Question

两道英语题……

The home improvements have taken what little there is ______my spare time.
A of B from C in D at
The peaches_____well.Put them in the fridge.
A aren't kept B don't keep C aren't lasted D don't last
详细讲解一下，感激不尽……

Answer 1

1.
我先解释一下“home improvements ”
home improvement，《家庭进步》（家具装饰），是一部连续剧（肥皂剧）

正确答案:C
译文:家居改善耗费了我仅有的一点点闲暇时间。
解析：what little there is(仅有的一点点) 是 my spare time(我的闲暇时间)的一部分,表示所属关系,所以用of.这个句子可以改写成:The home improvements have taken the (remaining) little time of my spare time .

2.
要搞懂此题，先要区分last和keep
两者意思同：“持续”，后面接的词不同
keep+doing sth.
last+for sth.或者last+名词

keep ：也有保留的意思,如果你说让一个人延续做某事，你可以说:keep doing it.

last：是指持续，和keep意思同但用法不同。比如，要说某事持续了很久，就是：it last for a long time。
不能说it keep for a long time, 这是错误的

这里显然是用last，意为“桃子不能外置太久，把他们放入冰箱。”
这里的持续指时间太久，所以用last

Answer 2

好题，这两题还是有难度的。看了楼上的答案，写的虽长但答案不敢苟同，所以在这写一下，楼主您自己判断。

1. 选A

句意：房屋装修花费了我仅有的一点点空闲时间。

考点：感叹句做宾语从句。
have taken后接的是个感叹句，后半句正常语序：What little of my spare time there is! 我的空闲时间这么少！
用此感叹句做take的宾语从句，there is提前，就成了...have taken what little there is of my spare time.

2. 选B
混淆选项是A和D。
首先，为什么不是D？想说桃子不能放时间太长，应该是the peaches don't last long。既然后面是well，没有last well的说法。
第二，为什么不是A？中国人思维桃子被保存，那么一定是被动语态。其实英语口语里在说什么东西不容易保存时，就直接用主动时态 peaches don't keep well.

给你看一段来自美国人的博客的一段话（链接在下面）：
My peaches are ripe. Last year was the first year I had any peaches from my tree and this year it just exploded. We literally have peaches everywhere –on the counters, the table, in baskets, in the cast iron skillets. The first ones were of course eaten properly. That is, we ate them underneath the tree with the juice running down our chins. The only bad thing we’ve discovered is that these peaches don’t keep well off the tree, so we’re rushing to preserve them.
看到最后一句话了吗？these peaches don't keep well off the tree. (这些桃子一下树就保存不好）直接用主动时态。

这题还是很有水平的，肯定有不少人做错：）