Mixed 12 Tenses Exercises MCQ Test With Answers

1. In recent decades, the efficiency of the United 7. The orders were that we ................. the area within
Nations ................. by a growing number of countries. hours to prevent further loss of life

A) had evacuated
A) will have been questioned B) have to evacuate
B) would be questioned C) will have evacuated
C) has been questioned D) shall have to evacuate
D) had been questioned E) had to evacuate
E) was questioned
8. As I ................. you yesterday, the undersecretary
2. We ................. no problems whatsoever with the dam ................. over this afternoon’s discussions
since it ................. forty years ago.
A) have told / was presiding
A) had / has been constructed B) told / will be presiding
B) were having / was being constructed C) would have told / had presided
C) have had / was constructed D) will tell / has presided
D) had had / had been constructed E) would tell / has been presiding
E) are having / is constructed
9. For a hundred years or so, some critics .................
3. Before I got to the end of his article, I felt I knew that poetry is dying, and all that time poets
everything there ______ about the North America Free ................. poems that later generations recognize as
Trade Agreement. great.
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A) had known A) have maintained / have been writing

B) was to know B) maintained / wrote
C) is known C) had maintained / were writing
D) is being known D) maintain / are writing
E) has to be known E) would maintain / had been writing
4. It seems likely that by the end of the week, the costs 10. What I ................. is that we ................. to think
involved in the construction of the bridge ................. seriously about a thorough reform in the legal
by the Ministry. system.

A) would have been announced A) have proposed / should have begun

B) have been announced B) had proposed / were beginning
C) would be announced C) am proposing / begin
D) are being announced D) was proposing / have begun
E) will have been announced E) proposed / had begun
5. One feels that there ................. any noticeable 11. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli
improvement in the human rights problem in Africa ................. a map of Mars in 1877, he ................. a
until all the African countries ................. their large number of straight linear features, which he
economic difficulties. called "canali", that is, channels.

A) cannot be / will overcome A) publishes / has noted

B) hasn’t been / had overcome B) had published / was noting
C) won’t be / overcome C) has published / notes
D) wouldn’t be / would be overcome D) published / noted
E) wasn’t / have overcome E) would have published / had noted
6. The Etruscans, who ................. a great part of Italy 12. In the past few months, our company director
about 900 B.C., ................. from Asia Minor. ................. more mettle than most industrialists
................. in an entire career.
A) had colonized / originally came
B) colonized / had originally come A) had shown / have done
C) were colonized / have originally come B) showed / would do
D) have colonized / originally come C) shows / did
E) were colonizing / might originally come D) was showing / may have done
E) has shown / do

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13. The history of the Venetian republic ................. to an 17. Last week’s supplementary budget package
end in 1797 when Venice ................. over to Austria ................. to prevent Japan's economy from plunging
by Napoleon. even lower.

A) was coming / would have been handed A) is being designed

B) had come / has been handed B) has designed
C) comes / had been handed C) was designed
D) came / was handed D) would be designed
E) was questioned E) had designed
14. The Pacific markets ................. extremely competitive 18. Russia .................. earlier this week that it
since the manufacturing capacity of many Far ................... all its troops out of Georgia.
Eastern countries ................. to improve at the turn
of the decade. A) had announced / pulled
B) announces / would have pulled
A) are becoming / begins
C) announced / had pulled
B) had become / would begin
D) is announcing / has pulled
C) became / have begun
E) has announced / was pulling
D) were becoming / would have begun
19. To the astronomers of the Middle Ages, the most
E) have become / began
important classical authorities on natural philosophy
15. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently ................. Aristotle and Ptolemy, since both
detained in Britain ................. in prison with no right ................. frameworks that explained the whole
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of appeal, even though the vast majority ................. universe.

with any offence, let alone convicted.
A) had been / created
A) were held / are not charged B) are / have created
B) are being held / have not been charged C) were / had created
C) have been held / would not be charged D) have been / create
D) being held / had not been charged E) may have been / were creating
E) will be held / were not being charged
20. North Korea still .................. a vast police state that
16. When they heard gunfire across the border, the relief .................. a network of concentration camps
workers in the camp knew that another group of spanning the country.
refugees ................. before long.
A) was maintaining / has included
A) are arriving B) had maintained / would include
B) had arrived C) is maintaining / had included
C) will arrive D) maintains / includes
D) would be arriving E) maintained / will include
E) could have arrived

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Answer Key:

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

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