Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question
1. Nam wanted to know what time _________.
| A. the movie began | B. the movie begins | C. did the movie begin | D. does the movie begin |
2. I wondered _________ the right thing.
| A. if I am doing | B. was I doing | C. am I doing | D. whether I was doing |
3. He told me _________ him up at six o’clock.
| A. please pick | B. to pick | C. should pick | D. I can pick |
4. The woman asked _________ catch a bus to school.
| A. can the children | B. if the children can | C. whether the children could | D. could the children |
5. Bob said he _________ a lot of good marks that semester.
| A. gets | B. getting | C. have got | D. got |
6. They told their manager that they _________ their best to do the tasks.
| A. try | B. will try | C. are trying | D. would try |
7. She asked me where I _________ the previous night.
| A. was | B. am | C. had been | D. has been |
8. She _________ me whether I liked French fries.
| A. ask | B. asks | C. asked | D. asking |
9. “_________ off the television”, he said.
| A. Please turn | B. Please to turn | C. Turned please | D. Please, turning |
10. William said that the train _________ yet.
| A. had arrived | B. hadn’t arrived | C. haven’t arrived | D. hasn’t arrived |
11. He asked the children _________ the electric sockets.
| A. not touching | B. not to touch | C. if they don’t touch | D. don’t touch |
12. David asked me who _________ the writer of that book.
| A. was | B. were | C. is | D. has been |
13. He wants to know whether I _________ back to Hoi An the next day.
| A. come | B. came | C. will come | D. would come |
14. They asked me how many students _________.
| A. I taught | B. I teach | C. I did teach | D. did I teach |
15. Laura wanted to know _________ shopping the previous afternoon.
| A. if we had been going | B. that if we had been going | C. we were going | D. that we were going |
16. Lucy asked me why I had not gone to Paris _________.
| A. the summer before | B. summer ago | C. the next summer | D. last summer |
17. Tony told me that they _________ meat two days _________.
| A. have not eaten / ago | B. had not eaten / before | C. did not eat / before | D. would not eat / ago |
18. Charlie _________ that his father was in hospital.
| A. told me | B. told to me | C. said me | D. asked me |
19. Julia said that she _________ there at noon.
| A. is going to be | B. was going to be | C. will be | D. can be |
20. He said that Linda and John _________ married _________.
| A. were getting / tomorrow | B. are getting / the next day | C. were getting / the next day | D. will getting / the day after |
21. Mr. Brown said that he _________ TV the night before.
| A. was watching | B. watched | C. had watched | D. has watched |
22. The teacher said Columbus _________ America in 1492.
| A. discovered | B. had discovered | C. was discovering | D. would discover |
23. Andrew told me that they ______ fish two ______ days.
| A. have not eaten / ago | B. had not eaten / previous | C. did not eat / before | D. would not eat / last |
24. I asked Martha ______ to enter law school.
| A. are you planning | B. if she is planning | C. was she planning | D. if she was planning |
25. Jackson told his teacher that he ______ his assignment the day ______.
| A. had submitted / following | B. will submit / previous | C. would submit / following | D. was submitting / previous |
26. Laura said she had finished that book since ______.
| A. yesterday | B. two days ago | C. the day before | D. the next day |
27. John asked me ______ the football match on TV the night before.
| A. that I saw | B. had I seen | C. if I had seen | D. if had I seen |
28. My uncle told us that ______.
| A. he must go now | B. he had to go then | C. he had to go now | D. he must go now |
29. Someone ______ me there had been an accident on the motorway.
| A. asked | B. said | C. spoke | D. told |
30. The teacher asked the boys ______.
| A. why did they fight | B. why they were fighting | C. why they fight | D. why were they fighting |