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Test - 14

- Past Perfect
- Reported statements

Lisa _____ me a lift because I _____ the bus.
- A) gave / missed
- B) have given / have missed
- C) gave / had missed
- D) had gave / missed
I _____ her for everything she _____.
- A) thanking / did
- B) thanked / had done
- C) have thanked / has done
- D) had thanked / had done
When I got to the office, I _____ that I _____ to lock the front door.
- A) had realized / forget
- B) realized / had forgotten
- C) realized / forget
- D) had realized / had forgotten
After they _____ their work, they ___ home.
- A) had finished / went
- B) finished / went
- C) had finished / had gone
- D) finished / had gone
I _____ you at 8.00, but you _____ just _____ out.
- A) call / have / gone
- B) called / have / gone
- C) called / had / gone
- D) have called / have / gone
I took my family to Paris last year. I _____ there as a student, so I _____ my way around.
- A) was / know
- B) were / knew
- C) had been / have known
- D) had been / knew
After I _____ to the news, I _____ to bed.
- A) listened / went
- B) had listened / went
- C) have listened / had gone
- D) listen / go
He _____ he was at school the day before.
- A) says
- B) told
- C) said
- D) is telling
Sandra _____ Bob that she didn’t see the Taj Mahal.
- A) told
- B) tells
- C) said
- D) talked
Why did you _____ that?
- A) talk
- B) said
- C) tell
- D) say
Could I ______ your pen?
- A) give
- B) lend
- C) borrow
- D) make
I’m English. I come from Brighton. In Paris I am a _____.
- A) cooker
- B) stranger
- C) travel
- D) foreigner

I went to a school reunion last week. I __(13)__ very surprised. So many things __(14)__. They __(15)__ the old gymnasium, and the library __(16)__. I __(17)__ slowly round the school. Everything __(18)__ much smaller, although they __(19)__ some impressive new buildings. I __(20)__ lots of my old schools friends, too, and they __(21)__ the same either. Some of them __(22)__ to London, and the most of them __(23)__ married. I __(24)__ to the headmaster for a while. He __(25)__. He __(26)__ that he __(27)__ every boy who __(28)__ the school since he __(29)__ working there in 1978. But when I asked him what my name was, he __(30)__ confess that he __(31)__ which __(32)__ me realize that I __(33)__ too!

- A) am
- B) have been
- C) was
- D) had been
- A) changed
- B) had changed
- C) has changed
- D) has change
- A) had knocked down
- B) knocked down
- C) knock down
- D) have knocked down
- A) disappeared
- B) was disappeared
- C) had disappeared
- D) have been disappeared
- A) have walked
- B) walked
- C) was walking
- D) had walked
- A) seems
- B) have seemed
- C) had seemed
- D) seemed
- A) were building
- B) built
- C) have built
- D) had built
- A) met
- B) meet
- C) had met
- D) have meet
- A) hadn’t stayed
- B) weren’t stayed
- C) didn’t stay
- D) not stayed
- A) have moved
- B) moved
- C) had moved
- D) was moving
- A) are get
- B) had got
- C) were got
- D) have got
- A) talked
- B) had talked
- C) was talking
- D) have talked
- A) haven’t left
- B) had not left
- C) didn’t leave
- D) hadn’t leave
- A) said
- B) was saying
- C) had said
- D) have said
- A) remembers
- B) have remembered
- C) remembered
- D) had remembered
- A) attended
- B) had attended
- C) have attended
- D) attending
- A) had started
- B) starts
- C) started
- D) have started
- A) had to
- B) have had to
- C) had had to
- D) was having to
- A) forget
- B) forgot
- C) have forgotten
- D) had forgotten
- A) have made
- B) made
- C) had made
- D) was made
- A) was changed
- B) had changed
- C) have changed
- D) changed
_____ I had had a bath I went to bed.
- A) Before
- B) Soon as
- C) After
- D) Until
I had read the book _____ I saw the film.
- A) when
- B) before
- C) until
- D) after
I ____ to sleep until I _____ my homework.
- A) don’t go / did
- B) had not gone / had done
- C) didn’t go / did
- D) didn’t go / had done
As soon as he _____ his driving test, he _____ a car.
- A) passed / bought
- B) had passed / bought
- C) passes / had bought
- D) passed / had bought
When I _____ the letter, I _____ it away.
- A) read / had thrown
- B) had read / had thrown
- C) had read / threw
- D) read / threw
“You can move in immediately.” She told me I _____ immediately.
- A) will move in
- B) would move in
- C) can move in
- D) could move in
“The people who I looked after are very well.” She said that the people who she _____ after _____ very well.
- A) were looking / are
- B) have looked / are
- C) would looked / were
- D) had looked / were
“You’ll have to make up your mind soon.” She told me I _____ make up my mind soon.
- A) had to
- B) will have had to
- C) would have to
- D) could have to
I didn’t recognize him because he _____ a haircut.
- A) had had
- B) has
- C) had
- D) have had
He always makes me _____.
- A) to laugh
- B) laughing
- C) laugh
- D) be laughed
She refused _____ for the meal.
- A) paying
- B) to pay
- C) pays
- D) the pay
I’ll never forget _____ him for the first time.
- A) meet
- B) meeting
- C) to meet
- D) to met
“It’s a quite flat, and the neighbors are nice.”
“Mrs. Deon said it __a quite flat, and the neighbors __ nice.”
- A) has been / are
- B) is / were
- C) was / were
- D) had been / have been
“You look brown. Have you ____ on holiday?”
“Yes, we’ve _____ got back.”
- A) been / now
- B) gone / just
- C) been / just
- D) did / already
I live in a house now, but before I _____ in a flat.
- A) am using to live
- B) used to live
- C) had used to live
- D) have used to live
“I need £100 deposit.” Then she said she _____ £100 deposit.
- A) needs
- B) had needed
- C) needed
- D) have needed
I _____ the book back to the library after I _____ reading it.
- A) take / finished
- B) have taken / have finished
- C) took / had finished
- D) had taken / finished

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