English Tenses Advanced Level MCQs Test With Answers 2

Look, the conservation volunteers ____ cheerfully in the sunshine all morning, unlike yesterday when they ____ to work in the rain.

A: Is that your pure wool pullover in the washing machine? It ____ you know!

B: No, I ____ it several times in the machine already. I use the wool cycle and it's fine.

The weather conditions ____throughout the day and now the ground officials are confident that the championship game ____ ahead.

Some of us will be needed tomorrow to finish the fence because, at this rate, two sections ____ unfinished when we ____work tonight.

Decoupage, an art form that ____ in France during the 17th century, ____ cutting out designs and patterned materials and fastening them permanently to surface.

They ____ so many hotels in the region in recent years that gradually they ____ the natural beauty of the area.

After she ____ to me for the fifth time, I ____ another word she said, and put an end to our friendship.

Since they ____ part in their first conversation volunteer week, they ____ on several projects with great pleasure.

Asia ____ the world's largest landmass and ____ just over half of the world's people.

I ____ to the bank during my lunch break today, but an old colleague ____ to visit us, so, naturally, I wanted to hear all the news.

Suddenly it ____ very foggy so we ____ compass bearings to find the right route down the mountain.

We're looking after our neighbour's dog as well as our own and it ____ two kilos of meat a day, so I ____ dog meat in bulk these days.

By the end of this court session, the jury ____ all the witnesses and they ____ the courtroom to decide on a verdict.

I feel certain that her new travel agency ____ because she ____ a thorough market survey.

When Chilean separatist forces ____ an independent Chile in 1818, the vice-royalty of Peru ____ over Chile for almost three centuries.

I ____ some chicken curry earlier and ____ Richard and Kate to stay for dinner, but just then I remembered that they were both vegetarian.

I expect you ____ from school by this time next year and ____ for a job.

Our Spanish teacher ____ very slowly and clearly to us at the moment because we ____ very far in the language yet.

Before the potato blight ____ Ireland in the 1840s, most Irish people ____ on a subsistence diet of potatoes.

Between the years 1846 and 1851, one million Irish men and women ____ to death and 1.6 million ____ to the USA.

Bangladesh ____ independence from Pakistan in 1971 and ever since the assassination of the first prime minister in 1974, the military ____ the country's government.

Over the recent years, alcoholism ____ a leading cause of death of the young adult population in the USA. This statistic ____ deaths from drunken driving and fires started by carelessly dropped cigarettes.

Some of the workers ____ the peaches while the others ____ them in wooden boxes.

Although manufacturers ____electric cars as prototypes for a number of years now, it will be a long time before they ____ common.

Between 1607 and 1733, Englishmen ____ thirteen colonies along the east coast of North America and by 1750, nearly two million men, women and children ____ in these colonies.

I ____ some wood for the fire while you ____ the salad.

By the 16th century, Austria ____ so large that its emperor ____ all of modern Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Spain as well as parts of Italy and Yugoslavia.

The earthworm, which ____ neither lungs nor gills, ____ through its skin.

The athletes ____ for exactly three months by the time the races ____ due to start.

Adolescence, the process of changing from a child into an adult usually ____ sometime between the ages of 11 and 14 and ____ for approximately six to ten years.

I ____ Malcolm in his car, but he ____ the traffic and didn’t see me.

Tim ____ a master’s degree as soon as he ____ to Canada.

Ratchel ____ up smoking four years ago and she ____ a cigarette since.

Last year Sonny ____ four miles each morning before breakfast, but he ____ around the block each mourning instead since his heart attack.

I ____ a brace on my teeth as a child, but I didn’t like it.

I ____ an extra part-time job last week as we ____ the money.

As my son ____ down by the river, I ____ his room thoroughly

We ____ in Cornwall for two weeks last summer. Since then, we ____ a holiday by the sea.

One of the straps on the baby’s pram ____ quite thin, so we ____ to replace it.

This time last year, his business ____ a reasonable profit, but now, because of that management, he ____ to keep it going.

The last time we ____ dinner with them, they ____ for a new house.

The whole family was busy. While the children ____ decorations, their father ____ up the Christmas tree.

A: What’s on TV tonight? B: Match of the day, Manchester United ____ South Melbourne.

Isn't it strange that you ____ for Mark’s surprise party all week, but you ____ him a birthday present yet?

While my parents ____ in the shopping centre, a thief ____ into their car for the radio.

When we ____ her, she ____ in the wardrobe.

I never ____ my temper on purpose, of course, but sometimes I just ____, though I always regret it afterwards.

Even though it ____ heavily at the time, they ____ home.

It’s been one week since the floods ____, but still aid workers ____ people.

In 1951, the people of the Gold Coast ____ for their own government and shortly afterwards, they ____ their country as Ghana.