Unit 3 What were you doing when the rainstorm came?
Section A (Grammar Focus-4c)
语法精讲细练
【语法解读】
过去进行时
1. 过去进行时的用法
(1)表示过去某一时刻正在进行的动作。
(2)表示过去某段时间内一直在进行的动作。
2. 与过去进行时连用的时间状语
常用的时间状语有: at 8 o’clock yesterday morning, at this time yesterday, at the time of. . . , when及while引导的时间状语从句。
3. when 和while的区别
连 词 用 法
when 引导的时间状语从句既可以表示时间点, 也可以表示时间段, 从句中谓语动词可以是非延续性动词, 也可以是延续性动词
while 引导的时间状语从句表示某个时间段, 从句谓语动词必须用延续性动词, 且多用进行时态
*When she saw him, he was sitting in a self-driving car.
当她看到他时, 他正坐在一辆无人驾驶汽车里。
*When/While Tom was doing his homework, the telephone rang.
当汤姆做作业时, 电话铃响了。
*While my brother was listening to music, my sister was drawing a picture last night.
昨晚我哥哥在听音乐时, 我妹妹在画画。
【语法精练】
Ⅰ. 用所给词的适当形式填空
1. When I got up and looked out of the bedroom window, I found, to my great surprise, it was snowing (snow)heavily.
2. —I shouted to you at the gate, but you didn’t hear me.
—Really I was making (make)a telephone call to my mother.
3. It is 9: 00 pm now. My parents were watching (watch) TV at this time yesterday.
4. The shopkeeper was talking(talk) with an old woman when I went into the shop.
5. While the children were playing (play)happily, their parents were watching them.
Ⅱ. 单项选择
1. (2023·南京中考)They on the sofa when the telephone .
A. sit; rang B. were sitting; rang
C. sat; was ringing D. was sitting, rang
2. (2023·四川中考)The boy with two dogs in the yard when the earthquake hit the city.
A. is playing B. are playing
C. was playing D. were playing
3. (2023·北京中考)— at 8: 00 yesterday evening
—I was watching football games.
A. What were you doing
B. What did you do
C. What you were doing
D. What are you doing
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