答案：will be staying。

8、现在完成时

考生要熟悉该时态的基本用法及构成形式，并注意标志性的时间用语，如so far, by now/up to now, for a long time, since, in the past years, already, yet, lately等。

同时需加强注意两个句型：It(/This) is (will be) the first (second, third…last) time…结构的从句中要求用现在完成时；It(/This) is the best (worst, most interesting)+名词+that…结构中从句要求用现在完成时。

例：I haven’t seen much of her lately.

It is the first time I’ve heard her sing.

This is the most interesting film he has ever seen.

试题：You should have put the milk in the ice-box; I expect it ____undrinkable by now.

A. became

B. has become

C. had become

D. becomes

9、过去完成时

强调的是过去的过去，考生需熟悉该时态的结构并要注意：

(1) 经常用于said, reported, thought等引导的间接引语中。

(2) 常用在有hardly, scarcely, barely, no sooner…than…等副词的句子中，这种结构表示“刚…就…。”

(3) It was the first (second, third…last) time that…句型的从句中使用过去完成时。

(4) 与过去的 事实相反的虚拟语气中。

例：

He said that he had missed the train.

She had hardly gone to bed when the bell rang.

It was the first time that he had lost the game.

If I had tried harder, I would have won.

试题：We our breakfast when an old man came to the door.

A. just have had

B. have just had

C. just had

D. had just had

Between 1897 and 1919, at least 29 motion pictures in which artificial beings were portrayed .

A. had produced

B. have been produced

C. would have produced

D. had been produced

10、将来完成时

考生需注意该时态的结构，并首先注意应是未来的时间，然后是陈述者认为是在未来时间之前已经完成的动作，注意时间状语，如by the time, by the end of等。

例：I’ll have done all the work by the time you are back this evening.

试题：By the year 2010,scientists probably a cure for cancer.

A. will be discovering

B. are discovering

C. will have discovered

D. have discovered

11、现在完成进行时

考生需注意该时态的结构，并注意强调动作从过去到现在的“一直性”，这个动作有可能继续进行下去。注意：考题中经常会出现如wait for, writing letter, study, work等词。

例：She has been working hard at English since last term.

试题：I on the door for ten minutes now without an answer.

A. was knocking

B. am knocking

C. knocking

D. have been knocking

12、过去完成进行时

强调过去某个时间以前已经开始而又延续到过去这个时间的动作。该时态由于在高 自考中出题较少，故不作为重点时态掌握。

例：She was very tired. She had been typing letters all day.

试题：When I first met Ann, she for Exxon for 15 years.

A. had been working

B. have been working

C. worked

D. has worked