Present Tenses
Please keep quiet, I ____________to the radio. You know I__________to the news in the mornings.
1) listen / am listening
2) listen / am listening
1) am listening
2) listen
A. do you finish
A: Mary isn't here. She ______ to Egypt.
B: I ______ to Egypt.
A.has gone / have never gone
B.has gone / have never been
C.went / have never gone
B. has gone / have never been
Somebody __________my cookies. There are none left.
1. has eaten
2. has been eating
1. has eaten
I was very late. When I arrived, the conference _____.
A.was already starting
B.started
C.had already started
C. had already started
I finished watching the series you recommended. Now I ____________another one.
1) watch / am watching
1) am watching
I don't think I ______ come tomorrow.
C. will be able to
I _____________ much last year, but I _____________a lot this year.
1. didn't earn / haven't earned
2. earned / 've earned
1. didn't earn
2. 've earned
I _____________all afternoon. I _____________5 chapters.
1. have read / have been reading
2. have read / have been reading
1. have been reading
2. have read
When he heard the police knocking on the door, he ____ under the bed.
A.hid
B.had hiden
C.was hiding
C. was hiding
According to my diary, we _________the buyers at 7p.m. tomorrow.
1. are meeting
2. meet
3. will meet
Bennet is my best friend. I __________(meet) him at school, and we __________(be) friends for 50 years.
1. met
2. have been
Bruce ______ tennis since he was a child. He ______ many trophies.
A.has been playing / has won
B.is playing / has won
C.has played / has been winning
A. has been playing / has won
When I was a child, we _____ anywhere at weekends; it was boring.
A.never went
B.were never going
C.had never gone
A. never went
A: Where are you going? B:I ______ something for dinner.
A.'m going to buy
B.'ll buy
C.'m buying
Yesterday Tom __________ (tell) me that he would be here today, but he isn't here. He __________ (be) away all day.
1. told
2. has been
We ______ this TV for ages. I think it's time to buy a new one.
A.have
B.'ve had
C.'ve been having
B. 've had
This story 1 happened (happen) to me about five years ago, and it’s probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to me while driving a car. I 2 had bought (buy) my car the week before, and I 3____________ (still feel) very excited about it. It 4____________ (not have) air conditioning but that 5 ____________ (not matter) to me because it was my first ever car! I 6 ____________ (know) that my best friend Penny 7____________ (always want) to visit a picturesque little village in the mountains about 100 miles from where we live, so I 8____________ (call) her and 9____________ (tell) her that I would take her there the following day
3. was still feeling
4. didn't have
5. didn't matter
6. knew
7. had always wanted
8. called
9. told
Rainforests 1___________ (disappear), and we all 2___________ (know) that humans are the main cause of this destruction. Every year we 3 ___________ (cut down) an area of rainforest the size of New Jersey. Every hour we 4 ___________ (destroy) 6000 acres of rainforest (that’s 4000 football fields). What we 5 ___________ (not realise) is that we 6 ___________ (destroy) the planet where our children and grandchildren have to live.
1. are disappearing
2. know
3. cut down
4, destroy
5. don't realise
6. are destroying
MARIA: What 1 ___________ (you/do) this evening? Shall we go out?
ROSA: Not this evening. I 2 ___________ (work) on a project until late.
MARIA: And when do you think you 3___________ (be) free for a drink?
ROSA: I don't know. I have my diary here with me; let me see. What about tomorrow? 4___________ (you/do) anything?
MARIA: I 5 ___________ (see) my dentist tomorrow. Is Thursday OK?
ROSA: Yes, Thursday is perfect.
1. are you doing
2. 'm going to work
3. 'll be
4. Are you doing
5. 'm seeing
Complete with a word each:
1. It's been a month __________we last had a meal together.
2. We haven't seen each other __________ years.
3. The accident happened 10 years __________.
4. A: Have you tidied your room __________? B: No, I'll do it later.
5. I don't want coffee, thanks. I've __________ had one.
1. since
2. for
3. ago
4. yet
5. already
A: Someone ____________ (call) all morning. They ____________ (call) at least ten times.
B: Well, you ____________ (sit) next to the phone all this time. You could have picked it up.
1. has been calling
2. has called
3. have been sitting
It was a perfect, warm spring day. The sun 10____________ (shine) and the sky was blue. While I 11 ____________ (drive) and we 12 ____________ (talk), I 13____________ (see) something out of the corner of my eye. It was a wasp that 14 ____________ (fly) into the car! Penny and I both 15 ____________ (try) to kill the wasp that 16 ____________ (buzz) around inside the car. But the wasp suddenly 17 ____________ (disappear). Then I 18____________ (feel) a pain in my arm: the wasp 19 ____________ (sting) me! I forgot that I 20____________ (drive), and… BANG! I 21 ____________ (crash) into the car in front of us. Nobody was hurt, but that was the end of our day out and of my car.
10. was shining
11. was driving
12. were talking
13. saw
14. had flown
15. tried
16. was buzzing
17 disappeared
18. felt
19 had strung
20. was driving
21. crashed