Exercise 4.1

1. By the next Teachers’ Day, I ______ in Shanghai for five years.
A. shall live                 B. shall be living         
C. shall have been living     D. will be living

2. It ______ every day this week.
A. rains                      B. has rained              
C. had rained              D. rained

3. How nice to see you. I don’t know you ______ here.
A. be                          B. were                     
C. will be                    D. have been
4. You ______ things. You should be careful.
A. always lose             B. were always losing 
C. have been losing      D. are always losing

5. None of us teachers understood how he ______ to pass the examination.
A. had managed          B. has managed          
C. managed                D. could manage

6. He left school last year and ______ his living as an advertising agent.
A. earns                     B. is earning               
C. was earning            D. has earned

7. While he ______ the poster, a door somewhere behind him opened.
A. is staring at             B. did stare to            
C. look carefully upon 　　D. was staring at

8. We had hoped ______ the game, but the other team played very well.
A. State University to win                             
B. that State University win
C. that State University would win                
D. State University’s winning
9. If you ______ over there for a moment I’ll tell mother you’ve arrived.
A. will wait                 B. wait                      
C. are waiting             D. will be waiting

10. My wife ______.
A. have forever criticized me                        
B. forever criticizes me
C. does forever criticize me                          
D. is forever criticizing me

11. By this time next year, he ______ from this college.
A. will be graduating                                    
B. should be graduating
C. will have graduated                                  
D. is graduating
12. Will you please lend me the novel when you ______.
A. will finish               B. have finished          
C. will have finished    D. finished

13. We won’t go unless you ______.
A. come                     B. came                     
C. will come               D. coming

14. Copernicus maintained that the earth ______ round the sun.
A. moves                    B. moved                   
C. moving                  D. more

15. This is the second time you ______ a cup, you broke one yesterday.
A. broke                     B. break                    
C. have broken            D. broken

16. By eleven o’clock yesterday I ______ at the airport.
A. has arrived             B. arrived                  
C. had arrived             D. will have arrived

17. You cannot find your tickerts? I think _____.
A. you had left them on the table                   
B. you left them on table
C. you did left them on the table                    
D. you left them on the table
18. “My father will be here tomorrow.”
“Oh, I thought that he ______ today.”
A. was coming            B. is coming              
C. will come              D. comes

19. When I entered my office, I could see it ______.
A. has been cleaned    
B. was cleaned           
C. was being cleaned  
D. had been cleaned

20. This is so difficult a job that I ______ before.
A. have never done it  　　B. had never done it    
C. never did it              　　D. ever did it

Exercise 4.2

1. Turn on the television or open a magazine and you _____ advertisement showing happy, balanced families.
A. are often seeing      B. often see              
C. will often see         D. have often seen

2. While people may refer to television for up-to-minute news, it is unlikely that television _____ the newspaper completely.
A. replaced                B. have replaced       
C. replace                 D. will replace

3. The second book was _____ by August 1987, but two years later, the end was still nowhere in sight.
A. completed                                              
B. to have completed
C. to complete                                            
D. to have been completed

4. I don’t know what I’d have done if I _____ to make the decision.
A. would have            B. had had                
C. have had               D. did have

5. The line was busy, someone _____ the telephone.
A. must use                B. must be using       
C. must have been using 　　　　D. may have used

6. Before we went very far, we found that we _____ our way.
A. would miss             B. would lose           
C. had lost                 D. were missed

7. The plane was _____ at half past five but for the storm.
A. to take off              B. to be taken off      
C. to have taken off　　　D. taking off

8. I would have told him the answer had it been possible but I _____ so busy then.
A. had been                B. were                    
C. was                      D. would be

9. The television visiting scholar planned to spend the weekend writing letters and _____ his director.
A. visited                           　B. visiting
C. was going to visit              　D. should visit

10. One of the wonderful ideas is that future cars _____ by solar energy.[(should) do sth.]
A. be powered      　　　　　　　B. powers                
C. is going to be powered 　　　D. will power

11. She’s got so _____ to light music that it has become a constant companion of her life.
A. used to listen          B. use to listen          
C. used to listening     D. used in listening

12. I decided to go to the library as soon as I_____.
A. finish what I did                                         
B. finished what I did
C. would finish what I was doing                    
D. finish what I was doing

13. Pick me up at 8 o’clock, I _____ my bath by then.
A. will have had                B. will be having
C. can have had               D. may have

15. _____ Mrs. Priestley has never heard from him.
A. Since                     B. Up till now           
C. Before this week   D. last week

16. He will come to call you on the moment he _____his work.
A. will finish                B. finishes                 
C. had finished           D. finished

17. All the reports _____ by the end of the next weekend.
A. will have finished                                    
B. would be finished
C. will have been finished                            
D. were being finished

18. If we _____ any wild beasts, I’ll help you and you’ll help me.
A. will meet                B. can meet              
C. meet                     D. might meet

19. My friend _____ here last week, but he couldn’t.
A. was to have come              B. must have come
C. came                                  D. had to come

20. I _____ my breakfast when Mrs. Morrison came to call me.
A. was being had                          B. would have
C. was having                               D. have been having

Exercise 4.3

1. Such conduct _____ a gentleman.
A. does not behave             B. does not belong
C. does not become             D. is not begun

2. Today is Betty’s wedding day. She _____ to Peter.
A. just has been married 
B. has just been married
C. has just married                                        
D. was just married

3. They _____ before they met at the meeting.
A. acquainted                 　　 B. were acquainting 
C. had been acquainted   　　D. have acquainted

4. Many of these costumes for the play are torn _____.
A. and mending is required of them                 
B. and need to be mended
C. but need mending                                      
D. but require to be mended

5. Her parents _____ her marrying peter.
A. are opposed               B. are opposed to    
C. are opposing to  　　　D. oppose to

6. Nobody was _____ for the accident.
A. to be blamed              B. blaming               
C. to blame            D. blamed

7. This question _____ a little last week.
A. got talked about                            B. talked about
C. would be talked about                  D. has been talked about

8. After a while an agreement _____.
A. was arrived                B. arrived                
C. was arrived at    　　D. arrived at

9. The house the old man lives in wants _____.(want to be done/doing)
A. to be painting              B. panted                
C. to paint              　　D. painting

10. He told me that his proposal _____.
A. be needed to take into consideration          
B. needed to be taken into consideration
C. needs to be taking into consideration          
D. needs to take into consideration

11. Here is a clear case of the course of human history _____ by the scientific and technological revolution.
A. is affected                   B. affect                  
C. being affected    　　　D. will be affected

12. A friend of mine returned to his house after a holiday, only to find it _____.
A. be broken into           　　 B. had broken into   
     C. was broken into          D. had been broken into

13. That _____ to me at the very beginning.(should have done/ought to have done)
A. ought to be pointed                                    
B. ought to have been pointed out
C. ought to have been pointed at                    
D. ought to have pointed

14. The young people _____ about the future of their country.
A. very much concern                                    
B. will concern very much
C. are concerning very much                          
D. are very much concerned

15. The man who _____ by a snake was given a serum.
A. was bitten                   B. was bitten           
C. bitten                 　　　D. had been bitten

16. When the girl heard the bad news, she _____.
A. had been fainted                         B. fainted
C. was being fainted                        D. was fainted

17. The story written by the old man _____ every child.
A. is known with                                B. is known for
C. is almost known to                        D. has been known for

18. The room I bought _____ cool in summer and warm in winter.
A. has been felt               B. is being felt          
C. feels                   　　　D. is felt

19. The headlights of your car _____ all night.
A. left on                         B. has left on           
C. had left on          　　　D. have been left on

20. My dear, don’t get that ink on your shirt, for it _____.
A. will not be washing out                               
B. has not washed out
C. will not wash out                                        
D. was not washed out