选择题

1. --- Oh, dear. I forgot the air tickets. --- You ______ something.


 
 
 

2. --- I ______ so busily recently that I ______ no time to help you with your math. --- That’s OK. I can manage it by myself.


 
 
 

3. Remember to send me a photo of us next time you ______ to me.


 
 
 

4. He ______ at the meeting, but his heart attack prevented him.


 
 
 

5. --- I beg your pardon, but I didn’t quite catch you. --- Oh, I ______ myself.


 
 
 

6. I ______ ping-pong quite well, but I haven’t had time to play since the New Year.


 
 
 

7. I first met Tom 10 years ago. He ______ in a radio factory at that time.


 
 
 

8. --- What ______ when I phoned you? --- I ______ my work, and I wanted to go out.


 
 
 

9. --- Have you finished the report? --- No. I ______ it all this week.


 
 
 

10. I can guess you were in a hurry. You ______ your sweater inside out.


 
 
 

11. --- We ______ that you would fix the TV set this week. --- I’m sorry. I ______ to fix it this week, but I’ve been too busy.


 
 
 

12. --- Why? Tom, your shirt is so dirty! --- Mum, I ______ my storeroom downstairs.


 
 
 

13. They won’t buy new clothes because they ______ money to buy a new house.


 
 
 

14. The traffic in our city is already good and it ______ even better.


 
 
 

15. --- I will come to attend your lecture at 10:00 tomorrow. --- I’m sorry, by then my lecture will have ended and I ______ my guests in my office.


 
 
 

16. --- Alice came back home the day before yesterday. --- Really? Where ______?


 
 
 

17. I know Mr. Brown; we ______ to each other at an international conference.


 
 
 

18. --- Where do you think ______ he ______ the computer? --- Sorry. I have no idea.


 
 
 

19. Don’t bother to look for my dictionary --- it ______ some day.


 
 
 

20. --- What do you think of this kind of TV set, which ______ in Shanghai? --- Well, I don’t care about such things.


 
 
 

21. --- Did he notice you enter the room? --- I don’t think so. He ______ to the radio with his eyes shut.


 
 
 

22. The plane ______ at 7:00 pm, so I have to be at the airport by 6:40 at the latest.


 
 
 

23. The train ______ at the present speed until it reaches the foot of the mountain at about nine o’clock tonight.


 
 
 

24. I used to drink a lot of tea but these days I ______ coffee.


 
 
 

25. The vegetables didn’t taste very good. They ______ too long.


 
 
 

26. --- Remember the first time we met, Jim? --- Of course I do. You ______ in the library.


 
 
 

27. I want to buy that kind of cloth because I ______ the cloth ______ well.


 
 
 

28. --- Is Tom still smoking? --- No. By next Saturday he ______ for a whole month without smoking a single cigarette.


 
 
 

29. --- ______ Betty this morning? --- Not yet, but she is sure to be here before noon.


 
 
 

30. Jim talked for about half an hour yesterday. Never ______ him talk so much.


 
 
 

31. --- Look at the black clouds. It ______ soon. --- Sure. If only we ______ out.


 
 
 

32. He ______ articles for our wall-newspaper these three years, and he ______ about forty articles.


 
 
 

33. She ______ to the office than she got down to writing the report.


 
 
 

34. When he was alive, the old scientist used to say that knowledge ______ from practice and he gained his experience by doing a lot of practical work.


 
 
 

35. --- Don’t forget to bring my new books tomorrow afternoon. --- No, I ______.


 
 
 

36. I decided to go to the library as soon as I ______.


 
 
 

37. You won’t know whether the coat fits you until you ______ it on.


 
 
 

38. My dictionary ______. I have looked for it everywhere but still ______it.


 
 
 

39. ______ it with me and I’ll see what I can do.


 
 
 

40. --- How are you planning to travel to Shanghai?

--- I ______ yet, but I ______ taking a train.


 
 
 

41. --- Excuse me, sir. Would you do me a favour? --- Of course. What is it? --- I ______ if you could take me to the station.


 
 
 

42. --- Got your driving license? --- No. I ______ too busy to have enough practice, so I didn’t take the driving test last week. I’m going to next week.


 
 
 

43. With the development of science, more new technology ______ to the field of IT.


 
 
 

44. --- Who’s the man over there? --- It’s Jack. --- Oh? ______ in Italy.


 
 
 

45. --- I dropped in at your house at about ten last night, but you weren’t in. --- I ______ regular exercises at the club.


 
 
 

46. --- Each of the students, working hard at their lessons, ______ the book. --- So have I.


 
 
 

47. The baby is generally healthy, but every now and then he ______ a cold.


 
 
 

48. It is when the plane ______ that you’d better find out at the booking office.


 
 
 

49. --- I’m sorry, but there’s no smoking on this flight. --- Oh, I ______ that. Sorry, I won’t again.


 
 
 

50. I thought Jim would say something about his school report, but he ______ it.