Choose the correct item.

1. By the time we finished the report everyone else … home.
A. has gone
B. had gone
C. went
D. was going

2. “We really need a break.”
“Yes, we … since 9 o’clock this morning.”
A. have been revising
B. are revising
C. revise
D. were revising

3.”Luckily the mistake … last night before the article went to the printer’s.” "That saved us a lot of work!"
A. discovered
B. been discovered
C. Has discovered
D. was discovered

4. I carry my money in my pocket because I am afraid …
A. of losing them
B. that I lose it
C. of losing them
D. I lost them

5. We didn’t finish on time … our best efforts
A. because of
B. in spite of
C. Regardless
D. Even

6. Help … to some cookies!
A. yourself
B. ourselves
C. herself
D. you

7. Helen’s never late so she … be held up in traffic.
A. Should
B. Can
C. Must
D. Needs to

8. Randy succeeded … for the 100 m sprint
A. to qualify
B. In qualifying
C. Qualify
D. Qualifying

9. Northern Europe’s economies are heavily … natural resources.
A. Depended with
B. Depended for
C. Depending on
D. Dependent on

10. … I didn’t look forward to exercising at the gym but now I really enjoy it.
A. Firstly
B. First
C. At first
D. In the first

11. If you’d been more attentive, you … what the teacher was saying.
A. Would hear
B. Could hear
C. Would have heard
D. Must hear

12. As soon as Sarah … in, ask her to help you.
A. Comes
B. Will come
C. Is coming
D. Would come