牛津高中英语省略句练习题

省略句练习题

1. ____ time, he’ll make a first –class tennis player.

A. Having given

B.To give

C. Giving

D. Given

2.—Susan,go on. Your sister is cleaning the yard.

---Why____? John is sitting there doing nothing.

A. him

B. he

C. I

D. me

3.Generally speaking, ____according to the direction, the drug has no side effect.

A. when taking

B. when taken

C. when to take

D. when to be taken

4. Unless ____ to speak, you should remain silent at the conference.

A. invited

B. inviting

C. being invited

D. having invited

5. —The boys are not doing a good job at all, are they?

-- _______.

A. I guess not so.

B. I don’t guess

C. I don’t guess so

D. I guess not.

6. The man we followed suddenly stopped and looked as if ____whether he was going in the right direction.

A. seeing

B. having seen

C. to have seen

D. to see

7. When ____, the museum will be open to the public next year.

A. completed

B. completing

C. being completed

D. to be completed

8. The director gave me a better offer than _____.

A. that of Dick’s

B. Dick’s

C. he gave Dick

D.those of Dick

9. ---Does your brother intend to study German?

---Yes, he intends_____.

A. /

B. to

C. so

D. that

10. --Alice, why didn’t you come yesterday?

---I ____, but I had an unexpected visitor.

A. had

B. would

C. was going to

D. did

11. He looked around and caught a man ____his hand into the pocket of passenger.

A. put

B. to be putting

C. to put

D. putting

12. A cook will be immediately fired if he is found ____ in the kitchen.

A. smoke

B. smoking

C. to smoke

D. smoked

13. I know nothing about the young lady ___she is from Shanghai.

A. except

B. except for

C. except that

D. besides

14. Luckily, we’d brought a road map without ____ we would have lost our way.

A. it

B. that

C. this

D. which

15. Meeting my uncle after all these years was an unforgettable moment, ____ I always treasure.

A. that

B. one

C. it

D. this

16. The research is so designed that once ___nothing can done to changed it.

A. begins

B. having begun

C. beginning

D. begun

17. They usually have less money at the end of the month than _____at the beginning.

A. which is

B. which was

C. they have

D. it is

18.—I am so sorry to hear about Jack.

---If he had made more friends here, he might _____.

A. have stayed

B. have stay

C. stayed

D. stay

19. Don’t all speak at once! _____,please.

A. Each at one time

B. One by one time

C. One for each time

D. One at a time.

20. --What do you think made Mary so upset?

-- ___ her new bicycle.