Reading Practice 10



Reading Practice 10

1. Before our conversation yesterday, Paul has never heard the word "brouhaha." Now he hears it everywhere he goes.

Please choose from one of the following options.

A. No Change

B. had never heard

C. was never heard by

D. was never hearing

2. Ellen Degeneres recently was launching a new lifestyle brand.

Please choose from one of the following options.

A. No Change

B. launched

C. was launched by

D. is launching

3. Despite being raised in a time and place in which black students were not allowed to attend high school, Percy Julian went on to become a PhD and a successful chemist. His most famous invention were Aero-Foam, a soy protein fire extinguisher used in World War II.

Please choose from one of the following options.

A. No Change

B. was

C. would be

D. was by

4. The Whitney Footbridge in Minneapolis features an engraving of a John Ashberry poem; pedestrians can read the poem as they walk.

Please choose from one of the following options.

A. No Change

B. was featuring

C. was featured by

D. would be featuring

5. It is a surprise that the American rapper Vanilla Ice was not owning a personal ice cream brand.

Please choose from one of the following options.

A. No Change

B. does not own

C. is not owned by

D. is not owning

Answers

• 1. B

• had never heard

This choice is the best answer in context because it correctly uses the past perfect tense to indicate an action in the past that occurred before another action in the past.

• 2. B

• launched

This choice is the best answer, because the past tense verb "launched" logically follows the timeline set up in the adverb “recently.”

• 3. B

• was

This choice is the best answer because the past tense verb "was" is consistent with the past tense verbs in the previous sentence.

4. A

•

• NO CHANGE

This choice is the best answer because the present tense verb "features" is consistent with the verbs in the rest of the sentence.

• 5. B

• does not own

This choice is the best answer, because the present tense verb "does" remains consistent with the present tense verb "is," which appears earlier in the sentence.

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