tenses & verb form

1. Please could you see Mr. Thomson as soon as your performance review meeting ----------?

• (A) will end

• (B) ends

• (C) will be ending

• (D) will have ended

2. Carl apologizes for not being available when you called, but he ---------- an important client.

• (A) had visited

• (B) visited

• (C) was visiting

• (D) had been visiting

3. The service in the hotel restaurant was so bad that I ---------- to complain to the manager.

• (A) am deciding

• (B) decide

• (C) decided

• (D) was decided

4. The new packaging machine we bought recently ---------- down three times already.

• (A) was breaking

• (B) had broken

• (C) is breaking

• (D) has broken

5. The meeting ---------- at three o’clock, so we must hurry if we want to be there in time.

• (A) starts

• (B) started

• (C) was starting

• (D) has started

6. Exactly how long ---------- worked as a senior accounting clerk for this company?

• (A) have you

• (B) did you

• (C) are you

• (D) will you

7. After being discharged from the hospital, our president Mr. Liu ---------- taking a long break.

• (A) will

• (B) is going to

• (C) will be

• (D) will have

8. ---------- sign for the package that arrived this morning?

• (A) Have you

• (B) Did you

• (C) Were you

• (D) Are you

9. We felt excited about the trip to Mexico, as we had never ---------- to Latin America.

• (A) been

• (B) went

• (C) gone

• (D) to go

10. By the time the shareholders read the annual report, our sales ---------- by one-third.

• (A) will fall

• (B) will have fallen

• (C) is falling

• (D) had fallen