Tenses Test 8

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1) The prisoner was shot while he _____________ to escape.

2) I’m sure he __________________ the foootball match now because he always ______________ it on Sundays.

3) Samples ______________ on request.

4) The traffic is hardly moving. By the time we ___________ to the airport, his plane __________.

5) He ______________ on top of that building for nearly three hours. So far, he hasn’t jumped.

6) I think I’ll wait here until she ___________, but if she doesn’t show up by 9 o’clock, I ____________ a taxi.

7) He won’t be able to move into the new house until the end of August, so he ________________ with friends until then.

8) It is time they _________________ their policy.

9) Henry wasn’t hurt because he ______________ a seat belt.

10) The musical was so successful that all the tickets _______________.

11) My eyes ached because I _____________ for three hours.

12) Mankind ______________ with the problem of war since the world began.

13) On August 6 1945, the first atomic bomb ________________ on Hiroshima, in Japan.

14) The government is worried because the number of serious crimes ______________ over the past three years.

15) The film was absolutely wonderful. I was so excited. I had no idea how it ______________.

16) Over the last 25 years, Turkey _________________ from a closed economy to a liberal commercial regime.

17) Scientists______________ for a solution since the problem was discovered.

18) The workman ________________ a finger cut off by the machine he ________________.

19) Sales of bottled mineral water __________ from 3 million to 128 million litres in Turkey between 1986 and 1996.

20) Each year, an area of tropical forest the size of Austria ______________.