Grammar Tenses- Class XI

1. North Korea still .................. a vast police state that .................. a network of concentration camps spanning the country.

• A) was maintaining / has included

• B) had maintained / would include

• is maintaining / had included

• D) maintains / includes

• E) maintained / will include

2. To the astronomers of the Middle Ages, the most important classical authorities on natural philosophy ................. Aristotle and Ptolemy, since both ................. frameworks that explained the whole universe.

• A) had been / created

• B) are / have created

• C) were / had created

• D) have been / create

• E) may have been / were creating

3. Russia .................. earlier this week that it ................... all its troops out of Georgia.

• A) had announced / pulled

• B) announces / would have pulled

• C) announced / had pulled

• D) is announcing / has pulled

• E) has announced / was pulling

4. Last week’s supplementary budget package ................. to prevent Japan's economy from plunging even lower.

• A) is being designed

• B) has designed

• C) was designed

• D) would be designed

• E) had designed

5. When they heard a gunfire across the border, the relief workers in the camp knew that another group of refugees ................. before long.

• A) are arriving

• B) had arrived

• C) will arrive

• D) would be arriving

• E) could have arrived

6. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently detained in Britain ................. in prison with no right of appeal, even though the vast majority ................. with any offence, let alone convicted.

• A) were held / are not charged

• B) are being held / have not been charged

• C) have been held / would not be charged

• D) being held / had not been charged

• E) will be held / were not being charged

7. The Pacific markets ................. extremely competitive since the manufacturing capacity of many Far Eastern countries ................. to improve at the turn of the decade.

• A) are becoming / begins

• B) had become / would begin

• C) became / have begun

• D) were becoming / would have begun

• E) have become / began

8. The history of the Venetian republic ................. to an end in 1797 when Venice ................. over to Austria by Napoleon.

• A) was coming / would have been handed

• B) had come / has been handed

• C) comes / had been handed

• D) came / was handed

• E) was questioned

9. In the past few months, our company director ................. more mettle than most industrialists ................. in an entire career.

• A) had shown / have done

• B) showed / would do

• C) shows / did

• D) was showing / may have done

• E) has shown / do

10. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli ................. a map of Mars in 1877, he ................. a large number of straight linear features, which he called "canali", that is, channels.

• A) publishes / has noted

• B) had published / was noting

• C) has published / notes

• D) published / noted

• E) would have published / had noted