1 Read the following information about famous moments in history. Then underline the correct form. Only one verts in each paragraph is past perfect
A Columbus lift Spain in August 1492 with three ships, to try and find a way to India by salling west instead of ean. When his ships finally michiol/hal finally reached land on 12 October, he thought he was there, but the ships achatlly arrived/hal actually amivel in America instead, Captain Robert Scott wanted to reach the South Pule find. He and his companions finally arrived there on 1 jamsary 1912 altet a terrible journey across the ice, but e fondhand found a Norwegian flag. Unfortunately for Scott, Roald Amundsen d got/hed get there on 14 December, 18 days earliet
C. Leonsarde pointed his famous The Last Supper between 1495 and 1498, but the poloting started to deteriorate within 50 years. The most common explanation for this used to be that Lennardo essed had uned the wrong kind of paint, but experts have always disagreed about this, and many believe that the damp in the wall is the cause of the damage. Between 1978 and 1999, experts restored/hal instored the patating, and the public can now see it agairs.
Complete the sentence with the past simple or past perfect simple form of the verb in brackets.
a When I (try) tried 10 use my laptop, I realized the battery (rus) had run the computer off, but forgot that 1 (not save) hadn’t saved Lonly remembered I (not pay) hadn’t pought down. my work
b1 (turn) furned
stopped
the bill when my Internet connection (stop)
d When I (receive) recevied
the e-mall, I couldn’t understand who (send) had sert
e When I (check) theked
the instructions, I understood what I (do) had done
working.
I knew I (receivemovies
a virus when 1 (min) had run the anti-virus program. the document, 1 knew 1 (make) had made a mistake.
As soon as I (download) downloaded I could see what (go) had gone
I knew I (press) had pressed
wrong as soon as i (look) looked the wrong key when nothing (happen) had happened Inside the printer.
When the screen (go)
it
blank, I couldn’t understand how it (happen) had happened
Read these sentences about Julius Caesar. Then complete the sentence with the patt simple or past perfect form of the verts in brackets
Julut Camar (come) from an aristocratic Remsan family, thought his family was not rich by Roman standarsh
b. When he was 15 his father idici
and to avoid political problems In Rome, Caesar Dev soldier in the east. By the time he retum) to Rome,
he (es) hat wo awards for bravery
He thecomes me s member of the Senate, and governor of what is now Spain. By the age of 40 he fine) top of the political world, and (form) to the
a political alliance with a powerful genetal, Pompey, and a rich man. Cravnas
Between 38 BC and 419 BC be (fight)
a war against the people of what are now Pance Belgium, Switzerland and parts of Germany By the end of this war, according to the histonan
Plutarch, there million mendie)
hts 50 BC the Senate (order) wed Caesar to return to Rome. By that time, Crassus was dead and Pompey become enemy. Caesar’s
In the civil war that followed, Caesat (defeat) all his enemies.
By the time a group of Roman senators (murder) morderst him in 44 BC, he (he) ht
the most powerful man in Rome for only a year
4 Choose the correct form, A, B or C to complete the sentence.
On 24 December 2004, Tilly Smith, 10 year-old British school on the beach with her family. They Christmas in Thailand Suddenly Tily d and wares A op the beach. The besch perthquake in Sumatrs that morsang, but she B her mother what she So she teacher Andrew Kearney close to the shore, and p that something was wrong the could see that the wate smaller and smaller. She that there had been an at school just two weeks before. a geography lession slee about earthquakes and giant waves. Luckily for the Smith family Tily’s the class about earthquakes and them a video of a tounam in Hawall Tilly Tily back to their hotel, which was not too streaming at her parents to get off the beach. They the alarm. One of the staff, who was Japanese, the word bunam, and the terrible effects of that terrible day. everyone to leave the beach. From their room on the third floor, the Smiths the saunami on the area. Thanks to Tilly, everybody from that beach
5 Read the story of Archimedes and his bath. Then complete the text with the correct form of the verb in lirackets.
Arhimedes, the Gteck mehemicon, is probably most famous for the story of King Hienna II of Syracuse and the gold crown. The king a (want) wanted to give a gold crown as a gắt to the gods, and bigive) ave a carefully weighest
one of grid ut a gidsenich. The man e (pendice) produced a hexunful
crown, hui the king was worried that the craftsman of (not use) not used gold to make the crown, Dishonen craftsmen ofien e (min) moed all the pold wwh silver, which was cheaper, but the king could not find a way of perweing that the ret Full had dors this the Lusk) asked Arciumedes to solve the problem. Archimedes
than gold and silver have differem dentities. The problem was that nobody could object like a crown, While Archimedes i thank was thinking public hatles to relax, While lie dit was climbing some sour on the pill spilled that he so ved about dus problem. into the hath, he over the side of the bath, and he the problem by accident. The total ansount of out of the must be the same at the volume of his body He could sese a cast threen and see if it was die same. According to down the street that he s icheat) had cheated calculate the mam of an he decided to go to the (tatus) noticed Crealize) realized water that e (spill) spilled piece of pure gold and calculate its volume, the story, he p Qump) при straight out of the bath and q (run)tan calling Eunika-I’ve found it. The goldsenth soon r (admit) admitted the long, and was purashed. Archimedes (discover) discovered a principle of buoyancy
Read the sentences about two mountain climbers. Then complete the sentence with the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous form of the verb in brackets
The two climbers stapped to rest. They ind had been climbing be hours and were exhausted. Things were not looking good. нов)
They were very hd, lau ( heavily since mid morning, and one of them tharti hat hurt hus ankle.
They look tening Fot shelter for the past two hours, because they mallard that the weather was going to get worse. d. They already phone the
escor centre for helps They also leave had a details of their planned route at the village where they stayed the night.
they were experienced bees and they carefully for their trip. They karw there was a cave halfway up the tam
They spent a long time searching for the cove before they realized that they thead
had been heading in the wrong direction
Then the snow stopped, and they could see the dark entrance of the cave nearby.
Luckily they bring)
warm clothes and plenty of food with them, and they walted safely in the cave
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