A. 用spend, take, cost和pay 的正确形式来填空。

1. When we want plastic bags in the supermarket, we have to ________them.

2 It often ______ about 3 hours to get to school from my home.

3 – Who will ____ for the bill?

   - Maybe our boss.

4 The house ___ him 30,000 dollars.

5 His cousin _____ the whole day making the toy car yesterday.

6. He likes English. He _____lots of time __________(read) it every day.

7.How much did the dictionary____ you?

 

B.根据句子意思和时态，用spend, take, cost和pay 的正确形式来填空。

1. 这道数学题花了我两个小时。 

I ________ two hours on this math 

problem. 

2. 这车花去他一万美元左右。

The car _____ him around ten thousand US dollars.  

3.造这座桥花了他们两年时间。 

They __________two years (in) building this bridge. 

5. 买一台新电脑要花一大笔钱。

A new computer _______ a lot of money.

6. 他们用了三年时间修完了这条路。 

It _______ them three years to build this road. 

7. 我每个月要付20英磅的房租。

I have to_________ them 20 pounds for this room each month.  

8.  我不得不赔丢失的书款。

I have to __________ for the lost book. 

 9. 别担心， 我会给你付钱的。

Don’t worry! I'll ______ _____ you. 

10. 昨天他花了10分钟乘公共汽车去动物园。

 It _____ _____ ____ _______ ____ ____ ____ the zoo yesterday.

11. 他们每月给我们报酬。 

They _______ us every month.

12.  这错误使公司损失了一百万英镑。

The error ______ the company one million pounds.

 

C. 单项选择

1. I'm interested in animals,so I___every saturday working in an animal hospital

A. Pay      B. cost     C. take      D. spend

2. They spend too much time       the report.

A. writing            B. to write     

C. on writing      D. write

3. --What beautiful shoes you’re wearing! They must be expensive．

--No，they only____l0 yuan．

A．spent    B．took    C．paid    D．cost

4. --Will you please        for my dinner Peter?

  --Sure!

A. spend    B. pay    C. cost    D.take

5. It will       me too much time to read this book.

A. take    B. cost     C. spend     D.pay

6. This science book __ me a great amount of money.

A. took    B.cost      C used      D.spent

7.-Do you often get online?

 -Yes, I ____ lots of time on it. It’s a good way to kill time.

A. cost     B. spend      C.take       D. pay

8. ----How do you come to school?

     ----By bike. Taking a bus may _____ much money. And walking ______ too much time.

A. take; pays           B. cost; takes        

C. pay; costs           D. pay; takes

9. She usually ________ much time shopping in the supermarkets.

A spends   B costs       C takes      D pays

10. American students spend ________ time _________ homework than Chinese students.

A. fewer, doing        B. less, to do      

C. less, doing            D. least, doing

11. This kind of computer _______ too much. I can't afford one.

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

12. It will ________ us several years to learn a foreign language well.

 A. cost      B. take      C. spend       D. use

 

D. 同义句转换

2.      It took Alice five minutes to finish reading the book.

Alice            five minutes             reading the book.

3.      It took him 40 yuan to buy the book Harry Potter.

He             40 yuan           the book Harry Potter.

      He             40 yuan for the book Harry Potter.

4.      We spent 20 minutes cleaning the room yesterday.

It                     20 minutes                       the room yesterday.

5.      It took Jones half an hour to write a letter.(保持原句意思)

Jones            half an hour              a letter.

6.      He spends about an hour a day doing his homework.

It           him about an hour a day                           his homework.

7.      We use two hours to do our homework on Sunday.

We            two hours           our homework on Sunday.

8.      This pair of glasses cost me five pounds.

I          five pounds            this pair of glasses.

9.      It takes four hours to travel from Shanghai to Singapore by air.(改为一般疑问句)

           it          four hours to travel from Shanghai to Singapore by air?