III. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use any appropriate tense.

On June 20th, I returned home. I (be) _had been__________ away from home for two years.

My family (meet) _____met______ me at the airport with kisses and tears. They (miss)

_had missed_________ me as much as I had missed them. I (be) __was_________ very happy to

see them again. When I (get) ___got________ the chance, I (take) ____took______ a long

look at them. My little brother (be) __was________ no longer little. He (grow)

_had grown___ a lot. He (be) _was_________ almost as tall as my father. My little sister

(wear) _was wearing__ a green dress. She (change) _had changed___ quite a bit, too, but

she (be, still) _was still_ mischievous and inquisitive. She (ask) __asked___ me

a thousand questions a minute, or so it seemed. My father (gain) _had gained___ some weight, and his hair (turn)_had turned____ a little grayer, but otherwise he was just as I had

remembered him. My mother (look) __looked_______ a little older, but not much. The

wrinkles on her face (be) ___were______ smile wrinkles.

IV. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets. Use any appropriate tense.

PART I:

A: What (seem) _seems_______ to be the trouble, Ms. Jones?

B: I (send) _sent________ in my money for a subscription to your magazine, Computer

Data, two months ago, but to date I (receive, not) __haven’t received_______ any issues.

A: I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, one of our main computers (function, not)

_is not functioning__ at the moment. However, our computer specialists (work)

__are working_ very hard to fix it at the present time. We (start) _will start____ your

new subscription as soon as possible.

B: Thank you.

PART II:

A: Where's Sonia? I (see, not) __haven’t seen____ her lately.

B: She (recuperate, at home) __is recuperating at home__________.

A: Oh? What (she, recuperate) _is she recuperating_____________ from?

B: She (hurt) __hurt___ her back while she (play) __was playing______ volleyball last

week in the game against South City College.

A: What happened? How (she, hurt) _did she hurt____ her back?

B: She (try) _was trying______ to spike a ball when she (collide) __collided___ with

another player and (fall) __fell_____ to the ground. She (land) __landed_____

hard and (twist) __twisted_____ her back.

A: Gosh, that's too bad. I'm sorry to hear that. How's she doing?

B: Well, she's pretty uncomfortable. She (wear) _has been wearing_ a special brace on her back

for the last five days. Needless to say, she (be, not) _hasn’t been___ able to play

volleyball since her injury. She (not, probably, be) _probably won’t be________ able to

play again for at least a month.

A: (Her doctor, allow) _Will her doctor____ her to play in the national tournament at the end of

the summer?

B: She (have) will have been wearing the brace on her back for more than seven weeks

by then, so I think he will.

A: I hope so. I know how much she likes to compete in volleyball games. And the team really

needs her.

Part III:

A: Hi, Jim. How's it going?

B: Great.

A: (You, enjoy) _Did you enjoy____ the rock concert last night?

B: You bet! I had a terrific time.

A: Tell me about it. I (go, never) _have never gone___ to a rock concert.

B: Well, I (go, never) _had never gone__ to a rock concert before either, so I (know,

not) _didn’t know__ what to expect. I've been to symphony concerts lots of times,

but never a rock concert. Ten minutes before the concert was supposed to start, hundreds of

teenagers (try, still) _were still trying____ to find their seats. The place was a

madhouse. I thought that things would settle down once the concert began. Boy, was I wrong!

As soon as the lead singer (appear) __appeared___ on the stage, everyone (start)

__started_____ screaming at the top of their lungs. I couldn't hear myself think. But after a

while things calmed down. And the music was great. At one time during the concert, while

the lead singer (sing) _was singing___ a famous hit song, many people in the audience

knew the song so well that they sang along with him. All in all, the concert (be)

__was____ a lot of fun, but very noisy.

A: It does sound like it was a lot of fun!

PART IV:

Mark Twain, the author of the The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is one of America's best

loved storytellers. He (grow up) _grew up_____ in a small town on the Mississippi River.

As a young boy, he (admire, greatly) __greatly admired_____ the pilots of the riverboats

and dreamed about being a riverboat pilot on the mighty river. He pursued his dream, and by

the age of 22, he himself (become) __became____ a riverboat pilot. Later in life, when

he (become) __became____ a writer, many of his stories (contain) _contained_______

elements of his own experiences. He wrote many humorous stories and articles about life on

the Mississippi River before he (die) __died______ in 1910 at the age of 74. Sadly, Twain

(work) _had been working_ on a new story for several months before his death, but he (finish,

never) _had never finished_it. Over the years since his death, his boyhood home in Hannibal,

Missouri, _has become____ (become) a favorite place for Americans to visit to learn about

Twain and life on the Mississippi at the turn of the 19th century.