Question

6. Choose the correct form of the verb:
1.
Debbie couldn't understand why her computer crashed: it had been working / was working / worked / works perfectly for as long as could remember.

2. I have always admired / been admiring Roosevelt.

3. People eat / have been eating / are eating/ ate less meat recently because of the crisis.

4. Intervention was urgently required – the starving children had been growing I grew/were growing / have been growing weaker by the day and there was /was being /is/ had been little sign of an end to the drought.

5. Stanley always dreamed up/was always dreaming up / always dreams up strange schemes to make money.

6. By the middle of the nineteen sixties many parts of Europe experienced / had been experienced / were experiencing/ experience a tremendous economic boom.

7. Jim left/ was leaving / has left on the early flight the next morning so he made his excuses and left the party before midnight.

8. Many of the survivors were working/worked / had been working in the fields when the earthquake struck.

9. Phil stood at the door soaked from head to toe; he was running / had been running/ran/has been running in the rain.

10. How can I be expected to work if you are constantly interrupting / interrupt?

11. I hope / am hoping / was hoping you might help me with this application form.

12. My eyes seem to be getting /get worse.

13. The weather is being / is very wet at the moment. 14. I think/ am thinking / have thought about what you said.​

Answer 1

Ответ:

1.had been working

2.have always admired

3.have been eating

4.had been growing, was, had been

5.is always dreaming up

6.were experiencing

7.was leaving

8.had been working

9.had been running

10.interrupting

11.hope

12.are getting

13.is

14.have thought