B1.4D17COMPETITION

In 2020 the number of people working from home ________

• rose sharply

• rose sharp

• sharp risen

Answer explanation

It's a particular year, so you need simple past.

There has been _________ in the number of hours we sleep since 2010.

• a steadily decline

• declining steadily

• a steady decline

• steady declined

Answer explanation

You need and adjective and a noun

The percentage of people using streaming platforms _________ for the past couple of years and it'll probable continue that way in the future.

• climbed quickly

• has climbing quickly

• has a quick climb

• has been climbing quickly

There __________ in the number people who started learning English in 2018

• has been a dramatic jump

• was a dramatic jump

• was a dramatically jump

• has been a dramatic jump

The percentage of people consuming fish has been shrinking slowly since 2015 and it might continue with this trend in the future.

• CORRECT

• INCORRECT

There was a rapidly fall in the number of kids young people were having during the first years of the 2000s

• CORRECT

• INCORRECT

Answer explanation

a RAPID FALL

At that moment she told me she (a)   go to the bank with me.

We (a)   (meet) with my supervisor to discuss the new schedule.

I though I _______ be able do all my chores during the weekend but at the end I had to do some more errands and I couldn't

• was going to

• were going to

• was going

Probably next week _________ about reported speech!

• we will be learning

• we will have been learning

• we will have learned