Bài tập Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Unit 3: Simple past or past perfect

UNIT 3: SIMPLE PAST or PAST PERFECT 
I. Choose the past simple or the past perfect tense 
1) We had already eaten when John (come) ____________________ home. 
2) Last year Juan (pass) ____________________ all his exams. 
3) When I (get) ____________________ to the airport I discovered I had forgotten my passport. 
4) I went to the library, then I (buy) ____________________ some milk and went home. 
5) I opened my handbag to find that I (forget) ____________________ my credit card. 
6) When we (arrive) ____________________ at the station, the train had already left. 
7) We got home to find that someone (break) ____________________ into the house. 
8) I opened the fridge to find that someone (eat) ____________________ all my chocolate. 
9) I had known my husband for three years when we (get) ____________________ married. 
10) Julie was very pleased to see that John (clean) ____________________ the kitchen. 
11) It (rain) ____________________ all summer, so the grass was completely dead. 
12) When he (arrive) ____________________ at the party, Julie had just left. 
13) After arriving home, I realised I (buy) ____________________ any milk. 
14) The laundry was wet - it (rain) ____________________ while I was out. 
15) William felt ill last night because he (eat) ____________________ too many cakes. 
16) Keiko (meet) ____________________ William last September. 
17) First I tidied the flat, then I (sit) ____________________ down and had a cup of coffee. 
18) John (play) ____________________ the piano when he was a child, but he doesn't play now. 
19) When I opened the curtains the sun was shining and the ground was white. It (snow) 
____________________ during the night. 
20) When Julie got home from her holiday, the flat was a mess. John (have) ____________________ a 
party. 
II. Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or past perfect simple). 
1. When he (wake up) ________________________ , his mother (already / prepare) 
________________________ breakfast. 
2. We (go) ________________________ to London because the Queen (invite) 
________________________ us for tea. 
3. He (hear) ________________________ the news, (go) ________________________ to the 
telephone and (call) ________________________ a friend. 
4. When she (start) ________________________ to learn English, she (already / learn) 
________________________ French. 
5. Jane (already / type) ________________________ ten pages when her computer (crash) 
________________________ . 
6. By the time he (arrive) ________________________ at the pub, they (run) 
________________________ out of beer. 
7. Before that day we (never / think) ________________________ of going to Japan. 
8. I (know) ________________________ him for a long time before I (meet) 
________________________ his family. 
9. They (not / know) ________________________ where to meet because nobody (tell) 
________________________ them. 
10. It (be) ________________________ cloudy for days before it finally (begin) 
________________________ to rain. 
11. My friend (eat) ________________________ up all the biscuit we (bake) 
________________________ . 
12. The teacher (correct) ________________________ the tests we (write) 
________________________ . 
13. I (give) ________________________ them some of the candies I (buy) 
________________________ . 
14. My sister (see / not) ________________________ the note that I (lay) 
________________________ on the kitchen table for her. 
15. We (want) ________________________ to watch a film that we (see / not) 
________________________ before. 
III. Simple past - present perfect - past perfect 
1. When I (arrive) ________________________ home last night, I discovered that Jane (prepare) 
________________________ a beautiful candle-lit dinner. 
2. Since I began acting, I (perform) ________________________ in two plays, a television commercial and 
a TV drama. However, I (speak, never even) ________________________ publicly before I came to 
Hollywood in 1985. 
3. By the time I got to the office, the meeting (begin, already) ________________________ without me. 
My boss (be) ________________________ furious with me and I (be) ________________________ 
fired. 
4. When I (turn) ________________________ the radio on yesterday, I (hear) 
________________________ a song that was popular when I was in high school. I (hear, not) 
________________________ the song in years, and it (bring) ________________________ back 
some great memories. 
5. Last week, I (run) ________________________ into an ex-girlfriend of mine. We (see, not) 
________________________ each other in years, and both of us (change) ________________________ 
a great deal. I (enjoy) ________________________ talking to her so much that I (ask) 
________________________ her out on a date. We are getting together tonight for dinner. 
6. When Jack (enter) ________________________ the room, I (recognize, not) 
________________________ him because he (lose) ________________________ so much weight and 
(grow) ________________________ a beard. He looked totally different! 
7. The Maya established a very advanced civilization in the jungles of the Yucatan; however, their culture 
(disappear, virtually) ________________________ by the time Europeans first (arrive) 
________________________ in the New World. 
8. I (visit) ________________________ so many beautiful places since I (come) 
________________________ to Utah. Before moving here, I (hear, never) 
________________________ of Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches or Canyon Lands.