英语语法2007年4月真题试题及答案解析（00831）

What’s the difference between a simple verb phrase and a complex verb phrase?

List at least 4 means of expressing future time.

Define “ellipsis”

Participles

What is “fronting”?

Rewriting B’s answer by using a cohesive device

A: Is John trying to enter Harvard Law School?

B: No, I don’t think John is trying to enter Harvard Law School.He hates lawyers.

Rewriting the second sentence by using a cohesive device

My wife and I take a walk after supper this evening.In fact, we take a walk every evening.

Rewriting the second clause by using a cohesive device

The limited seats should be given to old people and the younger people are advised to stand for a while.

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 makes a disappointing view.

Using an adjunct

His child had gone to school.

He could concentrate on his research work.

Using fronting

He plunged into the tumultuous water in order to save the girls.

Using the passive voice

Couldn’t we ask someone to take on the job privately without anyone knowing?

Using a nonfinite verb form

At a very early stage, Paderewski revealed that he was a master of the keyboard.

Using a modal verb

Am I not right in supposing this is the one you want?

Using an adjunct

Mary decided to stay in her London apartment.

She was growing sick of city Life.

Using a relative pronoun

I am going to the airport to meet Mr Johnson.

He is a close friend of mine.

Using a relative pronoun

She is lawyer. I know her.

The project on that we have been working for five weeks is a great success.

Turning the following imperative into a tag question

Don’t let the children eat a lot of sweets and ice creams.

Which she does is often at variance with what she says.

I met another boyfriend of Lucy yesterday.

He stood there, his eyes closed and his hands in the pockets, looking half asleep.

Being not helped by anybody, he is not likely to succeed.

The girl often heard to sing the same song at the same time in her room.

Should we always follow the advice of our olders?

I spent the all of the summer at home.

She said she was afraid at her father.

—“Which newspaper would you like?”

—“It doesn’t matter. Every one.”

He can not choose his own job, _________ can I.

I think you should go for school earlier today.

With an appropriate relative pronoun.

My brother speaks English fluently, _________ I don’t.

This car is very expensive. You have to pay half a million dollars _________ it.

With an appropriate conjunctive.

Last month I bought a watch. It is cheap, _________ it goes quite well.

I appreciate _________(give) the opportunity to study abroad three years ago.

I think his failure in the experiment resulted _________ his carelessness.

It is surprising that this innocent-looking girl _________ (commit) such a crime.

When you were in London, did you visit _________ Tower, too?

He said that he _________(feed) up with college instructors who tried to teach him to use the “scientific method”.

The noise of the party stopped me getting _________ sleep.

She’s lost almost _________ friend she had.

He lost _________ parents when he was a child.

John hardly speaks to anybody in the class, _________?

Let’s not take John with us on our family outing this time, _________?

Everyone is excited by the news, _________?

Nobody in the class agrees with you,_________?

than, as, more, so, less

I’m not going out with a man who’s twice _______ old _______ me.

than, as, more, most, the

The _______ information that comes in , _______ more confused the picture becomes.

analysis, criteria, diabetes, gentry, pants, physics

a. Singular only:_____________________________________

b. Plural only:_______________________________________

were, was, had, propaganda, propagandas

Large amounts of money _______ spent on _______.

is, are, has, have, having

The average British family, which _______ smaller and richer than 50 years ago, _______ 3.6 members.

preferred, prefers, is, are, was, were, will be, shall be

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.

is, are, was, were, itself, himself, themselves

The trade union _______ believed to regard _______ as an organization where the molested could seek advice and help.

is, are, was, were, will be, are going to be, have, has, had

The beautiful _______ something that the innocent _______ not always able to appreciate fully.

______ you had been here, we wouldn’t have had so much trouble then.

She sat ______ the table in the restaurant.

Young ______ he was, he managed to make a living on his own.

He graduated from college ______ his parents divorced.

He became a successful actor ______ his father never was.

The manager fulminated against his secretary, ______ surprised me.

The delegation ______ Russia will visit London this afternoon.

Her mother can’t speak English ______ French, but is good at Japanese.

The money would have to be raised by ______ taxation.

Their plane arrived ______ San Francisco this morning.

When ______ to tell the difference between British and American English, the linguist made a long and ______ speech.

The twins had been away for such a long time that many people in the village thought they ______.

“I ______ go out today. If I do, I ______ in a storm.” I said to myself when I heard the weatherman say there would be a heavy rain that day.

I hope that it is possible to achieve this objective by calling on the smokers ______ good judgment and show concern for others rather than by regulation.

Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that it ______ in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference.

Mother wished I ______ you what she ______.

The teacher said that Jane ______ work harder the following semester.

I only called the police when I ______ everything else.

He ______ violin when I want to sleep.

James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he ______ until yesterday.

The general sent out word that no one in the bunker ______ to bed until further orders.