[求助]ability,possibility,cabable

ability,possibility,cabable后面用什么介词，我记得：

ability to

possibility of

cabable of

对吗？谢谢！

你可以从CD下载朗文词典。上面有很多惯用法。

应该是对的，帮你确认一下

如果有时间，你可以在语法大全上用这个词查找一下，这样就可以把这个类型的考题规类了

1.        Some analysts point out that because people are becoming accustomed to a steady inflation rate of four to five percent, businesses found that they could raise prices according to this amount without thereby provoking strong public reaction.

(A) found that they could raise prices according to this amount without thereby provoking

(B) found that they were capable of raising prices by this amount and not provoke

(C) find that they are capable of raising prices by this amount and not provoke

(D) are finding that they can raise prices by this amount without provoking（D）

(E) are finding that they can raise prices according to this amount and will not thereby provoke

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1.        When Congress reconvenes, some newly elected members from rural states will try and establish tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are to be allowed to grow and to encourage more aggressive sales of United States farm products overseas.

(A) and establish tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are to be allowed to grow and to encourage

(B) and establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain able to be grown by farmers and encouraging

(C) establishing tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are allowed to grow and to encourage

(D) to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain capable of being grown by farmers and encouraging（E）

(E) to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain farmers will be allowed to grow and to encourage

明显ETS不是太喜欢用capable(你这个词拼写错误)

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A controversial figure throughout most of his public life, the Black leader Marcus Garvey advocated that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom.

(A) that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom

(B) that some Blacks return to the African land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him

(C) that some Blacks return to Africa which was the land which symbolized the possibility of freedom to him

(D) some Black’s returning to Africa which was the land that to him symbolized the possibility of freedom（A）

(E) some Black’s return to the land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him, Africa

Upset by the recent downturn in production numbers during the first half of the year, the possibility of adding worker incentives was raised by the board of directors at its quarterly meeting.

(A) the possibility of adding worker incentives was raised by the board of directors at its quarterly meeting

(B) the addition of worker incentives was raised as a possibility by the board of directors at its quarterly meeting

(C) added worker incentives was raised by the board of directors at its quarterly meeting as a possibility

(D) the board of directors raised at its quarterly meeting the possibility of worker incentives being added（E）

(E) the board of directors, at its quarterly meeting, raised the possibility of adding worker incentives

明显possibility常考但也没有什么新意

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1.        A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.

(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess

(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing

(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing

(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess（D）

(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,

1.        A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.

(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced

(B) that the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced

(C) the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable

(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people to be traceable（A）

(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world’s five billion people

1.        After the Civil War, contemporaries of Harriet Tubman’s maintained that she has all of the qualities of a great leader, coolness in the face of danger, an excellent sense of strategy, and an ability to plan in minute detail.

(A) Tubman’s maintained that she has

(B) Tubman’s maintain that she had

(C) Tubman’s have maintained that she had

(D) Tubman maintained that she had（D）

(E) Tubman had maintained that she has

1.        Not since Galileo suffered the “scurvy humor” of the Inquisition has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue a theory.

(A) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue

(B) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue

(C) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist to pursue

(D) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist to pursue（C）

(E) has a religious organization so effectively curbed whether a major scientist had the ability that he could be pursuing

ability常考，且考点就在那个to上，但如果有can好像又比较倾向于can