1. It was requested that all of the equipment ____in the agreed time.?
A. erected B. would be erected ? C. be erected D. will be erected ?
2. The man sitting opposite me smiled dreamily, as if ____ something pleasant in the past.?
A. to remember B. remembered? C. having been remembered D. remembering?
3. I ____ him the Christmas gift by mail because he came home during the Christmas holidays.?
A. ought to have sent B. couldn’t have sent ?C. must have sent D. needn’t have sent
4. It turned out that the children were not ____for the accident.?
A. to blame B. to be blamed? C. to be blaming D. to have been blamed?
5. The desegregation was achieved through a number of struggles,____been mentioned in previous chapters.?
A. a few of which B. a few of them ? C. a few of those D. a few of that?
6. Setting up a committee might be a way____the project more efficiently.?
A. to be doing B. doing C. to do D. being done?
7. It____to see so many children in that mountainous area cannot even afford elementary education.
s her B. makes her pain? C. is paining D. is pained?
8. Our boss, Mr. Thompson,____a raise in salary for ages, but nothing has happened yet.?
promising B. has been promising? C. promised D. has promised?
9. He was determined to sail around the world ____his illness and old age.?
A. given B. although C. despite D. in spite?
10. The board deemed it’s urgent that these invitations ____ first thing tomorrow morning.?
A. had to be put in the mail ? B. must be put in the mail?
C. be put in the mail? D. should have been put in the mail?
11.____drills that have no real topic have to remainas they are.?
A. Manufacture B. Manipulative? C. Manipulate fest?
12. This book has been in the works so long that I have lost ____of most of the sources found for me by the staff of the library.?
A. trace B. trail C. track D. touch?
13. The elbows on your coat have worn thin, so I must ____them.?
A. mend B. patch C. repair D. pitch?
14. ____and wage increases have not kept in step.?
A. Production B. Product? C. Produce D. Productivity?
15. People under stress have performed____feats of strength, like lifting an automobile off an accident victim.?
A. specific B. extraordinary C. abrupt D. abnormal?
16. Modern appliances____us from a good deal of household instance, the dryer frees us from hanging the laundry.?
pe B . benefit C. liberate D. comfort?
17. The audience waited in____silence while their aged speaker searched among his note for the figures he could not remember.?
A. respective B. respect C. respectful D. respectable
18. The disappearance of her paper has never been ____.?
A. counted for B. looked up ? unted for D. checked up?
19. When he was asked about the missing briefcase, the man ____ever seeing it.?
A. refused B. denied C. opposed D. resisted?
20. Communication between a young couple is a(n)____business.?
A. sharp B. dreadful C. intense D. delicate?
21. After so many weeks without rain, the ground quickly ____ the little rain that fell last night.
A. skipped B. soaked C. retrieved D. absorbed?
22. We’ll ____you as soon as we have any further information.?
A. notify B. signify? C. communicate D. impart?
23. The fox fell into the____the hunters had set forit.?
A. bush B. trap C. trick D. circle?
24. I don’t know you want to keep the letter. I’ve ____it up.?
A. torn B. given C. broken D. disposed?
25. The old lady____and fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom.?
A. slided B. slipped C. split D. spilled?
【參考答案與解析】
【難點】request後面的賓語從句要求使用虛擬語氣，即(should)+動詞原形，本句用的是被動語態。?
2. A) 【句意】坐在我對面的那個人夢幻般地笑著，好像回想起過去發生的某件高興的事。
【難點】“as if +不定式”是一個常見的結構，意為“好像”。?
3. D) 【句意】我本不必把聖誕禮物給他郵去，因為他聖誕節期間回家了。?
【難點】主句用了一句與過去事實相反的表示必要性的虛擬語氣，符合題意。?
4. A) 【句意】結果證明是，這起事故不怪孩子。?
【難點】be to blame 是一個習慣搭配，意為“該受責備”。?
5. A) 【句意】經過若干次鬥爭，種族隔離被取消了，其中的幾次鬥爭在前幾章裡已經提到。
