1. “May I speak to Dr. Shell, please?”
- “I’m sorry, he _____ a patient at the moment. Can I help you?
A. is seeing
2. “When are you going to ask your boss for a rise?”
“I _____ to her twice already! I don’t think she wants to give me one.”
A. have talked
3. “Do you think Tom will want something to eat after he gets here?”
“I hope not. It’s probably being after midnight, we _____”
B. will be sleeping
4. “Paul, could you please turn off the stove? The potatoes _____ for a least thirty minutes.”
D. boiled
5. “It’s true that spaghetti didn’t originate in Italy?”
“Yes. The Chinese _____ spaghetti dishes for a long time before Marco brought it back to Italy”
B. have made
6. “I once saw a turtle that had wings. The turtle flew into the air to catch insects”
“Stop kidding. I _____ you.”
A. don’t believe
7. “Could someone help me lift the lawnmower into the pickup truck?”
- “I’m not busy. I _____ you”
C.am going to help
8. My family loves this house. It _____ the family home ever since my grandfather built it 60 ago.
B. has been
9. Here’s an interesting statistic. On a typical day, the average person _____ about 48,000 words. How many words did you speak today?
A. spoke
10. It’s against the law to kill the black rhinoceros. They _____ extinct.
B. have become