TASK 9: THE USE OF HAVE AND BE

TASK 9: THE USE OF HAVE AND BE

1. In colonial times, flax and wool required months of preparation before they could be dyed and spin into cloth.

A. In

B. required

C. could

D. spin

2. Playwright Frank Shin has often describes the lives of Chinese Americans in his dramas.

A. Playwright

B. describes

C. lives

D. dramas

3. Cans of paint must be shaking to mix the pigments with the medium in which they are suspended

A. shaking

B. mix

C. in which

D. suspended

4. Beavers continuously repair the dams they have build.

A. continuously

B. repair

C. they

D. build

5. Each of the four types of human tooth are suited for a specific purpose.

A. of the

B. tooth

C. are suited

D. specific

6. Alice in Wonderland, first published in 1865, has since being translated into thirty languages.

A. published

B. has

C. being

D. translated

7. The Peace Corps was establish on March 1, 1961, by then President John F. Kennedy.

A. was

B. establish

C. by

D. then

8. The advisor told himself, while listening to the speech, that a dozen other reporters would has already asked that question.

A. told

B. listening

C. would has

D. asked

9. Before he died, Linus Pauling had wins two Nobel Prizes: the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.

A. wins

B. two

C. Nobel Prizes

D. in Chemistry

10. Nails are commonly make of steel but also can contain substances such as aluminum or brass.

A. are

B. make

C. can

D. contain

11. On the huge Ferris wheel constructed for a world exhibition in Chicago in 1893, each of the thirty-six cabs could held sixty people.

A. huge

B. constructed

C. each

D. held

12. A patient suffering from amnesia may had partial or total loss of memory.

A. suffering

B. may

C. had

D. loss

13. Electrical impulses may also picked up by the optic nerve.

A. impulses

B. may

C. picked

D. by the optic

14. Before the speaker finished, many guests had rose from their seats and started for the door.

A. finished

B. rose

C. their seats

D. started

15. He thought that he should have be invited to attend the conference.

A. should

B. be

C. invited

D. to attend