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70. Look at the little boys! They ___ with stones.
A) play
B) will play
C) are playing
D) is playing
E) played
71. It ___ him 20 minutes to get to the work usually.
A) take
B) is taking
C) have taken
D) is not taking
E) takes
72. Usually my working day ___ at 8.30 sharp.
A) start
B) starts
C) would be
D) won’t start
E) has started
73. Stop a minute, think what you ___ .
A) are saying
B) say
C) says
D) is saying
E) has said
74. The population of the world ___ very fast.
A) rise
B) rises
C) is rising
D) rose
E) is risen
75. Tourists ___ a lot of different information when they travel.
A) get
B) gets
C) has got
D) would get
E) were getting
76. The English seaside ___ very popular lately.
A) becomes
B) has become
C) became
D) will become
E) is becoming
77. ___ he already___ the rules in the race ?
A) did/break
B) does/break
C) is/breaking
D) has/broken
E) had/broken
78. Peter ___ his lessons. When he finishes them he’ll watch TV.
A) does
B) do
C) did
D) is doing
E) has done
79. I ___ never ___ the book.
A) didn’t/read
B) haven’t/read
C) have/read
D) don’t/read
E) was/reading
80. Look! The girls ___ in the park.
A) skate
B) skated
C) are skating
D) will skate
E) has skated
81. She is sorry, she ___ so rude.
A) were
B) will be
C) are
D) has been
E) had been
82. Why ___ nothing ___?
A) has / been done still
B) hasn’t / been done yet
C) has / been done yet
D) was / done yet
E) have / been done yet
83. Shh! The teacher ___ on the blackboard.
A) wrote
B) was writing
C) writes
D) will write
E) is writing
84. I ___ here since 1972.
A) was living
B) had lived
C) lives
D) am living
E) have lived
85. ___ you ___ to England?
A) were/being
B) are/being
C) have/been
D) were/being
E) had/been
86. Hello! Who ___?
A) spoke
B) speaks
C) has been speaking
D) is speaking
E) was spoken
87. Max ___ to be good at interpreting, ___ he?
A) doesn’t seem/does
B) seems/does
C)seemed/did
D) seems/does
E) didn’t seem/doesn’t
88. ___ you ever ___ Herr Boschen sing his great German comic
songs?
A) had/heard
B) did/hear
C) do/hear
D) are/hearing
E) have/heard
89. Who ___ writing the text yet?
A) haven’t finished
B) didn’t finish
C) doesn’t finish
D) won’t finish
E) hasn’t finished
90. - What ___ you ___?
- I ___ a letter.
A) are doing/am writing
B) have done/am writing
C) did/write
D) have done/am writing
E) has done/wrote
91. We ___ already twenty words.
A) learned
B) have learned
C) learn
D) will learn
E) are learning
92. “I can’t marry Mr. Fire. I ___ already ___ my word to another
man”, said the chief’s daughter.
A) don’t/give
B) had/given
C) shall/give
D) didn’t/give
E) have/given
93. Be quick! A dog ___ after your child.
A) runs
B) ran
C) was running
D) will run
E) is running
94. I ___ never ___ to the USA.
A) is/ been
B) has/been
C) have/been
D) having/been
E) was/being
95. Oh, not really, I ___ a minute since I came in.
A) haven’t had
B) haven’t
C) were not
D) will have
E) hadn’t
96. Take away the crib; the teacher ___ at you.
A) look
B) is looking
C) looks
D) looked
E) had looked
97. I ___ them for 10 months.
A) know
B) knows
C) have known
D) will know
E) shall know
98. Why ___ you ___ the coat? It’s not cold.
A) do/put on
B) has/put on
C) have/put on
D) would/put on
E) had/put on
99. Don’t enter the classroom. The students ___ an exam.
A) write
B) were writing
C) have written
D) are writing
E) had been written
100. Look! They ___ in our direction.
A) come
B) came
C) will come
D) was coming
E) are coming
101. I ___ Paul since Christmas.
A) don’t see
B) haven’t seen
C) hadn’t seen
D) wasn’t seen
E) won’t see
102. “Fortune” ___ the magazine of business success for over 50 years.
A) is
B) was
C) will be
D) has been
E) were
103. She ___ false impressions on those who ___ you.
A) will produce / hadn’t known
B) produces / don’t know
C) produces / doesn’t know
D) has produced / will not know
E) would produce / have not known
104. Food prices ___ rapidly in the past few months.
A) had risen
B) has risen
C) have risen
D) was rising
E) rises
Book 1 Part C
Present Tenses
