Test Your English Grammar. Self-Study Guide: Сборник тестовых заданий по грамматике английского языка. Сенюшкина Т.В. - 13 стр.

135. In the morning all the roads were blocked: it ______ all night.             143. In 1996 Honda Motor Corporation presented the world with P-2, a robot
       A. snowed                        B. was snowing                           different from any other that ______ until then.
       C. had been snowing              D. has been snowing                             A. appeared                      B. has appeared
                                                                                        C. had appeared                  D. had disappeared
136. All the people we had invited ______, and some that we had not invited.
      A. came                          B. come                                   144. By the time my father retired last year, he ______ dentistry for thirty years.
      C. have come                     D. have been coming                             A. was practising                   B. practiced
                                                                                       C. has been practising              D. had been practising
137. Nobody came to the meeting as Angela ______ to tell people about it.
      A. forget                      B. forgot                                   145. When I found Mary, I could see that she ______.
      C. had forgot                  D. had forgotten                                  A. has been crying               B. had to cried
                                                                                       C. cry                           D. had been crying
138. I told him that I ______ of the place before.
       A. have never heard               B. never heard                          146. ‘Do you know when Mrs Greenleaf’s train ______?’ he asked.
       C. didn’t hear                    D. had never heard                             A. arrives                   B. will be arriving
                                                                                        C. will arrive               D. shall arrive
139. By that time, Sam’s photo ______ to the policemen.
      A. had already show                                                        147. Look up in the time-table when the last train ______ the station.
      B. have already been shown                                                       A. is leaving                     B. leaves
      C. had already been shown                                                        C. will be leaving                D. leave
      D. were already on show
                                                                                 148. By analyzing historical and current data, meteorologists can predict the
140. The lesson ______, when I arrived . So I excused myself and came in.        number of hurricanes that ______ in the Caribbean in any given year.
      A. already started                                                               A. will appear                    B. are appearing
      B. has already started                                                           C. will have appeared             D. would appear
      C. had already started
      D. never started                                                           149. So you’re visiting another country this year. You already have your tick-
                                                                                 ets, and you leave next Tuesday at 4 PM. A week from now you ______ in the
141. When we came to live in the US my father couldn’t work as a dentist right   sunshine.
away because he ______ the state examination yet.                                       A. will relax                   B. will have relaxed
      A. wasn’t passing                                                                 C. will be relaxing             D. are relaxing
      B. not passed
      C. hadn’t been passing                                                     150. My dear husband promised that he ______ me a car for my birthday, but
      D. hadn’t passed                                                           he didn’t say which birthday.
                                                                                       A. would give                  B. will give
142. By the time the ancient Egyptian civilization began to flourish more than         C. used to give                D. gave
5,000 years ago, the onion ______ the main food throughout the Middle East
for many years.                                                                  151. One manufacturer, Smart Transport, Inc., ______ a press conference every
      A. had already been                B. was already                          other month.
      C. has already been                D. would have been                             A. holds                       B. had held
                                                                                        C. shall hold                  D. is holding

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