Tenses Test 7

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1) The doctor warned my grandfather that he should have his blood sugar level ____________ every other week.

2) I wish you _________ so much time working. Why don’t you come out with us occasionally?

3) Joe Fraizer _________________ for five years when he became World Heavy Weight Champion.

4) I’d rather you ______________ anything about this to anyone, please.

5) Dad ________________ that article for half an hour, but he ______________ yet.

6) When I _____________ from this university at the end of the academic year, I ______________ here for four years.

7) She _____________ me to give the news. I’m still waiting.

8) He asked me if I wanted to see the film.

    He asked me, ‘‘__________ to see the film?”

9) What ______________ your efforts to support the present disarmament if you ______________ the president of the United States?

10) If she ________________ to what her mother told her, she ______________ in trouble now.

11) My father ______________ the way I dress. I wish he ______________ that.

12) I ______________ off cigarettes ever since I ___________ of its connection with lung cancer.

13) The oil producing countries threatened to cut off all supplies of petrol to Europe unless their terms _____________.

14) Many goods _____________ at retail shops.

15) If he ______________ guilty, he may be fined or imprisoned.

16) The play was so bad that a lot of people ______________ out in the middle.

17) You are late! I _________________ for you for two hours!

18) I _____________ here long, so my salary is still quite low.

19) During recent years, she ________________ in all the major opera houses of Europe.

20) If I ______________ you out of the way, you would have been killed.