虚拟语气练习题及答案

0-虚拟语气练习题

用所给动词的适当形式填空：

Part A.

1. If people ______(drive) more slowly, there wouldn’t be so many accidents.

2. If you had worked carefully, you _____(not make) so many mistakes.

3. The boat wouldn’t have drifted away, if we _____ (tie) it up.

4. If I had known you already _____(have) a typewriter, I _____(not, buy) one for your birthday.

5. If he _____(be) here this afternoon I would go with him.

6. If it were to rain tomorrow, the match _____(postpone).

7. But for your help, we ______(not be) able to finish the work in time.

8. If it _____(not, be) for the leadership of the Party, we would not have achieved so much.

9. I wish I _____(study) hard while I was young.

10. It is about time that fence ______(mend).

11. My request is that we ______(hold) another session to discuss the problem.

12. It is strange that the car _____(break) down at exactly the same place where it _____(break) down yesterday.

13. The baby smiled as if he _____(understand) what his mother _____(say).

14. He talked as if he _____(do) all the work himself, but in fact Tom and I _____(do) most of it.

15. If only we _____(have) a phone! I’m tired of queuing outside the public phone box.

16. ----- “Can we come in late tomorrow?” ----- “I’d rather you _____(come) in on time.”

17. He looks as if he _____(be) ill for a long time.

18. He always talks as though he ______(address) a public meeting.

19. If a metal ______(heat), it will expand.

20. I _____(stay) home if it rains this evening.

Part B.

1. She would call you immediately if she _____(need) help.

2. If I had seen the movie, I _____(tell) you all about it now.

3. If he _____(decide) earlier, he could have left on the afternoon flight.

4. _______ I _____(take) my umbrella with me when I _____(come) out this morning, I _____(not be) so wet

now.

5. If you had listened to me, you _____ (not be) in such trouble now.

6. I wish they _____ (stop) making so much noise so that I could concentrate on my work.

7. It is inconceivable that he _____ (not see) me that day for I ______(wave) to her.

8. What a pity that he gave orders that all those lovely trees _____(cut) down.

9. Mr. Jones would rather _____(stay) home last night.

10. Henry would rather that his brother _____(work) in the same department as he does.

11. Electric current flows through a conductor as though it _____(be) a fluid.

12. We _____(invite) her to the party but we didn’t know that she ______(already, come) back from abroad.

13. Today’s industrial production ______(be) impossible without the contribution made by the science of physics.

14. I hate driving. I’d much rather you _____(drive).

15. The guests ______(arrive) last night, but there is still no news about them.

16. Mother_____(feel) anxious if I came home late.

17. Even if I ______(be) with you then, I ______(can, not, do) much for you.