There be 句型难点解析及练习
一、There be句型常用的时态形式有一般现在时、一般过去时、一般将来时、现在完成时和过去完成时
1. There is someone at the door to e you. 门口有人找你。
2. There will be a meeting this evening. 今晚有个会议。
3. —Have there been any letters from Jack lately? 近日有杰克的来信吗？
整体思维 —No, there hasn’t been any. 不, 没有。
4. There had been many such accidents before you came. 你来之前就有过很多起这样的事故。
二、There be 句型中be前面可用一些助动词, 如: be about to (就要), be certain to (一定会), be going to (将要), be likely to (可能), be to (要), had better (最好), have to (必须), ud to (过去常), appear/em/happen to (似乎/碰巧), need to (需要有) 但注意在他们之后一定是be.
例如:
再看一眼1. There ud to be a grocery store on the corner. 以前在这个街口有家杂货店。
2. There is certain to be something wrong with the engine.
= It appears / is certain that there is something wrong with the engine. 发动机一定是出了毛病。
3. There appears to have been a nasty accident. 似乎有一起严重的事故。
三、There be 句型中的be根据意义可用下列不及物动词替换: come (来), develop (产生), exist (存在),美的冰箱事业部 fall (落下), follow (跟随), happen (发生), lie 放置的英文(躺着), live (住着), occur (发生), remain (还有), ri (升起), stand (站着)等。这些动词为不及物动词, 在句中可以有时态变化。例如:
1. There fell a deep silence. 突然一片寂静。
2. There remains one more test to be carried out before putting the instrument into operat
ion.
在使用这一设备之前要完成一项试验。
3. Not long after this, there occurred a sudden revolution in public taste. 此后不久, 公众的情趣发生了突然变化。
4. There stands at the center of the square the Monument to the People’s Heroes.
在广场的中央矗立着人民英雄纪念碑。
四、 There be句型中, 谓语动词和合后面的主语在数方面保持一致。如果有两个或更多的主语, 则与离动词最近的那个主语保持一致。例如:
There is only a table, four chairs and a small bed in the room.
五、There be 句型有不定式、现在分词和动名词形式, 在句中用作主语、宾语、定语或状语等。例如:
1. There being a bus stop so near the hou is a great advantage.
公共汽车站离家这么近是一个很有利的条件。(There being a bus 用作主语)
2. I don’t want there to be any misunderstanding. 我不想引起任何误解。(There to be作宾语)
3. No one would have dreamt of there being such a fine place. 谁也没想到会有这样的一个好地方。(There being 在句子中作介词of的宾语。需注意的是, 结构若出现在介词for李续的后面则要用动词不定式; 若出现在其他介词后面则要用动名词)
4. There being no bus, we had to walk home. 因为没有公共汽车, 我们只好步行回家。 (“There being+名词”构成独立主格结构, 在句中作状语, 表示原因)
六、“There be no doing” 表示“不可能做”。例如:
1. There is no holding back the wheel of history. 历史车轮不可阻挡。
2. There’s no saying what he’ll be doing next. 他接下去要做什么, 很难断言。
3. There is no bearing such rude remarks. 如此粗话, 叫人根本无法忍受。
专项练习:
1. In the eastern part of New Jery _____, a major shipping and manufacturing (制造业的)center.
A. lies the city of Elizabeth B. the city of Elizabeth
C. around the city of Elizabeth D. there lie the city of Elizabeth
2. It isn’t cold enough for there _____ a frost tonight, so I can leave Jim’s car out quite safely.
A. would be B. being C. was D. to be
3. The students expected there _____ more reviewing class before the final exam.
A. be B. being C. have been D. to be
4. There _____ no fresh drinking water and no good farm land, it was not a comfortable place in which to live.
A. be B. was C. were D. being
忘记歌词5. If ever again _____ happens an accident like this, we will have only ourlves to blame.
枫桥夜泊张继 A. it B. so C. there D. that
6. He said it was impossible for _____ a mistake in a computer’s calculation(计算), so you can rely on that.
A. there being B. there would be C. there to be D. there was
7. Ann never dreams of _____ for her to be nt abroad very soon.
A. there being a chance B. there to be a chance C. there be a chance D. being a chance
8. Once he starts talking about Chine or foreign affairs, ancient or modern, _____.
A. there is no stopping of him B. he is not to stop
C. there is no stopping him D. it is no stopping him
9. The chairman insisted that there be a meeting _____ within the shortest possible time.
堀越二郎 A. to hold B. to be held C. to have been held D. to be holding
10. Where _____ dirt, there are flies.
A. there has B. is C. there is D. has there
11. Around the world _____ may be as many as a million earthquakes in a single year.
A. yet B. they C. there D. has there
12. _____ no air, there would be no life on the earth.
A. There was B. There were C. Was there D. Were there
13. _____, she went back to her room.
A. There was no cau for alarm B. Without having cau for alarm
C. Being no cau for alarm D. There being no cau for alarm
14. _____ to the railway station, we misd the train.
