探究点1 disappoint 的用法
disappoint 动词,意为“使失望;使破灭”。
She was worried about this because she disappointed her parents.
她对此感到忧心忡忡,因为她让父母失望了。
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He found it difficult to hide his disappointment when they didn't arrive.
他们没有来,他发现很难掩饰他的失望。
I am disappointed at the disappointing movie.
我对这部令人失望的电影感到失望。
情境应用
1. In order not to her, Mike bought a gift for her. (disappoint)
2. She tried not to show how she was. (disappoint)
3. What would you do if you bought from the Internet? (令人失望的东西)
探究点2 辨析except,except for 与besides

情境应用
1. milk and cheese, we also need some vegetables and fruit for our salad.
A. Except B. Without
C. Besides D. Of
2. The library is open every day . (除了周一)
3. It was a great trip the weather. (除了)

探究点1情境应用：
1. disappoint
2. disappointed
3. something disappointing
探究点2情境应用：
1. C
2. except Monday
3. except for

探究点1：
1. 固定结构in order (not) to do sth. 中to后需接动词原形，因此直接使用给出的动词disappoint。
2. 此处修饰人she，表达人自身“感到失望的”状态，需用形容词disappointed。
3. “令人失望的东西”中修饰事物要用disappointing，形容词修饰不定代词需后置，因此表达为something disappointing。
探究点2：
1. 根据句中also need可知，牛奶和奶酪是被包含在沙拉所需食材内的，besides表示“除……之外（还）”，强调包含部分，符合语境。
2. 此处强调周一不包含在图书馆开放日的范围内，except表示“除……之外”，强调不包括部分，符合题意。
3. 此处表示整体旅途很棒，仅天气是美中不足的瑕疵，except for表示除去整体中的瑕疵部分，符合语境。

Ⅰ. 根据句意,用括号中所给词的适当形式填空
1. Mr Li always makes his classes and we are interested in his classes. (live)
2. Geography is the study of the countries, , rivers, mountains or cities of the world. (ocean)
3. The weight of the elephant is about three . (ton)
4. Even the effort can make a difference. (tiny)
5. I expected he got good grades, but at last he me. (disappoint)
6. Money isn't everything. At least, it cannot buy you . (happy)
7. Parents play an important role in their children. (teach)

1. lively
2. oceans
3. tons
4. tiniest
5. disappointed
6. happiness
7. teaching

1. 此处考查固定结构"make sth + 形容词"，表示“使某物处于某种状态”，live对应的形容词lively意为“生动活泼的”，符合语境。
2. 句中并列的countries、rivers、mountains都是可数名词复数，ocean要变为复数形式oceans，泛指世界上的各类海洋。
3. 数词three后接可数名词复数，ton的复数形式为tons。
4. 此处表达“哪怕最微小的努力都能产生影响”，定冠词the后接形容词tiny的最高级tiniest。
5. 前半句的expected是一般过去时，句子时态保持一致，disappoint要变为过去式disappointed。
6. 动词buy后可接双宾语，此处需要名词作宾语，happy对应的名词是happiness，意为“幸福”。
7. 固定搭配play an important role in doing sth. 意为“在做某事中发挥重要作用”，介词in后接动名词，teach变为teaching。