第二部分、虚拟语气常见错误设置及答题思路
一、常见错误
1.规范搭配的主从句动词形式有一个有错误。
2.主句和从句的动词形式与各自发生的时间不相对应。
3.在省略if采用倒装表示虚拟的结构中,主句谓语动词没有用虚拟形式,或主句动词是虚拟形式,但从句倒装有误。
4.在用介词短语、并列分句或分词等其他方式表示虚拟条件的句子中,谓语动词没有采用虚拟形式。
5.一些表达命令、建议、愿望意义的词后接宾语从句、表语从句、主语从句或同位语从句时,从句中动词没有采用(should )动词原形。
例句:
If the police would have (A) arrived (B) earlier, he would have (C) seen (D) the accident.
(答案:A had,与过去事实相反,从句用had done)
Had paul received (A) six more (B) votes in the last election, he would have been (C) our chairman (D) now.
(答案:C would be,时间状语now表示主句与现在事实相反)
The demand for (A) electricity can (B) not readily be met were it not (C) for another source of (D) energy-nuclear power.
(答案:B could,表示非真实的假设)
Victor obviously (A) doesn’t know what’s happened (B)otherwise he didn’t make (C) such a (D) stupid remark.
(答案:C wouldn’t have made, otherwise连接虚拟分句)
Without (A) the friction between their (B) feet and the ground, people will (C) in no way (D) be able to walk.
(答案:C would,介词without引导虚拟条件)
So great (A) was (B) the influence of Thomas paine on (C) his own time that John Adams suggested that the era was called (D) "The Age of Paine".
(答案:D be called, suggest后接宾语从句,其谓语应用动词原形)
Emphasis is laid on (A) the necessity that all the objectives to be attained (B) take into (C) account before starting (D) a new project.
(答案:C be taken into, necessity后接同位语从句,其谓语应用动词原形)
It (A) is essential that (B) all these figures are to be (C) checked twice (D) . (答案:C be,形容词essential要求其主语从句的谓语用动词原形)。