3. My friend Tanya ______ Japanese for six years before she ______ Japan. I've just received a letter from her. It says she has been studying Chinese for three months and ______ for China in a month.
4. When Sally ______ the criminal ______ her house, she screamed at the top of her voice because she didn't want ______.
A.saw; enter; killed
B.saw; enter; to be killed
C.sees; entering; be killed
D.sees; enter; killing
A B C D
B
句意:萨利看到那个罪犯走进她的房间后,她大声尖叫起来,因为她不想被杀死。第一空用一般过去时。see sb. doing sth.看见某人正在干某事。see sb. do sth.看见某人做了某事,故第二空中,动词原形和现在分词均可用;want to do为固定用法,且主语和kill之间为被动关系,故用被动语态。
5. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?
A.Parents who wish to be loved must behave so as to elicit love.
B.Those part-time students expected to offer some jobs on campus during the coming summer vacation.
C.He cleaned the glasses carefully for fear that it should be damaged.
D.A candidate for the president of student union is being interviewed at this moment.
A B C D
B
考查固定用法。本题考查的是被动语态。在B选项中,非谓语动词offer和句子主语those part-time students是逻辑动宾关系,因此这里要使用被动语态,故应将B选项中的to offer改为to be offered。
6. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?
A.His father has been dead for six years.
B.His father died six years ago.
C.It's six years since his father had died.
D.It has been two years since his father's death.
A B C D
C
考查动词的时态。C选项中的固定句型:“It's/It has been+一段时间+since+时间状语从句”,译作“自从……以来,已经……(时间)了”。要求:主句的谓语动词用一般现在时或现在完成时;从句的谓语动词用一般过去时,而且须是终止性动词。所以C选项中since后面的过去完成时应改为一般过去时。
7. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?
A.I had hardly got home when the telephone rang.
B.I had no sooner got home than the telephone ring.
C.She said she had worked in that factory since 1980.
A.Customers are asked to ensure that they have given correct change before leaving the shop as mistakes cannot be afterwards remedied,
B.Having been given such a good chance, he planned to learn more.
C.A great many teachers firmly believe that English is one of the most poorly-taught subjects in high schools at present.
D.I'm utterly puzzled what to do with it.
A B C D
A
考查被动语态。在选择使用动词的过去分词还是现在分词时,应根据该动词与其逻辑主语存在的是动宾关系还是主谓关系来判断:如果二者之间是动宾关系,则用过去分词;二者之间是主谓关系,则用现在分词。在A选项中,由于谓语动词have given和主语是逻辑动宾关系,因此要用被动语态,因此,应将A选项中的have given将改为have been given。
9. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?
A.She was nervous with a feeling as if she were being watched.
B.During the early years of this century, wheat was seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada.
C.Truth is the glue that holds governments together.
D.He said that there was the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
13. I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible, but I ______ fully occupied the whole of last week.
A.were
B.had been
C.have been
D.was
A B C D
D
此题是对混合虚拟语气的考查,即事实和虚拟假设的混合句。该句前半部分I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible是假设虚拟,句意:如果可能我就去医院看他了。而后半部分是对事实的陈述,句意:但是整个上周时间都被占满了。既然是对事实的陈述,此处的动词用一般过去时态即可,因此D项正确。
14. ______ you were busy, I wouldn't have bothered you with my questions.
15. I would just as soon you ______ rudely to her.
A.wouldn't speak
B.won't speak
C.didn't speak
D.haven't spoken
A B C D
C
would (just) as soon意为“宁愿,但愿”,后跟宾语从句。该从句的主语和主句的主语不是同一个(些)人时,要使用虚拟语气,从句使用过去时表示对现在和将来的虚拟;使用过去完成时表示对过去的虚拟。
16. ______ before we depart the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful dinner party.
A.Had they arrived
B.Would they arrive
C.Were they arriving
D.Were they to arrive
A B C D
D
本句是一个虚拟条件句,主句的谓语用的是“should+动词原形”,表示与现在事实相反或与将来事实可能相反。从句部分是省略了连接词if的倒装句,由于句子中的时间状语是the day after tomorrow,故从句动词应该用与将来事实相反的虚拟语气,即“should/were to+动词原形”。故D项是正确答案。
17. ______ the note you left, I would have forgotten to close the door.
A.With
B.In case of
C.Because of
D.But for
A B C D
D
句意:要不是你给我留了便条,我肯定会忘记关门。would have done本该做某事但没做,虚拟语气。but for要不是,位于句首时句子用虚拟语气。其它选项无此用法。In case of假设,以防。
18. It is recommended that the project ______ until all the preparations have been made.
A.not be started
B.will not be started
C.is not started
D.is not to be started
A B C D
A
句意:建议在所有的准备工作完成之前,这项工程不要开始。It is recommended后面的主语从句用虚拟语气,用“should+动词原形”的形式,should可省略,因此本题选择A项。
19. If you ______ Susan recently, you'd think the photograph on the right was strange.
21. To achieve interchangeability, Henry Ford insisted that the same gauging system for every part ______ all the way through the entire manufacturing process.
24. Leslie's upset. She invited about 20 people to her house for a party and then no one showed up. The least they ______ have done was to call to say they ______ to go.
A.might; were going
B.could; weren't going
C.might; weren't supposed
D.should; were going
A B C D
B
句意:Leslie很难过。她邀请了大约20人到家里聚会却一个人都没有来,至少他们应该打电话告诉一声他们不来了。could have done表示对过去事实的虚拟“本应该做某事”;were going to是过去将来时,表示以主句动作发生的时间为起点将要发生的动作。the least含义为“至少,最起码”。
25. I marvel that he ______, it having been said he had taken his final departure for Portugal.
28. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?
A.I propose that some minor matters on the agenda should be carried over for consideration at the next meeting.
B.When Edison died, it was proposed that the American people turned off all power in their homes, streets, and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man.
C.They propose that banks be made to choose between higher capital requirements and buying capital insurance.
D.To facilitate this method, I propose the addition of a new attribute for every requirement type.
38. Although the Earth's chemical composition had been studied for years, only toward the end of the nineteenth century ______ as a discipline in its own right.