2016高考英語一輪復習Unit 16
(2)make sense of sth.理解；弄懂(不易理解的事物)
i can’t make sense of the painting.
我看不懂那幅畫。
(3)common sense常識
(4)the sense of duty/time/humor/direction責任感/時間觀念/幽默感/方向感
練：（1）(甘肅蘭州診斷考試) mr.blake is well-known in the school because of his good______of humor.
a.sense b.emotion c.feeling d.thought
提示:sense of humor意為“幽默感”。
答案：a
(2)enough of it! nobody here thinks what you are saying should make any _______.
a.value b.sense c.fun d.use
提示:make不能與value搭配；make fun和make use與題意明顯不符。句意為:夠了!沒有人認為你說的有意義。
答案:b
3.prove
講: vt.證明；證實
link-v. 證明；結果是
例：he has proved his courage in the battle.
他已經在戰斗中證明了他的勇敢。
can you prove that to the court?
你能向法庭證明這一點嗎？
he proved an honest man.
事實證明他是個誠實的人。
it proved to be much more difficult than she had supposed.
事實證明這比她原來預料的要難得多。
鏈接•提示
(1)prove作及物動詞時，可以接名詞、代詞、從句和復合賓語，且可以用于被動語態。
(2)prove用作連系動詞時，后接形容詞、名詞、介詞短語或to be結構。
練：(1)the theory he’s stuck ________ us that earthquakes can be forecast.
a.to proves b.to prove
c.which to prove d.to proves to
提示:句意為:他堅持的理論向我們證明地震是可以預報的。stick to表示“堅持（原則、計劃、諾言等）”；prove to...表示“向……證明”。故選d。
答案:d
(2)—why was professor zhang unhappy recently？
—because the theory he insisted on ________ wrong.
a.proved b.proving