中考英语专项突破动词

中考英语专项突破——动词

1. You’re _______ your time trying to persuade him, he’ll never join us.

A. spending

B. wasting

C. losing

D. missing

2. "What did you think of her speech?" "She _______ for an hour but didn’t ______ much."

A. spoke; speak

B. spoke; say

C. said; speak

D. said; say

3. I don’t know the restaurant, but it’s ______ to be quite a good one.

A. said

B. told

C. spoken

D. talked

4. All the leading newspapers ______ the trade talks between China and the United States.

A. reported

B. printed

C. announced

D. published

5. I love to go to the seaside in summer. It ___ good to lie in the sun or swim in the cool sea.

A. does

B. feels

C. gets

D. makes

6. We have worked out the plan and now we must put it into _______.

A. fact

B. reality

C. practice

D. deed

7. The captain ______ an apology to the passengers for the delay caused by bad weather.

A. made

B. said

C. put

D. passed

8. If by any chance someone comes to see me, ask them to leave a ____________.

A. message

B. letter

C. sentence

D. notice

9. We decided not to climb the mountains because it was raining ______.

A. badly

B. hardly

C. strongly

D. heavily

10. The child is so full of _______ that he cannot keep still.

A. force

B. energy

C. power

D. strength

11. He thought the painting was of little ______, so he let me have it for only ten pounds.

A. value

B. cost

C. price

D. spending

12. No _______ that you failed in the exam. You have always been so careless.

A. matter

B. trouble

C. wonder

D. way

13. He has no ______ of time, so he is always playing.

A. sense

B. idea

C. effect

D. feeling

14. Many old houses are being pulled down to make ____ for the office building.

A. room

B. ground

C. space

D. area

15. After waiting for three days, we decided to leave ______ him.

A. besides

B. except

C. but

D. without

16. There was a fight in the street yesterday. Three people were seriously ________.

A. hurt

B. killed

C. broken

D. cut

17. He went from door to door, _____ waste paper and magazines.

A. receiving

B. achieving

C. accepting

D. collecting

18. She felt so ______ that she could hardly open his eyes.

A. sleepy

B. asleep

C. sleeping

D. sleep

19. It is _______that you will pass the college examination.

A. sure

B. surely

C. certainly

D. like

20. He is ill and has _______ in bed for two days already.

A. lied

B. lain

C. laid

D. layed

21. The guards caught the spy and _____ him very carefully.

A. asked for

B. searched for

C. looked for

D. searched

22. ______ him to go out if he wants to.

A. Allow

B. Leave

C. Let

D. Have

23. It was a _________ difficult exam and many students failed in it.

A. fairly

B. too

C. rather

D. enough

24. I watched a boxing ______ on TV last night.

A. fight

B. game

C. match

D. sport

25. I bought a shirt because it was good in quality and _____ in price.

A. reasonable

B. valuable

C. comfortable

D. enjoyable

26. Students sometimes support themselves by _______ of taking evening jobs.

A. ways

B. offers

C. means

D. helps

27. I _______ an answer to my letter within a few days.

A. hope

B. wait

C. look through

D. expect

28. He ______. A. robbed me my coat B. stole me my coat

C. robbed my coat from me

D. stole my coat from me

29. I wanted to go there by plane, but I hadn’t enough money to pay for the _______.

A. journey

B. travel

C. voyage

D. fly

30. I learned to _______ a bicycle as a small boy.