Mixed Tenses Advanced Level Test – Quiz (Online Exercise With Answers) 2

As a teenager, I _____ that I _____ just young and attractive.

When Tom entered the room, his mum ________ him because he ________ hair and a beard. He looked totally different.

Look at the drunken driver at the end of the street! He _____ an accident.

She invited me to dinner. But it _____ two years since I _____ to her house. So I lost my way.

The swimmer _____ to be in difficulty, but he _____ to reach the shore in the end.

No English teacher _____ to the school till nowadays.

“The police _____ the New York bomber” _____ the headline of the newspaper.

When Mrs Stone _____ to her flat, she _____ the call of her mother on the answering machine.

When we _____ the forest, it _____ darker.

When she ____ home last night, she realized that John _____ a beautiful candle-lit dinner for her.

Orthrozanclus, about half an inch long, ____ about 505 million years ago during the Cambrian Period.

The average surface temperature of earth _____ more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900.

It seems that somebody _____ to my father before the meeting, complaining that I _____ late for school four times last week.

By this time tomorrow, Annie _____ through space for nineteen hours.

When the article arrived, the editor _____ the first sentence and then _____ to publish it.

It _______ a nice day; therefore, we went swimming.

Mr Porter ____ to clip the business in front of his house when his son Don _____ around the corner of the garden.

When he ____ her as a cheater, she _____ about him to the headmaster.

Ever since 1905, when Albert Einstein _____ his special theory of relativity to the world, the speed of light _____ a special status in the minds of physicists.

How bad that game is! I’m sure our team _____ in this match.

When Darwin ____ the theory of evolution through natural selection years ago, the scientists of the day _____ over it fiercely.

The financial instability which ____ around with depressing frequency in the past two decades _____ weakening the economic system.

Things have certainly changed; there ____ lots of small old houses around here when I _____ young.

A: Where is Annie?

B: She _____ at the library for her English test on Wednesday. In fact, she _____ for the test every day for the last week.

After 1500, the construction of castles _____ no longer available and “castle” _____ a term for an imposing residence.