二、一般过去时
（1）一般过去时主要表示过去某个时间发生的动作或存在的状态。 Their children often went hungry in the old days. 在旧社会,他们的孩子经常挨饿。 （2）与一般过去时连用的时间状语
①可以用一些表达过去时间的时间状语表达,如：a minute ago,last year,yesterday,in 1992,during the night, in those days,at midnight 等。例如： John was here two minutes ago. 两分钟前约翰在这儿。
②可以用一些表达过去意义的时间状语从句来表达。例如：
When his mother died,he was only five years old.他母亲死的时候他才五岁。 Though he was in his early twenties, he cooked dinner himself. 虽然他才刚二十出头,但他不得不自己养活自己。
③可以用一些表达“现在意义”的时间状语来表达,但它并不把这一“现在时间”包括在内。例如：
Did you see him today?今天你见过他么？ He went to Japan this year.今年他去了日本。
④有时候句中没有时间状语,但实际上是过去发生的,应当用过去时。这是近几年的热点。例如：
I didn’t know you were also invited to the party. 我不知道你也被邀请参加晚会了。（现在已经知道了） I didn’t expect to meet you here.没想到在这儿碰见你。 单项填空
(1)The dam ______on the Yangtze River has provided enough energy to the cent ral part of China. A.being built B.buildingC.built D.to be built
提示：本题考查的是过去分词作定语的用法。A项表示正在被修建；B项表示主动关系,大坝应该是被修建；D 项表示将要被修建。只有B项表示已经在长江上建成的大坝。 答案：C
(2)A television programme ______“Kim’ll fix it” invites viewers to say what they really want to do.
A.being called B.having calledC.calling D.called 提示:此题考查分词作定语。根据句子结构分析,空格处应是定语,修饰前面的programme,表达被动关系。A项虽是被动形式,但它表示“进行”,B项和C项表示“主动”。句意是:一个叫做“Kim’ll fix it”的电视节目邀请观众说出他们真正想做的事情。 答案:D
(3)The discussion ______alive when an interesting topic was brought in. A.was coming B.had come C.has come D.came
提示:come 此处用作连系动词,意为“变得”,用一般过去时态。 答案:D
(4)All the morning as she waited for the medical report from the doctor,her nervousness______. A.has grown B.is growing C.grew D.had grown 提示：本题主要考查在特定的语境中判断使用基本时态的能力。时态的选用取决于题干的句意内容,从中找到时间的参照点,而后确定是用哪种时态。本题中讲述的是过去一上午的事情,与过去有关,排除A和B项,本题“中等”和“增长”这两个动作无先后关系,因此不能用D
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项,所以C项正确。 答案：C
(5)My attention wasn’t on what my head teacher was saying so I am afraid I ______half of it. A.was missing B.had missed C.will miss D.missed
提示：前半句提到注意力不集中,因此有一半内容听漏了,这都是发生在过去的事情,故用一般过去时。 答案：D
课文回顾
下面的一段文章为课文原文的浓缩,仔细阅读,根据原文章内容将其补充完整,并尽量背诵。 I was an 18-year old girl from Sydney. Recently I had my first ______on the famous Ghan train.I sp ent two days on the train and we ate great meals ______by experts.The ______was colorful,but suddenly we saw ______farms ______more than a hundred years ago.It ______a place from another time.
Ghan ______ Afghanistan.There is a story about it.A long time ago,Australians needed a way ______ to the middle of the country,at first,they ______ horses,then they brought some ______from Afghanistan.Camels were ______for traveling a long distance.The ______camels were used to carry food and other supplies.Not until the 1920s ______the government build a railway line and they didn’t use camel any more.So there were so many camels that they became a problem.Then the government ______which ______people to shoot the camels. 答案：
ride;cooked;scenery;abandoned;built;looked like;is short for; to travel;tried riding; camels; much better; trained;did;passed a law;allowed
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