CHAPTER TEST

6 The Past Perfect and the

Past Perfect Continuous

PART I. Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

1. ever been to that restaurant before you 4. The band a successful trip until the bus
moved to the neighborhood? broke down on the way home.
a. Have you a. have had
b. You had b. had had
c. Had you c. had been
d. You have d. having had
2. Dinosaurs had been alive for millions of years 5. The room became quiet when the teacher entered.
mammals came into existence. The students had been talking about her.
a. by the time a. yet
b. because b. when
c. unless c. before
d. since d. just
3. No one had very much about the planets 6. Investigators concluded that the crew had not
outside of our solar system before the Hubble the time to review the safety procedures.
Space Telescope started sending back data. a. taking
a. knew b. taken
b. known c. took
c. knowing d. take
d. know

PART II. Find the error in each sentence and correct it.
7. Let’s go to a movie. Had you seen the new Italian film yet?
8. Why unemployment hadn’t risen before the end of last year?
9. When I had entered the building, the window had already been broken.
10. I’ve been waiting for an hour before the doctor arrived.
11. I had never owned a car until I graduate from college.
12. What had been you doing before you started this job?
13. He opened his umbrella although it had been raining.
14. I had been read when the fire alarm rang.

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PART III. Choose the best answer to complete each conversation.
15. A: I had left by the time they served dessert.
B:
a. You missed a great dessert.
b. Why didn’t you leave before dessert?
c. Why did you eat so much dessert?
16. A: You look very tired. What’s wrong?
B:
a. I haven’t been feeling very well.
b. I hadn’t felt very well.
c. I hadn’t been feeling very well.
17. A: He didn’t bring an umbrella even though it had
been raining for hours.
B:
a. He was glad it had stopped.
b. But he did wear a raincoat.
c. He had borrowed my umbrella.
18. A: We had left the building by noon.
B: So that’s why
a. you were inside at noon.
b. you didn’t leave before noon.
c. you were gone at noon.
19. A: I had already moved away when Soo-jin moved
into my building.
B:
a. It’s too bad you weren’t neighbors.
b. Did you enjoy being neighbors?
c. Do you both live on the same floor?
20. A:
B: I had never planned such a big party before.
a. Why are you so worried?
b. Why were you so worried?
c. Why will you be so worried?

Total 20

Thinking Ahead to the TOEFL® Test

The past perfect and the past perfect continuous are often tested in the Structure section of the
TOEFL® test. Here is a typical example:
ever traveled in space until Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, traveled around the Earth
on April 12, 1961, in Vostok I.
A. No person did
B. Never before has
C. Nobody was
D. No one had

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 CHAPTER TEST

6 Answer Key

PART I
1. c
2. a
3. b
4. b
5. d
6. b

PART II
Have
7. Let’s go to a movie. Had you seen the new Italian film yet?
8. Why unemployment hadn’t risen before the end of last year?
9. When I had entered the building, the window had already been broken.
I’d
10. I’ve been waiting for an hour before the doctor arrived.
graduated
11. I had never owned a car until I graduate from college.
12. What had been you doing before you started this job?
because
13. He opened his umbrella although it had been raining.
reading
14. I had been read when the fire alarm rang.

PART III
15. a
16. a
17. b
18. c
19. a
20. b

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