Past Simple, Present Perfect Simple & Continuous

1. Where ............ you born?

• were

  
  

• have

• are

• did

2. A: Where ....................... that jacket?

B: In that new clothes shop in Piazza Kennedy.

• have you bought

• did you buy

3. How long .................. your best friend?

• do you know

• did you know

• have you known

• have you been knowing

4. A: I lived in Milan when I was younger. B: Really? How long ........................ there?

• did you live

• have you lived

• lived you

• you have lived

5. Gladstone ............... the Prime Minister of Great Britain 5 times during the reign of Queen Victoria.

• has been

• had been

• was

• has been being

6. My grandmother, who died five years ago, .............. abroad.

• was never going

• never went

• has never been

7. A: Would you like a coffee?

B: No thanks. ..................... one.

• I've just had

• I was just having

• I just had

8. J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books .................... in many countries.

• have been published

• were published

• had been published

9. Many of Dickens's novels .................... in monthly magazines.

• were first published

• have been first published

• had been first published

10. (at 10.30 a.m.) .................. Julie this morning?

• Did you see

• Have you seen

• Had you seen