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

1. 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.

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

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

4. We _____ that this picture______ worth at least 500 dolars.

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

6. Jack______with his parents this evening when his girlfriend from New York telephoned to let him know that she_____ with someone else.

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

8. He _____ his boss that he ______back after his vacation.

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

10. Scientists _____ that some artificial photosynthesis______ possible.

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

16. The full impact of the strike____ till next week, by which time present stocks_____ .

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

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

19. By the time the English team____ at the summit, both the Japanese and Dutch teams_____ up to Himalayas.

20. 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.

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

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

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

24. Shelly ____ her mid-term mark because she_____ to her instructor.

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