英语虚拟语气练习题及答案

虚拟语气练习题

用所给动词的适当形式填空：

Part A.

1.If people ______(drive) more slowly, there wouldn’t be so many accidents.

2.If you had worked carefully, you _____(not make) so many mistakes.

3.The boat wouldn’t have drifted away, if we _____ (tie) it up.

4.If I had known you already _____(have) a typewriter, I _____(not, buy) one for your birthday.

5.If he _____(be) here this afternoon I would go with him.

6.If it were to rain tomorrow, the match _____(postpone).

7.But for your help, we ______(not be) able to finish the work in time.

8.If it _____(not, be) for the leadership of the Party, we would not have achieved so much.

9.I wish I _____(study) hard while I was young.

10.It is about time that fence ______(mend).

11.My request is that we ______(hold) another session to discuss the problem.

12.It is strange that the car _____(break) down at exactly the same place where it _____(break)

down yesterday.

13.The baby smiled as if he _____(understand) what his mother _____(say).

14.He talked as if he _____(do) all the work himself, but in fact Tom and I _____(do) most of

it.

15.If only we _____(have) a phone! I’m tired of queuing outside the public phone box.

16.----- “Can we come in late tomorrow?” ----- “I’d rather you _____(come) in on time.”

17.He looks as if he _____(be) ill for a long time.

18.He always talks as though he ______(address) a public meeting.

19.If a metal ______(heat), it will expand.

20.I _____(stay) home if it rains this evening.

Part B.

1.She would call you immediately if she _____(need) help.

2.If I had seen the movie, I _____(tell) you all about it now.

3.If he _____(decide) earlier, he could have left on the afternoon flight.

4._______ I _____(take) my umbrella with me when I _____(come) out this morning, I _____(not

be) so wet now.

5.If you had listened to me, you _____ (not be) in such trouble now.

6.I wish they _____ (stop) making so much noise so that I could concentrate on my work.

7.It is inconceivable that he _____ (not see) me that day for I ______(wave) to her.

8.What a pity that he gave orders that all those lovely trees _____(cut) down.

9.Mr. Jones would rather _____(stay) home last night.

10.Henry would rather that his brother _____(work) in the same department as he does.

11.Electric current flows through a conductor as though it _____(be) a fluid.

12.We _____(invite) her to the party but we didn’t know that she ______(already, come) back

from abroad.

13.Today’s industrial production ______(be) impossible without the contribution made by the

science of physics.