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今天是我们每日一词的第222个单词！

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今天的核心词汇是divide [dɪ‘vaɪd]

vt. 分，划分

搭配：

divide sth. into ... 把...分成...

sth. be divided into ... 被分成...

辨析：

divide 划分；把整体分成若干部分，常和介词into连用

e.g. The world is divided into five continents.

世界分成五大洲。

separate 分隔；把原来连在一起或靠近的分隔开来，常和from连用

e.g. The grinding machine separates the grain from the husk.

碾谷机把米和糠分开。

经典例句：

1. If you divide 21 by 3, you get 7.

21除以3得7.

2. The children were divided into six group.

孩子们被分为了6组。

熟词生义：

1. 区分，把...分类

e.g. The pupil divided the pencils by colour.

2. 除

e.g. Eight divided by two is four.

3. 有分歧

e.g. to divide in one‘s mind. 犹豫不决

遇见真题：

The Silk Road is the name of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa andAsia. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists believe people began to travel theSilk Roadabout 3000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, theSilk Roadcovered almost 6500 kilometers. It went fromRometoChina, which is from the West to theFar East.

66. It is clear that ______.

A the Silk Road was divided into Europe, Africa andAsia.

B Roman soldiers would like to travel along theSilk Road.

C people could travel to different countries along theSilk Road

D people shared only silk on theSilk Road

(2017年武汉中考真题阅读理解C篇）

The man was very __46__. He didn’t know what to do. He only had 10 dollars with him.Once that was __47__, he wouldn’t have any money to buy even food.He went to the supermarket and bought a box of tomatoes with his 10 dollars. He went from door to door and __48__ the tomatoes in small bags.He doubled his money.

46.A.pleased B.excited

C.embarrassed D.disappointed

47.A.exchanged B.spent

C.wasted D.lost

48.A.divided B.showed

C.kept D.sold