1. I usually ______ to work, but today I _____ because it’s raining.

2. She _______ TV right now.

3. He _________ his project before the deadline.

4. We __________ to the beach tomorrow.

5. By 7 pm tonight, I __________ dinner.

6. We _________ tennis for an hour when it started raining.

7. She __________ five countries by the end of the year.

8. By the time we arrive, they __________ for two hours.

9. I __________ five books by the end of this month.

10. He __________  a letter when his phone rang.

11. In recent decades, the efficiency of the United Nations __________ by a growing number of countries.

12. We ________ no problems whatsoever with the dam since it _________ forty years ago.

13. Before I got to the end of his article, I felt I knew everything there ______ about the North America Free Trade Agreement.

14. It seems likely that by the end of the week, the costs involved in the construction of the bridge _________ by the Ministry.

15. One feels that there _________ any noticeable improvement in the human rights problem in Africa until all the African countries _________ their economic difficulties.

16. The Etruscans, who _________ a great part of Italy about 900 B.C., __________ from Asia Minor.

17. The orders were that we _________ the area within hours to prevent further loss of life

18. As I __________ you yesterday, the undersecretary __________ over this afternoon’s discussions

19. For a hundred years or so, some critics ________ that poetry is dying, and all that time poets _______ poems that later generations recognize as great.

20. What I _________ is that we _________ to think seriously about a thorough reform in the legal system.

21. When the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli _________ a map of Mars in 1877, he _________ a large number of straight linear features, which he called “canali”, that is, channels.

22. In the past few months, our company director _________ more mettle than most industrialists _________ in an entire career.

23. The history of the Venetian republic ________ to an end in 1797 when Venice_______ over to Austria by Napoleon.

24. The Pacific markets ________ extremely competitive since the manufacturing capacity of many Far Eastern countries ________ to improve at the turn of the decade.

25. More than half of the 850 asylum seekers currently detained in Britain _______ in prison with no right of appeal, even though the vast majority _________ with any offence, let alone convicted.

26. When they heard gunfire across the border, the relief workers in the camp knew that another group of refugees ________ before long.

27. Last week’s supplementary budget package __________ to prevent Japan’s economy from plunging even lower.

28. Russia _________ earlier this week that it _______ all its troops out of Georgia.

29. To the astronomers of the Middle Ages, the most important classical authorities on natural philosophy _________ Aristotle and Ptolemy, since both ________ frameworks that explained the whole universe.

30. North Korea still _________ a vast police state that ________ a network of concentration camps spanning the country.