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英文大考常考題 – 50   [ 假設語氣 - 過去可能發生 ]

綜合測驗   

The names of some foods can sometimes make you wonder.  For example, buffalo wings.  How do they get wings from a buffalo?  The origins of some food names are often more interesting than the foods themselves.  Eighteenth-century British aristocrat, John Montagu, loved to play cards.  Wanting something that he could eat easily without interrupting his game, he ordered salted beef between two slices of bread.  The snack caught on and took its name from Montagu’s title: the 4^th Earl of Sandwich.  Interestingly, Montagu almost took the title of Earl of Portsmouth, and if so, the lunchtime favorite _____ called a Portsmouth.”

(A) must be     (B) might have been   (C) will be      (D) had been

這題答案是 (B)。  (華逵文教 考前33天英文科學測魔考特訓 p.7)

這題的重點是如何表示過去的事可能發生，但實際未發生：

1.    這篇短文是在描述sandwich的由來，Sandwich在那時候有可能使用別的名稱，但實際未發生。用來形容過去可能發生，但實際未發生的事，要用[ might + have p.p. ]的句型。       

      另外的例句：

      During another twenty-minute rest at the roadside, I thought I might have been dead if either I had not put on the helmet or any kind of car behind me had hit me while I was lying there.