【易混辨析】
(3)probable 带有“很可能”的意味,语气比possible强,作表语时不能用人或不定式作主语,常用句式为“it is probable that...”。
①it isn’t likely that i should accept such an offer as that.
②it’s possible_to break with old habits.
③it is _probable that he will succeed.
★3.young americans who don’t go to university ________get jobs which bring low income.
a.are likely to b.are possible to
c.were able to d.liked to
解析:选a。句意是:没有上大学的美国年轻人可能做一些低收入的工作。likely可用于sb./sth.is likely to do而possible不能。
【即境活用】
4.(XX年山东青岛质检)a senior firefighter said it was__________that the fire,which broke out at midnight,was caused by someone on purpose.
a.possibly b.likely
c.probably d.obviously
解析:选b。根据it is likely that……句型得出答案,其它三个词都是副词,不能用于该句型。
③ affect vt. 影响,对……有坏影响;(疾病)侵袭;假装;喜欢
(回归课本p9) smoking in a park doesn’t affect other people in the same way.
在公园吸烟不会以同样的方式影响别人。
【归纳总结】
【例句探源】
①peter taylor finds out how computers and the internet are going to affect our lives.
彼得•泰勒试图弄清计算机和互联网将如何影响我们的生活。
②(牛津p31)they were deeply affected by the news of her death.
她死亡的消息使他们唏嘘不已。
③(XX年高考辽宁卷)the experiment showed that our body clocks are affected by light and temperature.
这项实验表明我们的生物钟受光线和温度的影响。
④she was affected with high fever.
她发高烧。
affect,effect,influence
三个词都有“影响”的意思。
(1)affect指“产生的影响之大足以引起反应”,着重“影响”的动作,有时含有“对……产生不利影响”的意思。
(2)effect作“影响”讲时,通常用作名词,构成have an effect on“对……有影响”。effect作动词时,指“使(某事物)产生;使发生;引起”,着重“造成”一种特殊的效果。
(3)influence指“通过说服、举例等对行动、思想、性格等产生不易觉察到的、潜移默化的影响”。
【易混辨析】
①the games don’t have a(n) _effect on grownups but affect students a great deal.
②influenced by a high school biology teacher,he took up the study of medicine.
③this book effected a change in my opinion.
5.critics believe that the control of television by mass advertising has ________the quality of the programs.
a.lessened b.declined
c.affected d.effected
解析:选c。句意为:批评家认为电视被大量的广告所控制,这影响了节目的质量。affect常指不好的影响;lessen“减少”;decline“降低”,指力量、权力、数量等的削减;effect“引起;产生”,只有affect符合句意。