考点点拨 考例回顾

1. deserve

【考点】deserve是动词，意为"值得，应当（受到）"，后可接名词、代词、不定式或从句。如：

Susan deserves a medal for teaching those 5-year-olds all day!

I feel that everybody here dislikes me. What have I done to deserve this?

I work hard and I think I deserve to be well paid.

After the way he treated Monica, he deserves whatever happens to him.

【考例1】These patients deserve a chance at a normal, happy future and they rely on the kindness of strangers to make that happen. (2014年福建卷阅读理解C篇)

【考例2】It is a truth finally and universally acknowledged that a single woman with brains deserves to have equal opportunities to men, however disadvantaged she may feel by sexism.(2013年福建卷阅读理解D篇)

2. be used to

【考点】be used to意为"习惯于"，其中的to是介词，后可接名词、代词或动词-ing形式。如：

I have always been used to hard work.

I found the job tiring at first but I was used to it soon.

I'm not used to being treated like this.

【拓展】

★used to do ... 意为"过去常常做......"。如：

You don't come and see me like you used to.

★be used to do ... 意为"被用来做......"。如：

The box was used to store pictures.

【考例1】"After 150 years, we are still not used to it," Bernard said. "We still have not exactly learned to cope with the mixture of closeness and displeasure." (2014年湖北卷阅读理解E篇)

【考例2】No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father's voice. Now I hear them in my own. (2014年天津卷阅读理解C篇)