I. Complete the following sentences by giving the correct tense or form of the verbs in the blanks:
1. I couldn’t resist ……laughing………..(laugh) at the way he answered my question.
2. She told me that her family …………LIVED…….(live) in that town long.
3. He refused…………JOINING…………(join) us on the trip to the mountains.
4. By the time next week, they ………………WILL HAVE SAT…….(sit) in the train on their way to London.
5. It is raining. We can’t do anything until it …………STOPS……..…..(stop).
6. If he doesn’t start at once, he ……………WILL BE…….….(be) late for the train.
7. All the tickets ………WILL HAVE BEEN SOLD…………..…(sell) out by the time we arriced at the theater.
8. The experiment …………WAS BEING MADE………...(make) when the lights went out.
9. It was one of the happiest evenings I ……………HAVE SPENT…..……..(spend).
10. The radio ………HAS BEEN PLAYING…………………….(play ) since 7 a.m. I wish someone would turn off it.
II. She spent two years studying in Spanish. TOOK
It.....................TOOK HER TWO YEARS TO STUDY IN SPANISH ..............................
III. Write complete sentences using the suggested words.
1. Galileo/be/consider/father/morden astronomy//
...............GALILEO WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FATHER OF MODERN ASTRONOMY...........................................
2. the value/sterling/fall/considerably/past week//
...................There has been a considerable fall in the value of sterling in the past week......................................
3. The film/start/when/we/arrive/cinema//
...........................THE FILM HAD STARTED WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE CINEMA.........................