COURSE: TEENS 6

NAME: ……………………

DATE: ................... Test

MARK: ………………………

TENSES: Read the story and complete the passage with the correct tense

……………… you ever ………………….(read) or ……………………………… (hear) stories about the

mafia in The United States? I …………………………………… (investigate) about it since I
…………………………………… (see) “The Godfather” and “Gangs of New York”. Here there is part of an
extract of a book I …………………………………… (read) last week:

¨The city was Chicago and the year, 1930. The city …………………………………… (control) by
two mafia chiefs. Their names were Al Martini and Tony Tyrone. Despite the fact that they were
step-brothers, they …………………………………… (hate) each other. They were so powerful that even
the policemen were terrified; they ………………………………. (try) to arrest them many times before.
Al Martini was a stocky man in his middle forties. He had wavy fair hair and he wore the biggest
moustache ever. Tony was not as short as Al and he was skinny. But either Al or Tony were
controlling, dominant and capable of …………………………………… (do) anything. They were certain
…………………………………… (kill) each other one day.

They …………………………………… (not like) each other at all. But to make things even worse,
one Saturday morning Tony and his gang …………………………………… (attempt) to take Al’s daughter
life by putting a bomb in her car. She was likely ………………………… (die) the moment she got into
the car. Fortunately, her bodyguard realized there was a bomb in the red sport car and saved
her life.”

By the end of this week, I ………………………………… (finish) reading my tenth book about the
mafia. You might believe I am a bit obsessed with the topic. The thing is that I …………………………
(find) it really interesting.