12 Tenses M.6

We were late. When we got there, the soccer game __________.

1. 
   

• has started

• have started

• would start

• had started

A: Are you going to Emma's party.
B: I don't know. It __________.

• all depend

• will all depend

• all depends

• is all depended

When you go by train, make sure you __________ an express, not a train that stops at all the stations.

• gets

• get

•  would get

• should get

More middle-aged people suffer from heart trouble than __________.

• general belief

• believing generally

• generally believed

• to believe generally

He gave us warning to stay away from the machine while it __________.

•  had worked

• was working

• would work

• would be working

I ______ the book on the reading list before I attended the lecture.

• have read

• had read

• would have read

• read

My uncle __________ until he was forty-five.

• married

• didn't get married

• was not marrying

• hadn't married

A : Do you know our city?
B: No, this is the first time I __________ here.

• was

• came

• am coming

• have been

If a book is __________, it will surely __________ the reader.

• interested ------ interest

• interesting ------ interested

•  interesting ------ interest

•  interested ------ interested

Because of the shortage of coal, attempts __________ to use natural gas.

• have made

• are being made

• having made

• will be making