Exercise 2: Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentences.
1. Chopin and Mozart __________ famous composers.
A. were B. was C. are D. is
2. __________ your mother born in India?
A. is B. be C. was D. were
3. Joan of Arc __________English. She was French.
A. doesn’t B. weren’t C. was D. wasn’t
4. He __________ yesterday because he __________ ill.
A. worked .... was B. didn’t work ... was
C. worked ... wasn’t D. didn’t work ... wasn’t
5. We __________ out very often.
A. do eat B. don’t eat C. didn’t ate D. eats
6. Mike __________ fit by playing tennis regularly.
A. keeps B. keeping C. don’t keep D. keep
7. My father __________ to smoke when he __________ young.
A. used ... did B uses ... was C. used ... were D. used ... was
8. He __________ me some flowers for my birthday.
A. bought B. buys C. didn’t bought D. is bought
9. When __________ mobile phones first __________?
A. do ... appear B. did ... appear C. did ... appeared D. do ... appeared
10. I __________ swimming two years ago.
A. didn’t liked B. like C. not like D. didn’t like
11. The concert features dancers and __________ of all nationalities.
A. musicians B. actors C. scientists D. painters
12. He went __________ a walk around the block to get some air.
A. out B. for C. up D. off
13. I __________ food poisoning at that cheap little seafood restaurant.
A. took B. went C. got D. did
14. He’s the highest-paid __________ in Hollywood films.
A. explorer B. writer C. actor D. sailor
15. Why didn’t you wait __________ the bus?
A. to B. at C. in D. for

Exercise 1: Choose one suitable word in the box to complete each space in the passage.
married
because
alive
came
lives
was
as much as
at night
stopped
unfortunately
couldn’t
didn’t earn
My grandparents lived in Hungary in the 1920s.They (1) ____________ to England in 1946, after the war. My grandfather worked in a factory in Birmingham and he studied English (2) ____________.
My grandmother stayed at home (3) ____________ she only spoke Hungarian and so she (4) ____________ get a job. Life (5) ____________ difficult because my grandfather (6) ____________ much money in the factory. My grandparents have three children, my mother and my two uncles. They helped their parents (7) ____________ they could. My grandparents (8) ____________ work when they were sixty and they liked having a lot of free time together. (9) ____________, my grandfather died in 1994, but my grandmother is still (10) ____________.