被动语态考点精练(附详解)

被动语态考点精练(附详解)

1. All the employees except the manager _______ to work online at home.

A. encourages           B. encourage             C. is encouraged        D. are encouraged

2. —The window is dirty. —I know. It _______ for weeks.

A. hasn’t cleaned       B. didn’t clean          C. wasn’t cleaned      D. hasn’t been cleaned

3. More patients _______ in hospital this year than last year.

A. treated                  B. have treated         C. had been treated    D. have been treated

4. According to the art dealer, the painting _______to go for at least a million dollars.

A. is expected           B. expects                 C. expected               D. is expecting

5. —George and Lucy got married last week. Did you go to the wedding?

—No, I _______. Did they have a big wedding?

A. was not invited                                     B. have not been invited

C. hadn’t been invited                                D. didn’t invite

6. The number of deaths from heart disease will be reduced greatly if people _______to eat more fruit and vegetables.

A. persuade               B. will persuade         C. be persuaded         D. are persuaded

7. The hero’s story _______differently in the newspapers.

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

8. Millions of pounds’ worth of damage _______by a storm which swept across the north of England last night.

A. has been caused                                    B. had been caused

C. will caused                                           D. will have been caused

9. 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

10. With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth _______each year.

A. is washing away                                   B. is being washing away

C. are washing away                                 D. are being washed away

11.—Why did you leave that position?

—I _______a better position at IBM.

A. offer                    B. offered                 C. am offered            D. was offered  

12. Although the causes of cancer _______, we do not yet have any practical way to prevent it.

A. are being uncovered                              B. have been uncovering      

C. are uncovering                                     D. have uncovered

13. The construction of the two new railway lines _______ by now.

A. has completed                                      B. have completed

C. have been completed                             D. has been completed

14. Customers are asked to make sure that they _______ the right change before leaving the shop.

A. will give                                               B. have been given

C. have given                                            D. will be given

15. Mr. Green stood up in defence of the 16-year-old boy, saying that he was not the one _______.

A. blamed                 B. blaming                C. to blame               D. to be blamed