单项选择

1. - If the traffic hadn't been so heavy, I could have been back by 6 o'clock.

　-- What a pity! Tina _____ here to see you.

A. is B. was C. would be D. has been

2. The hero's story _____ differently in the newspapers.

A. was reported B. was reporting C. reports D. reported

3. They _____ on the program for almost one week before I joined them, and now we _____ on it as no god results have come out so far.

A. had been working; are still working B. had worked; were still working

C. have been working; have worked D. have worked; are still working

4. Father _____ for London on business upon my arrival, so I didn't see him.

A. has left B. left C. was leaving D. had left

5. Susan decided not to work on the program at home because she didn't want her parents to know what she _____.

A. has done B. had done C. was doing D. is doing

6. More than a dozen students in that school _____ abroad to study medicine last year.

A. sent B. were sent C. had sent D. had been sent

7. At last, we found ourselves in a pleasant park with trees providing shade and ____ down to eat our picnic lunch.

A. sitting B. having sat C. to sit D. sat

8. -What's wrong with your coat?

-- Just now when I wanted to get off the bus, the man next to me ____ on it.

A. sat B. had sat C. had been sitting D. was sitting

9. - Thank goodness, you're here! What _____ you?

-- Traffic jam.

A. keeps B. is keeping C. had kept D. kept

10. She _____ her hairstyle in her hometown before she came to Chongqing for a better job.

A. would change B. has changed C. changed D. was changing

11. It is said in the book that Thomas Edison (1847-1931) _____ the world leading inventor for