36. It is high time that you stop hanging about and started looking for a job.

     a                b        c                           d

答案：  C

解析：  It is high time that 从句中谓语动词应该用一般过去式，stop应改为stopped.

37. Nobody likes her because she always behaves as if she is a queen.

             a          b                  c               d

答案：  D

解析：  as if 后面的从句与现在的事实相反，应该用一般过去式表示虚拟语气，be动词应改为were.

38. She was so kind that I could do nothing but to accept her help.

                a     b      c                       d

答案：  D

解析：  nothing but后面接动词原形，故D项应该改为：accept。

39. When it turned out, the badly wounded¹ soldier was the old man’s long lost son.

      a          b               c                                    d

答案：  A

解析：  改为：as。

40. America will never again have as a nation the spirit of adventure as it was before

                     a                b                             c

the West was settled².

              D

答案：  C

解析：  改为：as it had (had), 表示：作为一个民族，美国再也不具有他西部开发以前的那种冒险精神了。