1. --- Is there any possible way to help them get rid of such a bad habit?
--- To tell the truth, it’s very hard. But we on this problem trying to improve the situation.
A. worked B. had workedC. are workingD. had been working
【答案】C
【解析】考查动词时态。语境意义：“这个问题还没解决，我们正在努力解决这个问题”，因此用现在进行时。对动词时态的考查历来是高考试卷的重点内容。
2. The computer looks old, but it _________ just half a year ago.
A. has been boughtB. will be boughtC. is bought D. was bought
【答案】D
【解析】考查动词时态。本题轻易错选A项。语境有具体过去时间“half a year ago”，因此buy表示过去的动作，用一般过去时被动语态。
3. “I in the room, watching TV broadcast about the earthquake.” I told the policeman who had driven here to question me.
A. was stayingB. stay C. stayedD. am staying
【答案】A
【解析】考查动词时态。语境没有提到具体时间，但从语境和和试题命制形式上看是直接引语，这里表示回答警察的讯问，那么一定是问在过去某个时候“我”在做什么，因此用过去进行时。
4. in charge of the shopping center has upset him for quite some time.
A. Left B. Being left C. Having left D. To leave
【答案】 B
【解析】考查非谓语动词用法。本空在句中做主语，表示被动含义，因此选B。
5. On March 14, violent crimes of beating, looting and burning in Lhasa of Tibet broke out, _____ 13 innocent people and with more than 300 _____.
A. killed; injured B. killing; injured C. killed; injuring D. killing; injuring
【答案】 B
【解析】考查非谓语动词用法。第一空用kill的现在分词做状语表示主动含义和补充说明，第二空用过去分词表示“受伤”。
6. Do you know that the first textbooks written for teaching English as a foreign language ____ in the 16th century?