1

- Have you decided where to go?

- We have been thinking about it for the past week.

DECIDE/

THINK

2

I didn't smoke any cigarettes yesterday. I haven't smoked a cigarette for three weeks now.

NOT SMOKE/

NOT SMOKE

3

I haven’t seen any good films recently, expect for one I saw about a month ago.

NOT SEE/SEE

4

When exactly did the accident happen?

HAPPEN

5

How long have you been watching TV when you heard the shot ?

WATCH/

HEAR

6

The air was so stale that she wondered who had been smoking in her room.

SMOKE

7

By the time John started his job, we had already finished ours.

START/

FINISH

8

I hadn’t met Mrs. Parker before Ann introduced me to her.

NOT MEET/ INTRODUCE

9

The orchestra was playing the last movement of the opera when I reached the theatre.

PLAY/

REACH

10

As soon as the train arrived everybody woke up and rushed onto the platform.

ARRIVE/ WAKE UP/ RUSH

11

- My son hasn’t started work yet. He’s still at High School.

- How long has he been at school?

NOT START/

TO BE

12

This car has been in our family for 10 years already. My father had it for the first five years, I have had it for the last five ones.

TO BE/ HAVE/ HAVE

13

I bought a new house last year, but I haven’t sold my old house yet, so at the moment I have two houses.

BUY/NOT SELL/ HAVE

14

Mary has been in Japan for 2 years. She is working there and likes it very much.

TO BE

15

She has been doing housework all morning and she hasn’t done it yet.

DO/NOT DO

16

That man has been standing at the bus stop for the last half hour. Shall I tell him that the bus has gone ?

STAND

/GO

17

When the old lady came to her flat she saw at once that burglars had broken in during her absence.

COME/SEE /BREAK

18

He kept looking at her, wondering where he had seen her before.

KEEP / SEEN

19

We were suffering a good deal from the noise made by your guests when they were leaving your house last Saturday.

SUFFER/ LEAVE

20

- What have you done with my typewriter? I can’t find it anywhere.

- Tom has gone off with it.

DO/GO