虚拟语气练习题

虚拟语气练习题

1. I wish I _____ how to operate the machine.

a. have known

b. know

c. can know

d. knew

2. It is surprising enough that such a horrible thing ____ there.

a. happened

b. will happen

c. should happen

d. has happened

3. It seemed as if all of sudden the animal _____ danger in the air.

a. has smelt

b. had smelt

c. smelt

d. would smell

4. We demand that atomic weapons ____ .

a. be prohibited

b. will be prohibited

c. are prohibited

d. ought to be prohibited

5. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so it seems as if the sun ______ round the earth.

a. is circling

b. has circled

c. should circle

d. were circling

6. Even if he ______ very busy, he would have kept on learning English.

a. had been

b. was

c. were

d. had being

7. He is not a millionaire but he _____ he were.

a. wishes

b. hopes

c. longs

d. believes

8. I wish I _____ to that university with you yesterday.

a. would go

b. went

c. did go

d. had gone

9. The housemaster was strict. He requested that we ______ television on week nights.

a. not watch

b. must not to watch

c. not be watching

d. have not watched

10. He looks as if he _____ nothing about it before.

a. knows

b. had known

c. has known

d. wouldn’t know

11. Even though the enemy ______ wings, they couldn’t escape from our encirclement.

a. had

b. had had

c. have

d. has

12. Nancy sometimes wishes that she ______ in the big city.

a. was not living

b. did not lived

c. were not living

d. does not live

13. It is better that the book ______ on the low stool.

a. put

b. puts

c. should be put

d. be put

14. It’s time he ______ something for his coming examination.

a. do

b. does

c. will do

d. did

15. The young driver looked over the engine carefully lest it ______ on the way.

a. goes wrong

b. would go wrong

c. went wrong

d. should go wrong

16. Supposing the weather ______ bad, where would you go?

a. is

b. will be

c. was

d. were

17. ______, he could not succeed.

a. However, he tried that

b. He tried however hard

c. However he could try

d. However hard he tried

18. He came to meet us at the station for fear that we ______ the wrong way.

a. take

b. should take

c. took

d. had taken

19. The teacher spoke slowly for fear that we ______ any difficulty in following him.

a. should have

b. had

c. will have

d. didn’t have

20. All magnets behave the same, ______ they large or small.

a. how

b. are

c. be

d. were

21. She stayed at home for a few days so that she _____ her mother.

a. takes care of

b. took care of

c. might took care of

d. might take care of

22. In many cases the heating effect is neglected as if there ______ no flow of current along the wire.

a. are

b. were

c. is

d. being

23. Providing you ______ the opportunity to go abroad, which country would you want to visit first?

a. have

b. will have

c. had

d. have had

24. The business of each day, ______ selling goods or shipping them, went quite smoothly.

a. it being

b. was it

c. it was

d. be it

25. I’ll put the money on the table just in case you ______ it.

a. might need

b. would need

c. needed

d. may have needed

26. At the beginning he didn’t want to speak English lest he _____ mistakes.

a. will make

b. should make

c. would make

d. can