全国自考英语语法模拟试卷(3)

be-subjunctive

collective nouns

determiners

antecedent

What is given information and what is new information?

Explain the relationship between tense and time.

Using inversion:

I have never been there before.

Using a YES-NO question:

I have already finished the assignment the teacher gave us last week.

Reinforcing the negation:

These goods are not satisfactory.

Using a non-finite form.:

Don't take his words seriously if he professes that he knows everything about your history.

Using a disjunct:

It is true that I don't like him at all.

Using a disjunct:

They were right to have protested against that move.

Using a question tag:

They could hardly believe his words.

Using an infinitive phrase:

My friends recommended that I should give up smoking.

Using extraposition:

To see all the high school kids standing on one foot outside school property and puffing away furtively and defiantly on their cigarettes breaks my heart.

Using an exclamation:

A large swarm of ants is approaching.

Using cleaving for place adjunct:

I have lived in the same city for ten years.

Using fronting:

We have already discussed this question at some length.

Using extraposition:

You will feel listening to him talk boring.

Using a YES-NO question:

He's always telling me that I don't plan for the future.

With an appropriate relative pronoun or relative adverb:

(1)This is the best biography ________ I have read of Churchill.

(2)He is a straight A student, ________ his brother never was.

Using discontinuity:

The days when he could boss me around are gone.

With a WH-word:

(1) ________ not speak to the professor about it?

(2) ________ come you didn't tell me earlier.

With an appropriate conjunct:

(1)We have told the landlord about the ceiling again and again, and ________ he's done nothing to fix it.

(2)Jose has spent years preparing for this event; ________, he's the most nervous person here.

With an appropriate conjunct:

(1)Susan is stupid and lazy. ________, her sister is intelligent and hardworking.

(2)Only one person was absent, ________, Harry.

With an appropriate coordinator or subordinator:

(1)Not everyone can go to Cambridge ________ Oxford. You're one of the privileged few.

(2)Work hard ________ you are told to stop.

With an appropriate modal verb:

(1) ________ you succeed!

(2)You ________ pay more attention to your spelling next time.

With an appropriate preposition:

(1)After going ________ more of life's ups and downs, I decided that it was time for me to pursue what was important: it was time to fulfill my life's dream.

(2)To keep ________ confusing your readers, always put modifying phrases and clauses near the words they modify.

With an appropriate preposition：

(1) I think his failure in the experiment resulted ________ his carelessness.

(2) This car is very expensive. You have to pay half a million dollars ________ it.

With an appropriate coordinator or subordinator:

(1)You can either come with me ________ stay at home.

(2) ________ we have already observed, all business letters are in a sense sales letters.

With an appropriate unit noun:

(1)Part of the lake has been polluted. You can see the water is covered with a ________ of oil.

(2)Let me give you a ________ of advice.

less, less of, than, as, like

Mr. Smith is ________ a politician ________ Mr. Lee.

how, what, is she, she is

________ friendly ________ to everyone!

at, by, on, in, with, for

In Hangzhou Mr. Green was deeply struck ________ the beauty of nature that he stayed ________ another night.

isn't, hasn't been, haven't been, is, are, was

The present government, which ________ in power long, ________ trying to control inflation.It isn't having much success.

has made, have made, makes, are, it's, they're

The family ________ up their minds that ________ going to travel.

preferred, prefers, is, are, was, were

During the holiday week, one-third of the students in our class ________ prepared to stay on campus for study while around ten percent of them ________ some more sleep at home.

as, though, in spite of, whenever, when, that, wherever

Poor ________ it may be, there is no place like home, ________ you may go.

either, neither, nor, what, which, that

They produced two reports, ________ of ________ contained any useful suggestions.

hardly... than; no sooner...when; scarcely...when

________ had I reached the airport ________ the plane took off.

the, an, a, one

I like ________ color of your skirt. It is ________ good match for your blouse.

But the Swiss discovered long years ago that constant warfare brought them ________ suffering and poverty.

Twenty dollars ________ enough for the coat.

The girl under the tree is ________ my sister.

________ Mr. Brown's anger, it was his own son who didn't agree with him.

Their plane arrived ________ San Francisco this morning.

At the beginning of the party, ________ of the guests was given a piece of paper.

Tom will not be at the picnic, ________ to the family's disappointment.

When ________ medicine, please follow these instructions carefully.

Did you have trouble ________ the post office?

Mary and John ________ each other since childhood.

________ has already been pointed out, grammar is not a set of dead rules.

I ________ have passed my examination easily, but I made too many stupid mistakes.

He was hoping to go abroad but his parents ________ that they won't support him unless he can borrow money from the bank.

“No, no,” he whispered, ________ talking to himself.

He ________ you more help, even though he was very busy.

According to ________ World Health Organization, health care plans are needed in all big cities to prevent ________ spread of AIDS.

He had known the matter before you told him, so you ________ have told it to him.

Mr.White ________ at 8: 30 for the meeting, but he didn't show up.

She ________ very little food every day because her doctor advises her to keep on a diet. But I'm sure she'll soon relapse into her old habit of overeating.

So much ________ that he could not move for the next hour.