Report the following statements.

Final Test 2009

I. Tense Review

 

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

Uncle Tom 1) _________ (work) on the railway for 40 years before he 2) _________ (retire). At that time the station was the pride of his heart. He 3) __________ (know) what a passenger 4) __________ (can) do when he 5) __________ (find) himself at the station.

One day, about a year after Tom 6) __________ (retire), when I 7) __________ (stay) at Tom's brother, he said: “Let's go and see Tom. I 8) __________ (not see) him for a long time. He 9) __________ (be) happy to see us”. When we 10) __________ (come) up to his place, Tom 11) __________(sit) outside the old carriage which he 12) __________ (get) as a present on his retirement, smoking a pipe in the heavy rain. “Why on earth you 13) __________ (sit) there? Why you 14) __________ (not go) inside the carriage out of the rain?” “But it's a non-smoking carriage,” he 15) __________ (answer).

 

Out of 15:

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.

1. You __________ (find) the money which you __________ (lose) yesterday? Yes, I __________ (find) it in the pocket of my coat while I __________ (put) it on.

2. He already __________ (go) by the time I __________ (come) home yesterday.

3. What's wrong? I've got a flat tyre. No problem. I __________ (help) you.

4. He __________ (finish) the first part of his book and now he __________ (write) the second one. He __________ (work) at his book for two years already.

5. I __________ (come) from St. Petersburg, though I __________ (live) in Moscow at the moment.

6. Things __________ (get) more and more expensive these days.

7. When I got home she __________ (look through) the books which she __________ (buy) the day before.

Out of 15:

II. Reported speech

Report the following statements.

 

1. ‘We’ll be in our usual place next week,’ he said.

2. ‘I’ve never been there before,’ Stephan said.

3. ‘I’m playing football this evening,’ I told Tom.

4. ‘We can expect a lot of damage,’ she said.

5. ‘Do museums close on Sundays?’ a young man asked.

6. ‘Did he look at a lot of flats?’ I wanted to know.

7. ‘Have you been to Egypt before?’ she asked.

8. ‘How did you get to the beach?’ they asked us.

9. ‘When are you going to visit us?’ he asked us.

10. ‘Please don’t tell Sarah,’ she asked me.

Out of 10: