—Cathy, did you attend the lecture given by Mr. Black last night?
—No. I ______ a report at the office.
A.was writing | B.wrote |
C.had written | D.have been writing |
-Mum,I always feel everything is unfair to me.
--Complaints in life ________ no sense,for things will be what they should be.
A.make | B.have made |
C.will make | D.are making |
Up to now nobody _______ do this better than Charlie Chaplin.
A.Is able to | B.has been able to |
C.have been able to | D.are able to |
Hurry up! The train ______. You know it ______ at 8:30 am.
A.leaves; leaves | B.is leaving; leaves |
C.leaves; is leaving | D.is leaving; is leaving |
Arriving at the party in a great hurry, we were disappointed to find that the band ______ playing.
A.stopped | B.will stop |
C.has stopped | D.had stopped |
— What do you do, Lucy?
— I’m a secretary in a foreign company now, but I ______ English in a high school for 10 years.
A.teach | B.am teaching |
C.have taught | D.taught |
An individual human existence should be like a river---small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and_____ passionately past rocks and over waterfalls.
A.to rush | B.rushing | C.rushed | D.rush |
We shall not start the project until it __________ by the committee.
A.will be approved | B.approves |
C.has been approved | D.is to approve |
Selecting a mobile phone for personal use is no easy task because technology so rapidly.
A.is changing | B.will have changed |
C.has changed | D.will change |
When a piece of ice is taken into a warm room, it will become smaller and smaller, until in the end it completely.
A.is disappeared | B.will disappear |
C.is disappearing | D.disappears |
He must have sensed that I ______ him. He suddenly glanced at me and said quietly, “Why are you staring at me like that?”
A.would look at | B.looked at |
C.was looking at | D.am looking at |
He would be in a better university now________ to too many computer games when young.
A.were he not addicted | B.if he was not addicted |
C.had he not addicted himself | D.had he not been addicted himself |
----We thought he would have got high marks in the mid-term exam for English.
----What a pity! He ________ too nervous when sitting the English exam that day.
A.was | B.had been | C.has been | D.would have been. |
Every student and every teacher____ who it is that is_______ for the breaking of the door of the classroom.
A.know; to blame | B.knows; to blame |
C.knows; to be blamed | D.would know; blamed |