English Tenses Revision Online Test Multiple Choice Questions With Answers
Mixed 12 Tenses Exercises MCQ Test With Answers
Question 1 |
In recent decades, the efficiency of the United Nations _____ by a growing number of countries.
A | will have been questioned |
B | would be questioned |
C | has been questioned |
D | had been questioned |
E | was questioned |
Question 2 |
We _____ no problems whatsoever with the dam since it _____ forty years ago.
A | had / has been constructed |
B | were having / was being constructed |
C | have had / was constructed |
D | had had / had been constructed |
E | are having / is constructed |
Question 3 |
Before I got to the end of his article, I felt I knew everything there _____ about the North America Free Trade Agreement.
A | had known |
B | was to know |
C | is known |
D | is being known |
E | has to be known |
Question 4 |
It seems likely that by the end of the week, the costs involved in the construction of the bridge _____ by the Ministry.
A | would have been announced |
B | have been announced |
C | would be announced |
D | are being announced |
E | will have been announced |
Question 5 |
One feels that there _____ any noticeable improvement in the human rights problem in Africa until all the African countries _____ their economic difficulties.
A | cannot be / will overcome |
B | hasn’t been / had overcome |
C | won’t be / overcome |
D | wouldn’t be / would be overcome |
E | wasn’t / have overcome |
Question 6 |
The Etruscans, who _____ a great part of Italy about 900 B.C., _____ from Asia Minor.
A | had colonized / originally came |
B | colonized / had originally come |
C | were colonized / have originally come |
D | have colonized / originally come |
E | were colonizing / might originally come |
Question 7 |
The orders were that we _____ the area within hours to prevent further loss of life
A | had evacuated |
B | have to evacuate |
C | will have evacuated |
D | shall have to evacuate |
E | had to evacuate |
Question 8 |
As I _____ you yesterday, the undersecretary _____ over this afternoon’s discussions
A | have told / was presiding |
B | told / will be presiding |
C | would have told / had presided |
D | will tell / has presided |
E | would tell / has been presiding |
Question 9 |
For a hundred years or so, some critics _____ that poetry is dying, and all that time poets _____ poems that later generations recognize as great.
A | have maintained / have been writing |
B | maintained / wrote |
C | had maintained / were writing |
D | maintain / are writing |
E | would maintain / had been writing |
Question 10 |
What I _____ is that we _____ to think seriously about a thorough reform in the legal system.
A | have proposed / should have begun |
B | had proposed / were beginning |
C | am proposing / begin |
D | was proposing / have begun |
E | proposed / had begun |
Question 11 |
When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli _____ a map of Mars in 1877, he _____ a large number of straight linear features, which he called "canali", that is, channels.
A | publishes / has noted |
B | had published / was noting |
C | has published / notes |
D | published / noted |
E | would have published / had noted |
Question 12 |
In the past few months, our company director _____ more mettle than most industrialists _____ in an entire career.
A | had shown / have done |
B | showed / would do |
C | shows / did |
D | was showing / may have done |
E | has shown / do |
Question 13 |
The history of the Venetian republic _____ to an end in 1797 when Venice _____ over to Austria by Napoleon.
A | was coming / would have been handed |
B | had come / has been handed |
C | comes / had been handed |
D | came / was handed |
E | was questioned |
Question 14 |
The Pacific markets _____ extremely competitive since the manufacturing capacity of many Far Eastern countries _____ to improve at the turn of the decade.
A | are becoming / begins |
B | had become / would begin |
C | became / have begun |
D | were becoming / would have begun |
E | have become / began |
Question 15 |
More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently detained in Britain _____ in prison with no right of appeal, even though the vast majority _____ with any offence, let alone convicted.
A | were held / are not charged |
B | are being held / have not been charged |
C | have been held / would not be charged |
D | being held / had not been charged |
E | will be held / were not being charged |
Question 16 |
When they heard gunfire across the border, the relief workers in the camp knew that another group of refugees _____ before long.
A | are arriving |
B | had arrived |
C | will arrive |
D | would be arriving |
E | could have arrived |
Question 17 |
Last week’s supplementary budget package _____ to prevent Japan's economy from plunging even lower.
A | is being designed |
B | has designed |
C | was designed |
D | would be designed |
E | had designed |
Question 18 |
Russia _____ earlier this week that it _____ all its troops out of Georgia.
A | had announced / pulled |
B | announces / would have pulled |
C | announced / had pulled |
D | is announcing / has pulled |
E | has announced / was pulling |
Question 19 |
To the astronomers of the Middle Ages, the most important classical authorities on natural philosophy _____ Aristotle and Ptolemy, since both _____ frameworks that explained the whole universe.
A | had been / created |
B | are / have created |
C | were / had created |
D | have been / create |
E | may have been / were creating |
Question 20 |
North Korea still _____ a vast police state that _____ a network of concentration camps spanning the country.
A | was maintaining / has included |
B | had maintained / would include |
C | is maintaining / had included |
D | maintains / includes |
E | maintained / will include |
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