Choose the best answer A, B , C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. Those people always get their house _______ whenever they go away for a few days.
| A. be looked after | B. look after | C. to look after | D. looked after |
2. A red rose ______ the beautiful girl by her old school boyfriend.
| A. gave to | B. was given | C. was given to | D. gave |
3. Last night a tornado swept through Rockvill. It ______ everything in its path.
| A. destroyed | B. was destroyed | C. was being destroyed | D. had been destroyed |
4. ______ this work ______ before you went to Moscow?
| A. Will / have been done | B. Has / been done | C. Will / be done | D. Had / been done |
5. If you ________ about it, will you be able to answer?
| A. are asked | B. ask | C. will be asked | D. asked |
6. “Can’t we do something about the situation?” – “Something ______ right now.”
| A. is doing | B. is do | C. is being done | D. has been doing |
7. The money ________ to him 2 months ago, but it ________ back yet.
| A. was lent / had not been given | B. has been lent / was not given | C. was lent / has not given | D. was lent / has not been given |
8. Education _______ to be the most important element to develop a country.
| A. often be considered | B. can often consider | C. often considered | D. can often be considered |
9. This exercise may _________ with a pencil.
| A. be written | B. be to write | C. be writing | D. write |
10. She could easily _________ for a top model.
| A. be mistaken | B. have mistaken | C. been mistaken | D. to be mistaken |
11. The cutting down of trees _________ to prevent forest destruction.
| A. should control | B. should be controlled | C. would control | D. controlling |
12. All the students _________ finish their assignments before they went camping.
| A. had made | B. had made to | C. had been made | D. had been made to |
13. Mr. Pike _________ the most famous archaeologist in our city.
| A. thinks to be | B. is thought to be | C. is thought that | D. thought to be |
14. The X-ray _________ in 1895.
| A. is believed to have been discovered | B. is believed to be discovered | C. believed to have been discovered | D. believed to discover |
15. Reagan _________ an actor years ago.
| A. is said to be | B. was said being | C. was said have been | D. is said to have been |
16. It _________ that learning a foreign language _________ a lot of time.
| A. says / is taken | B. is saying / has been taken | C. is said / takes | D. was said / was taken |
17. The telephone _________ by Alexander Graham Bell.
| A. invented | B. is inventing | C. be invented | D. was invented |
18. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony _________ next weekend.
| A. is going to be performed | B. has been performed | C. will be performing | D. will have performed |
19. English has become a second language in some countries where _________ for administration, broadcasting and education.
| A. is used | B. it is used | C. used | D. being used |
20. In the US, the first stage of compulsory education _________ as elementary education.
| A. to be generally known | B. is generally known | C. generally known | D. is generally knowing |
21. English _________ as an official language in this city for three hundred years.
| A. has always been spoken | B. has been spoken always | C. has always spoken | D. had always spoken |
22. I don’t understand why the students didn’t keep silent while the speech _________.
| A. has been made | B. was made | C. would be made | D. was being made |
23. There’s somebody walking behind us. I think _________.
| A. we are following | B. we are being followed | C. we are followed | D. we are being following |
24. We’re late. The film _________ by the time we get to the cinema.
| A. will already start | B. will be already started | C. will already have started | D. will be starting |
25. I hate _________ personal questions by newly-acquainted friends.
| A. to be asking | B. be asked | C. being asked | D. of asking |
26. I expected _________ to the party, but I wasn’t.
| A. to invite | B. to be invited | C. being invited | D. inviting |
27. Her watch needs _________.
| A. to be repaired | B. to repair | C. repairing | D. A & C are correct |
28. I can’t bear thinking back of that time. I’d rather _________ equally.
| A. treat | B. be treated | C. have treated | D. treating |
29. More schools are hoped _________ in rural areas in the coming years.
| A. to have been built | B. to build | C. to have built | D. to be built |
30. I am going to have my car _________.
| A. service | B. to be serviced | C. serviced | D. servicing |