虚拟语气练习题
一．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.
18.A less conscientious man ______(not, try) so hard to get this job done.
19.Do you wish that you ______(have) a sister like her?
20.Isn’t it surprising that he ______(have) two car accidents during the past week?
二．辨认并改正错误：
1.I should be most happy to go down with you but I was very busy right then.
2.If her great grandfather would have lived three more days he would have been 100 years
old.
3.If George Washington were president today, I would have wondered what he would do
about the United States’ foreign affairs in the Middle East.
4.It was suggested that Pedro studies the material more thoroughly before attempting to pass
the examination.
5.He gave orders that the horses were made ready at once as he was pressed for time.
6.The scientist thinks it necessary that all the inventions of mankind must be used for good,
not for evil.
7.We felt like we had lost a friend when the foreman along with his four assistants was
unfairly discharged.
