Maybe, they could live longer. In life there are certain situations where we might feel we are ____38____ our living space. We take the biggest risk of our lives and jump out of the space, ____39____ we fall into another small one where we may end up failing. So we need to be wise enough to choose to live in much ____40____ spaces where we have more conditions to help survive or succeed. 21. A. fine B. summer C. cold D. early 22. A. got up B. went on C. took off D. set sail 23. A. adventure B. amusement C. advantage D. game 24. A. music B. business C. life D. duty 25. A. drawn B. arranged C. thrown D. fixed 26. A. common B. opposite C. close D. natural 27. A. escaping B. connecting C. moving D. driving 28. A. trapped B. counted C. pressed D. pulled 29. A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something 30. A. water B. air C. space D. power 31. A. running B. jumping C. sinking D. swimming 32. A. tried B. controlled C. developed D. found 33. A. proudly B. suddenly C. expectedly D. unluckily 34. A. predicted B. disappeared C. happened D. returned 35. A. discovered B. caught C. saved D. assisted 36. A. increased B. wasted C. calculated D. spent 37. A. regretted B. hoped C. worried D. imagined 38. A. using B. losing C. shaping D. changing 39. A. so B. and C. but D. for 40. A. bigger B. shorter C. easier D. harder