时态精讲精练(带习题)

语法专题四：时态

1. I’ve won a holiday for two days to Florida. I my mum.

A. am taking

B. have taken

C. take

D. will have taken

2. Because farmland ______quickly, the government is considering solving the problem.

A. is being lost

B. is lost

C. is losing

D. loses

3. John and I ______ friends for 8 years. We first got to know each other at a party. But we______ each other a couple of times before that.

A. had been; have been

B. have been; have been

C. had been; had seen

D. have been; had seen

4. Dad will come to see me when I ______ the training course.

A. will have finished

B. will finish

C. are finishing

D. finish

5. ---Did he notice you enter the room?

---I don’t think so. He ______ to the radio with his eyes shut.

A. listened

B. was listening

C. has listened

D. had listened

6. We ______ our new neighbors yet, so we don’t know their names.

A. don’t meet

B. won’t meet

C. haven’t met

D. hadn’t met

7. I have to go to work by taxi because my car ______ at the garage.

A. will be repaired

B. is repaired

C. is being repaired

D. be repaired

8. ---______ leave at the end of the month.

---I don’t think you should do that until ______ another job.

A. I’m going to; you’d found

B. I’m going to; you’ve found

C. I’ll; you’ll find

D. I’ll; you’d find

9. I won’t tell the student the answer to the math problem until he ______ on it for an

hour.

A. has been working

B. will have worked

C. will have been working

D.

had worked

10. The father as well as his three children ______ skating on the frozen river every

Sunday afternoon in winter.

A. is going

B. go

C. goes

D. are going

11.I ______ in London for many years, but I’ve never regretted my final decision to

move back to China.

A. lived

B. was living

C. have lived

D. had lived

12. This machine ______. It hasn’t worked for years.

A. didn’t work

B. wasn’t working

C. doesn’t work

D. isn’t

working

13. My friend, who ______ on the IOC all his life, is retiring next month.

A. served

B. is serving

C. had served

D. has served

14. Look at the timetable. Hurry up! Flight 4026______ off at 18:20.

A. takes

B. took

C. will be taken

D. has taken

15. ---I don’t suppose the police know who did it.

---Well, surprisingly they do. A man has been arrested and ______ now.

A. has been questioned

B. is being questioned

C. is questioning

D. has questioned

16. So far it is the best crosstalk I ______.

A. heard

B. have heard

C. will hear

D. had heard

17. ---I will come to attend your lecture at 10:00 tomorrow.

---I’m sorry, but by then my lecture will have ended and I ______ my guests in my office.

A. is being met

B. will meet

C. will be meeting

D. will have met

18. ---Hi, Tracy, you look tired.

---I am tired. I ______ the living room all day.

A. painted

B. had painted

C. have been painting

D. have

painted

19. With the development of science, more new technology ______ to the field of IT.

A. has introduced

B. is being introduced

C. is introduced

D. was introduced

20. The two friends ______ on line for three hours, and they will go on.

A. had been chatting

B. had chatted

C. were chatting

D. ha ve been

chatting

21. ---Let’s see if the baseball game has started yet.

---Started? It must be clear who ______ by now.

A. is winning

B. wins

C. has won

D. would win

22. ---What’s the matter, Jane? You look sad.

---Oh, nothing much. As a matter of fact, I ______ of my friends back home.

A. was just thinking

B. just thought

C. have just been thinking

D. have just

thought

23. He will have learned English for 8 years by the time he ______ from university.

A. will graduate

B. will have graduated

C. graduates

D. is to

graduate

24. There was a knock at the door. It was the second time that someone ______ me that

evening.

A. to have interrupted

B. would have interrupted

C. had interrupted

D. to

interrupt

25. --- Do you know our town at all? --- No, this is the first time I here.