Solutions 4 Unit 1

The bus got stuck in traffic, so, by the time we got to the cinema, we __________________ (miss) the start of the film.

• had missed
• was missing
• missed
• have missed

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past perfect affirmative

Clara __________________ (perform) in small-town theatres for years before she got her first role in a Hollywood film.

• had been performing
• performed
• has performed
• was performing

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past perfect continuous affirmative

Audiences were amazed when they first saw the film Citizen Kane. They __________________ (not see) anything like

it before.

• had not seen
• did not see
• had seen not
• have not seen

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past perfect negative

The flight was so long I __________________ (watch) five films from beginning to end by the time we landed

• had watched
• watched
• was watching
• will watch

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past perfect affirmative

My little brother started crying in the cinema because he thought I __________________ (eat) all of his ice cream.

• had eat
• was eating
• ate
• had eaten

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past perfect affirmative

It wasn’t until we left the cinema that I noticed my sister’s eyes were red. She __________________ (cry) all the way through the film

• was crying
• has cried
• is crying
• had been crying

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past perfect continuous affirmative

My father ___ have his own cine camera in the 1960s.

• use to

• used to

• would

• did

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used to

As a small child, Laura ___ watch cartoons on TV all day long.

• used to

• use to

• would

• did

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would

Match the following

• eccentric

• Andrea is mean with her money and doesn’t like spending it.

• sympathetic

• When I was crying because my goldfish died, Sally was kind.

• cruel

• That lady always wears unusual clothes and behaves strangely

• stingy

• Jack is very unkind – he enjoys saying things that hurt other people.

• single-minded

• Patrick only thinks about his own ambitions.

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personality adjectives

We were ___ starving when we got home from the cinema after watching three Star Wars films.

• very

• absolutely

• a bit

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extreme adjectives