Second Conditional

Gap-fill exercise

Type the correct form of the verb in parentheses

1. If there were life on Mars, _____ (be/it) similar to life on Earth?

2. If the economy _____ (be) better, 46% of employees would leave their current
positions.

3. "If I _____ (have) the wings of a swallow, I would travel far over the
sea."

4. "If money _____ (grow) on trees, you'd spend all your time raking."

5. If you _____ (own) your own business, would you be more conservative?

6. If you _____ (put) a monkey in a room with a typewriter, would it eventually write
Shakespeare's Hamlet?

7. "If I _____ (speak) Spanish, I would watch the Mexican soaps," mused Alex.

8. If my mother _____ (cook) like you, she'd still be single!

9. If you really believed that, you _____ (act neg.) the way you do.

10. "If pigs _____ (can) fly, everyone would carry umbrellas."

1. If the school installed filtering software, it _____ (allow neg.) students to access
sites with objectionable material.

2. If you had broadband, it _____ (take neg.) more than a few seconds to download
that program.

3. Not many scientists believe that computer modeling _____ (completely/eliminate)

the need for animal testing.

4. The actor said he _____ (accept neg.) the Oscar if he won it.
5. If that bill passed, it _____ (give) the working poor health coverage.

6. I think we _____ (would make) more progress if we looked at this problem from a
different point of view.

7. If I took that job, I _____ (have to neg.) drive an hour each way to work.

8. "If you had half a brain, you _____ (listen neg.) to that garbage," he declared.

9. If you saw someone painting graffiti on a wall, _____ (you/call) the police on your
cell phone?

10. If there were a power failure, the computer _____ (run) for about ten minutes with
an uninterruptible power supply.