问题
选择题
The meeting was to_________ but the manager________ until twenty minutes later.
A．start; didn’t turn up
B．be started; hadn’t turned up
C．start; hadn’t turned up
D．have started; didn’t turn up
答案
答案：A
start作“开始”讲时，为不及物动词，没有被动形式。再根据时间状语until twenty minutes later此题应用一般过去时态。故此题选A。