—Can I help you, sir?

—Yes. I bought this radio yesterday, but it ________ .

A. didn't work

B. won't work

C. can't work

D. doesn't work

As she ________ the newspaper, Granny ________ asleep.

A. read; was falling

B. was reading; fell

C. was reading; was falling

D. read; fell

A friend of mine returned to his house after a holiday only to find it ________ .

A. to be

B. had broken into

C. was broken

D. had been broken into

A storm ________ by a calm.

A. is often being followed

B. was often followed

C. is often followed

D. has often been followed

Do I have to take this medicine? It ________ so terrible.

A. tastes

B. is tasting

C. is tasted

D. has tasted

—Have you got your test result?

—Not yet. The papers ________.

A. are not correcting

B. have not corrected

C. are still being corrected

D. have already been corrected

Shirley ________ a book about China last year but I don't know whether she has finished.

A. has written

B. wrote

C. had written

D. was writing

I turned around and saw everybody ________ at a man who ________ loudly in a foreign language.

A. was staring; was shouting

B. was staring; shouting

C. staring; shouting

D. stared; shouted

—Excuse me, sir. Would you do me a favor?

—Of course. What is it?

—I ________ if you could tell me how to fill out this form

A. had wondered

B. was wondering

C. would wonder

D. did wonder

—When will you come to see me, Dad?

—I will go to see you when you ________ the training course.

A. will have finished

B. will finish

C. are finishing

D. finish