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TENSES
Choose the correct answer.
1. This is the second time I _____________that song.
A. am hearing
B. have heard
2. Hello, I
D. heard
about your advertisement in the newspaper.
A. Have been calling
3. John
B. am calling
C. call
D. have called
on a bit of weight lately, and he is trying to lose it.
A. Puts
B. is putting
4. The new neighbors
A. Paint
C. has put
D. has been putting
their house. It looks nice.
B. had painted
5. Fred
C. were painting
D. have painted
me yesterday that they’re professional athletes.
A. Told
B. has told
6. Apparently, he
C. was telling
D. had told
them since he was a child.
A. Knows
7. I
C. hear
B. is knowing
C. has known
D. has been knowing
for my sunglasses since noon, but I can’t find them.
A. Am looking
B. looked
8. When the children _
A. Arrived
C. have looked
home, it was obvious that they had been playing in mud.
B. were arriving
9. Michael
D. have been looking
C. had arrived
D. had been arriving
_in the queue to buy a ticket for the train when he heard a strange voice.
A. Waited
B. was waiting
10. The thieves
C. had waited
D. was going to wait
houses for two years before they were finally caught.
A. Broke into
B. were breaking into
C. had been breaking into
D. have been breaking into
11. As time goes by, he
A. Becomes
_more and more eccentric.
B. is becoming
C. has become
12. Kathy can’t go shopping with me next Saturday morning. She _
A. Has
13. I
B. is going to have
C. will have
the living room by the time Dad comes home. He
A. Will paint/will be
B. will be painting/is
D. has been becoming
a French lesson.
D. will be having
so surprised.
C. will have painted/will be
D. will have painted/is
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14. It’s the coldest winter we
A. Ever experience
in Greece.
B. ever experienced
C. were ever experiencing
D. have ever experienced
15. When he was younger, he
A. Was used to going
16. They
the cinema every week.
B. used to go
_for a mile when they _
C. was going
D. had gone
that someone _
missing.
A. Had walked/ had realized/ was
B. had been walking/ realized/ had been
C. had been walking/ realized/ was
D. had walked/ had realized/ had been
17. As part of my job, I
A. Travel/ need
abroad a lot, so I
to improve my English.
B. am travelling/ need C. am travelling/ am needing
D. travel/ am needing
18. I
at my mother’s house this week because I
A. Sleep/ have
B. am sleeping/ have
my house painted.
C. sleep/ am having
D. am sleeping/ am having
19. I
you should buy him a tie. He _
A. Am thinking/ likes
B. think/likes
20. As a teenager, I
things my parents
to dress formally.
C. think/ is liking
D. am thinking/ has liked
of.
A. Would do/ didn’t approve
B. used to do/ weren’t approving
C. used to do/ didn’t approve
D. would do/ weren’t approving
21. “Hurry up! We’re waiting for you. What’s taking you so long?”
“I
for an important phone call. Go ahead and leave without me.”
A. Wait
B. will wait
22. Robert is going to be famous some day. He _
C. am waiting
D. have waited
in three movies already.
~ I’m sure he’ll be a star.
A. Has been appearing
B. had appeared
23. Where’s Polly? ~She
C. has appeared
D. appeared
.
A. Is in her room studying
B. in her room is studying
C. studies in her room
D. has in her room studied
24. Hello? Alice? This is Jeff. How are you? ~ Jeff? What a coincidence! I
about
you when the phone rang.
A. Was just thinking
25. What
B. just thought
C. have just been thinking D. was just thought
about the new simplified tax? ~It’s more confusing than the old one.
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A. Are you thinking
B. do you think
C. have you thought
26. When is Mr. Fields planning to retire? ~ Soon, I think. He
D. have you been thinking
here for a long time.
He’ll probably retire next year or the year after that.
A. Worked
B. had been working
C. has been working
27. Why did you buy all this sugar and chocolate? ~ I
D. is working
_ a delicious dessert for
dinner tonight.
A. Make
B. will make
C. am going to make
D. will have made
28. Let’s go! What’s taking you so long? ~ I’ll be there as soon as I _
A. Found
B. will find
29. Next week when there
A. Is being
30. While I
C. find
D. am finding
a full moon, the ocean tides sill be higher.
B. is
C. will be
D. will have been
_ TV last night, a mouse ran across the floor.
A. Watch
B. watched
C. was watching
31. Fish were among the earliest forms of life. Fish
A. Existed
32. The phone
A. Has been ringing
33. The earth _
A. Is depend
D. am watching
on earth for ages and ages.
B. are existing
C. exist
D. have existed
_constantly since Jack announced his candidacy for president this morning.
B. rang
C. had rung
D. had been ringing
_on the sun for its heat and light.
B. depending
34. I don’t feel good. I
A. Am staying
my keys.
C. has depended
D. depends
home from work tomorrow.
B. stay
C. will have stayed
D. stayed
35. Today there are weather satellites that beam down information about the earth’s atmosphere. In
the last two decades, space exploration
great contributions to weather forecasting.
A. Is making
C. made
B. has made
36. On July 20th, 1969, Astronaut Neil Armstrong
D. makes
down onto the moon, the first
person ever to set foot on another celestial body.
A. Was stepping
B. stepped
C. has stepped
D. was step
37. The plane’s departure was delayed because of mechanical difficulties. When the weary
passengers finally boarded the aircraft, many were annoyed and irritable because they
in
the airport for three and a half hours.
A. Are waiting
B. were waiting
C. have been waiting
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38. If coastal erosion continues to take place at the present rate in another fifty years, this beach
_ anymore.
A. Doesn’t exist
B. isn’t going to exist
39. Homestead High School’s football team _
C. isn’t existing
D. won’t be existing
a championship until last season, when the
new coach led them to take first place in their league.
A. Has never won
B. is never winning
C. had never been winning
D. had never won
40. To be able to qualify as an interpreter, many years of intensive language study are required for
non-native speakers. By the end of this year, Chen
_English for three years, but he will
still need more training and experience before he masters the language.
A. Will be studying
B. has studied
C. will have been studying
D. has been studying
41. In our hospital, patients
A. Are examined
every morning.
B. have examined
42. I
B. live
43. I wondered why he
A. Has changed
B. changes
A. Has been run
D. have been living
C. used to change
D. had changed
by the Johnson for many years.
B. is run
45. Kate
C. lived
his job.
44. The department store _
C. runs
D. has run
C. will have watched
D. watched
10 comedies this summer.
A. Has watched
B. had watched
46. The number of footballers
A. Has increased
for the last ten years.
B. was increasing
47. Don’t worry! We _
A. Will wait
C. have increased
D. were increasing
for you at 6 o’clock tomorrow.
B. will be waiting
C. wait
D. are waiting
_the country by the time this letter reaches her.
A. Is going to leave
B. will leave
49. By this time next year, my father _
A. Are going to work
50. Tim
D. were examining
in Can Tho for 18 years, but now I’m living in Ho Chi Minh city.
A. Have lived
48. Mary
C. can examine
B. will be working
C. is leaving
D. will have left
here for 25 years.
C. will have been working D. will work
_in three movies already. I think he’ll be a star some day.
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A. Had appeared
51. They
B. has appeared
C. was appearing
D. is appearing
_the door. No one can get in now.
A. Have locked
B. had locked
52. The existence of many stars in the sky
C. locked
D. lock
us to suspect that there may be life on another
planet.
A. Have led
53. They
B. leads
C. lead
D. leading
the town hall for the past three years in fact, but they
it yet.
A. Built/ hadn’t finished
B. had built/ didn’t finish
C. have been building/ haven’t finished
D. have built/ weren’t finishing
54. When I met Jim, he
A. Graduated
from his university already.
B. has graduated
C. had graduated
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D. was graduating