Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... he ... ... relatively modern and powerful computers.
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During the 1960s ... / ... built ...
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Back in the 1960s ... / ... was already building ...
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In the 1960s ... / ... had built ...
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Over the 1960s ... / ... used to build ...
Q.2.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. We always used to beg Grandpop to get his model steam railway going in the garden; and ... ... persuade him to do it.
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... on the odd occasion, we actually managed to ...
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... once in a blue moon, he really ...
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... a handful of times, we almost ...
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... every so often, we succeeded to...
Q.3.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... there ... ... another family disaster.
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Each few years ... / ... was ...
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Every so often ... / ... seemed to be ...
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Ever and again ... / ... would come ...
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Now and then ... / ... happened
Q.4.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. On the 'home front' during the Napoleonic Wars, farmers with a sense for the new technology ... ... run several of their indoor operations at once, using a 'barn engine': a steam engine that drove other machinery using a system of belts, and which ... ... money.
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... could already ... / ... soon proved itself by saving ...
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... became able to ... / ... saved them ...
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... were able to ... / ... saved ...
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... managed to ... / ... began saving them ...
Q.5.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. Each Christmas we ... ... my grandparents'.
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... went staying to ...
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... went to stay at ...
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... went and stayed with ...
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... went for to stay at ...
Q.6.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. When we lived in Scotland I ... ... long country walks (when the weather was good enough!).
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... sometimes did ...
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... often went ...
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... often used to go for ...
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...usually went for ...
Q.7.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. Before she put the light out, mother ... ... .
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... always read to us a story.
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... would always read to us a story.
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... would always read us a story.
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... would always use to read us a story.
Q.8.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... she ... ... five nights a week at the Palais.
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At the age of 15 ... / ... danced ...
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By the time she turned 15 ... / ... had begun dancing ...
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On her 15th birthday ... / ... would be dancing ...
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As a 15-year-old ... / ... used to dance ...
Q.9.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... my uncle ... ... home from the rugby with a kit-bag half full of mud.
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Each week ... / ... came ...
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Week after week ... / ... would arrive ...
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Weekly ... / ... got home ...
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Every week ... / ... turned up (on the doorstep) ...
Q.10.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. Our old dog ... ... barking at the postman: ... ... hear him do it, even when we were at the other end of the street on our way to school.
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... used to like ... / ... we would ...
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... was in the habit of ... / ... quite often we would ...
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... enjoyed ... / ... people ...
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... seemed to have fun ... / ... once in a while, I ...
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