问题补充:
The meeting was to but the manager until twenty minutes later.
A. start; didn’t turn up
B. be started; hadn’t turned up
C. start; hadn’t turned up
D. have started; didn’t turn up
答案:
(答案→)A. start; didn’t turn up
B. be started; hadn’t turned up
C. start; hadn’t turned up
D. have started; didn’t turn up
解析:start作“开始”讲时,为不及物动词,没有被动形式。再根据时间状语until twenty minutes later此题应用一般过去时态。故此题选A。