Do you want me to take you to the station?

　　He just lacks a little confidence.

　　I like it when a book is so good that you can't put it down.

　　The box can hold all your clothes.

　　The trip will cost you $1000.

　　2. Not all prepositional verbs, that is, verb + a preposition, can be used in the passive voice.

　　For example,

　　We all argued about it for hours and eventually arrived at a decision.

　　All of the people at the meeting agreed with me.

　　The dog belongs to my cousin.

　　After getting off his car, he walked into the house.

　　The Princess was photographed shaking hands with AIDS victims.

　　She doesn't usually take part in any of the class activities.

　　3. In some situations, a past participle should be used after be. (When we want to say how we feel about something, we use the past participle; when we want to talk about someone or something that makes us feel something, we use the present participle.) For example,

　　I'm tired of doing the same thing day after day. The job is really tiring.

　　I didn't think the story was frightening, but Helen was frightened by it.

　　A: I think the film is really interesting.

　　B: That's why so many people are interested in it.

　　3. Consolidation

　　I. Relative items in recent years' college entrance examination:

　　1. All the employees except the manager _____to work online at home. （04廣東）

　　A. encourages        B. encourage        C. is encouraged         D. are encouraged

　　2. The number of deaths from heart disease will be reduced greatly if people _____to eat more fruit and vegetables. （04上海）

　　A. persuade         B. will persuade    C. be persuaded         D. are persuaded

　　3. The mayor of Beijing says that all construction work for the Beijing Olympics _____by 2008. （04 北京)

　　A. has been completed                B. has completed

　　C. will have been completed            D. will have completed

　　4. -Why did you leave that position?

　　-I _________ a better position at IBM.  (05北京)

　　A. offer  B. offered   C. am offered    D. was offered

　　5. More patients _____in hospital this year than last year. （04江蘇）

　　A. treated     B. have treated    C. had been treated     D. have been treated

　　6. The crazy fans______ patiently for two hours, and they would wait till the movie star arrived.（04重慶）

　　A. were waiting    B. had been waiting   C. had waited     D. would wait

　　7. More than a dozen students in that school _______ abroad to study medicine last year.（05上海卷）