英语中的 “后缀”(suffixes)指位于词尾、用来修饰词根的字母搭配。比如:-ness、-al、-ity、-age。后缀通常用来表示一个词语的词性。例如,名词 “brightness” 的意思是 “明亮、亮度”,它由表示事物特质或状态的后缀 “-ness” 与形容词 “bright” 组合而成,所以 “brightness” 指 “物体发亮的特质或状态”。做下面八道题,测一测你对常见英语后缀的了解程度。
1. The writer wrote a very critic _______ article about the food industry.
a) -ify
b) -ment
c) -al
d) -ness
2. We class _______ films in terms of their different genres.
a) -al
b) -ship
c) -age
d) -ify
3. Livia is doing an intern _______ with a famous fashion brand.
a) -ment
b) -ship
c) -al
d) -ity
4. I didn’t buy the car because the mile _______ was far too high for a car that new.
a) -age
b) -ness
c) -ship
d) -ment
5. The teacher said he had done well in most subjects, but that his main area of weak _______ was maths.
a) -ship
b) -ity
c) -age
d) -ness
6. The topic of equal _______ is very popular today.
a) -ify
b) -ity
c) -ness
d) -ment
7. When she saw her exam results her eyes lit up in amaze _______.
a) -ness
b) -ity
c) -ment
d) -age
8. Real _______ was an artistic movement that emerged in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century.
a) -ism
b) -ness
c) -ment
d) -age
1) c, 2) d, 3) b, 4) a, 5) d, 6) b, 7) c, 8) a.