单项选择时态
1.Yesterday Mr. Smith spoke at the meeting in place of the manager, who________ a more important meeting.
A.had attended    B.will be attending    C.has attended    D.was attending
2.Shopping centers around the world ______ events and activities to celebrate Chinese Spring Festival for years.
A.organized    B.were organized
C.have been organizing    D.have been organized
3.I want to pay a visit to my parents; I _________in the foreign country for five months by next Sunday.
A.have been staying    B.will have stayed    C.have stayed    D.will be staying
4.When walking down the street, I came across David, when I _____ for years.
A.didn’t see    B.haven’t seen    C.hadn’t seen    D.wouldn’t see
5.Women            for centuries.
A.have pulled their own weight    B.have been pulling their own weight
C.pulled their own weight    D.is pulling their own weight
6.The police________ the murderer everywhere when he suddenly appeared in the theatre.
A.are searching    B.were searching    C.is searching    D.was searching
7.I’m finally going back to my motherland; I ______ in the foreign country for four years by next month.
A.have been staying    B.will have stayed
C.have stayed    D.will be staying
8.I won’t tell the students the answer to the math problem until they ________ on it for more than an hour.
A.have been working    B.had worked
C.will have been working    D.will have worked
9.If you look at all sides of the situation, you’ll probably find a solution that ________ everyone.
A.suit    B.suited    C.suits    D.has suited
10.—Have you ever been to Tibet?
—Actually, I________ there for two years and then left for home when my father was ill.
A.had worked    B.has worked    C.worked    D.was working
11.He suggested        a meeting and it suggested that he        in our plan.
A.to hold;was interested
B.holding;was interested
C.holding;should be interested
D.should hold;be interested
12.The surroundings of his house ______ clean now.
A.is    B.are    C.was    D.were
13.His suggestion ______ all right.
A.sound    B.is sounded    C.sounds    D.is sounding
14.—It is reported that the government has lightened the burden on the students.
—Oh, today we are still _____ from heavy school work, _____ at preparing us for the entrance examination.
A.suffering; aimed    B.suffered; aimed
C.suffered; aiming    D.suffering; aiming
15.The employee you had been thinking highly       dishonest.
A.of proving    B.of proved
C.of to prove    D.of being proved
16.—Why was Professor Wang unhappy recently?
—Because the theory he insisted on ______ wrong?
A.proved    B.proving    C.being proved    D.was proved
17.—What do you think of his teaching method?
—It should be popular; it _____ practical.
miss a feiA.proves    B.is proved    C.has been proved    D.was proved
18.No matter _____, the work of Beethoven are still popular with people all over the world.
A.what frequently performed    B.how performed frequently
C.what performing frequently    D.how frequently performed
19.The sudden fall in the value of the dollar _____ financial experts.
A.puzzling    B.has puzzled    C.puzzled out    D.puzzles about
20.20 percent of the trees _______ since 1990.
A.is cut down    B.are cut down    C.has been cut down    D.have been cut down
21.She ______ her mother do some housework.
A.offered helping    B.offered help    C.offered to help    D.offer
22.Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng ________ the space development of China.
A.made contribution to
B.made contributions to
C.contributed
D.took contributions to
23.The classroom ________ 30 feet long and 20 feet wide.
A.measures    B.is measured    C.has    D.has length
24.Cars moved very slowly in the 1930s,but they ________ faster than in the 1920s.
A.were moving    B.did move
C.had moved    D.would move
25.No sugar in my coffee, please. I ______.
A.have dieted    B.am dieting    C.dieted    D.had dieted
26.The traditional friendship between our two peoples _____ ancient times.
A.is dated back to    B.dates at    C.dates back to    D.is dated from
27.The old woman _____ her sons and daughters ______ and see her from time to time.
A.suggested; to come    B.hoped; to come
C.desired; coming    D.desired; to come
28.He ________ for ten years but she still doesn’t want to leave office.
A.has been in power    B.has come to power
C.took office    D.came into power
29.—Why is that old man smiling?
—Perhaps he is ________ his childhood.
A.looking into    B.looking back on
C.looking ahead    D.looking through