Whatsurprisedmemostwasthatthereappearedalookonherfaceonhearingthenews.A.worrying;unexpectedB.worried;unexpectingC.worrying;unexpectingD.worried;unexpected

Question

What surprised me most was that there appeared a _____ look on her face on hearing the ______ news.
A.worrying;unexpected B.worried; unexpecting
C.worrying;unexpecting D.worried; unexpected

Answer 1

选D
一般的教科书上都会说“ing形式修饰事物,ed形式修饰人”之类,但这个规律并不适用于任何情况.
例如上题,前一个空格虽然是要选择修饰look的词语,但这里是要强调人的表情,所以应该用worried表示“她担心”,而worrying则是表示“她令人担心”.
至于后一个空格,要表示“意料之外的消息”,其实就是“没有被预期到的意思”,所以要用过去分词表示被动.那种“ing修饰事物”之类的说法是指像interesting这类表示具体属性的形容词,而不是所有形容词都是这样.