MASTER COLLEGE/Getting ready for the Progress Test

A. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses:Simple Past, Present Perfect or Past Perfect

1. When I ...........(arrive) home last night, I discovered that Jane...................... (prepare) a beautiful candlelight dinner.

2. Since I began acting, I................. (perform) in two plays, a television commercial and a TV drama. However, I................. (speak, never even) publicly before I came to Hollywood in 1985.

3. By the time I got to the office, the meeting..............(begin, already) without me. My boss................ (be) furious with me and I.............. (be) fired.

4. When I ................(turn) the radio on yesterday, I .............(hear) a song that was popular when I was in high school. I ...............(hear, not) the song in years, and it (................bring) back some great memories.

5. Last week, I................. (run) into an ex-girlfriend of mine. We............. (see, not) each other in years, and both of us.............. (change) a great deal. I ...............(enjoy) talking to her so much that I............... (ask) her out on a date. We are getting together tonight for dinner.

6. When Jack................ (enter) the room, I............. (recognize, not) him because he ................(lose) so much weight and (grow) a beard. He looked totally different!

7. The Maya established a very advanced civilization in the jungles of the Yucatan; however, their culture................... (disappear, virtually) by the time Europeans first.............. (arrive) in the New World.

8. I (visit) so many beautiful places since I .............(come) to Utah. Before moving here, I................ (hear, never) of Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches, or Canyonlands.

B. Present and Past review:Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses: Simple Present, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Simple Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous

Lars: Excuse me, which movie are you waiting for?

Tony: We ................(wait) for the new Stars Wars movie. In fact, we .............(wait) here for more than five hours.

Lars: Five hours? When did you arrive?

Tony: We........... (get) here at 6:00 o'clock this morning. More than forty people.............. (stand, already) here waiting for tickets when we arrived.

Lars: I can't believe that! Are you serious?

Tony: Yeah, people ...............(take) Star Wars movies seriously. In fact, this particular showing has been sold out for over a week. We ..................(wait, just) in line to get a good seat in the theater.

Lars: When did you buy your tickets?

Tony: I ...........(buy) them last week by phone. I.......... (know) tickets would be hard to get because I............... (see) a news interview with a group of people standing in line to get tickets. They............ (wait) in line for almost a month to buy tickets for the first showing.

Lars: I don't believe that!

Tony: It's true. They............. (camp) out in front of Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles for about a month because they .........(want) to be the first people to see the movie.

C. UNIT 3: Choose the correct alternatives

1. The have .....................to estimate the size of the Deinocheirus for years (been trying/tried)

2. Jim has .........six paleontonlogists already (been interviewing/interviewed)

3. How long has he .............at the information centre? (been working/worked)

4. How many fires has the smoke jumper............this year? (been putting out-put out)

5. Have you ever...............a tree house in your garden? (been building/built)

6. They´ve ............trees all day (been planting/planted)

7. I´ve .............to school all year (been cycling/cycled)

8. Have you..............your rubbish yet? (been recycling/recycled)

D. UNIT 3: Fill in with good/tall/dangerous/little/difficult/far/beautiful/good. You need to write some of the adjectives in their comparative form.

1. Who grows..............vegetables in the whole school?

2. Was the Deinocheirus as..........as a Tyrannosaurus rex?

3. Some dinosours were .............than others.

4. The fire last summer was ..............to put out.

5. Which country in Europe recycles ............?

6. Does Jim have to cycle ........than Joe to get to school?

7. Which animal has ........fur?

8. This axe doesn´t cut as .............as the other one.

E. UNIT 4: Put the words in the correct order.

1. Jhon/Amelia/Farhart/never/before./heard/of/had

2. story/finished/I/morning./by/the/this/had

3. Many/had/times/"wolf"/too/shouted/before?/he

4. honest/hadn´t/people./with/his/the/king/been

5. 1933?/across/Earhart/flown/the/had/by/Atlantic

6. wrote/been/after/Knossos/She´d/there./about/she

7. before/to/Crete/hadn´t/he/been/this/summer/

8. Theseus/change/he left./to/had/before/forgotten/sails

F. UNIT 4: Choose the correct alternative

1. Kate always says really horrible things to people. She´s very(careful-unkind-dishonest)

2. Sally isn´t mean. She´s(brave-generous-patient) and gives people lovely gifts.

3. You look so (miserable-responsible-patient)

4. Mike headed(at/in/for) the next village

5. Do you get the /impression/reply/surprise)

6. She´s really (cheerful/impatient/unkind) and always smiles at people.

7. I want to be (foolish/honest/impatient) with you and tell you the truth.

8. Did Theseus kill the minotaur wit his(fuel/sails/sword)

G. UNIT 4: Simple Past or Present Perfect

1. The programme had started before Kelly ........home(get)

2. Tom read the story of Anansi after he .........to bed (go)

3. Had anybody heard of Amelia Earhart before her plane........?(crash)

4. Polly got a job after she ........to Los Angeles(move)

5. Had the plane landed before it ...........to snow? (start)

6. We hadn´t taken off when the storm ..........(begin)

7. Did they discover Earhart´s plane after it .........in the sea? (crash)

8. I hadn´t noticed the UFO before I ..........in my car (get)