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我是软实力英语

1) sb. +pay +钱 / sb + for sth;

2) sb./sth./It + takes / took +时间 / 金钱 to do sth

3）Sth./ It cost(s) (sb) + 钱 / 时间

4) Sb +spend +时间 / 钱 + ( in ) doing sth.

   Sb +spend +时间 / 钱 +  on sth

5) charge + 钱 + for sth    索（要）价

典例：(1) It costs (me) $1 000 a year to run a car. 使用一辆车每年要花(我)1 000美元。

      (2) I have spent all day looking for you. 我花了1整天找你。

      (3) It took me an hour to write the letter. 我写这封信花了1个小时。

      (4) He spent his last years (in) teaching and editing earlier writings.

         他把晚年用在教书和编撰以前的著作。

      (5) How much time do you spend practicing English everyday?

         你每天花多少时间练习英文？

      (6) It took me years of hard work to speak good English.

         为了讲一口流利的英语, 我花了多年时间刻苦操练.

      (7) The book cost me ten dollars.

仿练：（1）It ____ great energy and time for us to solve the problem all by ourselves.

         A.spends  B.takes  C.pays  D.spares

     （2）It took her two hours ______ to the station.走路去车站花了她两小时。

         A.walking  B.walked  C.walk  D.to walk

      (3) The fruit seller ______ me too much money.

         A.paid  B.spent  C.cost  D.charged              

      (4) It was __ the people a school that they spent hours and hours, staying up

         late into the night.

        A.talk about  B.talking about  C.to talk about  D.being talked about    

对比：(1) In order not to be disturbed, I spent three hours _______ in my study.

          A. locking B. locked C. to lock  D. to be locked      

     (2) He said he would never forget the day ____ he spent with his girlfriend in  

        the country.

         A. that　B. when C. how　D. where   

     (3) Before he went abroad, he spent as much time as he ________ English

         A.could learning  B. learned  C. to learn  D. could learn   

改错：(1) Please turn right and walk along the street, and it will cost you about 5  

         minutes to walk to the police station.

     (2) I cost ten dollars for the book.

     (3) I cost two hours to do my homework.