REVISION TEST

Kleanthis Athanasiades

ALL TENSES
MIXED TENSES TEST

28/10/2013

Notes

D Senior 2013-2014

MARK

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A. Mixed Tenses Exercise 1

1. When Carol ________________ (call) last night, I ________________
(watch) my favorite show on television.
2. I ________________ (work) for this company for more than thirty years,
and I intend to stay here until I retire!
3. Sharon ________________ (love) to travel. She ________________ (go)
abroad almost every summer. Next year, she plans to go to Peru.
4. Thomas is an author. He ________________ (write) mystery novels and
travel memoirs. He ________________ (write) since he was twenty-eight.
Altogether, he ________________ (write) seven novels, three collections
of short stories and a book of poetry.
5. We were late because we had some car problems. By the time we
________________ (get) to the train station, Susan ________________ (wait)
for us for more than two hours.

6. Sam ________________ (try) to change a light bulb when he

________________ (slip) and ________________ (fall).
7. Everyday I ________________ (wake) up at 6 o'clock, ________________
(eat) breakfast at 7 o'clock and ________________ (leave) for work at 8
o'clock. However, this morning I ________________ (get) up at 6:30,
________________ (skip) breakfast and ________________ (leave) for work
late because I ________________ (forget) to set my alarm.
8. Right now, Jim ________________ (read) the newspaper and Kathy
________________ (make) dinner. Last night at this time, they
________________ (do) the same thing. She ________________ (cook) and
he ________________ (read) the newspaper. Tomorrow at this time, they
________________ (do, also) the same thing. She ________________
(prepare) dinner and he ________________ (read). They are very
predictable people!
9. By this time next summer, you ________________ (complete) your
studies and ________________ (find) a job. I, on the other hand,
________________ (accomplish, not) anything. I ________________ (study,
still) and you ________________ (work) in some new high paying job.
10. The students ________________ (be, usually) taught by Mrs. Monty.
However, this week they ________________ (teach) taught by Mr.
Tanzer.

B. Mixed Tenses Exercise 2

I _______________________________(learn) English for seven years now. But

last year I _______________________________ (not / work) hard enough for
English, that's why my marks _______________________________ (not / be)
really that good then. As I __________________________ (want) to pass my
English exam successfully next year, I ____________________________ (study)
harder

this

term.

During

my

last

summer

holidays,

my

parents _______________________________ (send) me on a language course

to

London.

It ________________________________

(be)

great

and

I _______________________ (think) I _______________________ (learn) a lot.

Before I _______________ (go) to London, I _________________ (not / enjoy)
learning English. But while I _______________________________ (do) the
language course, I _______________________________ (meet) lots of young
people from all over the world. There I _____________________________
(notice) how important it _______________________________ (be) to speak
foreign languages nowadays. Now I ______________________________ (have)
much more fun learning English than I ____________________________ (have)
before the course. At the moment I ___________________________ (revise)
English grammar. And I _______________________________ (begin / already)
to read the texts in my English textbooks again. I __________________ (think)
I _______________ (do) one unit every week. My exam __________________
(be) on 15 May, so there _________________________________(not / be) any
time to be lost. If I _______________________________ (pass) my exams
successfully,

I _______________________________

September.

And

after

my

(start)
practice,

practice

in

maybe

I _______________________________ (go) back to London to work there for a

while.As you can see, I ____________________________ (already / become) a
real London fan.

C. Mixed Tenses Exercise 3

1. Who _____food in your family when your Mom is away?

O cooks O is cooking O has been cooking O cooked

2. Where is John? He _____ his car in the garage.

O repairs O is repairing O has repaired O repaired

3. I love this film. I _____ it four or five times already.

O see O have seen O had seen

4. Have you visited any European countries? Yes. I ____ Spain
and Italy two years ago.

O visited O have visited O had visited

5. She _____ the living room when she heard a strange noise in
the kitchen.

O has cleaned O has been cleaning O was cleaning

6. I envy you. At five tomorrow you _____ some tan on a nice
beach in Greece.

O will get O will be getting O will have gotten O will have been
getting
7. You arrived two days ago. You are going to leave next Sunday.
By the time you leave, you _____ nine days here.

O spend O have spent O are spending O will have spent

8. Where is he? I _____ for him since three o'clock!

O am waiting O have been waiting O was waiting O had been

waiting
9. I went to Belgium last month. I _____ there before. It's a
beautiful country.

O have never been O had never been O never was O never been
10. He said that his mother would be very upset when
she _____ that he had lost his job.

O learns O learned O had learned O would learn