高考常见易混、易错词汇
必记一：名词及名词词组
1.amount, number
构成短语a number of 修饰可数名词复数；a great amount of 和amounts 修饰不可数名词。且amounts of 修饰名词作主语，谓语动词用复数。
e.g. a number of students/the amount of money.
2.population, people
population（一个国家和地区的）总人口；the people人民；people 具体的人。
e.g. China has a large population.
3.work, job
二者均指工作。work为不可数名词，job为可数名词。
e.g. a good job.
4.couple, pair
couple指人或动物，pair指由两部分组成的东西。
e.g. a pair of trousers.
5.cook, cooker
cook厨师，cooker厨具。
e.g. He is a good cook.
6.police, policeman
police警察的总称，后接谓语动词复数；policeman指某个具体的警察。
e.g. The police are questioning everyone in the house.
7.problem, question
problem问题、困难，多与think about，solve，raise连用；
question疑问，多与ask，answer连用。
8.the doctor and teacher, the doctor and the teacher
the doctor and teacher 指一个人，既是医生又是老师；
the doctor and the teacher 两个人，一个医生和一个老师。
9.the people, a people
the people人民；a people名族。
e.g. The Chinese is a peace loving people.
10.the second, a second
the second第二；a second 强调又一个。
e.g. He won the second prize.
必记二：形容词和副词
1.sleeping, asleep, sleepy
sleeping正在睡觉；asleep睡着，熟睡，做表语；sleepy困的，有睡意的。
e.g. a sleeping baby/The baby is a sleep/I’m sleepy.
2.gold, golden
gold指真金制品，但金鱼用gold fish；golden指金色的。
e.g. a gold ring/a golden time
3.most, mostly
most用于表感受的肯定句中，相当于very，当大部分、大多数讲时是形容词或代词；mostly 大部分，是副词。
e.g. most people/the people are mostly...
4.pleasant, pleased, pleasing
pleasant令人愉快的，做定语；pleased高兴的，表主语和中心词的感受；pleasing使人愉快的，惬意的，作定语或表语，与pleasant同义。
e.g. a pleasant trip/the trip is pleasing.
5.ill, sick
ill和sick都是形容词。ill通常做表语；sick通常作定语；但是ill做定语时，意为“邪恶的”；sick作表语时，为“恶心的”。
e.g. a sick boy
6.close, closely
close接近，靠近；closely紧紧地，紧密地，密切地。
e.g. be closely connected/watch closely/stand close.
7.good, well
good为形容词；well为副词，但指身体状况时是形容词。
e.g. He is well again.
te, lately
late迟，晚；lately最近，近来。
e.g. I haven’t seen him lately.
9.living, alive, live, lively
living,alive,live均指活着的。living作定语、表语均可；alive作定语、表语均可，作定语时后置；live只能作定语；lively活泼的。
e.g. all the living people=all the people alive.
10.worth, worthy
二者均指值得。worth后接doing，worthy后接to be done/of being done.
e.g. It is worth visiting.=It is worthy to be visited.=It’s worthy of being visited.
11.bad, badly
bad形容词；badly为副词，可与need，want，require连用，意为“很，非常”。
e.g. go bad/I need the book badly.
12.hard, hardly
hard努力，hardly几乎不。
e.g. work hard/I need the book badly.
13.beside, besides
beside作介词，在旁边；besides作副词，而且。
