英语专转本专项练习-动词时态语态及情态动词专练100题

英语动词专项练习------时态、语态、情态动词专练100题及详析

1. — May I have a word with Miss Anna?

— Sorry, she ____ to her friend on the phone.

A. is talking

B. has talked

C. talked

D. talks

2. When Nancy was at college, she ____ three foreign languages, but I am surprised to find that she ____ all except a few words of each.

A. spoke; had forgotten

B. had spoken; had forgotten

C. spoke; has forgotten

D. had spoken; has forgotten

3. By the end of next July this building ____.

A. will be completed

B. will have completed

C. will have been completed

D. has been completed

4. — Hurry, Mary! You ____ on the phone.

— Oh, I ____. Thank you, Mom.

A. have wanted; have come

B. will be wanted; will come

C. are being wanted; come

D. are wanted; am coming

5. Because farmland ____ quickly, the government are considering starting a program to solve the problem.

A. is being lost

B. is lost

C. is losing

D. loses

6. — What were you doing when I phoned you yesterday evening?

— I ____ just finished my homework and I ____ to watch TV.

A. have; am going

B. have; was going

C. had; was going

D. had; am going

7. We ____ dinner at seven o’clock when CCTV ____ to broadcast news.

A. are having; will start

B. will be having; starts

C. have; will start

D. will have had; starts

8. — Where are Jack and Mike?

— They ____ the furniture you asked for into the house.

A. have been carrying

B. carried

C. have been carried

D. were carried

9. Professor Haley told me that he ____ by many of his students at the railway station.

A. had been seen off

B. have been seen off

C. had seen off

D. have seen off

10. As we stood on the top of the hill, we could see the beautiful scene that ____ before us.

A. had spread

B. has spread

C. spread

D. spreads

11. An order has come that the police should find out where the thief ____ .

A. hides

B. was hiding

C. hiding

D. is hidden

12. — You must be surprised and excited to see the film star here.

— You’re right. ____.

A. I don’t expect to see her here

B. I didn’t expect to see her here

C. I am expecting to see her here

D. I expected to see her here

13. Mr. Ham felt that he himself, rather than Alice and Lisa, ____ for the coldness that had grown between

them.

A. were to blame

B. was to be blamed

C. were to be blamed

D. was to blame

14. — What else did you do this morning besides doing the shopping?

— Two hours ____ washing the windows and floor.

A. were taken

B. was spent

C. has taken

D. will be spent

15. I’m glad you’ve come, Miss Rose; I ____ you, but you’ve saved me the trouble now.

A. am going to call

B. was about to call

C. had called

D. am to call

16. Did you tell me that there ____ an English test the next week?

A. would be

B. will be

C. is

D. were

17. — Did you meet the pianist at the station?

— No, he ____ by the time I ____ there.

A. had left; got

B. has left; reached

C. was leaving; got

D. left; had got

18. I should very much like to have gone to that party of theirs, but ____.

A. I’m not invited

B. I have not been invited

C. I was not invited

D. I had not been invited

19. — How is the boy?

— Sorry. He ____ though the doctor made every effort to save him.

A. died

B. was dead

C. had died

D. has been dead

20. — Bob must be wealthy.

— Yes, he ____ more in one day than I do in a week.

A. is earning

B. earns

C. had earned

D. has earned

21. You can certainly leave the classroom as soon as your homework ____.

A. has done

B. has been done

C. will be done

D. will have been done

22. — Did you telephone the manager’s office?

— Yes, he ____ back before 9 o’clock this morning.

A. expects

B. is expected

C. expected

D. was expected

23. — Would you like to tell me what our teacher said just now?

— She said that light ____ faster than sound.

A. travels

B. traveled

C. would travel

D. was traveling

24. — Has William finished writing his graduation paper yet?

— I don’t know exactly, but he ____ all day.

A. is writing

B. has been writing

C. was writing

D. wrote