Bài tập môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 về thì của động từ - Verbs tenses

BÀI TẬP VỀ THÌ CỦA ĐỘNG TỪ - VERBS TENSES
Exercise 1: Choose among A, B, C, or D the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. 
1. When I got to the station, I_________ John.
A. met	B. had met	C. was meeting	D. have met
2. When I got to the station, John_________ in a coffee shop.
A. sat 	B. was sitting	C. had sat	D. is sitting
3. When I got to the station, John_________ and I didn’t see him.
A. left	B. was leaving	C. had left 	D. has left
4. When I got to the station, John_________ for me for ten minute.
A. has been waiting	B. had been waiting	C. was waiting	D. is waiting
5. When John_________ here tomorrow, I_________ you.
A. A. arrives/ call	B. will arrive/ will call	
C. arrives/ will call 	D. is arriving/ will be calling
6. When you_________ here at this time tomorrow, I_________ the room up.
A. comes/ will tidy	 	B. come/will be tidying 
C. Will come/ will be tidying 	D. come/ will have tidied
7. When you_________ here by this time tomorrow, I_________ the room up.
A. come/ will have tidied	B. come /will be tidying	
C. Will come/ will have tidied	D. are coming/ have tidied
8. When it rains heavily, John usually_________ at home.
A. stay	B. will stay	C. stays	D. will be staying
9. When it rained heavily, John usually_________ at home.
A. stays	B. stayed	C. was staying	D. had stayed
10. I_________ on the street when it rained.
A. was walking	B. have been walking	C. had walked	D. walked
11. John_________ anything since yesterday.
A. didn’t say	B. hasn’t said	C. has said	D. said
12. In a few days, there_________ an important meeting.
A. will have	B. is	C. will be	D. is having
13. How many questions_________ you_________ so far.
A. do/answer	B. will/ answer	C. did/answer	D. have/answered
14. I_________ John. He_________ me about his trip to Singapore.
A. met/told	B. met/was telling	C. have met/told	D. met/ have told
15. Look! A boy_________ run after a little dog.
A. runs	B. are running	C. is running	D. was running
16. This is the best book, I_________.
A. have ever read it	B. have ever read	C. have read	D. read
17. That was the most interesting story I_________.
A. have ever listened	B. had ever listened	C. had ever listened to D. listened to it
18. China_________ to the North of Vietnam.
A. is lying	B. was lying	C. lies	D. lay
19. The police caught the thief who_________ John’s motorcycle.
A. had stolen	B. has stolen	C. was stolen	D. stole
20. I think that John_________ the money before we need it.
A. have returned	B. has returned	C. will have returned	D. had returned
21. When I looked out of the door, I found out that my motorcycle_________.
A. was stolen	B. had been stolen	C. has been stolen	D. had stolen
22. When_________ you first_________ Hanoi?
A. have/visited	B. will/visit	C. do/visit	D. did/visit
23. This is the first time I_________ Hanoi.
A. visited	B. am visiting	C. have visited	D. will visit
24. Right now, I_________ some help. What are you doing? Can you give me a hand?
A. am needing	B. need	C. will need 	D. have needed
25. Last night, while I_________ a letter the phone_________.
A. wrote/rang	B. wrote/was ringing	
C. was writing/was ringing	D. was writing/rang
26. At this time yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s daughter_________ the floor.
A. were cleaning	B. cleaned	C. was cleaning	D. had been cleaning
27. He hardly_________ up before the sun_________.
A. had gotten/rose	B. gets/rise	C. got/rose	D. gets/rises
28. In two weeks, we_________ our vacation in Halong bay.
A. have spent	B. will have spent	C. will spend	D. had spent
29. In the last two weeks, we_________ our vacation in Halong bay.	
A. have spent	B. would have spent	C. spent	D. had spent
30. Mary_________ the meal before her friends came.
A. was repairing	B. had been repairing	C. had repaired	D. repaired
Exercise 2: Supply the right form of each verb in each blanket.
	John has always traveled a lot. In fact, he was only two years old when he first flew to the US. His mother is Italian and his father is American. John was born in France, but his parents (1. meet)_________ in Cologne, Germany after they (2. live)_________ there for five years. They had met one day while John’s father was reading a book in the library and his mother (3. sit)_________ beside him. John (4. travel)_________ a lot because his parents also travel a lot. As a matter of fact, John is visiting his parents in France at the moment. He lives in New York now, but (5. visit)_________ his parents for the last few weeks. He really enjoys living in New York, but he also loves coming to visit his parents at least once a year. This year he (6. fly)_________ over 5,000 miles for his job. He has been working for Jackson & Co. for almost two years now. He (7. be)_________ pretty sure that he (8. work)_________ for them next year as well. His job requires a lot of travel. In fact, by the end of this year, he (9. travel)_________ over 120,000 miles! His next journey will be to Australia. He really doesn’t like going to Australia because it is so far. This time he (10. fly)_________ from Paris after a meeting with the company’s French partner. He will have been sitting for over 18 hours by the time he arrives!
Exercise 3: Supply the right form of each verb in each blanket.
The world is getting warmer and the oceans are rising. Why this (1. happen)_______? One answer is that it could simply be part of a natural process. After all, there 
(2. be)________ ice ages and long periods of warmth, so we could just (3. experience)_________ another warming trend. This kind of answer (4. have)_______ more supporters a few years ago. What scientists now (5. believe)_________ is that human activity is the cause. 
For more than two hundred years, human (6. gradually change)________ the atmosphere, mainly as a result of industrial pollution. We (7. create)_________ an atmosphere around the earth that, like a giant glass container, (8. let)________ heat from the sun through and then (9. hold)_________ it in temperatures, and sea levels (10. keep)_________ rising? The general answer is unfortunately yes. 
Exercise 4: Supply the right form of each verb in each blanket.
Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim (1. see)_______ monsters in the sea. Though people (2. often laugh)_______ at stories told by seamen, it is now known that many of these 'monsters' which (13. at times sight)_______ are simply strange fish. Occasionally, unusual creatures (4. wash)_______ to the shore, but few of them (5. catch)_______ out at sea. Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar. A small fishing-boat (6. carry)_______ miles out to sea by the powerful fish as it pulled on the line. Realizing that this was no ordinary fish, the fisherman made every effort (7. not damage)_______ it in any way. When it was eventually brought to shore, it was found to be over thirteen feet long. It had a head like a horse, big blue eyes, shining silver skin, and a bright red tail. The fish, which (8. send)_______ to a museum where it (9. examine)_______ by a scientist now, is called an oarfish. Such creatures (10. rarely see)_______ alive by man as they live at a depth of six hundred feet.
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