BT on thi vao 10 theo dang: TENSE AND VERB FORM (16 bai)

TEST 1
As many as 1,500 people (1)……………(kill) in Haiti after tropical storm Jean (2)………….(hit) the island nation more than a week ago, dumping heavy rains that caused deadly flooding and mudslides. At the present in Haiti, relief workers (3)………….(struggle) to distribute supplies to hungry residents who (4)……………(not eat) since their home (5)……………..(destroy).
The northern city of Gonaives (6)……………..(devastate), and residents (7)………….(wade) through streets trying to find missing loved ones and mourning the dead. Mass graves (8)………….(dig) and hundreds of bodies were in the town,s hospital, turning it into a morgue. Some officials have reported that as much as 80 per cent of the country (9)……………(be) under water to some degree, and they expect fatalities to rise as the water (10)…………….(subside).
TEST 2
Put the verbs in the parentheses in the correct tenses or forms.
Some of the foreigners (1. live)……………in Oxford here for quite a long time, but they (2 not speak)…………….English very well. My friend Peter, for instance, who (3.come)……………from Basle, and (4.come)…………….here a year ago, still (5. speak)…………….with a strong Swiss accent. He has come here on business. Although I (6. be)…………….here for only three months, I (7. pick)………..up enough English to be able to correct Petter frequently but as I (8. learn)…………….English at school here, I have an unfair advantage over Peter, who is a good fellow and was most helpful in showing me about London during the first weeks of my stay.
TEST 3
Put the verbs in the parentheses in the correct tenses or forms.
Jose: You (1. speak)……………..English very well. You (2. study)…………..a lot of English before you came to the United States ?
Ali: Yes, I (3. study)…………..English for 10 years in my own country. And also I (4. spend)……………some time in Canada a couple of years ago. I (5. pick)…………..up a lot of English while I (6. live)…………..there.
TEST 4
Put the verbs in the parentheses in the correct tenses or forms.
It (1. be)……………now 6 p.m., and Jack (2. be)……………tired because he (3. work)……………..hard all day. He (4. be)…………..also hungry because he (5. have)……………nothing to eat since breakfast. His wife usually brings sandwiches at lunchtime but today for some reason she (6. not come)……………
TEST 5
Put the verbs in the parentheses in the correct tenses or forms.
Tom: You (1. hear)………….the news about David?
Harriet: No. What (2. happen)………………?
Tom: He (3. have)………………an accident. While he (4. walk)…………..down some steps he (5. fall)……………..and (6. break)……………his leg.
TEST 6
Put the verbs in the parentheses in the correct tenses or forms
I (1. be)………..…….in Carolina for six weeks and I,m enjoying life here very much. I (2. work)………….…….very hard since I arrived but the job is interesting and everyone (3. be)………………….……….very kind to me. When I arrived in the United States, I (4. stay)…………a few days in New York, and there something awful happened. My wallet (5. steal)…………….. While I (6. look)………….in a shop window on Sixth Avenue, I felt my shoulder bag move. I looked down at it and I realized that someone had opened and taken my wallet. If I (7. be)…..…………..more careful, it (8. not happen)…………….. I didn,t see the person at all but I,m trying to forget all that.
TEST 7
Put the verbs in the parentheses in the correct tenses or forms
I (1. live)……………in a small hotel at the moment but Bill has asked me to share his flat with him. He (2. live)………………on the sixth floor of a big block. It,s a bit untidy at the moment because it (3. decorate)……………but it,ll be fine. We,ve arranged everything and I (4. move)……………in next week. I,d love a holiday because the job is really tiring and I don,t think it,ll get any easier. Some friends of mine are going on holiday soon. If I (5. not have)……………to work so hard I (6. go)…………..with them, but it,s impossible at the moment.
TEST 8
Put the verbs in the parentheses in the correct tenses or forms
My friends Paul and Ellen (1. just return)……………from their holiday in Europe. Before they (2. leave