高考英语语法复习 时态练习题

2008高考英语语法复习时态练习题

1. --- I’m sorry. I thought the remark would delight you.

--- It actually ______.

A. wouldn’t

B. won’t

C. doesn’t

D. hadn’t

2. --- How about the sale of organic food lately?

--- Sales _____ by 5% every day. So it is a fast-growing market.

A. have increased

B. will increase

C. increase

D. are increasing

3. --- Fine $20! You know you _____ 100km an hour, do you?

--- No, officer! I can’t have been. This car doesn’t do 80.

A. are driving

B. have driven

C. drove

D. were driving

4. All morning as I waited for the medical report from the doctor, my tension _____.

A. grew

B. had grown

C. was growing

D. has grown

5. My hometown was still backward in the 1970’s, but things _____ a little better than in the 1950’s.

A. had been

B. were

C. were getting

D. were to get

6. Until yesterday, we _____ any information from the missing expedition team for a week.

A. haven’t got

B. didn’t get

C. hadn’t got

D. hadn’t been getting

7. --- How is your mother?

---Oh, she _____as unwell as she does today for a long time.

A. didn’t feel

B. wasn’t feeling

C. doesn’t feel

D. hasn’t feeling

8. More people _____ in the hospital this year than any time since the start of the Health Service.

A. are being treated

B. have treated

C. are treated

D. have been treated

9. You _____ things about. Look! What a mess in your room!

A. always throw

B. have always thrown

C. are always throwing

D. have always been throwing

10. --- I’d like to see your manager Williams at 3:00 pm.

--- I’m sorry. Mr. Williams _____ to a conference long before then.

A. will have gone

B. will go

C. has gone

D. is about to go

11. The company _____ a rise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.

A. promises

B. promised

C. has been promising

D. had promised

12. He _____ many of the experiences he ever had in his childhood.

A. gradually forget

B. is gradually forgetting

Ｃ. Was gradually forgetting D. have gradually forgotten

13. --- I’ve brought a box of chocolates for our daughter.

--- Oh, how good a dad! But she doesn’t like sweet things. _____ that?

A. Don’t you know

B. Haven’t you know

C. Didn’t you know

D. Hadn’t you know

14. It is said in the book that Thomas Edison(1947-1931) _____ the world leading inventor for sixty

years.

A. would be

B. has been

C. had been

D. was

15. I can’t tell you if it _____ tomorrow.

A. will rain

B. rains

C. shall rain

D. does rain

16. I was finally accepted into my ideal university. I _____ so happy in all my life.

A. haven’t felt

B. didn’t feel

C. don’t feel

D. hadn’t felt

17. --- Have you persuaded him?

--- Yes. After some hours of discussion, I _____ to reason him in accepting the new plan.

A. had managed

B. would manage

C. have managed

D. managed

18. I _____ ping-pong quite well, but I haven’t had time to play since the new year.

A. played

B. will play

C. have played

D. play

19. If you _____ be in time for the early bus, be sure to get up before 5 o’clock in the morning.

A. are to

B. are about to

C. are going to

D. are due to

20. Mr. And Mrs. Burns feel more comfortable on a ship than they would do if they _____.

A. travel

B. are traveling

C. traveled

D. have traveled

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