Mixed 12 Tenses Exercises

In recent decades, the efficiency of the United Nations ................. by a growing number of countries.

• A) will have been questioned

• B) would be questioned

• C) has been questioned

• D) had been questioned

• E) was questioned

2. We ................. no problems whatsoever with the dam since it ................. forty years ago.

• A) had / has been constructed

• B) were having / was being constructed

• C) have had / was constructed

• D) had had / had been constructed

• E) are having / is constructed

3. Before I got to the end of his article, I felt I knew everything there ______ about the North America Free Trade Agreement.

• A) had known

• B) was to know

• C) is known

• D) is being known

• E) has to be known

4. It seems likely that by the end of the week, the costs involved in the construction of the bridge ................. by the Ministry.

• A) would have been announced

• B) have been announced

• C) would be announced

• D) are being announced

• E) will have been announced

5. One feels that there ................. any noticeable improvement in the human rights problem in Africa until all the African countries ................. their economic difficulties.

• A) cannot be / will overcome

• B) hasn’t been / had overcome

• C) won’t be / overcome

• D) wouldn’t be / would be overcome

• E) wasn’t / have overcome

6. The Etruscans, who ................. a great part of Italy about 900 B.C., ................. from Asia Minor.

• A) had colonized / originally came

• B) colonized / had originally come

• C) were colonized / have originally come

• D) have colonized / originally come

• E) were colonizing / might originally come

7. The orders were that we ................. the area within hours to prevent further loss of life

• A) had evacuated

• B) have to evacuate

• C) will have evacuated

• D) shall have to evacuate

• E) had to evacuate

8. As I ................. you yesterday, the undersecretary ................. over this afternoon’s discussions

• A) have told / was presiding

• B) told / will be presiding

• C) would have told / had presided

• D) will tell / has presided

• E) would tell / has been presiding

9. For a hundred years or so, some critics ................. that poetry is dying, and all that time poets ................. poems that later generations recognize as great.

• A) have maintained / have been writing

• B) maintained / wrote

• C) had maintained / were writing

• D) maintain / are writing

• E) would maintain / had been writing

10. What I ................. is that we ................. to think seriously about a thorough reform in the legal system.

• A) have proposed / should have begun

• B) had proposed / were beginning

• C) am proposing / begin

• D) was proposing / have begun

• E) proposed / had begun