Question

14. ―Thank God! The accident was avoided after all.

―That was lucky, but ten inches nearer the two cars     ,

A.    was destroyed

B.    would be destroyed

C.    would have been destroyed

D.    had been destroyed

Answer 1

 

14.   C考査含蓄的虛擬語氣。句意:"謝天謝地，事故畢竟被避免了。""那時(shí)很幸運(yùn)，但是再靠近10英寸，兩輛汽車就被毀了 。" 根據(jù)"The accident was avoided after all."可知，兩輛汽車沒有被毀壞，這里的ten inches nearer是含蓄的虛擬條件句，相當(dāng)于if they had been ten inches nearer，因?yàn)槭菍�過去的事實(shí)的虛擬，所以主句用would have done的形式。故選C。