When people want to relax themselves, they prefer ________ TV or listen to music rather than ________ newspapers.
A．watching; read
B．watching; to read
C．to watch; read
D．to watch; reading
答案：C
题目分析：prefer to do sth. rather than do sth.“宁愿做...而不做...”词结构中要求前后动词都用原形，结合语境可知选C。
点评：prefer的用法比较复杂，需要注意的是prefer A to B 与prefer to do sth. rather than do sth.的含义相同，结构不同。解答此类题型需要注意的是后面搭配对象的不同。
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| Sandwiches are popular in the world, but do you know where they came from? Sandwich was an English 1 . He lived in England about two hundred years ago. Sandwich had 2 money. He was very rich (富有的) and he liked to play 3 . He often played all day and night and had no time to 4 dinner. One day he played for 24 hours and felt very 5 . He asked his servant (仆人) to get him some meat and bread. He put the meat 6 the two slices of bread so that he could 7 playing his cards. People liked 8 idea and called the food sandwich. Today there are many different kinds of sandwiches. You can make them at home or 9 them at restaurants easily. We love sandwiches 10 we can eat them everywhere, at workplaces, schools or parks, and they're not expensive. | ||||
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