Mixed 12 Tenses Exercises MCQ Test With Answers

English Tenses Revision Online Test Multiple Choice

Questions With Answers 5. When they heard a gunfire across the border, the
relief workers in the camp knew that another group
of refugees ................. before long.
1. North Korea still .................. a vast police state that
.................. a network of concentration camps A) are arriving
spanning the country. B) had arrived
A) was maintaining / has included C) will arrive
B) had maintained / would include D) would be arriving
C) is maintaining / had included E) could have arrived
D) maintains / includes
E) maintained / will include

6. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently

detained in Britain ................. in prison with no right
of appeal, even though the vast majority .................
2. To the astronomers of the Middle Ages, the most with any offence, let alone convicted.
important classical authorities on natural philosophy
................. Aristotle and Ptolemy, since both A) were held / are not charged
................. frameworks that explained the whole B) are being held / have not been charged
universe.
C) have been held / would not be charged
A) had been / created D) being held / had not been charged
B) are / have created E) will be held / were not being charged
C) were / had created
D) have been / create
E) may have been / were creating
7. The Pacific markets ................. extremely competitive
since the manufacturing capacity of many Far
Eastern countries ................. to improve at the turn
of the decade.
3. Russia .................. earlier this week that it
................... all its troops out of Georgia. A) are becoming / begins
B) had become / would begin
A) had announced / pulled
C) became / have begun
B) announces / would have pulled
D) were becoming / would have begun
C) announced / had pulled
E) have become / began
D) is announcing / has pulled
E) has announced / was pulling

8. The history of the Venetian republic ................. to an

end in 1797 when Venice ................. over to Austria
4. Last week’s supplementary budget package by Napoleon.
................. to prevent Japan's economy from plunging
even lower. A) was coming / would have been handed
B) had come / has been handed
A) is being designed
C) comes / had been handed
B) has designed
D) came / was handed
C) was designed
E) was questioned
D) would be designed
E) had designed

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9. In the past few months, our company director 13. The orders were that we ................. the area within
................. more mettle than most industrialists hours to prevent further loss of life
................. in an entire career.
A) had evacuated
A) had shown / have done B) have to evacuate
B) showed / would do C) will have evacuated
C) shows / did D) shall have to evacuate
D) was showing / may have done E) had to evacuate
E) has shown / do

14. As I ................. you yesterday, the undersecretary

10. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli ................. over this afternoon’s discussions
................. a map of Mars in 1877, he ................. a
large number of straight linear features, which he A) have told / was presiding
called "canali", that is, channels. B) told / will be presiding
A) publishes / has noted C) would have told / had presided
B) had published / was noting D) will tell / has presided
C) has published / notes E) would tell / has been presiding
D) published / noted
E) would have published / had noted

15. The Etruscans, who ................. a great part of Italy

about 900 B.C., ................. from Asia Minor.

11. What I ................. is that we ................. to think A) had colonized / originally came
seriously about a thorough reform in the legal B) colonized / had originally come
system.
C) were colonized / have originally come
A) have proposed / should have begun D) have colonized / originally come
B) had proposed / were beginning E) were colonizing / might originally come
C) am proposing / begin
D) was proposing / have begun
E) proposed / had begun
16. One feels that there ................. any noticeable
improvement in the human rights problem in Africa
until all the African countries ................. their
economic difficulties.
12. For a hundred years or so some critics .................
that poetry is dying, and all that time poets A) cannot be / will overcome
................. poems that later generations recognize as B) hasn’t been / had overcome
great.
C) won’t be / overcome
A) have maintained / have been writing D) wouldn’t be / would be overcome
B) maintained / wrote E) wasn’t / have overcome
C) had maintained / were writing
D) maintain / are writing
E) would maintain / had been writing

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17. It seems likely that by the end of the week, the costs
involved in the construction of the bridge .................
by the Ministry.
19. In recent decades, the efficiency of the United
A) would have been announced Nations ................. by a growing number of countries.
B) have been announced
A) will have been questioned
C) would be announced
B) would be questioned
D) are being announced
C) has been questioned
E) will have been announced
D) had been questioned
E) was questioned

18. Before I got to the end of his article I felt I knew

everything there ................. about the North America
Free Trade Agreement. 20. We ................. no problems whatsoever with the dam
since it ................. forty years ago.
A) had known
A) had / has been constructed
B) was to know
B) were having / was being constructed
C) is known
C) have had / was constructed
D) is being known
D) had had / had been constructed
E) has to be known
E) are having / is constructed

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