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EXERCISE 1
1. All animals ______ on other animals or plants.
A. feed
B. feeds
C. fed
2. By 1970, rice_________an important crop in the South.
(A). being
(B) was
(C) has been

D. feeding
(D) was being

3. The word "comet" _______from the Greek adjective komete, which means "wearing long hair".
A. come
(B) has come
C. comes
(D) came
4. Computers and new method of communication____revolutionized the modern office.
A. have
B. that have
C. to have
(D) has
5. Birds all over the world____________in distance up to thousands of miles.
A. migrating
B. migrate
C. migrated
D. are migrated
6. Generally speaking, every person____ the potential to be a teacher, to some extent.
A. has

B. having

C. to have

D. have

7. Even if the unemployment rate_______ sharply, the drop may still be temporary.A.to drop
B. have dropped
C. is dropping
D. drops
8. Napoleon ________ the West Indian island of Santo Domingo in 1801.
A. attacked
B. is attacking
C. has attacked
D. attacking
9. America's first globe maker was James Wilson, who_______ and blacksmith in his earlier life.
A. a farmer had been
B. had been a farmer
C. farming
D. being a farmer
10. Before_________, they used horse-drawn wooden carts.
A. farmers have had tractors
C. having tractors farmers
B. tractors owned by farmers
D. farmers had tractors
11. The rebuilding of the Inca capital Cuzco was________ in the 1460s.
A. begun
B. began
C. beginning
D. begin
12. A home computer _________ an opportunity for convenient and effiction work at home.
A. provides
B. which provides
C. to be providing
D.providing it
13. Cellulose, which__________for making paper, can be found in all plants.
A.is used
B. are used
C. uses
D. is using
14. A partnership is an association of two or more individuals who _____together to develop a business.
A. worked

B. work

C. they work

15. The growth of two-income families in the United States

D. are working

of people moving to a new social class.

A.has resulted in millions B. millions of results

C. results of millions D. resulting in millions
16. A great deal of thought has_________into the designing of a concert hall.
A.went
B. to go
C. going
D. has been
17. Petroleum________on every continent and beneath every ocean.
A. is found

B. are found

C. found

D. find

18. By far the most famous member of the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s____ Langston
Hughes.
A.has been

B. was being

C. was

D. had been

19. When Henry arrived home after a hard day at work, _________ .
A. his wife was sleeping B. his wife slept
20. I'm sure he________to do it.

C. his wife has slept

D. his wife has been sleeping

A.will try
B. try
C. does try
D. to try
21. I'll write to you often whether you__________to me or not.
A.write
B. wrote
C.writes
D. writing
22. The number of students entering Phuong Dong University____________over last few years.
A,have raised
B. have rises
C.has raised
23. They had gone, there's nothing________
A.to leave
B. leaving
C.leave
24. Susan_______as a nurse for three years before her marriage.
A.has worked
B. worked
C.has been working

D. has risen
D. left
D. is working

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25. Prices______considerable since his time.

A.raise
B. have raised
C.rose
D. have risen
26. Where_______all this morning? It's nearly midday.
A.were you
B.have you been
C.are you
D. are you being
27. By the year 2000, many people currently employed_________their jobs.
A.have lost
B. will be losing
C.will have lost
D. are losing
28. I______come if I had had time.
(A) have
(B) would have
(C) had
(D) did
29. This time tomorrow you ________ sitting in a deck chair on the beach.
A. are
B. were
C. will
D. will be
30. After the storm______finished, many people were found lying in the street.
A. has
B. were
C.had
D. did
31. Tomorrow we ________ taking the day off.
(A) will
(B) were
(C) have
(D) are
32. I must admit you______tried but I'm afraid the answer is still no.
(A) did

(B) do

(C) will

(D) have

(C) shall

(D) were

(C) will

(D) did

33. Sometimes I wonder if I______ever succeed.

(A) do

(B) am

34. How many times ______you been there?

(A) has
(B) have

35. She's____________ working there since she left school.

(A) had

(B) have

(C) done

(D) been

Exercise 2: ERROR CORRECTION

1.Certain bats used their own sound to locate food and to avoid obstacles as they fly at night.
2.The name "vitamin" is proposed by Casmir Funk, who suspected that the substances were essential for life.
3. During the early part of the Colonial period, living conditions were hard and people have had little time
for reading and studying.
4. The electrical activity of the brain causes the transmission of brain waves that can be recorded and
interpreted in terms that explains the types of mental activity.
5. Whereas Earth has one moon, the planet call Mars has two small ones.
6. The disposable camera, a single-use camera preloaded with print film has appeared in the late 1980s, and
has become very popular.
5. Before becoming successful, Charles Kettering, the former vice-presider General Motors, was so poor
that he has to use the hayloft of a barn as a laboratory.
6. The American architect, Frank Wright, developed a theory of architecture stressed the needs of the people
who used it.
7. After George had returned to his house, he was reading a book.
10. The food that Mark is cooking in the kitchen is smelling delicious.
11.The manager has finished working on the report last night, and now she will begin to write the other
proposal.
12. It has been a long time since we have talked to John, isn't it?
13.There were a time that I used to swim five laps everyday, but now I do not have enough time.
14. After John eats dinner, he wrote several letters and went to bed.
15. I have learn many things in my class today and now I can do my homework without any problems.