Exercise 4. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each sentence.
1/ By the end of last summer, the farmers _______ all the crop.
2/ When we went back to the bookstore, the bookseller _______ the book we wanted.
3/ The director already _______ for the meeting by the time I got to his office.
4/ My mother told me she _______ very tired since she came back from a visit to our grandparents.
5/ Susan _______ her family after she had taken the university entrance examination.
6/ How many cities you and your uncle _______ by July last summer?
7/ Miss Jane _______ typing the report when her boss came in.
8/ Peter was in New York last week; he _______ in Washington D.C. three days earlier.
9/ Three women, none of whom we _______ before, _______ out of the hall.
10/ They _______ through horrible times during the war years.
11/ Sam didn't get much formal _______.
12/ Wow! What a _______ your sister is! I couldn't get off the phone!
13/ He'll be remembered both as a brilliant footballer and as a true _______.
14/ This season's _______ include five new plays and several concerts of Chinese and Indian music.
15/ She was a _______ child, happiest when reading.