语法训练（二）时态

1. It was eight in the evening. Tommy ________ (do) his homework.

2. It ________ (rain) heavily the whole night. The ground ________ (still be)wet now.
3. Lily ________ (learn) English for two years before she ________ (go) to Australia
last month.
4. When the pilot ________ (fly) in the sky last Friday, he ________(see) a UFO.
5. --- What ________you ________ (do) this time yesterday?
6. --- I ________ (fly) a kite.
7. The children ________ (play) with a hula -- hoop in the garden from 2 a. m. to 3 a.
m. Yesterday.
8. By the time he was fourteen, he ________ (learn) 1500 English words.
9. Tommy told me he ________ (clean) the classroom at the time.
10. Tommy told me he ________ (clean) the room soon.
11. The engineers ________ (finish) all the work by yesterday.
12. While the teacher ________ (explain) the new words, the students were listening
to him carefully.
13. His secretary didn’t know where he ________ (meet) the client the next week.
14. Roger said they ________ (publish) the book soon.
15. When the manager came back, all the guests ________ (leave) already.
16. When the manager came back, all the guests ________ (wait) for him in the living
room.
17. We ________ (decorate) the room when you called.
18. Jason told me ________ (not worry) because he ________ (fix) the machine
already.
19. Betty is not here. She ________ (go) to Italy for further study.
20. Let the girl ________ (have) breakfast by herself. She ________ (already be) five.
21. -- When ________ you ________ (finish) ________ (write) the composition?
-- Yesterday.
22. ________ (thank) you very much for your advice on how ________ (use) the
machine.

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23. Oh, it’s 12 o’clock already. I________ (not realize) it.
24. It ________ (snow) heavily when we left school.
25. Did you know that sound ________ (go) much more slowly than light?
26. She has lived alone since her daughter ________ (move) to Britain.
27. Julie used ________ (lose) her temper ） （ 发 脾 气 ） easily. But now she
________ (change) a lot.
28. -- Who________ （teach）you English?
-- Mr Hu ________ (do). He ________ (teach) us since last term.
30. Uncle John ________ (play) with his son when his wife arrived home.
31. All of them ________ (prepare) for the final exams these days.
32. We ________ (know) her since she was 2 years old.
33. Tom usually ________ (watch) TV on Sunday evenings. But when I ________
(go) to see him last night, he ________ (have)a talk with Alice.
34. We ________ (show) Mary around her new home as soon as she ________
(arrive) tomorrow afternoon.
35. My father always ________ (watch) TV if he ________ (have) time.
36. Last Sunday I ________ (go) to visit Jack. When I ________ (get) to his home, he
________ (happen) ________ (be) out. I ________ (feel) disappointed. Just when I
________ (want) to leave, he ________ (come) back. How happy we ________ (be)!
37. Peter ________ (happen) to break his glasses while he ________ (play) basketball
on the playground.
38. -- Hi, Jason. I ________ (wait) for you for half an hour. Where ________ you
________ (be)?
39. The students ________ (borrow) books from the library once a week.
40. Once upon a time, there ________ (live) a happy farmer.
41. There ________ (not be) any hospitals in my hometown in 1940.
42. With the help of the teacher and his classmates, Tom ________ (make) great
progress in study of Chinese recently.

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KEYS:
1. was doing 2. was raining , is still
3. had learnt; went 4. were flying ,saw 5. were ,doing
6. was flying 7. were playing 8. had learnt 9. was cleaning 10. would clean
11. had finished 12. was explaining 13. would meet 14. would publish
15. had left 16. were waiting 17. were decorating
18. not to worry 19. had fixed 20. have , is already
21. did , finish, writing 22. Thank , to use
23. didn’t realize 24. was snowing 25. goes 26. moved
27. to lose 28. teaches , does, has taught
30. was playing 31. are preparing 32. have known
33. watches, went ,was having 34. will show , arrives
35. watches, has 36. went, got, happened, to be; came, were
37. happened, was playing 38. have waited, have, been
39. borrow 40. lived 41. were not 42. was made