Past Tenses

55 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
I... never... to Cambridge, but I once ... Oxford.
A) did/go/visit
B) have/been/visited
C) have/been/had visited
D) was/visiting/had been visiting
E) will/have gone/don’t visit
56 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
He ... even before I ... a finger on him.
A) screams/was laid
B) screamed/had laid
C) would scream/am laying
D) screams/laid
E) screamed/would lay
57 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
Why ... you come yesterday? We ... a good time.
A) don’t/can have
B) didn’t/could have had
C) will/might have
D) doesn’t/will have
E) did not/shall have
58 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
After my parents ... home my life ... better.
A) had returned/became
B) will return/become
C) return/have become
D) return/have become
E) return/would become
59 Choose the appropriate forms of the verbs.
He says he ... his friend whom he ... for many years.
A) meets/didn’t see
B) met/hadn’t seen
C) met/haven’t seen
D) will meet/sees
E) meet/doesn’t see
60 Choose the appropriate verb forms.
She ... for a long time, so she ... very angry with me.
A) has waited / was
B) had waited / is
C) had been waiting / was
D) had been waiting / is
E) has been waiting / was
61 Choose the appropriate verb forms.
The man whom I ... with ... the dean of our faculty.
A) was talking / were
B) were talking / were
C) can talk / were
D) were talking / was
E) was talking / was