广东学士学位英语语法学习及解释

        【一】

        例1

        The computer, working very fast,____data at the speed of light.

        A. handles

        B. handling

        C. handled

        D. has handled

        【答案精解】A。本题考查句子的时态问题。working very fast 是现在分词短语补充作插入语,真正的谓语应该是handle。整个句子是对计算机做一般性的描述,所以要用一般现在时,故选A。【参考译文】计算机运行速度很快,能够以光速处理数据。

        例2

        What's the matter with you? You      so pale.

        A. are looking

        B. look

        C. have looked

        D. looked

        【答案精解】B。本题考查谓语动词时态。A项为现在进行时态;B项为一般现在时态;C项为现在完成时态;D项为一般过去时态。此句重点在于人的状态,用一般现在时态即可,故选B。

        【参考译文】你怎么了?看上去肢色苍白。

        【二】

        I bought a new house last year, but I        my old house yet, so at the moment I havs two houses.

        A. didn't sell

        B. have not sold

        C. had not sold

        D. don't sell

        【答案精解】B。本题考查时毒。根据后面所说的“所以我目前有两套房子”,可知我的田房子到现在迁没卖,所以应用现在完成时,故选B。

        【参考译文】去年我买了多新房,但老房子并没有卖,因此我现在手头有两备房于。

        【三】

        例1

        When Jack came in, I________dinner with my parents.

        A. was having

        B. had

        C.am having

        D.have

        【答案精解】A。本题考查过去进行时的用法。分析句意,杰克进来的时候我正在做某事,故A项正确。

        【参考译文】杰克进来的时候,我正在和我父母一起吃饭呢。

        例2

        The children_________happily in the classroom when the teacher came in.

        A. talk

        B. are talking

        C. wore talking

        D.had talked

        【答案精解】C。本题考查谓语动词时态。在when引导的时同状语中,谓语使用了一般过去时,强调的是事情的状态;主句由于强调的是从句动作发生时,教室里正在进行的动作,所以用过去进行时态即可。故选C。

        【参考译文】当老师走进教室时,孩子们正欢快地聊着天。

        【四】

         例1

        Experiments in the photography of moving objects       in both the United States and Europe well before 1990.

        A. have been conducting

        B. were conducting

        C. had been conducted

        D. are conducted

        【答案精解】C。本题考查时态。本句中有明确的过去时间:1990年。介词before表明发生的事情是在1990年前就完成了,因此要用过去完成时态,故选C。

        【参考译文】欧美在1990年之前都对动态物体拍摄做过试验。

        【五】

         例1

        She was told the examination      on Friday.

        A. would be given

        B. will be given

        C. to be given

        D. is given

        【答案精解】A。本题考查时态。主句中有“She was told”,又有“on Friday”,故时态为过去将来时,故选A。

        【参考译文】地被告知周五考试。