全国自考英语语法模拟试卷(4)
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preposition
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mass nouns
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dangling participle
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aspect
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What is complete inversion?
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Provide examples to illustrate some different types of time adjuncts.
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Using inversion:
The speech was so boring that the audience all left halfway.
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Using discontinuity:
I want to talk to him about the practicability of the research method in person.
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Using non-finite form.:
I am sure it'll do you good if you admit that you made the mistake.
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Using the passive voice:
They finally arrived at the conclusion.
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Using subjunctive mood:
I didn't have any money with me, so I couldn't lend you some.
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Using cleaving for time adjunct:
On October first, new China was founded.
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Using extraposition:
Whether you keep the money or give it away is none of my concern.
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Using the passive voice:
They let us go.
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Using negation:
It will rain tomorrow, so we will have to cancel the sports meet.
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Using a modal auxiliary:
They were obliged to sell their house in order to pay their debts.
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Using a disjunct:
It is natural that as a beginner he isn't a good driver yet.
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Using a counter-factual conditional:
We lost the game because he didn't join us.
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Using the passive voice:
I took these photos on the Great Wall last week.
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Using fronting:
An old man sat quietly in the corner.
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Using a modal verb:
Am I not right in supposing this is the one you want?
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With an appropriate relative pronoun:
(1)This is the very place ________ I'm wishing to live in.
(2)The person ________ is talking to the shop assistant is an engineer.
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With an appropriate coordinator or subordinator:
(1) ________ he does is often at variance with what he says.
(2) ________ you go, I go too.
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With an appropriate relative pronoun:
(1) ________ we all know, oil and water don't mix up.
(2)This is the only dictionary ________ he often turns to for help.
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With question tags:
(1)You had to take the early bus ________ ?
(2)It is ten years since he joined the army, ________ ?
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With an appropriate link verb:
(1)I, who ________ your teacher, will try my best to help you with your study.
(2)Writing stories and articles ________ what I enjoy most.
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With an appropriate coordinator or subordinator:
(1)You can deceive her some of the time, ________ not all the time.
(2)I think it best ________ you should stay here.
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With assertive, non-assertive or negative words:
(1)I'm trying to persuade him to come but I'm getting ________.
(2)Satellite technology offers the opportunity, as ________ before, for continuous television coverage of major international events.
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With an appropriate coordinator or subordinator:
(1) ________ the worker stopped for lunch, people were allowed to enter the building.
(2)Mr. Clinton was a high school teacher for many years, ________ now he is teaching at the university.
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With determiner:
(1)She's lost almost ________ friend she had.
(2)He lost ________ parents when he was a child.
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With an appropriate preposition:
(1)The man sitting in the corner reminds me ________ my uncle Tom.
(2)I think it isn't good ________ children to get everything they want.
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is, are, has, have, having
A team which ________ full of enthusiasm ________ a better chance of winning.
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that, which, who, is, are, have been
The boy and the dog ________ are in the picture ________ very lovely.
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even though, as though, although, understand, understood, understanding
Whenever the professor explained something, she kept smiling and nodding her head from time to time ________ ________ every word of his lecture.
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is, was, are, scissors, scissor, scissores
There ________ some ________ in the desk drawer in the bedroom if you need them.
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is, are, has, have, having
The average British family, which ________ smaller and richer than 50 years ago, ________ 3.6 members.
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less, little, few, fewer
If we had followed his plan, we could have done the job better with ________ money and ________ people.
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two fifth, two fifths, is, are
________ of the land in that district ________ covered with trees and grass.
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that, which, when, who
I shall never forget those years ________ lived in the country with the farmers, ________ has a great effect on my life.
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woman, women, has, have, having
The number of ________ doctors in the hospital ________ increased dramatically over the past decade.
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don't, wouldn't, didn't, shouldn't, on, at, in
I'd rather you ________ make any comment ________ the issue for the time being.
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________ I like the color of the hat, I do not like its shape.
- A.While
- B.If
- C.When
- D.Because
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—I'd like some more cheese.
—Sorry, there's ________ left.
- A.nothing
- B.none
- C.a little
- D.few
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He was very busy yesterday, otherwise,he ________ to your birthday party.
- A.would come
- B.came
- C.would have come
- D.should come
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If only I ________ that silly thing!
- A.haven't done
- B.hadn't done
- C.didn't done
- D.never done
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The only candidate ________ can hope to defeat him is quit now.
- A.who
- B.which
- C.that
- D.when
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During the final match, all the audience shouted ________ excitement.
- A.at
- B.for
- C.by
- D.with
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If I ________ enough money then, I ________ the dress.
- A.have; would have bought
- B.had; would buy
- C.had had; would have bought
- D.would have; would buy
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________ is responsible for the accident will be punished.
- A.Whoever
- B.Whatever
- C.Who
- D.What
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All the apples ________ fell down from the tree were eaten up by the pigs.
- A.which
- B./
- C.that
- D.they
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The newly-built theatre is ________ the old one.
- A.as twice big as
- B.twice more bigger than
- C.twice the size of
- D.twice so big as
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What he has done is ________ what I have done.
- A.superior to
- B.more superior to
- C.superior than
- D.more superior than
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Don't go there this afternoon, I'd rather you ________ tomorrow.
- A.went
- B.go
- C.will go
- D.would go
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To fully understand the writer, we must read not only between the lines, but sometimes ________ the lines.
- A.within
- B.beyond
- C.beside
- D.among
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If there were no examinations, we should have ________ at school.
- A.the happiest time
- B.a more happier time
- C.much happiest time
- D.a much happier time
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The poor woman with her two children in a street corner ________
- A.was seen beg
- B.were seen beg
- C.was seen bagging
- D.were seen begging
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We have been told that under no circumstances ________ the telephone in the office for personal affairs.
- A.may we use
- B.we may ring
- C.we could borrow
- D.did we answer
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The new bike is a great deal ________ the old one.
- A.as good as
- B.good as
- C.the better than
- D.better than
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If you ________ hard, you ________ in the exam.
- A.worked; wouldn't have failed
- B.had worked; wouldn't fail
- C.had worked; wouldn't have failed
- D.worked; wouldn't fail
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He ________ at the meeting, but his heart attack prevented him.
- A.will speak
- B.is going to speak
- C.had to speak
- D.was going to speak
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He was only in ________ at the time.
- A.his 20's
- B.the 20's
- C.his twenties
- D.the twenties