indicator过去进行时专项练习

2021年1月10日发(作者：曾苏民)

过去进行时专项练习题
一、用动词的适当形式填空
1. While we __________ (wait) for the bus, a girl __________ (run) up to us.
2. I __________ (telephone) a friend when Bob __________ (come) in.
3. It was quite late at night. George __________ (read) and Amy __________ (ply) her needle
when they __________ (hear) a knock at the door.
4. I _____ (have) my breakfast at half past six yesterday morning.
a. were watching b. watch c. watched d. are watching
book ____ you ______ when I ____ you at four yesterday afternoon?
a. did, read, was seeing b. did, read, saw
c. were, reading, saw d. were, reading, was seeing
Feng _____ always _____ of others when he ______ in the army.
a. is, thinking, was b. was, thinking, is c. did, think, is d. was, thinking, was
____ for Tom at ten last Sunday. He often kept us ______.
5. Mary _____ (go) over her lessons from six to seven last night. John and peter ____(do) the

same thing.

6. What _____ you ___ (do) at that time? We _____ (watch) TV.

7. Was your father at home yesterday evening? Yes ,he was. He _____ (listen) to the radio.

8. They _____(not make) a model ship when I saw him.

9. _____ they ____ (have) a meeting at 4 yesterday afternoon?

No, they _____. They _____ (clean) the classroom.

10. ______ it ______(rain) when you left school? Yes, it ____. (No, it ____)

11. One day, Edison _____ (wait) for a train to arrive, and suddenly（突然） a little boy ran to the
track(轨道) to play.
12. When the bell rang, jenny _____ (wait) in her seat.
13. When he knocked at the door, my aunt ____ (cook)
14. The students ______ (sing) and ____ (dance) happily on the playground at that time.
15. I ____ (write) a letter when the door bell rang.
16. We had no classed at that time. We ____ (plant) trees.
mother (cook) at 6:30 yesterday.
二、 选择题


1.I ______ a meal when you _____ me.
a. cooked, were ringing b. was cooking, rang c. was cooking, were ringing d. cooked, rang


said he _____ to draw a plane on the blackboard at that time.
a. tries b. tried c. was trying d. will try
she ______ TV, she ______ a sound outside the room.

a. was watching, was hearing b. watched, was hearing

c. watched, heard d. was watching, heard
_____ a football game from 7 to 9 last night.
a. were waiting, waiting b. were waiting, wait c. waited, waiting d. waited, wait
____ his father on the farm the whole afternoon last Saturday.
a. helps b. would help c. was helping d. is helping
mother _______ some washing, I _____ a kite for Kate.
a. did, made b. was doing, made c. was doing, was making d. did, was making
time yesterday jack _____ his bike. He _____ TV
a. repaired, didn't watch b. was repairing, watched
c. repaired, watched d. was repairing, wasn't watching
10. Don’t go out, it is raining .
A. hardly B. heavily C. heavy D. big
were you doing the rainstorm?
that time time the time of
the woman ,the accident happened.
d shopping shopping
dog was playing with another dog when Linda out of the station.
g getting
14. When the man downstairs knocked at the door, I _______.
A. am doing housework B. was doing housework
C. were doing housework going to do housework
15. — Look! The cat ________ from the tree. — ________ the tree just now.
A. is jumping down; climbed up B. is jumping down; is climbing up
C. jumps down; was climbing up D. jumps down; climbed
16. What were you doing ________ last Sunday morning?
A. at B. in C. over D. /
17. The boy with two dogs ________ in the yard when the earthquake hit the city.
A. is playing B. are playing C. were playing D. was playing
18. My father was reading a newspaper while my mother ________ dinner.
A. is cooking B. cooks C. was cooking D. will cook
the students were sleeping _______they heard a man _______“help”.
; shouting to shout to shout shouted
rainstorm came while Ann ________ her purse in the classroom.