大家知道，动词是高考英语中最重要的语法考点，根据近几年的试题分析，在15道单项填空中，动词少则有5道(占单选总量的33.3%)，多则有8道(占单选题总量的53.3%)。其中涉及时态、语态、情态动词、非谓语动词、动词辨析、短语动词等。本文拟就对这一考点精编经典试题30道，供同学们考前复习之用。

1. When you’re learning to drive, _____ a good teacher makes a big difference.
A. have      B. having         C. and have            D. and having
2. Anyone ______ bags, boxes, or whatever, was stopped by the police.
A. seen carry   B. seen carrying     C. saw to carry     D. saw carrying
3. Any student _____ will be disqualified from the exam.
A. catching cheating   B. catching to cheat C. caught cheating   D. caught to cheat
4. To test eggs, _____ them in a bowl of water: if they float they’re bad, if they sink they’re good.
A. put     B. putting          C. to put           D. to be putting
5. She read the letter through before sending it, ______ for spelling mistakes.
A. checked     B. to be checking         C. checking       D. having checked
6. _____ this report _____ in such a short time was quite a difficult exercise.
A. Getting, done       B. Get, done         C. To get, to do    D. Getting, to do
7. Certainly I posted your letter—I remember ______ it.
A. posting    B. to post    C. to be posting        D. have posted
8. I asked the boss for a month’s holiday and, _____ it or not, he agreed.
A. believe       B. to believe        C. believing   D. believed
9. ______ wine, first you must press the grapes.
A. Making        B. To make        C. To be making  D. Make
10. Before you decide to leave your job, _____ the effect it will have on your family.
A. consider  B. considering  C. to consider   D. considered
11. “I thought you wouldn’t mind.” “Well, as a matter of fact I don’t, but you _____ me first.”
A. should ask    B. should have asked C. must ask   D. must have asked
12. That car nearly hit me; I ______.
A. might be killed   B. might have been killed C . may be killed  D. may been killed
13. You _____ practise the drums while the baby is sleeping.
A. needn’t           B. mightn’t          C. mustn’t       D. won’t
14. You _____ him the news; he knew it already.
A. needn’t tell   B. needn’t have told  C. mightn’t tell   D. mightn’t have told
15. “What’s her name?” “Sorry, I _____.”
A. forget  B. forgot  C. had forgotten D. am forgetting
16. Look at that little boy wandering about — perhaps he _____ his mother.
A. will lose     B. is losing        C. had lost        D. has lost
17. It’s good that we _____ to the park because it’s started to rain.
A. don’t go  B. hadn’t gone      C. didn’t go     D. wasn’t going
18. I _____ for five minutes; why don’t they come?
A. am calling     B. called            C. was calling D. have been calling
19. You _____ your turn so you’ll have to wait.
A. will miss  B. have missed  C. are missing  D. had missed
20. I left my pen on the desk and now it’s gone; who _____ it?
A. took    B. has taken       C. will take  D. had taken
21. They haven’t arrived yet but we _____ them at any moment.
A. are expected  B. have expected C. are expecting D. will expect
22. You’ll never guess who I met today—my old teacher! We _____ for 20 years.
A. don’t meet B. haven’t met  C. hadn’t met      D. couldn’t meet
23. I think you must be mistaken about seeing him at the theatre; I’m sure he _____ abroad all week.
A. is           B. was             C. has been            D. had been
24. I tried to phone her, but even as I _____ she was leaving the building.
A. phoned   B. would phone    C. had phoned          D. was phoning
25. We _____ to move but are still considering where to go to.
A. are deciding     B. decided     C. have decided   D. had decided