1. We ______ our evening meal at half past seven yesterday, and then we watched a film on television.

A. had
B. are having
C. have had
D. were having

2. Whenever we visited them, they ______ television.

A. have watched
B. watch
C. watched
D. were watching

3. This was an arid desert ______.

A. until it was irrigated
B. until it had been irrigated
C. before it was irrigated
D. before it is irrigated

4. I didn’t meet Mary White at the party. She ______ by the time I arrived.

A. was left
B. left
C. had left
D. was leaving

5. Although she ______ law for only a little over eight years, Florence Allen became in 1922 the first wooman to sit on a state supreme court.

A. will practice
B. practices
C. had practiced
D. has been practicing

6. “What did Mr. Wang say?” “He said that he ______ the agreement since eight o’clock.”

A. was drafting
B. had been drafting
C. drafted
D. has been drafting

7. The Managing Director said that improving relations with the association would
not be easy, but that they ______ to try.

A. would have decided
B. decide
C. have decided
D. had decided

8. “Let’s hurry. The President is coming.”
  “Oh, hasn’t he come yet? I am afraid we ______.”

A. already miss him
B. had already missed him
C. already missed him
D. have already missed him

9. Grandapa hoped that his grand-children ______ him at weekends.

A. visit
B. will visit
C. would visit
D. visited

10. Michael said he ______ of going back home the next month.

A. thought 
B. thinks 
C. was thinking
D. had thought

11. I had to cycle ______ to work against the wind.

A. all the way
B. on the way
C. by the way
D. in a way

12. He was ______ with his homework until his sister helped him.

A. getting somewhere 
B. getting anywhere 
C. getting nowhere   
D. get you nowhere

13. You ought to ______ smoking.

A. give back
B. give in
C. give up
D. give way to

14. In early days, only male athletes were allowed to ______ the Olympic Games.

A. take part in
B. have take part in
C. took part in   
D. will take part in

15. Mary is truly a teenager with a taste for ______.

A enduring
B. endurance
C. endure
D. endurable

16. This word is no longer in ______ use.

A. curl
B. currency
C. current
D. curse

17. The sun ______ below the horizon.

A. diped
B. have dipped
C. having diped
D. dipped

18. China is a(n) ______ country.

A. eastern
B. western  
C. east
D. Easter

19. As prices have dropped lower and lower, the ______ looks black for many companies in the city.

A. outlooking
B. lookout
C. outlooky
D. outlook

20. Athough the weatherman had ______ snow, it was a beautiful weekend.

A. predicted
B. prepared
C. prevailed
D. preceded

21. The gun shot ______ the birds.

A. scattered
B. spread
C. scratched
D. scolded

22. Fishing boats were anchored all ______ the coast.

A. in
B. on
C. at
D. along

23. I regret ______ you that we are unable to offer you a job.

A. informing
B. to inform
C. having informed
D. inform

24. The enemy was surrounded in the valley and it was difficult to ______.

A. break off
B. break through 
C. break away
D. break out

25. What he said ______ me that he was an honest man.

A. agreed 
B. convinced
C. ensured
D. believed

26. Westerners ______ bread, milk potatoes and etc.

A. come on
B. work on
C. act on
D. feed on

27. By the time you get there tomorrow, the film ______.

A. will start
B. will have started
C. is starting
D. is to start

28. Mountainous areas have a poorer TV ______ than cities.

A. receipt
B. reception
C. reaction
D. response

29. He made the suggestion at the meeting that the problem ______ by students
themselves.

A. is settled
B. be settled
C. was settled
D. had been settled

30. It ______ me 3 days to have the watch repaired.

A. gave
B. took
C. made
D. kept