Mixed Tenses Advanced Level Test – Quiz (Online Exercise With Answers) 3

Marissa Pestle’s first novel was _____ published in America a fortnight ago and has _____ to come out at all in Britain let alone be translated.

It was only after she _____ English that she _____ to make some foreign friends.

For decades, researchers _____ to wrest predictions from string theory, the leading candidate for a more fundamental understanding of the universe.

We _____ that this picture ______ worth at least 500 dolars.

Next weekend, I _____ my proficiency exam, so I _____ more or less 300 questions so far.

Jack ______ with his parents this evening when his girlfriend from New York telephoned to let him know that she _____ engaged to someone else.

When Sakura _____ at the theatre, Shannon was really angry because he _____ for her for more than an hour.

He _____ his boss that he ______ back after his vacation.

By the time Richard ____ from the army, he _____ involved in three separate riots.

Scientists _____ that some artificial photosynthesis ______ possible.

In Asia, for many centuries, physicians _____ foot massage as an aid to the treatment of major health problems.

By the time we ____ our preparations for the congress, most of the participants_____ at the hall.

I ____ Jerusalem Peace Forest so as to escape from the fear and loathing of the soldiers many times ever since I _____ to Israel a year ago.

The Bastille Prison, where many important people _____ at one time imprisoned, _____ today visited by tourists.

Tony is a wonderful singer; his mother tells me that he _____ professionally since she was four.

The full impact of the strike ____ till next week, by which time present stocks _____.

We moved to Myerson in 1995. At the time of our arrival, the city _____ through a period of expansion.

Although he ____ not having the talent necessary to become a violinist, he _____ practising with great determination.

By the time the English team ____ at the summit, both the Japanese and Dutch teams _____ up to the Himalayas.

The Cambrian _____ an important moment in the history of life on earth and a time of radical evolutionary experimentation when many animals first _____ in the fossil record.

Although aspirin _____ primarily regarded as a simple pain killer, it _____ to prevent heart attacks, too.

Until recently, the first European who ____ to the New World ______ to be Christopher Columbus, who was a famous Italian navigator.

The committee is determined not to leave _____ they have finished the project.

Shelly ____ her mid-term mark because she _____ to her instructor.

Unfortunately, the new earthquake regulations _____ any difference to the people who _____ under the buildings.