Self Study Guide - Test Your English Grammar Part 06

6. I was tired because I ______ all day.

1. When I ______ this morning the sun was shining, the
birds were singing. A) have been working
B) had been working
A) get up
C) worked
B) was getting
D) was working
C) got up
D) was being got up

7. The headmaster entered. The boys ______ for him for

a quarter of an hour.
2. Mozart died while he ______ the Requiem.
A) waited
A) had been composing B) had been waiting
B) had composed C) were waiting
C) composed D) was waiting
D) was composing

8. At six, when I got to the car park, I realised that I

3. While I ______ in this firm one summer, I met a terrific ______ my keys.
man, whom I married the following year.
A) lost
A) used to work B) has lost
B) worked C) had lost
C) was working D) was losing
D) had been working

9. Kate had dirt on her hands and knees as she ______

4. When the earthquake occurred at 3:49 AM, most some gardening.
people in the city ______ in their beds at home.
A) had been doing
A) slept B) hadn’t done
B) sleeped C) has done
C) were sleeping D) has been doing
D) used to sleep

10. In the morning all the roads were blocked: it ______ all
5. When you phoned I ______ in the garage. night.

A) worked A) snowed
B) work B) was snowing
C) used to work C) had been snowing
D) was working D) has been snowing

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11. All the people we had invited ______, and some that 16. When we came to live in the US my father couldn’t
we had not invited. work as a dentist right away because he ______ the
state examination yet.
A) came
B) come A) wasn’t passing
C) have come B) not passed
D) have been coming C) hadn’t been passing
D) hadn’t passed

12. Nobody came to the meeting as Angela ______ to tell

people about it. 17. By the time the ancient Egyptian civilization began to
flourish more than 5,000 years ago, the onion ______
A) forget the main food throughout the Middle East for many
B) forgot years.
C) had forgot A) had already been
D) had forgotten B) was already
C) has already been
D) would have been

13. I told him that I ______ of the place before.

A) have never heard

B) never heard 18. In 1996 Honda Motor Corporation presented the
world with P-2, a robot different from any other that
C) didn’t hear ______ until then.
D) had never heard
A) appeared
B) has appeared
C) had appeared
D) had disappeared
14. By that time, Sam’s photo ______ to the policemen.

A) had already show

B) have already been shown
C) had already been shown
19. By the time my father retired last year, he ______
D) were already on show dentistry for thirty years.

A) was practising
B) practiced
C) has been practising
15. The lesson ______, when I arrived . So I excused
myself and came in. D) had been practising

A) already started
B) has already started
C) had already started
20. When I found Mary, I could see that she ______.
D) never started
A) has been crying
B) had to cried
C) cry
D) had been crying

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21. ‘Do you know when Mrs Greenleaf’s train ______?’ he

asked.

A) arrives 24. So you’re visiting another country this year. You

already have your tickets, and you leave next
B) will be arriving
Tuesday at 4 PM. A week from now you ______ in the
C) will arrive sunshine.
D) shall arrive
A) will relax
B) will have relaxed
C) will be relaxing
D) are relaxing
22. Look up in the time-table when the last train ______
the station.

A) is leaving
B) leaves
25. My dear husband promised that he ______ me a car
C) will be leaving for my birthday, but he didn’t say which birthday.
D) leave
A) would give
B) will give
C) used to give
D) gave
23. By analyzing historical and current data,
meteorologists can predict the number of hurricanes
that ______ in the Caribbean in any given year.

A) will appear
B) are appearing
C) will have appeared
D) would appear

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Answer Key:

1: C 14: C
2: D 15: C
3: C 16: D
4: C 17: A
5: D 18: C
6: B 19: D
7: B 20: D
8: C 21: A
9: A 22: B
10: C 23: A
11: A 24: C
12: D 25: A
13: D

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