Question

3. [2014 •山东卷]Writing out all the invitations by hand was more time-consuming than we      

A. will expect    B. are expecting

C. expect      D. had expected

Answer 1

3.    D考查动词的时态。句意：手写所有的请帖要比我们之前预想的更加耗时。根据句意可知，expect的动作发生在was 之前，表示过去的过去，用过去完成时。故选D。