1)Why can‘t I smoke here? At no time___ in the meeting-room.
A. is smoking g is permitted
C. smoking is it smoking permit
答案A. 这是一个倒装问题。当否定词语置于句首以表示强调时,其句中的主谓须用倒装结构。 这些否定词包括no, little, hardly, seldom, never, not only, not until等。本题的正常语序是 Smoking is permitted in the meeting-room at no time.
2)Not until the early years of the 19th century ___ what heat is.
A. man did know B. man know C. didn‘t man know D. did man know
答案D. 看到Not until…的句型,我们知道为一倒装句,答案在C,D 中选一个。改写为正常语序为, Man did not know what heat is until the early years of the 19th. 现在将not提前,后面就不能再用否定了,否则意思就变了。
No sooner___ than it began to rain heavily.
A. the game began the game begun
C. did the game begin the game begun
答案D. 以具有否定意义的副词放在句首时,一般采用倒装句(谓语前置)。这类表示否定意义的词有never, seldom, scarcely, little, few, not, hardly, 以及not only…but (also), no sooner…than, hardly… when scarcely… when等等。
-Do you know Jim quarrelled with his brother?
-I don‘t know, _____.
A. nor don‘t I careB. nor do I careC. I don’t care neitherD. I don‘t care also
答案:B. nor为增补意思“也不关心”,因此句子应倒装。A错在用 don‘t 再次否定, C neither 用法不对且缺乏连词。 D缺乏连词。