TEST PAPER 8

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Complete the story with the correct form of the verbs: past simple, past continuous, past perfect:
One summer afternoon in New York in 1875, while his wife _______________PREPARE dinner, Mr. Levi Gamin
_____________LEAVE his house to buy some tobacco. He _________never ___________RETURN. Sixty years later
in1935, The New York Times _____________PRINT a story about a man dressed in strange old-fashioned clothes who
______________STEP in front of a car while crossing Times Square. He ______________DIE instantly. The dead man
______________CARRY no identification and there was nothing in his pocket except some old bank notes from the year
1875. The police ______________HAVE no idea who the man was or why he _______________WEAR such strange
clothes, until a police officer ________________DECIDE to check the missing persons file for 1875. In the file was a
description of Mr. Gamin which matched the description of the dead man exactly. It was then that the questions
________________BEGIN. Why __________Mr. Gamin ____________DISAPPEAR in 1875? How __________he
suddenly ___________TURN UP in Times Square in 1935? Where _____________BE he for the past sixty years and
why
___________his
appearance
____________NOT
CHANGE?
___________Mr.
Gamin
really
_____________VANISH into thin air or ____________something unknown ____________TAKE him into another
dimension?
My sister and I _________never_________BE to Sweden before so we _____________LOOK forward to our trip. We
___________CATCH the train from London to the ferry terminal at Harwich, but while we _____________WALK
towards the ferry, we ______________HEAR that it ______________NOT ARRIVE from Sweden yet because a bad
storm _____________BLOW UP during the morning. The ferry finally ______________ARRIVE at midnight after we
_____________SPEND eight hours playing cards and drinking coffee.

Complete the conversation with the present perfect simple or continuous form of the verbs:
Mum: Hi, Joe. ___________you _________HAVE a good day?
Joe: It was OK. I can smell onions.
Mum: Yes, I ____________MAKE hamburgers. Theyre nearly ready.
Joe: Great. Im hungry. I ____________NOT HAVE anything to eat since breakfast.
Mum: _________Jenny__________DECIDE to come for supper or not?
Joe: I dont know. I ___________TRY to phone her all afternoon, but her line __________BE engaged.
Mum: No problem. I ___________MAKE enough food for six. Anyway, Im not very hungry.
Joe: Why?
Mum: Because I _________EAT bits and pieces from the fridge all day!
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Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs:

If I ____________WIN the lottery, I _________never_________WORK again.
If Helen __________WIN a million pounds, she _____________GIVE some to charity.
It _____________BE amazing if Brad ______________PASS his driving test the first time.
It ____________NOT SURPRISE me if Brazil _____________WIN the World Cup.
I _____________BUILD more schools if I _____________BE Prime Minister.
If they ____________OFFER me a job, I _____________TAKE it straightaway.
If I _____________GO to live in the USA, I ______________NOT WANT to live in Los Angeles.
Surely she ______________NOT GO out with him unless she ______________LIKE him!

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