Assignment 15

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 511.

Choose thecorrect item.

1. The broad range of economic issues facing US political leaders _____________________every year by the contents of the Economic Report of the President.

a) has been suggested c) suggested

b) is suggested d) is being suggested

2. «The Wall Street Journal» ________________________ in 1889.

a) is founded c) was founded

b) had been founded d) was founding

3. Last year, thenewspaper_____________Monday through Friday.

a) had been published c) is being publisher

b) published d) was published

4. Nowadays, about95 percent of US farms ________________by families.

a) are ownedc) owned

b) were owned d) have bepn owned

5. What language_______________by them at the moment?

a) is speaking c) is spoken

b) is being spoken d) has been spoken:

6. My sister was veryexcited yesterday: she ______________________a very

interestingjob the daybefore.

a) has beenofferedc) was being offered

b)was offeredd) had been offered

7. Her new book _______________by next June.

a) wiil have been published c) would be published

b) will bepublishedd) will publish

8. He __________________ by anyone lately. He has disappeared.

a) wasn't seen c) hasn't been seen

b) didn't see d) hadn't been seen .

9. Be careful about what you are telling us: this conversation ______________.

a) is being recorded c) is recording

b) records d) has been recorded

10. She asked us not to enter the classroom: the last student ________________.

a) examines c) was examining

b) examined d) was being examined

11. By The time the parents returned from their business trip, the children ____

_________________________by their grandmother for more than two weeks.

a) have been looked afterc) were looked after

b) had been looked after d) were being looked after