听辨练习
A. Read the words below and give the past tense forms .
look like enjoy collect suppress
applaud agree acquire bother stagger
chop connect demand dispute scan
fence heat implore insert react
list monitor fit outline reflect
rain remember place plan penetrate
pick part participate praise mitigate
promote pronounce resent mark lament
settle seize select shape judge
trim qualify undermine resist diminish
B. Make sentences with the following verb phrases, the tense should be past tense .
accuse somebody of apologize (to somebody) for something
long for something ask for/about
attend to beg for
believe in beware of
blame somebody for charge somebody with (an offence)
compare something with comply with
conform to consist of
deal with depend on
fight with somebody for fine somebody for
hope for insist on
live on (food/money) dream of
apply to somebody/for something object to
occur to prefer somebody to somebody
prepare for persist in
punish somebody for quarrel with somebody about
refer to rely on
remind somebody of resort to
succeed in suspect somebody of
wait for warn somebody of/about
wish for fail to do something
C. Underline the verbs in the following sentences .
1. They have looked up the number in the directory.
2. They turned down lots of good suggestions.
3. We should think over what he has just suggested.
4. He tried to put on a happy expression.
5. The dogs all turned on the poor girl.
6. He boiled some water for tea.
7. We started work at 8 last night.
8. He denied my charge.
9. He finally passed the examination successfully.
10. He took a card out of his pocket and placed it under the handkerchief.
11. The ship is scheduled to sail for Hong Kong the day after tomorrow.
12. The guard stopped anyone who tried to enter the hall yesterday.
13. We have played this game before.
14. Last year, he resigned from his job.
15. My sister invited many friends to her birthday party.
16. I worked all day yesterday.
17. He had typed the letter an hour ago.
18. We visited the museum last week.
19. He has stayed here for about 7 days.
20. This way, please. My secretary has already arranged the seats.
D. Give quick answers to the following questions .
1. How long have you studied English?
Did you work very hard at it?
How many English words have you learned?
Have you learned any English songs or verses?
How many?
Have you listened to some lectures in English?
You must have seen some English films, haven’t you?
Has your teacher recited some English stories in class?
Have you talked with some English people?
Have they given you any suggestion on studying English?
2. Great changes have taken place in your hometown since liberation, is that right?
Have the streets been widened?
How many tall buildings have appeared?
How many new houses been established?
Have many people moved into the new houses?
What has happened to the old houses?
Your hometown has grown much bigger than before, hasn’t it?
3. How long have you lived in that town?
What does your father do? How about your mother?
Have they got a TV set?
Your father and mother haven’t got a car, haven’t they?
Has he decided to buy one in the future?
Have they saved much money?
Have you written them any letters recently?
4. What have you done today?
Have you done your morning exercises yet?
Have you listened to the English program?
Have you had your breakfast yet?
Have you gone to any places this morning?
Have you finished your English classes yet?
Have you had any oral practice today?
Has your teacher assigned you any homework to do?
Have you washed your clothes?
Have you cleaned your dormitory?
Have you visited your friends?
Has anything particular happened today?
E. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense, paying attention to the pronunciation of the verbs .
1. The heavy rain _______ (stop), but there was still a slight drizzle in the air.
2. I _______ (cannot go) out that night, for I _______ (promise) to wait for Mr. Wang at home.
3. I _______ (not know) you _______ (all be) so busy in the past few weeks.
4. I ________ (be invited) to see Beijing Opera last Friday. It _______ (be) the first time I _______ (see) an opera of this kind.
5. The snow storm _______ (drop) as suddenly as it _______ (start). The wind _______ (die) down and the sun _______ (come) out.
6. Not one person _______ (agree) with him. That _______ (be) something he _______ (not anticipate).
7. Ten o’clock, and the climbers_______(be) already near the summit. They_______ (make) better progress than they_______ (ever dare) to hope for.
8. The stop-watch_______ (say) three minutes, fifty-eight seconds—He_______ (break) the world records. He_______ (succeed) in doing what he _______ (previously, think) impossible.
9. I_______ (find) the place_______ (change) beyond recognition. The streets _______ (be widened), the old houses_______ (be pulled) down. A number of houses of modern construction_______ (spring) up.
10. When he_______ (see) his wife off at the station, he_______ (return) as he ______ (not have) to pack, for his wife_______already (do) that before she _______ (leave) the house. All he_______ (have) to do was to decide whether or not to take his overcoat with him. In the en he_______ (decide) not to. At 8:30 he _______ (pick) up his case, _______ (go) out of the house and (slam) the door behind him. Then he _______ (feel) in his pockets for the key, for his wife _______ (remind) him to double-lock the front door. When he _______ (search) all his pockets and _____ (find) no key he_______ (remember) where it _______ (be). He _______ (leave) it in his overcoat pocket. Then he _______ (remember) something else; his passport and tickets _______ (be) in his overcoat pocket as well.
11. After breakfast, Mike _______ (follow) his uncle into his study. His uncle went straight to the point. He _______ (say) he’d always taken a keen interest in Mike and_______ (want) to help him in any way he could. He________(ask) Mike what sort of profession he would like to take up in the future. Mike_______ (wonder) about this several times, but had not make up his mind. He_______ (reply) tentatively that he’d rather not _______ (decide) yet. His uncle said firmly that he he’d have to. He could not keep hanging about the university all his life. This was just what Mike would_______ ( like) best. But he thought it be unwise to say so. When Mike said nothing, his uncle _______ (begin) to lose patience, and _______ (tell) him not to beat about the bush. He must surely know what he _______ (aim) for. What was he going to be? Mike_______ (venture) to say, hopefully, that he_______ (become) purple in the face and _______ (repeat) the word with a bellow. He _______ (ask) Mike what sort of life he thought that would be—_______ (run) from one performance to another, always short of money. There was no future in it. Adapting a more resolute tone, he then_______ (ask) what Mike would think if he were to offer him a nice steady job in his bank.
F. Read the following passages, paying attention to the verbs .
1.Then the father asked the boy what he should do next. The boy replied that he would wait till the milkman went round to the back of the house. Then the father asked which house he meant. The boy pointed at one of the house, saying that that was the one he meant. The father asked whether he meant the green one. The boy said he didn’t mean the green one but the one next to it. The father demanded why he shouldn’t wait till the man went round to the back of the green house. The boy explained that the man would only go to the side-door of the green-house, whereas he would go all the way round to the back of the other house. The boy assured his father that he could do the job an told him not to worry.
2.King Lear asked Cordelia what she had to say. The latter said she had nothing to say. The king asked whether she really meant what she said. Cordelia repeated her answer. Then the king became very angry and ordered Cordelia to say something. Then the girl said that the king was her father. She would obey him, honor him and love him. However, she would not talk as her sisters had done, for, if her sisters had meant what they had said and loved the king better than they loved their husbands, they would not have got married. Cordelia said that is she should marry, she would give her husband half her duty, half her love and that she would never get married as her sisters had done and yet say she loved her father best of all.
3.The interviewer asked Mr. Smith if it was true that he had been living for over a year with the animals he looked after. Mr. Smith answered that it was true. He was then asked how long he decided to spent with these animals. He replied that he had been here for 20 months. The animals had soon become quite used to his presence. Mr. Smith went on to explain that when he arrived at the edge of their habitat, the animals seemed very hostile, But now they had accepted him. The interviewer asked if the animals really lived harmoniously and did not attacked people first. Mr. Smith confirmed that; and added that men should stop hunting them and lived with them peacefully.