虚拟语气练习题
用所给动词的适当形式填空:
Part A.
1.If people ______(drive) more slowly, there wouldn’t be so many accidents.
2.If you had worked carefully, you _____(not make) so many mistakes.
3.The boat wouldn’t have drifted away, if we _____ (tie) it up.
4.If I had known you already _____(have) a typewriter, I _____(not, buy) one for your birthday.
5.If he _____(be) here this afternoon I would go with him.
6.If it were to rain tomorrow, the match _____(postpone).
7.But for your help, we ______(not be) able to finish the work in time.
8.If it _____(not, be) for the leadership of the Party, we would
not have achieved so much.
9.I wish I _____(study) hard while I was young.
10.It is about time that fence ______(mend).
11.My request is that we ______(hold) another session to discuss
the problem.
12.It is strange that the car _____(break) down at exactly the same place where it _____(break) down yesterday.
13.The baby smiled as if he _____(understand) what his mother
_____(say).
14.He talked as if he _____(do) all the work himself, but in fact Tom and I _____(do) most of it.
15.If only we _____(have) a phone! I’m tired of queuing outside the public phone box.
16.----- “Can we come in late tomorrow?” ----- “I’d rather you _____(come) in on time.”
17.He looks as if he _____(be) ill for a long time.
18.He always talks as though he ______(address) a public meeting.
19.If a metal ______(heat), it will expand.
20.I _____(stay) home if it rains this evening.
Part B.
1.She would call you immediately if she _____(need) help.
2.If I had seen the movie, I _____(tell) you all about it now.
3.If he _____(decide) earlier, he could have left on the afternoon flight.
4._______ I _____(take) my umbrella with me when I _____(come) out this morning, I _____(not be) so wet
now.
5.If you had listened to me, you _____ (not be) in such trouble now.
6.I wish they _____ (stop) making so much noise so that I could concentrate on my work.
7.It is inconceivable that he _____ (not see) me that day for I
______(wave) to her.
8.What a pity that he gave orders that all those lovely trees
_____(cut) down.
9.Mr. Jones would rather _____(stay) home last night.
10.Henry would rather that his brother _____(work) in the same department as he does.
11.Electric current flows through a conductor as though it _____(be)
a fluid.
12.We _____(invite) her to the party but we didn’t know that she
______(already, come) back from abroad.
13.Today’s industrial production ______(be) impossible without the contribution made by the science of physics.
14.I hate driving. I’d much rather you _____(drive).
15.The guests ______(arrive) last night, but there is still no news about them.
16.Mother_____(feel) anxious if I came home late.
17.Even if I ______(be) with you then, I ______(can, not, do) much for you.
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18. A less conscientious man ______(not, try) so hard to get this job done.
19.Do you wish that you ______(have) a sister like her?
20.Isn’t it surprising that he ______(have) two car accidents during the past week?
选择题:
1. If I _______ you, I’d join the army.
A. am
B. was
C. were
D. would be
2. “If the sun ______ tomorrow, what would we do?”
A. will not rise
B. would not rise
C. did not rise
D. does not rise
3. If you ______ to see Mary, what would you tell her?
A. are
B. will be going
C. must
D. were
4. I would have said “Hello” to him if I ______ your brother.
A. could see
B. had seen
C. will see
D. will have seen
5. If you had wanted to buy a record, what ________?
A. would you buy
B. had you bought
C. would you have bought
D. would you be buying
6. If the tablets had dissolved, John ______.
A. would probably die
B. had probably died
C. probably would be died
D. would probably have died
7. ________ if you had lost your watch?
A. Hadn’t you been upset
B. Wouldn’t you be upset
C. Weren’t you upset
D. Wouldn’t you have upset
8. -----“I was 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
9. If I had a bike, I ______ it to you yesterday.
A. would have lent
B. would lend
C. would have lend
D. could lend
10. ____________, John would not have failed.
A. If he has listened to me
B. Had he listened to me
C. If he listened to me
D. As he listened to me
11. Had Alice been more hardworking, she ________.
A. had not failed
B. would not have failed
C. would not fail
D. could not be failed
12. -----“Steve made a reservation already.”
-----“______ he change his mind, he can cancel it.”
A. Should
B. Would
C. If
D. So
13. I wished it _______ but it did.
A. occurred not
B. did not accur
C. had not occurred
D. would not occur
14. I _______ Professor Jones had taught me this equation.
A. believe
B. deeply think
C. wish
D. suppose
15. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so it seems as if the sun _____ around the earth.
A. circles
B. is circling
C. be circling
D. were circling
16. The computer “teacher” was talking with his students as though it ______ a human teacher.
A. was
B. were
C. had been
D. be
17. Jane appears as though she _______ the secret.
A. knows
B. knew
C. has known
D. had known
18. If only she _______ of Aunt Ruth!
A. was not terribly so frightened
B. were not terribly so frightened
C. be not so terribly frightened
D. were not so terribly frightened
19. -----“I think that the Smiths were embarrassed by Jane’s generosity.”
-----“She insisted ______ it as a gift.”
A. no them to accept
B. their accepting
C. that they accept
D. that they accepted
20. The chairman requested that __________.
A. the members studied the problem more carefully
B. the problem were more carefully studied
C. the problem could be studied with more care
D. the members study the problem more carefully
21. -----“Did Kathy have any ideas for Jim?”
-----“She suggested that he ______ a card with all of our names on it.”
A. send
B. sends
C. to send
D. sending
22. The idea is that we _______ an unmanned spacecraft to explore the planet first.
A. will send
B. had sent
C. send
D. be sent
23. It is necessary that this machine-tool _______ every day.
A. be oiled
B. oil
C. is to be oiled
D. oiled
24. -----“That’s a beautiful coat in the window.”
-----“It certainly is. If I had the money ______ buy it.”
A. I’d
B. I’ll
C. I may
D. I shall
25. -----“Why didn’t you help him?”
-----“I would have ______ I didn’t have the money.”
A. if
B. and
C. but
D. otherwise
26. Jill would rather we _______ now, but we must go to work.
A. not leave
B. had not left
C. didn’t leave
D. not to be left
27. I’d just as soon ________ those important papers with you.
A. that you won’t take
B. your not taking
C. please don’t you take
D. you didn’t take
28. The housemaster was very strict. He asked that we ______ television on week nights.
A. not watch
B. not be watching
C. must not watch
D. should not have watched
29. I hadn’t expected James to apologize but I had hoped ________.
A. him calling me
B. that he would call me
C. him to call me
D. that he call me
30. __________ at the price list, he’d have known what to expect.
A. Had Mr. Robinson looked
B. If Mr. Robinson looked
C. If Mr. Robinson would have looked
D. Had Mr. Robinson been looking
31. -----“Shall I open the window?”
-----“I’d rather _________.”
A. you had better not
B. you don’t
C. you shouldn’t
D. you didn’t
32. ----- “Did you have to go to court?”
-----“No, I didn’t, but I would ______ if my lawyer hadn’t been so good.”
A. had
B. have
C. be
D. do
33. If Peter had enough money, he _______ on the trip to Los Angeles.
A. would have gone
B. went
C. had gone
D. would go
34. If you had been in Shanghai last month, you ________ the game.
A. had seen
B. have seen
C. had been seen
D. would have seen
35. If you hadn’t taken such a long time to get dressed, we’d
______ there by now.
A. be
B. get
C. have got at
D. have been
36. If the Watergate Incident _______ Nixon would not have resigned from the presidency.
A. had not occurred
B. did not occur
C. was not occurring
D. would not occur
37. Alan _______ the party if he’d gone to London.
A. would have missed
B. had missed
C. could miss
D. missed
38. -----“Your pictures are beautiful!”
-----“We _______ more if we hadn’t run out of film.”
A. would take
B. had taken
C. will have taken C. would have taken
39. Peter wishes that he ________ law instead of literature when he was in college.
A. had studied
B. studied
C. could study
D. would study
40. -----“I couldn’t talk to Mrs. Khandary very well, because my Arabic isn’t very good yet.”
-----“_________ there, he would have been able to interpret for you.”
A. If John were
B. John had been
C. Had John been
D. Were John
41. ___________, Gerald would have been a rich man.
A. Was he to enter business
B. Were he entered business
C. Had he entered business
D. If he was to enter business
42. _________, we shall go on a picnic.
A. Should the weather be fine
B. If the weather were fine
C. Had the weather been fine
D. Were the weather to be fine
43. -----“I wish I ________ the orientation program yesterday.”
-----“It’s too bad that you _________. We met a lot of people.”
A. had attended …didn’t
B. had attended …hadn’t
C. attended … didn’t
D. could attend … haven’t
44. -----“Do you want me to lend you some money?”
-----“I wish you __________, I can pay you back next week.”
A. should
B. did
C. might
D. would
45. The picture exhibition bored me to death. I wish I _______ to it.
A. had not gone
B. have not gone
C. did not go
D. could not have gone
46. If their passport _______ all right, they _______ arrested.
A. were … wouldn’t be
B. had been … wouldn’t have been
C. are… mustn’t be
D. should be … wouldn’t be
47. If only I _________ how to operate an electronic computer as you do.
A. had known
B. would know
C. should know
D. knew
48. The thick smog covered the whole city. It was as if a great black blanket ______ over it.
A. had been thrown
B. were thrown
C. be thrown
D. had thrown
49. He spoke in a quiet, distinct voice, as though his thought
_________.
A. was far away
B. had been far away
C. were far away
D. went far away
50. If I had only read all the books before I ________ the lecture!
A. would have attended
B. attended
C. had attended
D. have attended
51. I would have been able to help him, but I _______ so busy.
A. were
B. had been
C. was
D. would be