Present Tenses Test

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Test for intermediate students to check their ability to differentiate between Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous.
Iryna Voropai
Quiz by Iryna Voropai, updated about 2 months ago
Iryna Voropai
Created by Iryna Voropai about 2 months ago
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Question 1

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Jeremy ..... basketball this season; he wants to concentrate on his studies.
Answer
  • doesn’t play
  • hasn’t been playing
  • isn’t playing
  • hasn’t played

Question 2

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Be careful with the paint. It ..... a certain amount of lead.
Answer
  • contains
  • is containing
  • has contained
  • has been containing

Question 3

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How long ..... Jerry? - But I don’t know him at all. I have never met him.
Answer
  • do you know
  • have you known
  • have you been known
  • are you knowing

Question 4

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Nora, you look awfully tired. What ..... all day?
Answer
  • do you do
  • are you doing
  • have you been doing
  • have you done

Question 5

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I think you ..... very silly. Don't get out of bed. You’ll only make your temperature go up again.
Answer
  • are
  • are being
  • were
  • have been

Question 6

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My father is a seaman. And what ..... your father ………to earn money?
Answer
  • has ….done
  • is ….doing
  • has … been doing
  • does … do

Question 7

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A group of scientists are travelling around Africa. How many countries ..... so far, I wonder?
Answer
  • have they visited
  • have they been visiting
  • they have visited
  • do they visit

Question 8

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I don’t like Alice. She ..... about difficulties of life all the time.
Answer
  • complains
  • is complaining
  • has complained
  • have been complaining

Question 9

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I don’t recognise Debby at first. She………weight!
Answer
  • lose
  • is losing
  • has lost
  • has been lost

Question 10

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Mike ..... Italian for quite a long time, but he still doesn’t understand very much.
Answer
  • is learning
  • has been learning
  • has learnt
  • learns

Question 11

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Later tonight I ......... my uncle, who is in hospital now.
Answer
  • visit
  • 'm visiting
  • have visited
  • have been visiting

Question 12

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I ......... by air because the cost of flying is very high.
Answer
  • don't often travel
  • 'm not often travelling
  • haven’t often travel
  • haven’t often been travelling

Question 13

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It’s nice to be back here in London. This is the second time I ………here.
Answer
  • ‘m coming
  • come
  • have come
  • have been coming

Question 14

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It..... since morning and it is not going to stop.
Answer
  • snows
  • is snowing
  • has been snowing
  • have snowed

Question 15

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I’m sorry, Ann can’t come to the phone because she ..... a shower.
Answer
  • is taking
  • has taken
  • takes
  • has been taking

Question 16

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Sometimes I ......... what the teacher says to me.
Answer
  • 'm not understanding
  • don't understand
  • haven’t understood
  • haven’t been understood

Question 17

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Who ..... my newspaper? It was on my desk a minute ago.
Answer
  • has taken
  • is taking
  • takes
  • has been taken

Question 18

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Why are you so wet? ..... in the rain?
Answer
  • Are you walking
  • Do you walk
  • Have you walked
  • Have you been walking

Question 19

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The world .....rapidly. Every day brings something new.
Answer
  • has changed
  • changes
  • is changing
  • have been changing

Question 20

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When …. the concert …. ?
Answer
  • does… start
  • is … starting
  • has… started
  • has …been started
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