Simple Past & Past Perfect

1. Mr. Cooper fixed the computer problem that ____ down transactions all last week.

• A. slows

• B. will be slowing

• C. had slowed

• D. will slow

2. Ms. DeSoto ____ all employees to come to last week’s budget meeting even though only

officers were obligated to attend.

• A. to have urged

• B. had urged

• C. will have urged

• D. was urged

3. Ms. Choi would have been at the keynote address if her train ____ on time.

• A. arrives

• B. will arrive

• C. had arrived

• D. arriving

4. The crew members ____ the main section of the building by the time the waste removal trucks arrive arrived at 3:30.

• A. demolish

• B. will have demolished

• C. demolished

• D. had demolished

5. Before General Mills was named one of the best small businesses in the region, the company ____ expanding its operations nationwide.

• A. does not consider

• B. were not considered

• C. will not consider

• D. had not considered

6. The company’s quarterly sales rose about 5% after they ____ a new line of cosmetics.

• A. was introduced

• B. introducing

• C. had introduced

• D. have been introducing

7. By the time its weeklong promotion was over, Polk Mobile ____ to sell almost its entire inventory of Kelstra smartphones.

• A. manages

• B. to manage

• C. had managed

• D. will manage

8. The organizers of the fundraiser ____ a to-do list to hand out to volunteers before they arrived.

• A. are compiling

• B. had compiled

• C. compiles

• D. to compile

9. Mary Rose was asked to join the information access team because she ____ to similar projects previously.

• A. was contributed

• B. had contributed

• C. contributes

• D. will contribute

10. Dr. Germain ____ dozens of research papers on electronic commerce before she retired a few years ago.

• A. will write

• B. writing

• C. writes

• D. had written