最新英语专业四级时态测试题及答案

专四测试之时态语态

1. When I arrived at the meeting, the first speaker _____ and the audience _____.

A. had finished speaking, were clapping

B. had finished speaking, had clapped

C. finished speaking, clapped

D. finished speaking, were clapping

2. The doctor is feeling the little girl’s pulse. He says it ______ normal.

A. feels

B. is feeling

C. has felt

D. is felt

3. I ______ writing the paper as scheduled, but my mother’s illness interfered. I hope you will excuse me.

A. am to have finished

B. was to have finished

C. was to finish

D. ought to finish

4. How can I ever concentrate if you ____ continually ____ me with silly questions?

A. have interrupted

B. had interrupted

C. are interrupting

D. were interrupted

5. Mr. White works with a chemicals import & export company, but he ____ for the industrial fair, since he is on leave.

A. has worked

B. works

C. has been working

D. is working

6. For some time now, world leaders _____ out the necessity for agreement on arms reduction.

A. had been pointing

B. have been pointing

C. were pointing

D. pointed

7. The experiment requires more money than ______.

A. have been put in

B. being put in

C. has been put in

D. to be put in

8. Jack ____ from home for two days now, and I am beginning to worry about his safety.

A. has been missing

B. has been missed

C. had been missing

D. was missed

9. This kind of glasses manufactured by experienced craftsmen ______ comfortably.

A. is worn

B. wears

C. wearing

D. are worn

10. The last half of the nineteenth century ______ the steady improvement in the means of travel.

A. has witnessed

B. was witnessed

C. witnessed

D. is witnessed

11. Before the first non-stop flight made in 1949, it ______ necessary for all planes to land for

refueling.

A. would be

B. has been

C. had been

D. would have been

12. If you smoke in a non-smoking section, people ______.

A. have objected

B. object

C. must object

D. will object

13. He ______ when the bus came to a sudden stop.

A. was almost hurt

B. was hurt himself

C. was to hurt himself

D. was hurting himself

14. If one ______, he will be very particular about others clothing and appearance.

A. has been overcome by vanity

B. overcomes vanity

C. is overcome by vanity

D. has overcome vanity

15. We’re late. I expect the film _____ by the time we get to the cinema.

A. will have started

B. has started

C. will start

D. may start

16. I suppose that when I co me back in ten years’time all these old house ______ down.

A. will have been pulled

B. will have pulled

C. will be pulling

D. will be pulled

17. The grey building is where the workers live, and the white one is where the spare parts ______.

A. are producing

B. are produced

C. produced

D. being produced

18. The fifth generation computers, with artificial intelligence, ______ and perfected now.

A. developed

B. have developed

C. are being developed

D. will have been developed

19. Until then, his family ______ from him for six months.

A. didn’t hear

B. hasn’t been hearing

C. hasn’t heard

D. hadn’t heard

20. Great as Newton was, many of his ideas ______ today and are being modified by the work of

scientists of our time.

A. care to challenge

B. may be challenged

C. have been challenged

D. are challenging

21. It’s reported that by the end of this month the output of cement in th e factory ______ by about

10%.

A. will have risen

B. has risen

C. will by rising

D. has been rising

22. She ought to stop work; she has a headache because she ______ too long.

A. has been reading

B. had read

C. is reading

D. read

23. I found that my cheating in last Monday’s English test ______ to my parents that very evening.

A. was being reported

B. had reported

C. had been reported

D. was reported

24. Kathy told me she ______ the organization three years before.

A. joined

B. had been joined

C. had joined

D. was joining

25. That work is needed by next week, so make sure ______ to the deadline.

A. for keeping

B. you’ll keep

C. keeping

D. you keep

26. I haven’t seen Diana these past few days. I am afraid she _______ herself for some time.

A. hasn’t been feeling

B. isn’t feeling

C. wasn’t feeling

D. hadn’t been feeling