EXERCISE 2: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

1. Stephen ……on the phone when I came in.
   A. has been talking                B. was talking                C. has talked                  D. talked
2. Don’t make noise. My mother ………. with her friends.
   A. is talking                             B. talks                            C. was talking                D. talked
3. He ………..in this office for ten years by next Monday.
   A. will work                            B. would be working      C. will have been working    D. will be working
4. John ………………. at the moment so he can’t answer the phone.
   A. works                                   B. is working                   C. has worked                D. will work
5. She ……….. in the departure lounge for a long time.
   A. has waited                           B. waits                             C. was waiting               D. is waiting
6. It is raining now. It began raining two hours ago. So it ………….. for two hours.
   A. is raining                             B. rained                           C. has rained                 D. rains
7. This is the most interesting book ……….. .
   A. I had read                            B. I’ve read                       C. I’ve ever readed        D. I’ve ever read
8. By next month, I ……….my first novel.
   A. will finish                             B. am going to finish      C. finish                        D. will have finished
9. Some high school students take part in ……the handicapped.
   A. helping                                 B.to help                            C. help                          D. being help
10. The mission of this society is …………community education for street children.
    A. to provide                            B. provide                          C. providing                  D. provided
11. Shy people often find it …………………… to take part in group discussions.
    A. difficult                                B. difficulty                        C. difficultly                 D. be difficult
12. I am unable……………………. to the meeting on Monday evening, please apologise for my absence.
    A. to come                                B. come                               C. coming                     D. to be come
13. ………………….. it several times, he didn’t want to read it once again.
    A. Reading                               B. To read                           C. To have read            D. Having read
14. ……………………. that he was poor, I offered to pay his fare.
    A. Knowing                              B. Known                           C. Knew                       D. Having knew
15. ………………….. photographs of the place, I had no desire to go there.
    A. Seeing                                  B. Seen                                 C. Saw                          D. Having seen
16. I hate ………………….. a child …………………… .
    A. see/ crying                          B. see/ cry                            C. seeing/ to cry            D. seeing/ cry
17. I notice the lorry …………………… down the hill.
    A. to come                                B. came                                 C. coming                     D. having come
18. I observed a blue car …………………. very fast towards the motorway.
    A. having driven                     B. driven                               C. driving                     D. to drive
19. They left the restaurant, ……………………. two hours over lunch.
    A. spending                            B. spent                                  C. after spend               D. having spent
20. The police accused him of……. fire to the building but he denied ….in the area on the night of the fire.
    A. setting/ being                    B. setting/ having been           C. set/ be                   D. having set/ having been
21. Someone told us ……………………… sit on the stairs.
    A. don’t                                   B. not                                         C. not to                       D. to not
22. “Don’t forget to ring me”
    A. I advised David to ring me                                                 B. I reminded David to ring me
    C. I offered to be ring                                                               D. You promised to ring me
23. The doctor advised him ……………………. and to take up some sport.
    A. stop smoke                        B. stop smoking                        C. to stop smoking      D. to stop to smoke
24. I have told him never ……….. to buy some potatoes on the way home.
    A. come                                   B. comes                                     C. came                         D. to come
25. Professional people expect ……………….them when it is necessary to cancel an appointment.
    A. you to call                          B. that you would call              C. you calling                D. that you are calling
26. I’d rather ……………………… at home.
    A. to stay                                 B. staying                      C. stayed                       D. stay
27. I couldn’t help ……………… when I heard the story.
    A. laughing                             B. to laugh                       C. laughed                    D. laugh
28. You can’t stop me from ……………… what I want.
    A. doing                                   B. do                               C. to do                         D. that I do
29. Have you finished ……………… your hair yet?
    A. wash                                    B. washed                       C. washing                   D. to wash
30. My mother rarely allows me ……………… things for myself.
    A. to buy                                  B. bought                        C. buy                           D. buying
31. She always encouraged her son ……………… .
    A. to jog                                   B. jogged                         C. is jogging                  D. jogging
32. I regret ……………… you that we cannot approve your application.
    A. inform                                 B. to inform                    C. informed                  D. informing
33. That old man tried to stop ………………because of his bad health.
    A. smoke                                  B. smokes                        C. smoked                     D. smoking

    1 B	2 A	3 C	4 B	5 A	6 C	7 D	8 D	9 A
    10 A	11 A	12 A	13 D	14 A	15 D	16 D	17 C	18 C
    19 D	20 B	21 C	22 B	23 C	24 D	25 A	26 D	27 A
    28 A	29 C	30 A	31 A	32 B	33 D