初中英语重点词汇

A

1. an able housewife 2. walk about

3. read the passage above/ below 4. go

through

the

underground

19. I need another two candles 20. be anxious about 21. be anxious to do 22. appear sad 23. It appears that…

24. appear/ disappear/ appearance 25. the apple of one’s eye 26. a heart attack 27. attract people 28. attractive

B

29. I can’t bear/ stand the pain. 30. beat sb. black and blue 31. feel my heart beating 32. beat him at chess 33. The more, the better.

34. I don’t like the shoes, besides, they’re too expensive. 35. be made of/ from/ up of/ 36. be similar to/ be different from/ be the same as 37. be strict with sb / in sth

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passage

5. address the meeting 6. How can I address you? 7. afford the time 8. fight against the enemy 9. put the ladder against the wall 10. The rain was beating against the window. 11. wait for ages

12. people of different ages

13. The weather doesn’t agree with me. 14. I couldn’t agree more. 15. air the room

16. My plan is still in the air. 17. have an air of 18. treat us all alike

38. be willing to do sth 39. turn a blind eye to 40. turn a deaf ear to 41. be a born musician

42. be born to solve troublesome problems 43. stop bothering me 44. He likes boxing.

45. The sun shone through the break in the clouds 46. Let’s have a break. 47. bridge over difficulties 48. I’m broke.

49. It’s none of your business. 50. Mind your own business. 51. get down to business.

52. be busy preparing for the exams. 53. nobody but you . last but one

C

55. Let’s call it a day. 56. call at Bob’s / call on Bob

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57. call up memories of his childhood 58. canned food

59. cross the road with care 60. care for/ about

61. Would you care for a drink? 62. make careless mistakes 63. The bag is easy to carry.

. His speech is moving enough to carry the audience.

65. carry out her plan to the letter 66. catch a thief stealing things 67. Catch you / me later. 68. I didn’t catch what you said. 69. be/get caught in the traffic jam 70. take one’s chance to do sth. 71. Can I take a rain-check? 72. It’s raining cats and dogs. 73. make yourself clear 74. The road is clear. 75. It is clear today. 76. a close match

77. We didn’t actually hit the other car, but it was a close call.

78. cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth

79. come along with English

80. When the right opportunity comes along, she’ll take it.

81. Jobs are hard to come by these days.

82. I enjoy your company. 83. You can’t complain. 84. the best cook

85. a copy of today’s newspaper 86. drive sb. into the corner

87. The problem cornered / puzzled me.

88. turn the corner . cut corners

90. The cost of living is going up. 91. That will cover all the cost. 92. cover a long distance

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93. The book covers all the subjects in the field.

94. Every minute counts. 95. You can count on me. 96. cross the road 97. be cross with sb. 98. a large crowd of 99. crowd around sb. 100.cut down on wine

D

1. cut down the trees/ price 2. How dare you say that? 3. a dark horse 4. It’s getting dark. 5. a dark secret

6. Don’t look on the dark side of things. 7. up to date 8. have a date with sb.

9. How are you going to deal with the problem? 10. It’s not a big deal.

11. That’s the deal. 12. a great deal of

13. make one’s own decisions 14. make up one’s mind 15. in the deep night 16. dive deep into the sea 17. be deeply moved/touched 18. That depends/ It’s up to you. 19. be dying for doing/ to do sth. 20. go straight/ right home/ go home directly 21. under discussion 22. Don’t let me down 23. feel down

24. This match ended up in a draw. 25. draw one’s attention 26. draw $500 from the bank

27. the train is drawing into the station. 28. drive me crazy/ me out of school 29. drop sb. a line/ a letter 30. drop math 31. drop litter/ the cup

32. Drop everything and come here. 33. drop me off near the park 34. The temperature dropped a lot. 35. dry the clothes over the fire 36. duck one’s head

E

37. An earthquake hit/struck/rocked /shook Wenchuan. 38. Take it easy.

39. teach fish how to swim 40. put all one’s eggs in one basket 41. on either side/both sides of the street 42. put an end to 43. come to an end 44. end (up) in doing 45. enter the final 46. escape the punishment 47. the exact size of the house 48. That’s exactly what I needed. 49. expect a letter 50. expect sb. to do sth.

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51. as expected

52. have a lot of experience dealing 71. fill ...with

72. pay a fine for speeding with teenagers 53. an unusual experience . experience something different 55. an experienced driver 56. for extra money 57. keep an eye for

F

58. focus/fix one’s eye on

59. face danger/ in the face of danger 60. His eyesight is falling 61. fail to do

62. fall sick/ill/ asleep/ in love 63. So far, so good. . be fast / sound asleep 65. hold fast to sth. 66. express one’s feelings 67. fetch me some bread 68. in the football field 69. have a lot of fight in him 70. fill in the form

73. finish typing the report

74. her height fitted her for basketball 75. be fit for 76. keep fit

77. fix one’s attention on 78. fix up the broken bikes 79. fix up a time for a meeting 80. fix up the guest bedroom 81. follow one’s advice/ instructions 82. fool sb. into doing sth. 83. make a fool of oneself 84. at the foot of the hill 85. stand on one’s own feet 86. forget to do 87. forget doing

88. form / develop a good habit . form an idea 90. get sth. for free 91. set...free 92. free the bird

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93. My hands are full these days.

G

1. I don’t get you/ your meaning. 2. get along with others 3. get along well at university 4. get on/off the bus 5. get out of the meeting 6. get over/overcome difficulties 7. get to know you 8. give away the toys

9. give out food at the food bank 10. give up smoking 11. The light went out. 12. go through all the things 13. go through all our money 14.go through the whole house looking for my purse 15. score a goal

16. reach one’s goal in life 17. do good /harm to 18. graduate from

19. greet sb. in the traditional way

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20. guide sb. to a place

H

1. lose one’s hair/ temper 2. hand in the books 3.hand out the exercise books 4.hang out at the mall 5.What happened to you? 6.happen to do sth. 7.try hard 8.hardly try 9.use your head 10.hide sth. from sb. 11.You hit it./you got it. 12.put the cart before the horse 13.as strong as a horse 14.in a hurry 15.hurry off

16.be seriously/terribly/badly hurt 17.in order to h

I, J, K, L,M, N,O

1. turn down the invitation 2. a just and honorable judge

3. keep out the cold 4. kick the ball 5. kill the time 6. knock sb. down 7. knock into sb.

8. The killer is still at large. 9. This is the last thing i want to do. 10. My father has the last word in my family.

11. lay his hand on my shoulder 12. learn about how to care for animals 13. pull one’s leg 14. give /teach sb a lesson 15. let well alone 16. lie in the woods 17. lie down and rest 18. lie about his age 19. the cloud will lift soon. 20. light the torch 21. list all the things 22. a live show 23. make

interesting 24. Long time no see 25. look forward to doing 26. look through

27. look up a word in a dictionary 28. You will make it. 29. make up an excuse 30. She likes making up. 31. make it up with sb. 32. mark the things mentioned 33. marry sb. / be married to sb. 34. a perfect match 35. have different meanings 36. I didn’t mean to hurt you. 37. meet the need of

38. It’s never too late to mend. 39. keep sth. in mind

40. It’s no use crying over spilt milk. 41. There’s no point doing... 42. a mine of information 43. Don’t miss the boat.

his class lively and

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44. mistake sth. for sth.

45. mix up the papers 46. be moved to tears 47. be named after 48. It’s a pain in the neck. 49. be in bad/great need of 50. have nothing to do with 51. take no notice of 52. take two days off 53. Dinner is on me. . operate the machine 55. own three cars

P, Q

1. pass away

2. be patient to the patients 3. pay attention to 4. pick up health 5. It’s a piece of cake. 6. a pleasant trip

7. You can’ t please everyone. 8. find great pleasure in reading 9. plenty of fresh air 10. from my point of view

11. You’ve got the point here. 12. point out the mistakes 13. pour cold water on sth. 14. Practice makes perfect. 15. prefer sth to sth 16. prefer doing to doing 17. prefer to do ...rather than do... 18. prefer to do 19. prepare for 20. at present

21. present oneself for the meeting 22. present sth to sb 23. pretend to do sth 24. provide sb with sth 25. provide sth for sb

26. educate the public how to care for animals

27. push the door open 28. push sb to do sth 29. give sb a push

30. put this article into English 31. put it off till the last minute

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32. put on a play

33. put out the fire/ the light 34. put up the tent

35. question whether it is true 36. out of question 37. out of the question 38. have a quick ear for music

R

1. tears rained down her cheeks 2. take a rain-check

3. save/put away sth for a rainy day 4. raise my head/my pay 5. raise the family/the sheep 6. raise money for charity 7. get a pay rise 8. reach the top shelf

9. out of /beyond /within my reach 10. i can’t reach him on the phone 11. reach into his pocket 12. have ready answers 13. realize one’s dream/hope 14. get into/out of the red

15. remember me to your parents 16. remind sb to do sth 17. repair an error 18. under repair 19. give no reply 20. reply to 21. report progress 22. rest sth on/ against sth 23. the rest of 24. as a result 25. food rich in oil

26. the right person for the job 27. have the right to do sth

R, S

28. the sun rises 29. rob sb of sth 30. rob Peter to pay Paul 31. Rome wasn’t built in one day. 32. row a boat

33. rub salt into the wound 34. rule one’s life 35. obey /break rules

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36. run a restaurant 37. run into sb 38. run out of 39. the color runs

40. i was caught in the rush-hour traffic 41. sound and safe 42. be in the same boat 43. Is the seat taken? 44. Be seated./Seat oneself 45. second to none 46. see sb off 47. sell like hot cakes 48. set off early 49. in good shape 50. out of shape 51. black sheep

52. put oneself in one’s shoes 53. be short of . in short 55. show up 56. sign language 57. the sign of

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58. there’s no sign of 59. in a single day 60. slow down 61. a slow child

62. there’s no smoke without fire. 63. solve the problem

. the solutions to the problems 65. have a sound sleep/ body 66. spend...on/ in doing 67. spoil children 68. spoil the book 69. hot spring 70. stamp one’s foot

71. stick a stamp on the envelop 72. stand on one’s head 73. stay awake 74. stay up/ sit up

75. take steps / action to do sth 76. stop sb from doing sth. 77.store sth under the bed 78.It’s a long story. 79.succeed in doing

80.the key to success 81.a successful businessman 82.suggest doing 83.suggest that 84.As the name suggests 85.wear a suit

86.the concert suits me fine 87.be suitable for 88.be fit for .support our team

90.suppose you won a million dollars 91.surprise sb 92.have a sweet tooth

T, U, V, W

1. The plane will take off soon. 2. take place 3. take the place of 4. have a taste of the soup 5. tear the letter in halves 6. be moved to tears 7. be terribly sorry/ill

8. The game ended in a tie./draw.

9. It’s my treat today. 10. The

patients

received

good

treatments.

11. Could I trouble you for some changes? 12. turn to sb for help 13. turn down the invitation 14. a type of

15. It’s no use for sb to do sth 16. Unless he can hide his tail, he can’t turn himself into a person. 17. the very next day

18. This is the very thing I am looking for.

19. from the very beginning 20. pay a visit to 21. waste ...on sth 22. a waste of time 23. keep a close watch on sb 24. wind his watch(wound, wound) 25. wave at sb 26. have a strong will

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27. do sth against one’s will 28. something goes wrong 29. do sb wrong 30. a large amount of 31. a little bit silly 32. a set of equipment 33. a small circle of friends 34. a teaspoon of honey 35. one’s attitude towards 36. look similar to sb 37. be criticized by 38. be greatly appreciated 39. be interviewed by 40. be shocked by 41. behave politely 42. mind your behavior 43. besides doing 44. by means of 45. combine ...and...

46. come up with good solutions 47. dance to the music 48. divide ...into

49. do sth without permission 50. dress casually 51. drop in on sb 52. drop sb a few lines 53. keep a balanced diet . enjoy the company of 55. experience different things 56. fit in 57. flee from 58. for instance 59. get married to sb 60. get used to doing

61. give sb some suggestions/ advice 62. go out of one’s way to do sth 63. have something in common . have an opportunity to do sth 65. have nothing against 66. have opposite views 67. hold on to your dream 68. in every situation 69. increase the risk of 70. lay eggs(laid, laid)

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71. lead sb to do sth 72. make a difference 73. make a toast 74. make compliments 75. make requests 76. new year’s resolution 77. not ...in the slightest 78. predict the future 79. take different routes 80. trek through the jungle 81. walk three blocks 82. treat a small burn 83. what if

84. win the gold medal

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