时间状语为inthepasttwoyears,时态是否要用完成时态?Inthepasttwoyears,wenothing.A.havedoneB.didC.weredoingD.haddone不是说,与inthepast...的时间状语连用,要用完成时态吗?

Question

时间状语为in the past two years,时态是否要用完成时态?
In the past two years,we _____ nothing.
A.have done B.did C.were doing D.had done
不是说,与in the past ...的时间状语连用,要用完成时态吗?

Answer 1

in the past与过去时连用,这是是无疑的,且看：
1.In the past the hillsides and most of the land was wooded.(Unit 18 New Zealand )
2．（64）.Jacques LeBermuth gave the money to the school because _______.
A.the school asked for it
B.he had no need for that much money
C.the school had helped him in the past
D.he wanted to be remembered by the students
（2004年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语）
3．（70）.What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?
A.People in the past preferred to use oak to built stairways.
B.It is now expensive to employ a carpenter.
C.Modern houses last as long as the old one.
D.Good carpenters still exist in modern times.
（2004年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语（浙江卷））
但in the past+段时间,则表示从过去某时算起到现在的一段时间,且表示对现在的情况有所影响.如2003年普通高等学校春季招生考试(北京、安徽、内蒙古卷)的21题：
1．（21）.With the rapid growth of population,the city______ in all directions in the past five years.
A.spreads B.has spread C.spread D.had spread（2003年普通高等春季招生考试 (北京、安徽、内蒙古卷)）
根据时间状语"in the past five years"可以知道这个动作发生在以现在为立足点的时间轴的过去,且这个动作对现在有影响可判断为现在完成时.故选B.
其他的例子：
2．This emphasis(强调)on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years.（2002年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(北京卷)）
3．About 800,000 elephants have been killed by people in the past 20 years.（2003年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语(北京卷)）
4．Its economy has been developing rapidly in the past ten years.（2004年普通高等学校招生考试英语（江苏卷））
5．（18）．What have scientists discovered in the past 20 years?
A．The strong effect of sleep and dreams.
B．A good night’s sleep makes a person less sleepy.
C．Sleep and dreams don’t affect the way people feel.
（2002年北京东城区高考英语二模试题）
6．In the past 20 years,scientists have learnt a great deal about sleep and dreams.They have discovered that sleep and dreams affect the way people feel.（北京市东城区2002年高三总复习练习（二））
7．（28）.The population of many Chinese cities has_______ doubled in the past 30 years.
A.larger than B.more than C.as great as D.quite a bit
（2002年4月全国大联考试题 (主卷)）
8．In the past two years,Mr Smith has worked hard.（2003年高考英语仿真试题(八)答案）
9．Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks.（海淀区2004年高三年级第二学期期末练习英 语）
10．However,new educational trends have turned up in the humanities and social sciences in the past twenty years．（华人2004年教育英语模拟试卷（二））
11．A price index makes it possible to compare the present prices of some consumer goods,for example,with prices of the same goods in the past years.
（2003年3月全国统一标准测试英语（统编教材版））
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