Quiz: The Tokyo office [EGAD]

Quiz: The Tokyo office

Complete the following sentences with an appropriate verb from the list below. Use the same verb for each sentence in the pair. Choose the past tense for one sentence and the present perfect tense for the other. Use non-progressive aspect.

agree - spend - write - ask - buy - move - live - know - call - hit

1. (a) Inflation hit hard, and it was especially working-class people who suffered from the economic crisis.

(b) Inflation has hit the country hard. It will take years to recover from the current economic crisis.

2. (a) The Tokyo office has called several times this morning. We need to get back to them soon.

(b) Susan called me three times yesterday. She is very worried about your accident and wanted to know whether there's anything she can do.

3. (a) I knew the moment she introduced herself that she was the right person for this position.

(b) I have known that she is the right person for this position ever since I read her CV.

4. (a) Why (she) did she agree to marry him if she wasn't in love with him?

(b) Listen to this: management have agreed to let staff work from home two days a week.

5. (a) He wrote his best poems while he was travelling in Italy.

(b) How many poems (he) has he written since he was appointed city poet of Antwerp?

6. (a) When they checked the bank statements they realized they spent about half of their wages on clothes every month.

(b) We're only one week into the month and we (already) have already spent about half of our wages.

7. (a) I (always) have always lived in town but I am now considering moving out.

(b) I lived in a small village till I was 18 and then moved to London to do a BA in English language and literature at UCL.

8. (a) I have asked her at least three times, but she simply ignores me and refuses to give input.

(b) I asked her again yesterday how she felt about the curriculum changes that have been announced, but she gave a rather evasive answer.

9. (a) They bought a house with a garden just after their first child was born.

(b) None of us buys local only, really. Consider this: have you ever bought a pineapple that had not been imported?

10. (a) We have moved house three times in the past 10 years. We've become real pros when it comes to packing and unpacking boxes.

(b) We really liked our house on Monterray Street, but we moved anyway as my partner got promoted and public transport facilities were lacking in the area.