1Verb Tenses 1. Peter: You _ (go) out tonight, Paul?Paul: No, I _ (stay) at home. The neighbors _ (come) in to watch TV. Peter: You _ (invite) the neighbors often?Paul: No, but they _ (invite) themselves whenever there is a good programme.2. Jack: I just _ (go) out to get an evening paper.Ann: But it _ (pour)! Why you _ (not wait) till the rain _(stop)?3. Tom: You _ (see) that man at the corner? He _ (keep) stopping people and asking them questions. You _ (think) he _ (ask) for directions?Jack: No, I _ (expect) he _ (make) a survey.Tom: How you _ (make) a survey?Jack: You _ (stop) people and _ (ask) them questions and _ (write) the answers on a report sheet. 4. Peter: My next door neighbor always _ (knock) on my door and _ (ask) me to lend her 10p pieces.Paul: What she _ (do) with them?Peter: She _ (put) them in her gas meter. I really _ (not mind) lending her a few 10p pieces but what _ (annoy) me is that she _ (know) how many she _ (need) each week but never _ (take) the trouble to bring the right number home.5. Tom: We _ (move) into our new house tomorrow.Bill: But why you _ (leave) your present house? It _ (suit) you all.Tom: Yes, I _ (know) it _ (do); but the Council _ (pull down) all the houses on this side. They _ (widen) the road. They _ (say) its a bottleneck. 6. If you _ (ask) a friend if she _ (like) your new address, she usually _ (say) “Yes”; so you _ (not know) whether she really _ (think) it _ (suit) you or whether she merely _ (be) polite.7. If you _ (want) a candid opinion, youd better ask my sister. She never _ (tell) white lies; she always (say) exactly what she _ (think).8. The house opposite the college _ (be pulled) down. Thats why we _ (use) 2the back entrance at present. If you _ (go) by the front door, you _ (get) covered with dust.9. I _ (ski) when I _ (be) at the university, but I _(break) a leg five years ago and since then I _ (not do) any.10. When I first _ (come) to this house, it _ (be) a very quiet area. But since then a new housing estate _ (be) built and it _ (become) very noisy.11. This bicycle _ (be) in our family for fourteen years. My father _ (use) it for the first five years, my brother _ (ride) it for the next five, and I _ (have) it for the last four.12. I _ (began) English at secondary school and _ (do) it for three years. Then I _ (drop) it for a year and _ (forget) most of it. Then I _ (spend) two years at a secretarial college, where I _ (study) commercial English, and for the last six months I _ (study) in London.13. I _ (buy) a new house last year, but I _ (not sell) my old house yet, so at the moment I have two houses.14. When Ann _ (be) on her way to the station, it _ (begin) to rain, Ann _ (run) back to her flat for her umbrella, but this _ (make) her late for her train.15. In the evenings I often play chess with my next door neighbor. I _ (play) chess with him ever since I _ (come) to live here ten years ago. He _ (be) here all his life: he _ (inherit) the house from his father , another great chess player.16. I _ (wait) for the prices of the houses to come down before buying a house, but I think I _ (wait) too long and the prices are beginning to go up again.17. The train just _ (start) when the door _ (open) and two panting passengers _ (leap) in.18. My neighbor _ (look) in last night and _ (say) that he _ (leave) the district and _ (go) to Yorkshire, to a new job . I _ ( say) that I _ (be) very sorry that he _ (go), and _ (tell) him to write home from Yorkshire and tell me how he _ (get) on.19. They _ (build) that bridge when I _ (be) here last year. They havent finished it yet.320. The dentists waiting room was full of people. Some _ (read) magazines, others just _ (turn) over the pages. A woman _ (knit); a child _ (play) with a toy car. Suddenly the door _ (open) and the nurse _ (say), “Next, please.” 21. A traffic warden just _ (stick) a parking ticket to my windscreen when I _ (come) back to the car. I _ (try) to persuade him to tear it up but he _ (refuse).22. I _ (put) the $ 20 note into one of my books; but next day it _ (take) me ages to find it because I _ (forget) which book I _ (put) it into.23. A woman _ (co