Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

Mechanical Faculty
Composition and Rhetoric
"Navigating in Tenses"
Test
13-07-21
Student’s name: Ivon Pitti
Professor's name: Edouard Lebedev
Total score:……………………………………....

I. Present continuous or present simple?

1. I (write)am writing to my parents, I (write)write to them every weekend.

2. Normally I (start)start work at eight o'clock, but this week I
(start) am starting at seven.
3. We (build) are building a garage next to our house. We (need) need somewhere
to put the car.
4. I don’t have the car at the moment, so I (go) am going to work on the bus this week. I
usually (drive)drive to work.
5. We (go)go camping every year. A hotel (cost)cost too much.

II. Present Perfect or Past Simple?

1. (make) I cooked a cake. Would you like a piece?

2. (do) I did all the housework. The house is clean,
3. (repair) Susan repaired the television, but then it broke down,
4. (lose) I lost my purse. I can't find - it anywhere.
5. (break) That runner broke the world record, but then, two days later,
somebody else ran even faster.
6. (run) Joanne ran away from home, but she came back two days later.
7. (buy) A young couple bought the house. But they didn't live there long.
8. (earn) James earned some money last week.
9. (arrive) Our visitors have arrived. They are sitting in the garden.
10. (plant) We planted a tree in the garden. Unfortunately, it's died.

III. Present perfect or present perfect continuous?

Complete the sentences using one and the same verb.

1. (run) Those young men are running- nearly two miles.

They have run for ten minutes.
2. (do) Since tea time Elaine is doing sums in her exercise book.
She has done fifty.
3. (drink) You are drinking tea all day. You have drunk at least ten cups.
4. (play) Bob and his friends are playing golf since lunch time.
They have played ten holes.
5. (deliver) Simon has delivered about two hundred newspapers.
He is delivering them since early this morning.
IV. Present perfect or past perfect?

1. We had no car at the time. We (sell) had sold our old one.
2. The square looked awful. People (leave)had leaved litter everywhere.
3. You can have that newspaper. I (finish) have finished with it.
4. There's no more cheese. We (eat)have eaten it all.
5. I was really tired last night. I (have)had a hard day.

V. Past Simple or Past Perfect?

Write the two sentences as one using past perfect in either the first or the
second part of the sentence. For example: He finally arrived. We started the meeting. - When he
had finally arrived, we started the meeting.
1. Joe saved enough money. He bought a motor-bike. When Joe had saved enough money. He
bought a motor-bike.
2. Max put all the dishes away. He dried them. When Max had put all the dishes away. He dried
them.
3. Jane signed the letter. She typed it. When Jane had signed the letter. She typed it.
4. We completed the forms. We handed them in. When we had completed the forms. We
handed them in
5. I looked both ways. I pulled out into the road. When I had looked both ways. I pulled out into
the road.

VI. Present and past.

Put each verb into correct form. (8 tenses. No future forms)
An eight-year-old boy (disappear)disappeared. Mark Davidson (not
return)didn’t return yesterday from the park near his home in Copley
Road, Dulverstone. The Davidson (live)live five minutes’ walk away
from the park. Mark (go)went to the park at four o'clock and
(play)played football with his friends. After they (play)had played for about an hour, they (sit)sat
down for a rest. Mark (leave)left the park at a quarter past five. He (be)was alone. A man who
(walk)was walking his dog (see)saw him go out through the gate. No one (see)has seen Mark
since then. Police (question)were questioning local residents, and so far they (speak)had spoken
to about two hundred people. They (want)want to question a middle-aged man in a green sweater
who (lie) was lying on the grass near the park exit at five o'clock, At the moment police and other
helpers (search)are searching nearby fields and woods with the hope of finding the missing boy.
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 VII. Present and past.

Complete the radio news report. Put in the correct form the verbs.

"Hello! I (speak) am speaking to you from Oxford, where the finals of the
World Quiz Championship will begin tomorrow. The favorite is Claude Jeimings from
CornweIl, the man who (know)knows everything. Twelve months ago no one
(hear)had heard about him, although he (take)had taken part in quiz
competitions for years. Now suddenly he is a big star. So far this year he
(answer)has answered every single question correctly. And he is popular too.
When he (arrive)arrived here two days ago, hundreds of fans (wait)were waiting to welcome him
at the station. Since his arrival Claude (read) has been reading encyclopedias in his hotel
bedroom. He is clearly the man to watch. And now back to the Radio Ten News Desk."