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As soon as he had hung up,he went over to the workmen and told them that if a policeman ordered them to go away,they were not to take him seriously。
。and told them that ______ order them to go away ,they were not to take them seriously。A。should the police B。the police might C。if the policeman did D。was a policeman to
答：A。
分析：that引导一个宾语从句。该从句为一复合句。主句为they were not 。。。从句为if 从句。这其实不是一个虚拟语气的条件句,但编题者（中国人）将它看成了虚拟条件句,并且是对将来的虚拟条件句。而我们知道,虚拟条件句,如果从句中的谓语动词中含有助动词were,had,should （包括系动词were/was)的话,可能将这些词提前倒装来省略if。也就是说,should the police order them to go away=If the police should order them to go away。= if the police were to order them to go away=if the police ordered them to go away,。。。
(注：虚拟将来的条件句中的谓语动词有三种形式：1。should+V,2。were to+V,3。过去式）
楼主：新概念的选择题不是本来就有的,是一些中国的教授（教师）为适应标准化考试而自编的,其中有些题目质量不是很好,考虑不周也是有的。它的针对性很强,有上下文（因为你有课文）,所以你打题目时,不可以懒惰,应将原句打全。否则答者会莫名其妙。还好你指出了是NCE3的lesson 40。网上很多,我能搜索到。否则,我也不知道,这到底是怎么一回事。加上你的标点还没有打好,给断句造成困难。我看了全文,看不出这是虚拟语气的句子。所以说,这题没出好。
再问： 谢谢！我就是觉得这题出的有问题才问的，没学过虚拟语气用半句的。 NCE 3-41 第7题 你看一下是不是也出的不好。A是原课文中的原文，B是。请你看一下。谢谢 这题也请你看一下： __ the observations or predictions ___ to be as expected, the scientist has added confidence in the probable truth of his hypothesis。 A。 Should … turn out B。 Would … turn out C。 If … would turn out D。 / … turn out
再答： 上次跟你交流过了，编这练习的教师，自己语法都搞混洧了！这里不是虚拟语气。因此不能通过倒装来省略if的。