TENSES T 20

Fill in the correct form of the verb – All tenses

1. My family have bought (buy) some land in southern France recently. They
Are building (build) a summer house there at the moment.

2. Andy and Mary will go (go) to a concert tomorrow night. They

Have been looking forward to (look forward to) it the whole week.

3. Jonathon watches (watch) the news on TV every day and it helps

(help) him with his English.

4. My car broke (break) down when I was driving (drive) home from
work. I would have fixed (fix) it if I had known (know) what was wrong.
But I didn’t so had (have) to take it to the garage.

5. When he founded (found) Microsoft, Bill Gates was only 20 years old. He
Had already written (already write) his first computer programme six years earlier.

6. An accident happened (happen) near my house last night. A car hit

(hit) a young man. He was riding (ride) his bike when someone in front of him
suddenly opened (open) a car door. Many people saw (see) the
accident. The police interrogated (interrogate) them last night.

7. Mrs Smith said that one day she would retire (retire) from teaching. She said that
she would spend (spend) her new free time learning about computers.

8. I did not sleep _ (not sleep) at all last night. Someone was listening (listen)
to music all night.

9. I saw (see) a film a week ago, but I didn’t enjoyed (not enjoy) it
very much because I had already read _ (already read) the book. If I
Had not read (not read) the book I would have probably enjoyed _ (probably enjoy)
the film more.

10. The judge sentenced the man to eight years in prison because he robbed (rob) a
bank.

11. They have been standing (stand) in the queue for over an hour when the manager
told (tell) them that there were no more tickets.

12. Alan was (be) in the car accident yesterday. The other driver
lost (lose) control of his car because he had fallen (fall) asleep.

13. She hasn’t seen (not see) her father since he started (start) to work in
Marseille two years ago.

14. I was sleeping (sleep) when the fire broke out.

15. Linda phoned and explained that she would not able (not can) to come to the party the next day
because she is (be) still sick.

16. I have just seen (just see) the film “The Da Vinci Code”. – Have yous seen
(you see) it too? – No, I haven’t (not have) but I read (read) the
book.

17. My sister was flying (fly) home from London today. Her flight will arive
(arrive) in an hour so I am leaving (leave) for the airport right now to get there in time.

18. Unless he sells (sell) more he won’t get much money.

19. While he was waiting (wait) for the bus there was (be) a robbery at
the bank. After the robbers had gone (go) away the police came
(come) but they were not able (not can) to catch them.

20. I used (use) to ski when I was at the university but I broke
(break) a leg five years ago and since then I haven’t skied (not ski) any more.
1. Read the passage carefully.
I. India sells the largest number of branded drugs in the world, almost 60,000
in all. By volume, India is ranked 4th and comprises 8 percent of the global
pharmacy market. This scenario becomes scary given that spurious and
substandard drugs are a thriving parallel industry in our country. “When
manufacturers sell chalk as life-saving drugs, such criminals should be given
the death sentence,” says Dr. P.K. Dave President of National Academy of
Medical Sciences, Delhi and former Director of AIIMS.
II. Self-medication with genuine drugs also has disastrous fallouts. “I’ve lost
count of how many patients come to us, when water crosses head level,”
says Dr. Dave. While Dr. Simran Nundy, consultant gastrointestinal surgeon
at Delhi’s Sri Ganga Ram Hospital, observes: “Patients come to me, after six
months of taking antacids, to find they’re not suffering from indigestion but
cancer of the stomach or gastric tract.” Most medical experts say pill name-
dropping is common. But besides superficial awareness patients know little
about dosage, duration and more importantly, side effects. In Calcutta, Dr.
Krishnangshu Ray, head of pharmacology at NRS Medical College and
Hospital, agrees: “There’s a drug culture in our state where people
assume they know which drug to
take. This is a dangerous habit which accounts for at least 15 to 20 percent of complicated
cases.”
III. Besides, no drug, not even an over the counter (OTC) medicine is totally
safe. Aspirin on an empty stomach may lead to severe gastritis. Even
paracetamol, considered the safest painkiller, when taken in high doses or
for prolonged periods, can cause liver damage. Then there’s carelessness.
Dr. Gupta observes: “People take cough suppressant for a cough with
sputum, which in fact requires an expectorant. Or, they consume antibiotics
without a doctor’s prescription for viral fever, allergic cold, dry cough, flu or
sore throat, which do not require any antibiotic.” Self-medication of
antibacterial drugs can be dangerous. Frequent treatment with ciprofloxacin
for undiagnosed-diarrhea is one of the most common reasons for
emergence of typhoid germs that are resistant to this drug.
IV. What makes us such willing pill-swallowers? Dr. Wishvas Rane, a Pune
based health activist, asserts: “Most viral conditions are self-limiting; 80
percent get cured on their own. This pill-popping attitude is nurtured by
pharmaceutical firms.” This is particularly true in our unique pharma-sales
culture where buying pills. Dr. Ashish Sabherwal, Joint Secretary, Indian
Medical Association in Delhi, points out: “Patients just want momentary relief
and aren’t willing to get to the root the problem, so pills are eaten like
peanuts.”
V. Another reason for spiraling self-treatment is that general practitioners of
GPs, doctors who have shown the torch down our throats from our toothless
babyhood to our aiming adulthood, are gradually vanishing.
VI. In real life, we patients do not have a family friend and a philosopher; our
GPs know us by blood group, allergies, medical history and emotional
upheavals. Hesitant about dashing off to intimidating. ENT specialist when
we have throat trouble, we just check with the chemist. That could be a dose
for disaster.
(A) Answer the following questions in 30-40 words:
(i) Why do people indulge in self medication?
People indulge in self medication because they believe they know which
drug to use. They use drugs for momentary relief and not for root problem.
(ii) Why can self-medication have dangerous implications?
Patients knows little about dosage, duration and more importantly, side
effects of each medicine. Taking wrong medicine for a specific symptom
can make the issue worse. So self medication is dangerous.
(iii) What is the effect of an aspirin on our health when taken on an empty
stomach?
When aspirin is taken on an empty stomach, it may lead to severe
gastritis.
(iv) What does the habit of taking paracetamol for prolonged periods
and in high dosage cause?
The habit of taking paracetamol for prolonged periods and in
high dosage can cause liver damage

(B) Find a word in the passage which conveys similar meaning as the following:
(i) Fake (Para I)
spurious
(ii) Most obvious/easily understood (Para II)
common
(iii) A violent disturbance (Para VI)
severe
(iv) Result (Para II)
fallout