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Choose the alternative that beset answers each question below

___ 1. The AU _______________ in Addis Ababa.
A. usually meets C. is usually meeting
B. has usually met D. was usually met
___ 2. Light ___________faster than sound.
A.travel C. travelled
B. is travelling D. travels
___ 3. My mother five languages and _______two more.
A. speaks / understands C. has spoken / understood
B. is speaking/ is understanding D. spoke / understands
____4.The teacher very fast but today he _______slowly.
A.is usually speaking / speaks C. usually spoke / speak
B. usually speaks /is speaking D. usually speaks / spoke
____5. The police that the children died in an accident
A. believes C. believe
B. is to believe D. are believing
____6.Where is your mother? She ___________
A. comes now C. is just coming
B. is already coming D. comes soon
____7. Elias ______in this company since he graduated.
A. is working C. had worked
B. has worked D. will have worked
____ 8. What _________since you returned from abroad?
A. have you done C. are you doing
B. have done D. did you do
___ 9. Since the day he to this organization Alex has done a lot.
A. has come C. came
B. comes D. had come
____ 10. I ________ him last Sunday but I him since then.
A. saw/haven’t seen C. saw / didn’t see
B. have seen / didn’t see D. have seen /haven’t seen
____ 11. I __________ the fiction “Great Expectation”
A. read C. had read
B. have read D. am read
____ 12. It is the bandits who ______ for all the damages.
A. has to blame C. is to be blamed
B. have to blame D. are to be blamed
___ 13. Lazy students seldom if ever tests.
A. to have passed C. pass
B. has passed D. passed
 ____ 14. The old school is likely by this time.
A. to have torn down C. to be tearing down
B. to tear down D. to have been torn down
____ 15. Before Luis Pasteur died, he the science of bacteriology.
A. should have discovered C. has discovered
B. was discovered D. haddiscovered
____ 16. She has often for her twin sister.
A. mistook C. mistake
B. has mistaken D. mistaken
____ 17. Zahra is going to get married as soon as she _________ her studies.
A. will complete C. completed
B. had completed D. has completed
____ 18. The famous pilot is said about 1 million miles.
A. to have flown C. would fly
B. to fly D. will fly
____ 19. A: Ann is in hospital.
B: Yes I know. I her tomorrow.
A. will see C. am going to see
B. am seeing D. will have seen
____ 20. John and Sara _________ next Sunday.
A. will get married C. are going to get married
B. are getting married D. will have married
____ 21. Do you think our teacher ___ our exercise by next Monday?
A. will correct C. will have corrected
B. is going to correct D. is correcting
____ 22. I ________oranges when the fruits seller arrives.
A. will buy C. am buying
B. am going to buy D. will have bought
____ 23. Wait! I you to the station.
A. am driving C. will drive
B. will have driven D. am going to drive
____ 24. I ________ you know when the builders finish decorating.
A. will let C. will have let
B. am letting D. am going
____ 25. I ________ for his reply since last week.
A. had been waiting C. have been waiting
B. was waiting D. am waiting
__ 26. By this time tomorrow, I with my grandchildren.
A. will play C. am playing
B. will have been playing D. have played
____ 27. Neither has he graduated from university nor __________ any relevant
course.
A. take B. took C. taken D. takes
____28. When I visited her, she bed – ridden for six months.
A. has been C. have been
B. had been D. were
____29.I in 2006.
A. graduated C. have graduated
B. will graduate D. would graduate
____ 30. Janet home.
A. went B. has gone C. had gone D. have gone
____ 31.It’s 6 o’clock. She home.
A. will reach C. is reaching
B. will have reached D. reached
____ 32. Before she changed profession, she _________ many awards for her
contribution to classical music.
A. won C. has won
B. had won D. wins
___ 33. John is one of the players who _______ elected for the test- matches.
A. has been B. have been C. is D. was
____ 34. I promise I study harder
A. will B. am going to C. may D. must
___ 35. I know a great little restaurant we can get lunch.
A. that B. who C. where D. whose
____ 36. Sam knows a man brother works for the president.
A. who B. whose C. whom D. whom
____ 37. The movie we saw last week won three awards.
A. Who B. which C. that D. B & C
____38. Most of the people ______ she met were from Sydney.
A. who B. whom C. that D. all
____ 39. The sun, is like a brightorange ball, sank behind the hills.
A. which B. whose C. that D. A & C
____ 40. I ______________ the piano since the age of five
A. played. C. am playing
B. was playing D. have played