Sp_9 Revision 3

Two fishermen reported ......................of a strange ten-legged creature in the lake yesterday.

• sightings 
• sights
• horrifying 
• violent

Can you imagine what would happen if a dinosaur somehow ..................... and was still alive today?

• survived 
• existed
• lived
• died

Jonathan’s vivid ...................... is what makes him able to write spine-chilling ghost stories.

• imagination 
•  illusion
• brain
• mind

Last night I dreamt that a ......................whirlpool was pulling me to the bottom of the ocean.

• horrifying
• violent
• reflection 
• shadow

Did the magician really make the man disappear or was it just an optical......................?

• sightings
• sights
• imagination
• illusion

Claire .................. (drive) along a countryroad, when a huge creature came out of nowhere and fell onto her car.

• was driving
• had driven
• drove
• had been driving

Sandra .................. (paint) for three years before she sold her first painting.

• painted
• had painted
• had been painting
• was painting

The research team .................. (find) an unusual fossil and took it back to the lab to examine it.

• found
• had found
• had been finding
• was finding

While Tom _____________(read) Amely ______________(watch)a documentary on TV.

• was reading/ watched
• read/ was watching
• read/ watched
• was reading/ was watching

When I _________(come) home, my mother ______ already_________(prepare) dinner.

• came/ had prepared
• came/ prepared
• had come/ had prepared
• came/ had been preparing