【问】 If you ______in taking this attitude，we'll have to ask you to leave.
 A. pursue B. resist C. insist D. persist
 我搞不清insist与persist有什么区别。请分析。
 【答】 insist与persist大致有两个方面的区别。
 A. insist与介词on或upon连用，而persist与介词in连用：
 1. She insisted on writing at once. (Bennet)
 她坚持立即写信。
 2. She insisted upon lending them her car. (Sinclair)
 她坚持把她的车借给他们。
 3. Why do you persist in writting such things? (London)
 你为什么坚持写这样的东西?
 4. If you persist in breaking the law you will go to prison. (LDCE)
 如果你坚持犯法，你就会进监狱。
 B.当后接宾语从句时，persist作“坚持说”、“反复说”解，而insist有时作“坚持说”、“坚持认为”解，而有时作“坚持”解，在后一情况，that从句的谓语动词要用be型虚拟语气或should+动词原形。
 1. I insisted(to everyone)that he was wrong. (LDCE)
 我(对每个人都)坚持说他是错误的。
 2. Art critics insisted he was an illustrator rather than an artist. (WTYB)
 艺术评论家们坚持认为他是个插图画者，而不是个画家。
 3. I insisted that he(should)go. (LDCE)
 我坚持让他走。
 4. We insisted that the meeting be adjourned. (CGEL)
 我们坚持休会。
 5. He persisted that he was innocent of crime. (Thorndike)
 他坚持说他是无罪的。
 请做下面的英语试题：
 1. ophiamythe plane to Miami

 2. In spite of her father's objection，she insisted_________(on taking，to take) her littlesister to the discotheque.