高中虚拟语气练习

Subjunctive Mood

I. Fill in each blank with the proper subjunctive form of the verb in brackets:

1.I recommended that favorable consideration ________(be) given.

2.If he ______ ( be) here now, I don’t think you’d have the guts to flirt with his secretary.

3.May father suggested that I ________( enter) Harvard rather than to start a business now.

4.When I entered his office, he didn’t say a word, nor did he raise his head, as if I

________(be) invisible.

5.Far ________(be) it from me to turn my back to her when she is in need of my help.

6.He ran away lest they __________(catch) him.

7.I wish I ________ ( be) taller and stronger so that they wouldn’t dare to treat me by rough

handling.

8.It is desirable that everybody ________( mind) his or her own business.

9.I propose that a woman member of the committee ________(be) appointed for the chair.

10.It is very important that the textbooks _______ (be) available before school starts.

II. Tick off the correct answer to each question:

1. I wish I _____ you better.

A. know

B. will know

C. am knowing

D. knew

2. _____ I should have gone.

A. If he asks me

B. If he would ask me

C. If he had asked me

D. If he would have asked me

3. If only I _____ the answer, I would have told you.

A. knew

B. have known

C. had known

D. would

4. Alan talks _____ everything.

A. as if he knows

B. as if he has known

C. as if he will know

D. as if he knew

5. I wished it ______ but it did.

A. had not occurred

B. occurred not

C. would not occur

D. did not occur

6. “_____ if you would do this for me.”

A.I should be very grateful James

B.I should be very grateful, James,

C.I should be very grateful James,

D.I should be very grateful; James

7. “I would have come sooner but I _____ that you were waiting.”

A. didn’t know

B. hasn’t known

C. have known

D. hadn’t known

8. “ _____ them if you had seen them?”

A. Y ou would help

B. Would you have helped

C. Y ou helped

D. Would you help

9. _____ I would not go.

A. If it rains

B. If it rained

C. If it had rained

D. If it is raining

10. Y ou _____ all the trouble had you known.

A. mustn’t take

B. didn’t need to take

C. mustn’t have taken

D. needn’t have ta ken

11. If he had asked me, _____.

A. I should stay

B. I should have stayed

C. I should have had stayed

D. I would stay

12. I suggested that the students each _____ a plan for the summer.

A. would make

B. will make

C. make

D. made

13. This platform would collapse if all of you _____ on it.

A. stand

B. stood

C. would

D. had stood

14. It i s i mperative that the experiment _____ accurate measurements.

A. would make

B. makes

C. make

D. made

15. Mr. Johnson prefers that _____ with him personally.

A. she speak

B. she would speak

C. she will speak

D. you come

16. Don’t come tomorrow, I’d rather _____ next week.

A. you will come

B. you had come

C. you are to come

D. you came

17. “Y ou finally made it, didn’t you?”

“Y es, _____your help, I would not have succeeded.”

A. but it

B. but for

C. but that

D. thank to

18. “I’m surprised to learn that you’re going back to Chicago.”

“Y es, I’d hoped that I _____ have to go back again,but I do.”

A. don’t

B. won’t

C. hadn’t

D. wouldn’t

19. Should green plants disappear some day, on the earth.

A. there will hardly be any life

B. there would be life

C. there would hardly be any life

D. there will be no life

20. The pa tient’s doctor strongly urges that _______ operation on his back as soon as his general health improved.

A. he should have

B. he has

C. he would have

D. he will have

21.—Shall we go to the movie tonight?

—No, I'd rather ___ at home with our baby. Y ou'd better not leave it to the babysitter at night.

A. you stayed

B. you stay

C. stayed

D. stay

22. Ten minutes earlier, they _______ the plane.

A. will catch

B. would catch

C. would have caught

D. will have caught

23. ___________ in your position, I would help him.

A. Was I

B. Were I

C. If I am

D. If I had been

24. I __________, but I was stopped by the heavy rain.

A. mean to come

B. meant to come

C. had meant to come

D. meant coming