PRESENT TENSE VS PAST TENSE

The ancient Olympic Games ___________ as amateur contests, but in time became professional.

• begun

• began

• beginning

• was beginning

The winners _________ a wreath which was made from the branches of the sacred olive tree

• receive

• receives

• receiving

• received

The marathon, first stage in 1896, ______ the legendary feat of a Greek soldier who carried news of victory from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens.

• was commemorated

• commemorated

• commemorates

• commemorating

Before the Angles and the Saxons _______ to England, the Iberians had lived there.

• coming

• come

• came

• did come

When Columbus ______the New world, he thought that he had reached the East Indies by way of a Western route.

• saw

• seen

• sees

• seeing

The Olympic torch _________ throughout the Games and is then extinguished at the closing ceremony.

• burning

• is burned

• burned

• burns

The Palo Verde tree ________ in spring.

• has beautiful yellow blossoms

• beautiful yellow blossoms had

• having beautiful yellow blossoms

• with beautiful yellow blossoms

Oscillatona. one of the few plants that can move about, ______ a wavy, gliding motion.

• having

• has

• being

• with

Nerve impulses _________ to the brain at a speed of about one hundred yards per second.

• sending sensations

• sent sensations

• send sensations

• sensations

Peter and Tom ____ tennis every afternoon with Mary and me.

• play

• plays

• played

• playing