英语专业四级时态测试题及答案

专四测试之时态语态

1. When I arrived at the meeting, the first speaker _____ and the audience _____.

A. had finished speaking, were clapping

B. had finished speaking, had clapped

C. finished speaking, clapped

D. finished speaking, were clapping

2. The doctor is feeling the little girl’s pulse. He says it ______ normal.

A. feels

B. is feeling

C. has felt

D. is felt

3. I ______ writing the paper as scheduled, but my mother’s illness interfered. I hope you will excuse me.

A. am to have finished

B. was to have finished

C. was to finish

D. ought to finish

4. How can I ever concentrate if you ____ continually ____ me with silly questions?

A. have interrupted

B. had interrupted

C. are interrupting

D. were interrupted

5. Mr. White works with a chemicals import & export company, but he ____ for the industrial fair, since he is on leave.

A. has worked

B. works

C. has been working

D. is working

6. For some time now, world leaders _____ out the necessity for agreement on arms reduction.

A. had been pointing

B. have been pointing

C. were pointing

D. pointed

7. The experiment requires more money than ______.

A. have been put in

B. being put in

C. has been put in

D. to be put in

8. Jack ____ from home for two days now, and I am beginning to worry about his safety.

A. has been missing

B. has been missed

C. had been missing

D. was missed

9. This kind of glasses manufactured by experienced craftsmen ______ comfortably.

A. is worn

B. wears

C. wearing

D. are worn

10. The last half of the nineteenth century ______ the steady improvement in the means of travel.

A. has witnessed

B. was witnessed

C. witnessed

D. is witnessed

11. Before the first non-stop flight made in 1949, it ______ necessary for all planes to land for

refueling.

A. would be

B. has been

C. had been

D. would have been

12. If you smoke in a non-smoking section, people ______.

A. have objected

B. object

C. must object

D. will object

13. He ______ when the bus came to a sudden stop.

A. was almost hurt

B. was hurt himself

C. was to hurt himself

D. was hurting himself

14. If one ______, he will be very particular about others clothing and appearance.

A. has been overcome by vanity

B. overcomes vanity

C. is overcome by vanity

D. has overcome vanity

15. We’re late. I expect the film _____ by the time we get to the cinema.

A. will have started

B. has started

C. will start

D. may start

16. I suppose that when I co me back in ten years’time all these old house ______ down.

A. will have been pulled

B. will have pulled

C. will be pulling

D. will be pulled

17. The grey building is where the workers live, and the white one is where the spare parts ______.

A. are producing

B. are produced

C. produced

D. being produced

18. The fifth generation computers, with artificial intelligence, ______ and perfected now.

A. developed

B. have developed

C. are being developed

D. will have been developed

19. Until then, his family ______ from him for six months.

A. didn’t hear

B. hasn’t been hearing

C. hasn’t heard

D. hadn’t heard

20. Great as Newton was, many of his ideas ______ today and are being modified by the work of

scientists of our time.

A. care to challenge

B. may be challenged

C. have been challenged

D. are challenging

21. It’s reported that by the end of this month the output of cement in th e factory ______ by about

10%.

A. will have risen

B. has risen

C. will by rising

D. has been rising

22. She ought to stop work; she has a headache because she ______ too long.

A. has been reading

B. had read

C. is reading

D. read

23. I found that my cheating in last Monday’s English test ______ to my parents that very evening.

A. was being reported

B. had reported

C. had been reported

D. was reported

24. Kathy told me she ______ the organization three years before.

A. joined

B. had been joined

C. had joined

D. was joining

25. That work is needed by next week, so make sure ______ to the deadline.

A. for keeping

B. you’ll keep

C. keeping

D. you keep

26. I haven’t seen Diana these past few days. I am afraid she _______ herself for some time.

A. hasn’t been feeling

B. isn’t feeling

C. wasn’t feeling

D. hadn’t been feeling

27. Most environmental problems exist because adequate measures for preventing them ______

taken in the past.

A. had not been

B. were not being

C. were not

D. was not

28. We _____ paying you a visit but the bad weather prevented us from doing so.

A. had thought of

B. have thought of

C. were thinking of

D. thought of

29. Her husband and her eldest son had been killed ______.

A. many years before

B. many years since

C. many years ago

D. many years from now

30. I _____ them that I think they are making a great mistake.

A. told

B. will tell

C. am telling

D. have been telling

31. Wait for me. You_______ impatient. I am still having my breakfast.

A. are

B. are being

C. were

D. have been

32. I should very much like to go to the party, but ______.

A. I will not be invited

B. I was not invited

C. I have not been invited

D. I am not invited

33. If you weigh 90 pounds, you ______ to the earth by a gravitational force of 90 pounds.

A. have pulled

B. pull down

C. are being pulled

D. have been pulled

34. The match was cancelled because most of the members ______ a match without a standard court.

A. objected to having

B. were objected to have

C. objected to have

D. were objected to having

35. Unfortunately my proposal ______ by him.

A. was turned down

B. was turned

C. turned down

D. turned

36. “May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o’clock tonight?”

“I’m sorry. Mr. Williams ______ to a conference long before then.”

A. will have gone

B. had gone

C. would have gone

D. has gone

37. It seems oil ______ from this pipe for some time. We’ll have to take the machine apart to put it

right.

A. had leaked

B. is leaking

C. leaked

D. has been leaking

38. It is said that a new robot ____by him in a few days.

A. designed

B. has been designed

C. will be designed

D. will have been designed

39. We are late. I expect the film ____by the time we get to the cinema.

A. will already have started

B. would already have started

C. shall have already started

D. has already been started

40. Diamond ____in Brazil in 1971.

A. is found

B. has been found

C. was found

D. had been found

41. “Have you moved into the new flat?” “Not yet. The room____.”

A. has been painted

B. is painted

C. paints

D. is being painted

42. My pictures ____until next Friday.

A. won't develop

B. aren't developed

C. don't develop

D. won' t be developed

43. Tim ____since he lost his job three weeks ago.

A. had been unemployed

B. was unemployed

C. has been unemployed

D. has unemployed

44. A great number of colleges and universities ____since 1949.

A. has been establish

B. have been established

C. have established

D. had been established

45. I'll have to push the car to the side of the road because we ____if we leave it here.

A. would be fined

B. will be fined

C. will being fined

D. will have been fined

46. “____two tickets for the new play at the Grand Theatre on Saturday. Shall we go and see it together?”

A. They have been given

B. I have been given

C. I am given

D. They have given to me

47. The subject of these lectures ____by the lecture committee.

A. is announced

B. have been announced

C. are announced

D. has been announced

48. I found an aspirin bottle ____dropped on the floor of David's room.

A. was

B. had

C. had been

D. is

49. The goods ____when we arrived at the airport.

A. were just unloading

B. were just been unloading

C. had just unloaded

D. were just being unloaded

50. You ought to have put the milk in the refrigerator, now ____sour.

A. I smell

B. it is smelt

C. it smells

D. it is smelling

51. After the race____, the celebration began.

A. had been won

B. is won

C. will be won

D.has been won

52. He was here for a little while, but I don't know where she ____now.

A. is

B. was

C. had been

D. has been

53. The young teacher has ____ competent.

A. been proved to be

B. proved to be

C. been proved

D. proved being

54. Pluto, the outermost planet of the solar system, ____photographically in March 1930.

A. discovered

B. was discovered

C. by discovery

D. when discovered

55. To get a better view of the stage, ____.

A. our seats had to be changed

B. our seats were changed

C. we had to change our seats

D. our seats were changed by us

56. After synthetic____, engineers had a better choice of material.

A. created

B. has created

C. has been created

D. had been created

57. Since 1970, millions of enthusiasts ____Vitamin C, which they believe can remedy the common

cold.

A. have taken

B. have been taken

C. have been taking

D. have been taking

58. I don't remember ____the chance to try this method.

A. having been given

B. to have been given

C. having given

D. to have given

59. We could ask someone to do the work privately without it____.

A. know

B. be known

C. being known

D. to be known

60. They would tell how the African ____on a ship to an American port.

A. was brought

B. could have been brought

C. had been brought

D. was to be brought

61. He does not possess a bicycle, this one he uses ____to Peter.

A. is belonged to

B. belonged

C. belongs

D. is belonging

62. The reason for all the changes being made ____to us yet.

A. has not explained

B. has not been explained

C. did not explained

D. were not explained

63. Experiments in the photography of moving objects ____in both the United States and Europe

well before 1900.

A. were conducting

B.were conducted

C. had been conducted

D. had conducted

64. When he turned the corner, he found himself ____by a man in black.

A. tailed

B. been tailed

C. was tailed

D. had been tailed

65. A candidate for the democratic presidential nomination ____at this moment.

A. is interviewing

B. being interviewed

C. is being interviewed

D. interviewing

66. As we approached the work site, the workers were seen ____the new house.

A. building

B. build

C. built

D. to build

67. The bank is reported in the local newspaper ____in broad daylight yesterday

A. to be robbed

B. to have keen robbed

C. robbed

D.shavings been robbed

68. He cleaned the glasses carefully for fear that it ____.

A. was damaged

B. should be damaged

C. damaged

D. would be damaged

69. Come and see me whenever ______.

A. you are convenient

B. you will be convenient

C. it is convenient to you

D. it will be convenient to you

70. _________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.

A. I was and always will be

B. I have to be and always will be

C. I had been and always will be

D. I have been and always will be

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