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1. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Are your Mom and Dad _______ a song at the momment?
A. have sung B. singing
C. sing D. sang
2. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
While I ______ at your house yesterday, my mother ______ in her office.
A. is staying – is working B. stayed – was working
C. stayed - worked D. was staying – was working
3. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Google (GOOG) ________ out a new search option every year that creates more benefits for users.
A. will roll B. rolled
C. have been rolled D. rolls
4. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
The children had lived in Australia for the next 2 weeks because of their visit to grandparent’s house.
A. had lived B. visit
C. for D. because of
5. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Our lifestyle changed since running water came to our village.
A. changed B. to
C. Our lifestyle D. running water
6. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
By the time you get to the theater, the play ______.
A. will perform B. will have been performed
C. had been performed D. has performed
7. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
By the end of this month, I ______ for this company for two years.
A. are going to have worked B. will have working
C. will have been working D. will work
8. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, and D that needs correcting.
This time tomorrow we will be sitting for an exam. We will have all our personal belongings inspected before we take
the test.
A. will have B. sitting for
C. inspected D. take
9. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Next week is Tet Holiday, I _______with my family for the next 5 days.
A. stay B. will be staying
C. has stayed D. stayed
10. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The couple ______ in the castle for several months before they noticed anything odd.
A. had been living B. had been lived
C. has lived D. would live
11. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I ______ eagerly to go to Yellowstone, but my wife got sick three days before the departure.
A. was planned B. planned
C. had planned D. was being planned

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12. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
John always _________ for a walk in the evenings.
A. go B. going
C. goes D. is going
13. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
They _______ making an appeal against the judgment.
A. considered B. have been considered
C. are considering D. considering
14. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
You _____ yourselves in the Caribbean, while we’re stuck here in New York with this cold weather!
A. will be enjoying B. are staying
C. had been staying D. have been staying
15. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
At the time of our first meeting there was a considerable difference between me and him; he had been publishing
articles in magazines for over five years while I ______ practically unknown.
A. was B. had been
C. have been D. was being
16. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
By the time my eldest son turns 26, I ______.
A. will have retired B. was retiring
C. am retiring D. had retired
17. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
After the test papers ______ to the students in class tomorrow, the students ______ their next assignment.
A. will be returned – are given B. are returned – will be given
C. will return – will be given D. are returning – are giving
18. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
At this time last year, they _______ this house.
A. were building B. built
C. had built D. build
19. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Every morning, the sun shines in my bedroom window and waking me up.
A. shines B. up
C. waking D. window
20. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I hope the committee will respect its own regulations which are quite clear on this point: no applications should be
accepted after the list signed by the chairman _______ published.
A. will be B. was
C. has been D. will have been
21. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, and D that needs correcting.
Mr Jackson is worried that he isn’t able to find a parking space when he comes to the office this afternoon.
A. isn’t be B. to find
C. the office D. will come
22. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
When Jane was cooking breakfast, the lights suddenly _______ out.
A. is going B. went
C. would go D. have gone
23. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
When Hannah’s friends come tomorrow, she ________ TV in the living room.
A. has been watching B. was watching
C. is watching D. will be watching

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24. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
My father ______ tennis in 15 minutes because he has just worn sport clothes.
A. is going to play B. would play
C. will be playing D. will play
25. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, and D that needs correcting.
Most people wrote with quill pens until pens with metal points became popular in the middle of the 19th century.
A. of B. with
C. wrote D. popular
26. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Max______ to the radio when the batteries ______ out.
A. was listening – was running B. listened – was running
C. listened – ran D. was listening - ran
27. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, and D that needs correcting.
I had tried to convince him several times but I failed because he was unwilling to consider what I have said.
singing out the news.
A. failed B. have said
C. to convince D. was unwilling
28. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C, and D that needs correcting.
After the teacher returns the test papers to students in class tomorrow, she gives the students the next assignments.
A. assignments B. gives
C. returns D. papers
29. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Luckily, by the time we got there, the painting ______.
A. hadn’t been sold B. wasn’t sold
C. didn’t sell D. weren’t sold
30. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The population of China_________ since 1990 and shows no sign of stopping.
A. has been increasing B. had increased
C. increased D. was increased

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