Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

19. Choose the best answer.

If we had tried, we … the train.

A) ought to have reached B) should have reached

C) could have reached D) had to reach

20. Choose the answer.

We were late. When we came, everyone … their lunch and

they were sitting in the garden having a drink.

A) had had B) had C) has had D) had been having

Read & choose the correct answer (21-24).

Born in 1898, Paul Robeson was the son of a runaway

slave. He was the only black student to try out for the

Rutgers University football team. In response, the other

players beat him up and pulled out his fingernails. He bore

the abuse to prove his worth. He not only graduated at the

top of his class, but had been an All-American, the top

honour for a university football player, twice. Within four

years after graduation, he was one of the best-known actors

and singers in the United States. Yet because he was a black

man with strong political beliefs, he was forced to spend

much of his life in England, and when he did return to the

United States, his passport was taken away.