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Present Perfect II
Present perfect + ever, never, already, yet
Ever
The adverbs ever and never express the idea of an unidentified time before now (Have you ever visited
Berlin?)’Ever’ and ‘never’ are always placed before the main verb (past participle). Ever is used:

In questions
Examples
Have you ever been to England?
Has she ever met the Prime Minister?

In negative questions
Examples
Haven’t they ever been to Europe?
Haven’t you ever eaten Chinese food?

In negative statements using the pattern nothing + ever or nobody + ever

Examples
Nobody has ever said that to me before.
Nothing like this has ever happened to us.

With ‘The first time’

Examples
It’s the first time that I’ve ever eaten snails.
This is the first time I’ve ever been to England.

Never
Never means at no time before now, and is the same as not ..... ever: (I have never visited Berlin)
BE CAREFUL! You must not use never and not together
I haven’t never been to Italy.
I have never been to Italy.

Already
Already refers to an action that has happened at an unspecified time before now. It suggests that there is
no need for repetition.
Examples
I’ve already drunk three coffees this morning. ( = and you’re offering me another one!)
Don’t write to John, I’ve already done it.
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It is also used in questions:

Have you already written to John?

Has she finished her homework already?

Already can be placed before the main verb (past participle) or at the end of the sentence:
I have already been to Tokyo.
I have been to Tokyo already.

Yet
Yet is used in negative statements and questions, to mean (not) in the period of time between before now
and now, (not) up to and including the present. Yet is usually placed at the end of the sentence.

Examples
Have you met Judy yet?
I haven’t visited the Tate Gallery yet
Has he arrived yet?
They haven’t eaten yet

Present perfect with “for” and “since”

Using the present perfect, we can define a period of time before now by considering its duration, with for
+ a period of time, or by considering its starting point, with since + a point in time. FOR and SINCE can
also both be used with the past perfect. SINCE can only be used with perfect tenses. FOR can also be used
with the simple past.

For + a period of time

for six years, for a week, for a month, for hours, for two hours
I have worked here for five years.

Since + a point in time

since this morning, since last week, since yesterday

since I was a child, since Wednesday, since 2 o’clock
I have worked here since 1990.

Present perfect with FOR

She has lived here for twenty years.

We have taught at this school for a long time.
Alice has been married forthree months.
They have been at the hotel for a week.

Present perfect with SINCE

She has lived here since 1980.

We have taught at this school since 1965.
Alice has been married since March 2nd.
They have been at the hotel since last Tuesday.

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Text 1: Market Street Catacombs
Beneath the bustling Indianapolis City Market
are the catacombs of Tomlinson Hall - a complex
of passageways, tunnels, and arches made of brick
and limestone, originally built in 1886 beneath the
hall. Tomlinson Hall was a massive building and
centerpiece of the city market. It could hold over
3,500 people! The catacombs were used by wor-
kers of the City Market to transport and store goods
to be sold in the market. The underground spaces
allowed refrigerated goods to stay cooler than they
would above ground, thus preserving them longer.
Tomlinson Hall burned down in January of 1958.
City workers cleared out the debris, leaving the
limestone and brick structures in place. The cata-
combs were never utilized again and Tomlinson
Hall would never be rebuilt.
The Market Street Catacombs span twen-
ty-thousand square feet, and remain mostly intact
more than one hundred years after they were built.
These catacombs are one of a dozen catacomb si-
tes in the United States. Though they are not open
directly to the public, visitors can schedule appoint-
ments with tour guides. The site is becoming in-
creasingly well-known in Indianapolis.
1. What was the primary use of the catacombs
before they were abandoned? ther married Betsy Humphries. The family lived in
A) To hide items and goods to be sold later
B) To store and preserve food items
C) To preserve the limestone arches and
tunnels
D) To showcase the history of Indianapolis
2. What happened after Tomlinson Hall burned
down?
A) The catacombs were cleared away
B) The city market closed down
C) The catacombs were left in place
D) Tomlinson Hall was rebuilt
3. What word could replace “intact” in the fo-
llowing sentence?
The Market Street Catacombs span twenty thou-
sand square feet, and remain mostly intact more
than one hundred years after they were built.
A) Old B) 0Damaged
C) Undamaged D) New
4. What question is answered in the second
paragraph?
A) How can visitors explore the catacombs?
B) Where in the United States are other cata-
comb sites?
C) What happened to Tomlinson Hall in 1886?
D) How many people visit the catacombs?
5. Which is NOT true about Tomlinson Hall?
A) It could hold 3,500 people
B) It was the centerpiece of the Indianapolis
City Market
C) The site is becoming increasingly we-
ll-known within the city of Indianapolis
D) It was rebuilt after the 1958 fire
Text 2: Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was born on December 13,
1818, in Lexington, Kentucky. She was born into a
wealthy Kentucky family, though her mother died
when she was seven. The following year, her fa-
a fourteen-room Kentucky mansion, which Mary
shared with her fourteen brothers and sisters! Her
father was close friends with Kentucky political lea-
der, Henry Clay, who engendered a love of politics
within Mary.
Like many young women of her day, Mary left
school as a teenager to attend finishing school, whe-
re she studied drama, dance, music, social graces,
and learned to speak French fluently. In 1839,
Mary moved to Springfield, Illinois, to live with her
sister, Elizabeth. While living in Illinois, Mary was
courted by both Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham
Lincoln, though it was Lincoln whom she would
become engaged to. Despite the engagement, the
pair broke up before becoming engaged again.
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They were finally married on November 4, 1842,
at Mary’s sister’s home in Springfield. By marrying
Lincoln, Mary Todd gave up a life of opulence for
one of general poverty. Lincoln had not yet beco-
me a successful lawyer and was crushed by debt.
Mary’s family did not approve of Lincoln, citing his
awkward appearance and humble upbringing.
Soon, however, Lincoln’s reputation as a law-
yer grew and the pair were able to purchase a house
in Springfield. Mary would have four boys: Robert,
Eddie, Tad, and Willie. Mary raised the children at
home while Lincoln traveled to courts throughout
the state to argue cases and explain the law.
In 1860, Mary and her children moved to the
White House. By this time, her second son, Eddie
had died. The transition was extremely difficult for
Mrs. Lincoln. Her family grew up with slaves. Some
of her brothers were fighting in the Confederate
Army, and two had been killed in battle. Things took
a turn for the worse for the Lincoln family in 1862,
when her eleven-year-old son, Willie, died (probably
of typhoid fever). Willie’s death plunged Mary into a
deep depression, which may have resulted in highly
publicized public outbursts and incidences of irratio-
nal behavior. Mary further sought to ease her pain
by traveling to New York City where she would take
incredible shopping sprees, buying up the most ex-
pensive clothes, silks, and materials. New York mer-
chants were happy to allow her to run up prodigious
lines of credit that totaled, at least at one point, over
$27,000. Mary also dabbled in the supernatural and
several times procured the services of spiritualists to
try to contact her dead son, Willie.
Despite her outrageous behavior, which some
historians attribute to bipolar disorder, Mary Todd
frequently visited field hospitals for Union soldiers
and often hosted lavish parties at the White House
to maintain the aura and prestige of the house of
the president.
On April 14, 1865, Mary was present at the as-
sassination of her husband at Ford’s Theater. Mary
was inconsolable and soon returned to Illinois to
recover. Her grief, however, would return with the
death of her son, Tad, in 1871, and her behavior
would become increasingly erratic over the course
of the next few years. She would reportedly wan-
der the streets of Chicago (while visiting her son
Robert) with thousands of dollars in government
bonds sewn into her jacket. She also continued to
spend money lavishly on useless items and trinkets.
01- B 03- A
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In 1875, her sole surviving son, Robert, institutiona-
lized his mother at a psychiatric hospital in Batavia,
Illinois, where she apparently attempted suicide.
By 1876, she was released to the custody of her sis-
ter, Elizabeth, in Springfield before embarking on a
four-year trip traveling in Europe, where her health
began to decline. In 1880, she returned to the Sprin-
gfield home of her sister. She died on July 16, 1882,
in Springfield at the age of 63.
6. Which of the following best describes the con-
ditions in which Mary Todd grew up?
A) Very poor
B) Somewhat wealthy
C) Somewhat poor
D) Very wealthy
7. How did Mary’s condition change when she
married Abraham Lincoln?
A) She became much less wealthy.
B) She gave away all of their possessions.
C) She became fabulously wealthy.
D) Her wealth remained about the same.
8. Why do you think Mary sometimes used the
services of spiritualists?
A) To try to cure Abe’s depression
B) To talk to her dead son Willie
C) To find out her fortune
D) To find out when the war would end
9. Why did Mary take shopping sprees in New
York City?
A) She needed nice clothes as the first lady.
B) Her husband made a lot of money, and she
wanted to spend it.
C) She needed distractions from her depression.
D) She hated Washington.
10. What does the word “erratic” mean in the fo-
llowing line:
…her behavior would become increasingly
erratic over the course of the next few years.
A) contained B) hateful
C) pleasant D) unpredictable
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06- D 08- B 10- D