语法练习题68道

英语专业四级语法练习题

1.Space exploration promises to open up many new territories for human settlement, as well as the harvest

of mineral resources.

A. leads to

B. to lead to

C. leading to

D. lead to

2.Someday, solar power collected by satellites the earth may give us all the energy we need for an

expanding civilization.

A. circled

B. to circle

C. circling

D. circles

3.In this experiment, they are wakened several times during the night, and asked to report what they .

A. had just been dreaming

B. are just dreaming

C. have just been dreaming

D. had just dreamt

4.Her terror was so great somewhere to escape, she would have run for her life.

A. only if

B. that there had only been

C. that had there only been

D. if there were only

5.Some women a good salary in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sake

of the family.

A. must make

B. should have made

C. would make

D. could have made

6. A light with no more power than by an ordinary electric light bulb becomes intensely strong as it is

concentrated to a pinpoint-sized beam.

A. as is produced

B. that produced

C. that is produced

D. produced

7.For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who

earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone what lay beneath the surface.

A. asking

B. ask

C. to ask

D. be asked

8.Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than, _____ at the

other store.

A. anyone

B. the others

C. that

D. the ones

9.The atmosphere is as much a part of the earth as its soil and the water of its lakes, rivers and oceans.

A. are

B. is

C. do

D. has

10.From now on, when anyone in our ranks who has done some useful work dies, soldier or cook, we

should have a funeral ceremony and a memorial meeting in his honor.

A. no matter he is

B. whether he has been

C. be he

D. whether be he

11.In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize, and was honored in Germany until the rise of Nazism he was

driven from Germany because he was a Jew.

A. then

B. and

C. when

D. before

12.Physics is the present-day equivalent of used to be called natural philosophy from which most of

present-day science arose.

A. that

B. all

C. which

D. what

13._____ the population of working age increased by 1 million between 1981 and 1986, today it is barely

growing.

A. Whereas

B. Even if

C. After

D. Now that

14.By the first decade of the 21st century, international commercial traffic vastly beyond today’s level s.

A. will be expected to extend

B. will have been expected to extend