English Tenses Advanced Level MCQs Test With Answers 1

Last Saturday, my father ____ that his dinner suit was too small, so now he ____ a strict diet.

Helen ____ her driving test five times so far without success, but she ____ yet.

Most of the time, John and his friends ____ football matches at their local coffee, but this Saturday, they ____ to the stadium, and so they're all very excited.

Kate ____ a vegetarian for eleven years now, and she ____ meat at all during this time.

Last year, Richard ____ his bicycle to work every day, but he ____ the bus since the accident.

I ____ glasses when I was younger, but now I ____ contact lenses.

About a month ago, I ____ a brochure about your hotel, but I ____ it yet.

The conditions in our office ____ more and more unbearable, so quite often recently I ____ quitting it and looking for a new job.

Because I ____ a long way from my work, I ____ lots of time going to and from work.

In the USA, the twenty largest newspaper chains ____ for almost half of the circulation, reflecting a trend that ____ in the 1970s.

Clean snow ____ as much as 87 per cent of the sunlight that ____ on it.

More than two hundred people ____ the tower when the bomb ____ in one of the dustbins.

Because you ____ half of the ingredients as I ____ dinner, you probably aren't hungry at all now.

She ____ strictly since Christmas and so far she ____ eight kilos.

Cindy's family ____ chains in this area for over three centuries and now her father ____ this traditional craft at the county museum twice a day as well.

He ______ to unlock the door to his flat because the telephone ________.

There ____ economies since the dawn of civilisation, but as a field of study, economics ____ only recently.

John Deere ____ his farm machinery business, which ____ tractors today, in the 19th century.

I ____ my French lately; consequently, I ____ more and more of it.

The old lady's health ____ day by day until she ____ smoking.

The managing director ____ Sid to sales manager and ever since then, he ____ everybody around.

Problems with the hotel, coupled with this awful weather, ____ our holiday miserable, so we ____ before the scheduled time.

The fact that more people ____ ozone-friendly products nowadays ____ that the media can positively increase public awareness.

My sister ____ from severe backaches lately and I think it's because, last month, she ____ to work in a shop where she has to pick up heavy things.

Though she ____ dancing, Sonia ____ to the disco with her friends the previous night just in order to be with them in a different atmosphere.

Somebody ____ three times this morning asking for Pete, but nobody called Pete ____ here.

Joey ____ just ____stubborn when he refused to go to the cinema today and he only did so because we ____ to go bowling yesterday.

My mother ____ her optician tomorrow because her eyesight ____ worse since she got this computing job.

As the President ____the hall, all the guests ____ to their feet to welcome him.

She ____ interested in health ever since she was a young girl and now that the medical college ____ her as a student, it seems that she will be able to work in the medical field.

Bob ____ with us tonight as he ____ an appointment with the dentist.

We ____ football for two hours and ____ to a restaurant for a meal, afterwards.

Environmental pollution ____ ever since people ____ to congregate in towns and cities.

I heard that you ____ about the boys all day, so I just rang to tell you that Matthew ____ from a payphone a couple of hours ago and they are both fine. The weather is fine and they will be home on Sunday evening.

Although he ____ the first round in record time, he ____ in the second, and so finished tenth overall.

The petrol warning light ____ for half an hour before we ____ a petrol station.

Up until the tap water ____ back on yesterday evening, we ____ water back and forth for three days.

The neighbours ____ so loudly last night that they ____ us all awake until after midnight.

Man's use of pictures to tell stories and to record experiences ____ prehistoric times, when he ____ the walls of caves.

My team ____ a match for a month, so currently the manager ____ resigning if they lose one more match.

My brother ____ past the post office every morning and I ____ him all week to post a letter for me, but he keeps forgetting, so I'm going to post it myself tomorrow.

The football team that ____ last year's championship ____ little chance of winning it again this year.

Freedom of the press ____ an issue between people and their governments since the time individuals ____ newspapers independent of government control for the first time.

The hikers ____ so tired by the time they ____ the top of the hill that I'm sure they'll first want to sit down for a rest.

When the young scouts ____ the top of the hill, they ____ for more than an hour.

Modern exploration of the undersea world had its beginning in June 1943, when Jacques Cousteau ____ his first dive with a revolutionary breathing device which he ____ with Emile Gagnan, a French engineer.

She says that she ____ the eight o'clock train tomorrow, but I'm sure she ____ it, as usual.

The fisherman ____ more fish in one night than ever before, so when they anchored in the harbour, they ____ with joy at the thought of their reward.

On my friend's farm, they ____ an alarm clock because the cockerel ____ at five o'clock every morning without fail.

The Continental Congress ____ the US Postal Service in 1775 and the first federal government ____ the service in the Constitution.