16-few little详解与练习

few、a few与little、a little的详解与练习

few（否定意义）“几乎没有”“有几个”= not many; hardly any

可数 +可数名词复数

a few（肯定意义）“有几个”= some; several; a small number of

little（否定意义）“没有多少”“几乎没有”（反：much）

不可数 +不可数名词单数

a little（肯定意义）“有点儿”（反：none）

注：（1）not a few = no few = quite a few = a good few = many

（2）当 few受 every, last, past, next, some, very等词所修饰时，表示肯定意义，few之前不再有冠词。如：
　　In the last few minutes, he checked up his paper again.
　　It took us some few days to repair the machine.
　　They are very few in number.
　　There were too few of them.
　　He goes to see his grandma every few weeks.

（3）在非正式英语中，一般很少用little，常用not much, only a little来代替，如：

We haven’t got much money / time.
(4) “not a little”意思是“很，非常”（相当于very）

一、填空。

1. He has _________ friends there.

2. The lake is not near, so there’s ____ people going swimming there.

3. I like a _______ sugar in my tea.

4. There are a _______ students eating lunch now.

5. There are a _______ chocolates left in the box.

6. I usually only eat a _______ at lunch time.

7.There are only a _______ ships left .

8. A _______ people were waiting for the bus.

9. Can I have a _______ jam on my bread, please?

10. Very _______ children like getting up a 5 o'clock in the morning.

11. I've only got a _______ money left to spend at the shop.

12. I've only got a _______ money in my bag

13. You have to hurry to school, there’s _______ time left.

14. He wanted to drink __________ orange juice

11. The boy was too lazy . He spent _________ time on his study.

二、单项选择。

1. There is ________ water in the glass. Let’s go and get some.\

A. few B. much C. many D. little

2. We still have _______ apples in the basket. You don’t have to buy any.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

3. I am new here. So I have _______ friends here.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

4. I’m _______ thirsty. Can I get something to drink, mom ?

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

5. There is ______ money in my pocket, so I can’t buy anything now.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

6. He has ________ friends here, he feels lonely（孤独地）.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

7. I enjoy my life here. I have ________ friends and we meet quite often.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

8. The twins can speak only _______ French.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

9. Let’s go and have a drink. We still have _________ time before the train leaves.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

10. Please wait just ________ minutes; I’m going to clean myself up.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

11. ________ people know where Philip lives. Only his parents can tell us.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

12. Ladies and gentlemen, I have ______ words to say.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

13. Can you get here ________ earlier next time ?

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

14. I’m hungry now. I ate only __________ bread for lunch.

A. a few B. little C. a little D. few

15. If you save ____________ coins a day, you will be able to buy an MP4 player in a year.

A. a little B. little C. a few D. few

16.I’m sorry that I can’t give you any advice because I know ___________ about it.

A. little B. few C. a little D. a few

17. We must hurry. There is ___________ time left.

A. a little B. little C. a few D. few

18. Very ____________ people swim in winter.

A. a few B. a lot of C. few D. many

19. There is going to be _________ snow in my hometown this winter than last winter.

A. little B. few C. less D. least

20. I’m hungry now. I ate only _________ bread for lunch.

A. a few B. little C. a little D. few

21. The detective opened the window _________ in order to watch the suspect（嫌疑人）.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

22. There are _________ English magazines here. We can lend you one or two.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

23.If you save __________ coins a day, you will be able to buy an MP4 player in a year.

A. a little B. little C. a few D. few

24. We need to buy some rice because we have __________ at home.

A. a few B. few C. a little D. little

25. Can you hurry up ? There’s __________ time left.

A. little B. a bit C. a few D. a lot

26. It was too late, so __________ people saw the accident happened last night.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

27. He did very well in the exam and made ___________ mistakes.

A. few B. a few C. little D. a little

28. We have ___________ eggs in the fridge. Please get some from the supermarket.

A. a little B. little C. a few D. few

29. I had ________ bread and a bottle of milk for breakfast this morning.

A. a bit B. a bit of C. a few of D. a few

30. --- Yesterday I lost my keys and my mum was very angry with me.

--- Oh, sometimes you are really ___________ careless.

A. a little of B. a lot C. a bit of D. a bit

31. Though Hebe talks _______, she has made _______ friends here.

A. a little, a few B. little, few C. little, a few D. few, a few

32. The lesson is very easy, because there are __________ new words in it.

A. a few B. a little C. little D. few

33. I’m going to buy _________ bananas this afternoon. There’s nothing.

A, a few B. a little C. few D. little

34. --- You were tired out after the mountain climbing, weren’t you ?

--- Yes. ______________. I could hardly rise to my feet.

A. not at all B. not a little C. not a bit D. not really

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