B2 English Grammar Test – Past Tenses multiple-choice questions

1.He … meat in the oven while she … dough.

2.She was sleeping when her alarm clock … .

3.They were making origami when their babysitter … them to dinner.

4.Steve … a movie before Alison … in.

5.My sister … a job for 2 months before they … him.

6.Oh, how I wish it … so windy.

7.The children … the movie when suddenly the light … out.

8.Maria … at that school from 2006 to 2010.

9.In the cafe we … some delicious food, … some wine and then we … a lot in the city centre.

10.She … Madrid when she … young.

11.The boy … home before his father … cooking.

12.It … two years ago. I … in the sea when unexpectedly I … the burning ship.

13.I … for your call for hours! Sorry, I … from 7 till 10 o’clock last night and simply … to call you.

14.She … a leash and … out to walk her dog in the park.

15.Her parents … when she … fifteen years old.

16.When I … home I … nobody. It … like everyone … not less than an hour before.

17.As soon as she … she … her mistake.

18.By the time he … home, she … the piano for 2 hours.

19.My father … home totally exhausted. He … all day long.

20.That black car … to me for 4 years before I … it.

21.Steve … the kitchen, … a glass of juice and … on the TV.

22.My cousin … on a career of a software developed when he … twenty-four. It … difficult because he … from IT college before.

23.When he … in he … that she … a suitcase.

24.When I … the room Dave … the guitar. He … all evening and … nothing about the house.

25.The service company … because we … for our car for 5 hours. We … totally exhausted.

26.Oh, I … an e-mail from the support service! They … me. I … for it for 3 weeks.

27.We … in the park when the rain … . There … no place to hide nearby. So we … cold that day.

28.They … in that house for 4 years. They … to New York about a year ago. But their house … .

29.I … yoga while my dog … in the garden. Now I … him.

30.He … 2 years in Turkey before he … a teacher of Math.