时态语态题填空改错题附答案

语法填空改错专项训练---时态语态

一、单句填空：用所给动词的适当形式填空。

1. The house belongs to my aunt but she ______ (not live) here any more.

2. This machine __________ (not work). It hasn’t worked for years.

3. If their marketing plans succeed, they________________ (increase)

their sales by 20 percent.

4. Population experts predict that most people ___________(live) in cities

in the near future.

5. He _____ (play) football regularly for many years when he was young.

6. -- Have you known Dr. Jackson for a long time?

-- Yes, since she _________(join) the Chinese Society.

7. Teenagers ____________(damage) their health because they play computer games too much.

8. I called Hnnah many times yesterday evening, but I couldn’t get

through. Her brother __________ (talk) on the phone all the time! 9. John promised his doctor he _____________ (not smoke), and he has smoked ever since.

10. By this time tomorrow, I_____________ (lie) on the beach.

11. So far this year we _________ (see) a fall in house prices by between 5 and 10 percent.

12. The hotel wasn’t partic ularly good. But I ____________(stay) in many worse hotels.

13. We first met on a train in 2000. We both felt immediately that we

____________ (know) each other for years.

14. -- I’m sure Andrew will win the first prize in the fin al.

-- I think so. He ______________ (prepare) for it for months.

15. The telephone ________________ (ring), but by the time I got indoors, it stopped.

16. --Did you go to the show last night?

--Yeah. Every boy and girl in the area _______________(invite). 17. -- What’s that noise?

-- Oh, I forgot to tell you. The new machine_______________(test).

18. I like these English songs and they _______________ (teach) many times on the radio.

19. Don’t take the magazine away. It _____________(belong) to m e.

20. When Jack arrived he _____________(learn) Mary had been away for about an hour.

21. Shortly after we __________ (seat)，a waiter came over to our table with a smile.

22. I have left the light of my office on, so I __________(go) back and turn it off.

23. The number of the guests who _____________(invite) to the wedding reaches 800.

24. Mr. Smith told us that he _________(deliver) a speech the next week.

25. The professor asked his assistant whether his report _____________(complete) in a week.

26. I feel it is your husband who _______(blame) for the spoiled child.

27.You can’t move in right now. The house _______________(paint).

28.Shirley ____________(write) a book about China last year but I don’t know whether she has finished.

29. Henry remained silent for a moment. He _______________(think).

30. They believed that by using computers the production of their factory

________ (increase) greatly.

31. We would like to go and thank him ourselves，but we ___________ (not find) out his address .

32.I wonder why Jenny ____________ (write) us recently. We should

have heard from her by now.

33. My father _____________ (employ) at this job since 1990.

34. By the end of last year，another new gymnasium ____________ (complete) in Beijing.

35. Is this the third time that you _____________(be) late?

36. He ________________(write) the composition the whole morning