Before her injury, my sister _____________ tennis professionally.

The film _____________ by the time we _____________ to the cinema.

A. had already started/got

B. already started/ had gotten

C. had already started/had gotten

D. has already started/ got 

We can win only if we remain united, and so we must support them the moment they _____________on strike.

We can go by _____________ road, because _____________ are normally free from heavy traffic at this time of day.

Although at that time my knowledge of German was very poor, I _____________ most of what they said.

A. did understand

B. managed understand

C. didn’t understand

D. have understood 

When my mother is busy preparing dinner, my father often gives her a hand _________ the housework.

Ben asked Jane where _____________ the previous Sunday.

We live in a large house in _____________ middle of the village.

People are advised to _____________ smoking because of its harm to their health.

My younger sister is not _____________ to drive a car.

I _____________ to see my girlfriend on my way home.

She was the first woman _____________ the ship.

You _____________ Peter yesterday. He’s been on business for a week now.

Women no longer have to do hard work nowadays as they used to _____________ ?

I enjoy _____________ busy. I don’t like it when there is nothing.

Natural disasters will result _____________ crop failures and famine.

Sally really loves the _____________ jewelry box that her parents gave her as a birthday present.

A. wooden brown nice

B. nice wooden brown

C. brown wooden nice

D. nice brown wooden 

After the new technique had been introduced, this factory produced  _____________ cars in 2015 as the year before. 

A large number of inventions and discoveries have been _____________ accident.

Although MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) spreads through close contact with sick people, not through the air, many people still avoid _____________ to crowded places.

Students will not be allowed into the exam room if they _____________ their student cards.

That secretary, _____________ answered the phone, told me that the director was out.

We booked a table for dinner. We _____________ a table as the restaurant was empty.

A. should have booked

B. can’t have booked

C. mustn’t have booked

D. needn’t have booked 

Elephants scratch themselves with sticks _____________   .

A. which hold in their trunks

B. are held in their trunk

C. holding in their trunks

D. held in their trunks 

I don’t think the problem will be serious _____________ ?

This road is very narrow. It _____________ to be widened.

By the end of the 21st century, scientists _____________ a cure for the common cold.

I wish everything _____________ so expensive.

I was bom in New York but I grew _____________ in England.

Your brother hardly talks to anyone, _____________ ?

“You should concentrate on _____________ the teacher is saying.”

Only after she had finished the course did she realize she _____________ a wrong choice.

He daren’t _____________ his boss for a rise just now.

They _____________ tired now because they _____________ in the garden since 7 o’clock.

A. are/ worked

B. were/were working

C. are/have been working

It was no accident that he broke my glasses. He did it _____________ purpose.