Complete the following exercise with present perfect or simple past

tense.
11/8/2016
1. He

(live) in London for two years and then

(go) to

Edinburgh.
2.

(wear) your hair long when you were at school?

Yes, my mother

(insist) on it.

3. But when I

(leave) school I

and

(cut) my hair

(wear) it short ever since.

4. Shakespeare

(write) a lot of plays.

5. My brother

(write) several plays. He

(just / finish) his

second tragedy.
6. I

(fly) over Loch Ness last week.

(you/see) the Loch

Ness monster?
7. I

(not see) him for three years. I wonder where he is.

8. He

(not smoke) for two weeks. He is trying to give it up.

9. Chopin

(compose) some of his music in Majorca.

10. When

(arrive)? He

11.

(arrive) at 2.00.

(you / lock) the door before you left the house?

12. I

(read) his books when I was at school. I

them very much.

13. I can't go out because I

(not finish) my work.

(enjoy)

14. I

(never / drink) whiskey.

15. I

(write) the letter but I can't find a stamp.

16. The clock is slow. It isn't slow, it

17. Here are your shoes; I

(stop).

(just / clean) them.

Complete the following exercise with the correct form of the verbs in
parentheses.
1. Hi, I

(be) Matt Rotell, a friend of Alice's.

2. Oh, yes. Alice

(mention) you the other day. Gee, you

(not

look) like a detective.

3. Well, that's good, I

(guess).

4. I'm curious. Tell me, how

you

(decide) to become an

undercover cop?
5. Well, when I
time I
I

(be) a kid, I

(be) ten, I

(love) to read detective novels. By the

(*read) every book in the Hardy Boys series.

(know) that I

(want) to go into law enforcement.

6. But according to Alice, you

7. Right. I

(get) married last month. I

police force when I

wife, I

(attend) law school nowadays.

(not mind) being on the

(be) single, but ever since I

(meet) Nicole, my

(want) to do

something less dangerous.

8. I

(understand). By the way,

with those counterfeiters?

you

(have) any luck yet

9. Well, I
I

(follow) them for more than a month now, but so far

(not be able to) catch them in the act.

Sometimes I

(worry) that by the time they're caught, I'll have my law

degree and I'll be defending them!