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SIMPLE PRESENT-SIMPLE PAST- PAST PERFECT

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

No breakfast for Mark, thanks. He..........................breakfast.

a)

hasn't eaten

b)

didn't eat

c)

isn't eating

d)

doesn't eat

2.

The World War II .............. in 1939 and ...................in 1945

a)

begins/ ends

b)

had begun/ ended

c)

has begun/ had ended

d)

began/ ended

3.

I  ..............at the checkout when I ................... a strange-looking man.

a)

waited/ noticed  

b)

had waited/ noticed 

c)

waited/ was noticing

d)

was waiting/ had noticed

4.

According to the research reports, people usually..................in their sleep 25 to 30 times each night.

a)

turn

b)

are turning

c)

have turned

d)

turned

5.

Homestead High School's football team.......................a championship last season

a)

never won

b)

had never been winning

c)

is never winning

d)

had never won

6.

By the end of last summer, the farmers _______ all the crop.

a)

harvested

b)

had harvested 

c)

harvest  

d)

are harvested

7.

When we went back to the bookstore, the bookseller ____the book we wanted.

a)

sold  

b)

had sold  

c)

sells

d)

has sold

8.

The director already _______ for the meeting by the time I got to his office.

a)

left

b)

had left    

c)

leaves 

d)

will leave

9.

Susan ____her family after she had taken the university entrance examination.

a)

phoned 

b)

had phoned 

c)

phones  

d)

is phoning

10.

How many cities _____you and your uncle _____by July last summer?

a)

visited 

b)

had visited 

c)

did .... visit  

d)

had ....... visited

11.

Miss Jane _______ typing the report when her boss came in.

a)

didn’t finish

b)

  can’t finish

c)

doesn’t finish 

d)

hadn’t finished

12.

Peter was in New York last week; he ____in Washington D.C. three days earlier.

a)

was  

b)

had been

c)

is

d)

was being

13.

Three women, none of whom we _______ before we_______ out of the hall.

a)

had seen-came

b)

saw-came 

c)

saw-had come  

d)

had seen-had come

14.

When he…………, everyone………………

a)

arrived / had left

b)

had arrived / left

c)

would arrive / leaves

d)

arrived / has left

15.

I ……………the washing up before my father came home.

a)

was doing

b)

did  

c)

had done

d)

must have done

16.

After her husband’s accident, she …………the sole breadwinner of the family.   

a)

used to become

b)

would became

c)

became

d)

had become

17.

The room smelled terrible. Someone…………before I came.

a)

seemed to smoke

b)

would smoke

c)

Smoked   

d)

had smoked

18.

Celine Dion ………..to receive recognition for her talent in 1982.

a)

had begun

b)

began

c)

probably begins

d)

would have begun

19.

In 1994, Celine Dion and Rene Angelil………….in Basilica.

a)

had married  

b)

married

c)

marry

d)

have married

20.

We....................here sixteen years ago.

a)

come

b)

came

c)

have came

d)

comes