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(c) Choose the correct option to fill in the blank in each sentence: [15] (1) If I ______ you were…
(c) Choose the correct option to fill in the blank in each sentence: [15]
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(1) If I ______ you were coming, I would have come to the airport.
- (a)Knew
- (b)Would have known
- (c)Had known
- (d)Could know
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(2) Jason __________ in Moscow since he was born.
- (a)Will be
- (b)Has been
- (c)Could be
- (d)Should be
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(3) By the time I graduate from school next year, I _______ here for five years.
- (a)Will be
- (b)Should be
- (c)Will have been
- (d)Have been
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(4) My friend, Darren ________ in Amsterdam now, but he says he’ll move soon.
- (a)Is living
- (b)Will be living
- (c)Has been living
- (d)Should be living
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(5) By the eighteenth century, English shipping _________ as efficient as the Dutch.
- (a)Will become
- (b)Has become
- (c)Had become
- (d)Is going to become
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(6) As usual, next year I __________ my vacation in my country house.
- (a)Will spend
- (b)Will have spent
- (c)Have spent
- (d)Am spent
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(7) We _________ in Norway for nearly 25 years until we moved to Scotland two years ago.
- (a)Were living
- (b)Had been living
- (c)Should have lived
- (d)Lived
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(8) As soon as you _______ the alarm, press the button.
- (a)Will hear
- (b)Would hear
- (c)Hear
- (d)Heard
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(9) This time next week I _______ to San Fransisco.
- (a)Will be flying
- (b)Have flown
- (c)May be flow
- (d)Could have flown
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(10) I usually __________ after my brother when my parents go out.
- (a)Looked after
- (b)Have look after
- (c)Look after
- (d)Did looked after
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(11) By the time the troops ________, the war will have ended.
- (a)Will arrive
- (b)Arrived
- (c)Shall arrive
- (d)Arrive
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(12) I was not surprised to hear that Monica _____ an accident as she is a very reckless driver
- (a)Has
- (b)Had
- (c)Has had
- (d)Had had
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(13) Hardly had the minister finished his speech when the earthquake ________ the stadium.
- (a)Shook
- (b)Shaken
- (c)Would have shaken
- (d)Did shake
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(14) Before my trip to Paris two years ago, I _________ to France.
- (a)Have never been
- (b)Would never have been
- (c)Had never been
- (d)None of the above
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(15) By this time tomorrow, he __________ at his job for a week.
- (a)Will be working
- (b)Will work
- (c)Will have been working
- (d)Has been working
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From ISC 2022 Specimen English Language Paper 1, question 3(c).