问题 选择题

---I stayed at a hotel while in New York.

---Oh, did you? You ________ with Barbara.

A.could have stayed

B.could stay

C.would stay

D.must have stayed

答案

题目分析:考查情态动词的完成式:句意:--我在纽约的时候住的是饭店。--哦,是吗?你其实可以住巴巴拉那里。(这句直译:你本可以和巴巴拉住一起,而你却没有这么做),因为是说的过去的事情,用情态动词的完成式,could have done 是虚拟语气,意思为:本应该可以做某事,而没有做某事,must have done过去一定做了…,选A。

单项选择题 A1/A2型题
单项选择题

The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s, but especially (1) the Depression of the 1930’s, the United States experienced a (2) birth rate. Then with the prosperity (3) on by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed it, young people married and (4) households earlier and began to (5) larger families than had their (6) during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. (7) economics was probably the most important (8) , it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed (9) the idea of the family also helps to (10) this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming (11) the first grade by the mid-1940’s and became a (12) by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself (13) The wartime economy meant that few new schools were buih between 1940 and 1945. (14) , large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for better-paying jobs elsewhere.

(15) , in the 1950’s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the 1930’s no longer made (16) ; keeping youths ages sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high (17) for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators (18) turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and (19) . The system no longer had much (20) in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.

16()

A.sense

B.meaning

C.sensible

D.meaningful