虚拟语气练习题

虚拟语气练习题

Exercise One

Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence:

1. ______ he would have come to class.

A. If Mike is able to finish his homework,

B. Would Mike be able to finish his homework,

C. If Mike could finish his homework,

D. If Mike had been able to finish his homework,

2. The committee recommends that the matter ______ at the next meeting.

A. would be discussed

C. be discussed B. will be discussed D. may be discussed

3. ______, John would not have failed.

A. If he has listened to me

C. If he listened to me B. Had he listened to me D. As soon as he listened to me 4. ______ he come late, give him the message.

A. Had B. Should C. Would D. Did

5. “You have made some mistakes.” “I wish I ______ mistakes every day.”

A. don’t make

B. haven’t made D. didn’t make C. wouldn’t have made

6. I turn to you as my last hope. If you failed me, then my honor as well as my position ______ forever lost.

A. be B. are C. is D. were

7. She would have learned how to fly easily, but she ______ try.

A. won’t B. wouldn’t C. didn’t D. doesn’t

8. I would have gladly lent you the money but I really ______ have it.

A. couldn’t B. didn’t C. haven’t D. don’t

9. He kept his head; otherwise the accident ______.

A. would happen B. happened

happens C. would have happened D.

10. If the United States had built more homes for poor people in 1995, the

housing problem now in some parts of the country ______ so serious.

A. wouldn’t be

B. will not have been D. would have not been

C. wouldn’t have been 11. If you ______ to see Mary, what would you tell her?

A. are B. will be going C. must D. were

12. Had she been older, she ______ less sympathetic.

A. had she been B. might have been C. might be

13. I’d rather you ______ anything about it right now. D. would be

A. do B. didn’t do C. don’t do D. didn’t

14. He would gain weight but he ______ enough.

A. wouldn’t eat B. didn’t eat C. doesn’t eat D. hadn’t eaten 15. It was essential that we ______ the lease before the end of the month.

A. sign

signing B. have signed C. had signed D. were

16. I wish I ______ longer this morning, but I had to get up and come to

class.

A. might have slept

C. had slept B. could have slept D. have slept

17. It is necessary that an efficient worker ______ his work on time.

A. accomplishes

C. accomplish B. can accomplish D. has accomplished

18. Just before they landed, the hostess suggested ______ his passport ready.

A. Eric to have B. Eric having C. Eric have D. to Eric to have

19. The dam was built in time to protect the inhabitants from the flood; ______.

A. otherwise the damage would be beyond measure

B. the damage, otherwise, should be very great

C. the damage would have been very serious otherwise

D. the damage caused, therefore, many of them homeless

20. “He would go to see you.”

“ ______ he did not come?”

A. what if B. where if C. what come D. whether

21. I think it advisable that he ______ for Tokyo soon.

A. will leave B. may leave C. leave D. leaves

22. Supposing you ______ write, what would you do?

A. couldn’t B. can’t C. are unable to D. may not

23. Ferdinand Magellan had hoped that ______ around the world.

A. he had gone B. he did go C. he went D. he would go

24. He was advised that he ______ singing lessons.

A. should take B. had taken C. will take D. took

25. “When should I get my tickets?”

“You ______ your tickets last month.”

A. should get

B. had got C. should have gotten D. ought to get

26. The judge assented to the suggestion that ______.

A. both of the criminals will soon be set free

B. some of the criminals there are of guilt only

C. that girl was to be paroled in the custody of a welfare society

D. the prisoner be sentenced to death

27. It is high time she ______ her toys away.

A. put B. puts C. has put D. is putting

28. If the clerk had known that the guest didn’t have any money, ______ him to register.

A. when he did not allow

B. he would not have allowed D. not he had allowed C. because he can not allow

29. The accomplishment of modern medicine would be impossible ______ highly specialized instruments.

A. without B. but without C. but there are D. among

30. “He is already on the wrong side of forty”.

“It’s about time he ______ himself a wife and settled down.”

A. finds

Exercise Two

Translate the following sentences into Chinese:

1. No one would have attended the lecture if you had told the truth about the speaker.

2. If she had taken that medicine, she might still be alive.

3. Since extremes in temperature may make his toothache worse, I suggest that he drink only slightly warm liquids.

4. The law I am referring to requires that everyone who owns a car have accident insurance.

5. If she hadn’t forgotten her credit card, she could have bought that beautiful dress.

6. It was Mozart who suggested to his son that he write a number of violin concertos.

7. He looked as if he had been in some strange land where age advanced at a double pace.

8. It is imperative that a graduate student maintain a grade-point average of “B” in his major field. B. found C. should find D. had found

9. If the parents had gone to the meeting, they could have discussed the problems with the principal himself.

10. The complex society of a modern civilization would be impossible without the art of writing.

11. I intend to move that our committee appoint Tom as chairman, and I hope that you will second my motion.

12. The actress wished that she were a young woman again, in the same beautiful world she had lived before.

13. I would rather that they did not travel during the bad weather, but they insisted that they return home today.

14. She wishes that we hadn’t sent her the candy yesterday because she’s on a diet.

15. Sulfuric acid is used so extensively in manufacturing that thousands of factories would go out of business if this acid were not available.

16. Had the vote gone the other way, it would have meant the end of democratic decision-making in the country.

17. The accused demanded that she be permitted to call her lawyer, who was unaware of her arrest.

18. They would have bought this fancy furniture, had they had enough cash on hand yesterday.

19. Jane has a curious expression on her face as though she were smiling about something that amused her

20. It was my neighbor’s opinion that if Kennedy were alive today, the United States would have fewer problems than it has now.

Exercise Three

Translate the following sentences into English:

1. 要不是当时桔子时令已过，我就会在水果摊订购一些了。

2. 你要是没有看昨夜的晚场电影，你现在就不会困倦了。

3. 要是他们准时参加昨天的聚会就好了。

4. 珍妮的叔叔坚持她不要留在这个学校。

5. 要是当时出太阳的话，运动员们就能进行完比赛了。

6. 主席要求成员们极详细地研究这个问题。

7. 她要求孩子们听她的话。

8. 要不是当时我没有时间，我会和他一道去华盛顿了。

9. 我兄弟在加利福尼亚度假，我真希望他此刻在这儿。

10. 邀请他的建议被拒绝了。

11. 我们的要求是把我们的工资增加百分之三十。

12. 如果你们想通过考试，我建议你们都要用功。

13. 律师要求此案延期一个月再进行审理。

14. 若是她爷爷能再多活三天，他就年届一百了。

15. 他早该结婚并过安定的生活了。