1. Arnold answered she______ stories and poems all her life since as long as she

could rememeber.

✔ was writing

✔ had been writing

✔ wrote
2. Helen said she was worried that her son________ very well that year.

✔ isn't studying

✔ hadn't been studying

✔ wasn't studyin
3. I knew my friend _______ around Europe for three months already.

✔ was travelling

✔ had travelled

✔ had been travelling
4. The personel manager was interested_______ to quit my present job.

✔ why I had decided

✔ why I decided

✔ why had I decided
5. Alice told me ________ that coat because it wasn't long enough.

✔ not to buy

✔ to buy

✔ bought
6. I thought you said Jack _______ you when he got back from his trip to the

mountains.

✔ would phone

✔ ought to phone

✔ phoned

7. Mary warned his parents that _______ home late that night.

✔ she would come

✔ came

✔ had come
8. I told Sarah that Anne worked in a shoe shop, and she____ that she didn't get

enough money for her job.

✔ had always been complaining

✔ always was complaining

✔ was always complaining

9. Jerry believed that Sally _____ the book since Monday, but she had read only

fifty pages so far.

✔ had read

✔ had been reading

✔ was reading

10. Hillary told me she ______ in New-York all that year, and she had no wish to

leave the city.

✔ had lived

✔ lived

✔ was living

11. The librarian didn't think the students ______ their books to the library by the

following week yet.

✔ took

✔ would take

✔ would have taken

12. Sam asked Romeo what ________ with himself the entire Saturday.

✔ he would be doing

✔ would be he doing

✔ would he be doing​