Tense Test 3

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the given words.
1. John likes swimming in the pool of Kowloon Park. David ___________ (call) him yesterday because it ____________ (be) Sunday. They __________ (go) to the park together. They __________ (meet) their friends there. They _________ (spend) three hours in the park. They ____________ (play) water ball and ____________ (swim) in the pool.
2. Today ________ (be) Monday. John ________________ (not go) to the park. He ________ (go) to school to ____________ (study).

3. Betty ______ (be) a nice girl. She ________ (have) a violin. It _____ (be) small. She can ________ (play) the violin very well. She ___________ (know) many songs. She __________ (give) her sister a violin lesson every day. She _____ ____________ (play) her violin at home now. Listen! Betty _________________ (play) a Christmas song and her sister _____________________ (sing). Her sister can _______ (sing) very well.
4. Yesterday morning the weather __________ (be) cold. My mother _______ (go) down the supermarket to ________ (buy) some food. On the way back, she _______ (meet) an old man. He _________ (sit) against the wall of the market place. He _________ (look) ill. My mother asked him if he _________ (need) help. He said that he ___________ (want) a taxi to _______ (go) to the hospital. So my mother __________ (stop) a taxi for her.

5. Tom’s uncle, Mr Hung, left for America thirty years ago. He ________ (open) a restaurant in New York. He __________ (be) so busy that he ______ (have) no time to return to Hong Kong for a visit. Last year, he ________ (sell) his business. He ________ (want) to come back to Hong Kong with his wife. Mr and Mrs Hung have been in Hong Kong for months. They _______ (meet) many of their old friends. They ___________ (eat) a lot of seafood. They have bought a new flat but they _________________________ (not move) in yet. They ___________ (think) that Hong Kong ______________ (change) a lot since 1997. It is a crowded city. But they ______________ (like) to stay.