III. Put the correct tense of each verb in brackets.

   a. My uncle ( take ) ……………….. me to a piano concert last night. It ( be) …………….. a pleasant evening. I ( meet) ……………….. many interesting people. The weather ( be) ……… nice. I really ( enjoy) …………… the concert.

   b. American engineer Henry Ford ( start) …………….. the Ford Motor Company in 1903. Ford ( produce) …………………. the first cheap motor car. He ( call) ……………….. the car the Ford Model T. He ( start) ………………… making the Ford Model T in Detroit in 1908. Millions of people ( buy) ……………….. the car and Ford ( become) …………………. a very rich man.

    c. Two people ( die) ……………… in a fire in Ellis Street, Oldport yesterday moring. They

 ( be) ………………… Herbert and Molly Paynter, a couple in their seventies. The fire ( start) ………………….. at 3.20 a.m. A neighbour, Mr.Aziz ( see) …………… the flames and ( call) ……………….. the fire brigade. He also ( try) ……………… to get into the house and rescue his neighbours, but the heat ( be) ………………….. too great. The fire brigade ( arrive) ………………… in five minutes. Twenty fire fighters ( flight) ……………… the fire and finally ( bring) …………………. it under control. Two fire- fighters ( enter) ………………. burning building but ( find) ………………. the couple dead.

Three people jumped.............. car on a busy oxford road after a fire started under the bonnet this morning.They were just able to rescure their possessions before the car burst into ..............Mr.Peter Collins, 25 of Wey Road, Berinsfield............ his Avenger, estale car home............ work with two friends when he noticed smoke coming into the car. He stopped, .......was unable to open the bonnet. He poured a bottle of water over the radiator where the smoke was coming from, but could not put the flames.He then.........to get fire extinguishers from a nearby..........but...............also failed to have any effect......... he telephoned for a............, but by the time it arrived, the car was totally burnt out.

* Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

“What happened to the plane?” “It had hardly touched down__________it burst into

flames.”

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Question. The fire-fighters made every effort to put off the flames. The building burned down completely.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

The fire-fighters made every effort to put off the flames. The building burned down completely.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on you answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

The fire-fighters made every effort to put off the flames. The building burned down completely.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines the pair of sentences given in each of the following questions.

The fire-fighters made every effort to put off the flames. The building burned down completely.