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English Preparation Course For High Schol Entrance Exam
English Preparation Course For High Schol Entrance Exam
B. PRACTICE
II. Supply the correct tense and form of the verbs given in brackets.
Passage 1
John _____ (1. always travel) a lot. In fact, he _____ (2. be) only two years old when he first
_____ (3. fly) to the US. His mother _____ (4. be) Italian and his father _____ (5. be) American. John
_____ (6. be) born in France, but his parents _____ (7. meet) in Cologne, Germany after they
_____ (8. live) there for five years. They _____ (9. meet) one day while John's father _____ (10. read)
a book in the library and his mother _____ (11. sit down) beside him. Anyway, John travels a lot
because his parents also travel a lot.
As a matter of fact, John _____ (12. visit) his parents in France at the moment. He _____ (13. live)
in New York now, but _____ (14. visit) his parents for the past few weeks. He really _____ (15. enjoy)
living in New York, but he also _____ (16. love) coming to visit his parents at least once a year.
This year he _____ (17. fly) over 50,000 miles for his job. He _____ (18. work) for Jackson & Co. for
almost two years now. He _____ (19. be) pretty sure that he _____ (20. work) for them next year as
well. His job _____ (21. require) a lot of travel. In fact, by the end of this year, he _____ (22. travel)
over 120,000 miles! His next journey _____ (23. will be) to Australia. He really _____ (24. not like)
going to Australia because it is so far. This time he _____ (25. fly) from Paris after a meeting with the
company's French partner. He _____ (26. sit) for over 18 hours by the time he _____ (27. arrive)!
Passage 2
Thieves _____ (1. steal) jewels from a shop in Shanghai last night. This is the third time this year
the shop _____ (2. rob). According to the police, the thieves must _____ (3. enter) the shop by
_____ (4. break) open the back door. After _____ (5. enter) the shop, the thieves _____ (6. tie) up
the watchman who _____ (7. sleep) at that time in the shop.
The shop-owner told the press that most of the jewels the thieves _____ (8. take) _____ (9. be)
fakes. He said a security firm _____ (10. advise) him never _____ (11. put) real jewels in the window.
“Their advice has been invaluable,” said the owner, “without it, we _____ (12. lose) thousands of
dollars.”
A popular theory explaining the evolution of the universe is known (1) _____ the Big Bang
Model. (2) _____ to the model, at some time (3) _____ ten and twenty billion years ago, all present
matter and energy (4) _____ compressed into a small ball only a few kilometers (5) _____ diameter.
It was, in fact, an atom that contained in the form of pure energy all of the components of the
entire universe. Then, (6) _____ the moment in time (7) _____ astronomers refer to as T=0, the ball
exploded, hurling the energy into space. Expansion occurred. As the energy cooled, most of
(8) _____ became matter in the form of protons, neutrons, (9) _____ electrons. These original
particles combined to form hydrogen and helium, and (10) _____ to expand. Matter formed into
galaxies with stars and planets.