定去找警察......

▲ 友情提示: decide后跟宾语从句时，其含义有时是"断

定"。I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere. 我断定我一定是在某处拐错弯了。The determination of the meaning of a word is often difficult without a context. 脱离上下文来确定一个词的含义常常是困难的。

　注：在determine to do...，determine on (upon)... 和determine that...。(宾语从句)三个搭配中，determine的词义和decide几乎没有多大差异。He determined / decided to learn medicine. 他决定学医。

　注：decide sb to do sth 决定使某人做某事What decided you to give up your job? 什么因素使你决定放弃你的工作?

【考例】[2001京皖春招] Before Sam can repair his bicycle, he must know why it does not work. For example, he must ____ the parts that are wrong.

A. check B. determine C. correct D. recover

[考查目标]determine的用法。

[答案与解析]B determine和decide在一般情况下意思相同。

5. encourage的用法

▲ 构词：

① encouraging adj. 鼓励的，给予希望的，振奋人心的。令人欢欣鼓舞的

② encouraged adj. 被激励的，受到鼓舞的

③ encouragement n. 鼓励，激励

④ discourage v. 使泄气；劝阻

▲ 搭配：① encourage sb to do sth 鼓励某人做某事 ② be encouraged by 受......鼓励／鼓舞

【考例】 [2004北京]My advisor encouraged ___a summer course to improve my writing skills.

A. for me taking B. me taking

C. for me to take D. me to take

[考查目标] encourage的用法。

[答案与解析]D encourage sb to do sth鼓励某人干某事。句意为：我的导师鼓励我参加一个夏季课程来提高我的写作技巧。

6. escape (vi, vt ) escaped, escaping

(1) 逃走；跑掉 + from / out of = run away from

The soldier escaped from the enemy's prison.

(2)逃脱；逃避 + n. / doing

He narrowly escaped death / being killed.

There's no way to escape doing the work.

escape还可表示：

　①（液体等）漏出 gas escaping from the pipe 煤气从管中漏出Water escaped rapidly from the drainpipe. 水从排水管中迅速流出。

　② 避免escaped death 免于一死There is no escaping him. 怎么也避不开他。

　③ 疏忽，忽略 Nothing escaped his attention. 什么也逃不过他的注意。 You cannot expect that something may escape the teacher's attention. 你不要奢望有什么能逃过老师的注意。

　escape n

　① 逃走The thief made his escape. 小偷逃走了。

　②（气体）漏出，泄出；解闷She reads love stories as an escape. 她读爱情小说解闷。

7. hunt的用法

▲ 构词：hunter n. 猎人，搜寻者

▲ 搭配：

① hunt for / after追猎；寻找，搜寻

② hunt out 找出；调查出

【考例】He wandered in the street, ____ a new jacket for his nephew.