【问】
I was the first Western TV reporter ____ (permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.(2016年高考全国卷1)
答案:permitted
问题:reporter前有the first修饰,为什么答案不是to be permitted?
【答】
的确,有first、last、only、next等修饰的名词,后面通常用不定式做定语。
以下例句转载自《英语常见问题解答大词典》的the first to be held词条:
- He was the first man to fly across the Atlantic(to fly=who flew).(RBE)
他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。 - He was the first to be there (to be there=who was there).
他第一个到达到那里。 - They were the last guests to arrir (to arrive=who arrived). (CGEL)
他们是最后到达的客人。 - He was one of the first to collect Picasso paintings.(L.CD))
他是最早收集毕加索画的人之一, - I arrived first. The next (one) to arrioe was James.(GPU)
我是到达的第一个人。第二个到达的是鲁姆斯, - Ameria Earhart, the first woman to mak a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, wasborn in 1898.(TOEFL)
阿美丽姬·埃尔哈特,第一个单独飞越大西洋的妇女,生于1898年。 - The great racing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was the first man to drive at over 300 miles per hour. (New Conceprt English, Book 2, L. 72)
著名的赛车手马尔科姆·康佩尔爵士是驱车时速超过300英里的第一个人。
但是在下面这些句子均出自外媒,都用的是分词而不是不定式做定语: