Progress Test 3

I tried desperately to be a good mom in the teach-your-kids-and-support-their-interests department, but every now and then my failure quotient …(become) awfully high.

… (openmouth), I struggled to process what I’d just been told.

… (Surprise) by her question, I squinted at another collage.

The memory of the puzzlement in my husband’s eyes made my heart … (ache).

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I … (betray) Tom, even if it was with that infamous cheapskate, Doug Portman, who’d died with cash pouring out of his bloody jacket.

Before … (decide) which way to go, I waited for a noisy class of snowboarders on its way down Teddy Bear.

I nodded, angrily chopped garlic and onion and tossed them into a pan … (shimmer) with heated olive oil.

Suppose it … (start) raining, what’ll we do?

Jane … (twist) her ankle. (that’s why she’s limping.

We apologized for … (arrive) late.

They accused him of … (cheat) in the exam.

She asked me if I … (like) rap.

My dad smokes. I wish he (not do) it.

If only I … (not spend) all my money last weekend.

We’ll be able to swim as long as the swimming pool … (be) open.

This program … (watch) by millions of people at present.

The hospital … (not build) by the government yet.

Dolphins … (say) to be able to communicate.

You … (enjoy) your stay here?

My car has broken down, so I … (walk) to work these days.

Annie … (get, her nails, polish) now.

He … (hit) on the head with a hammer yesterday.

The primary radiation cannot originate from the sun, nor … (accelerate) in the rapidly varying magnetic fields associated with sunspots and solar flares, is clear from energy considerations.

The great task and the splendid achievements of nineteenth century physics consisted in increasing the exactness and range - in every direction - of our knowledge of the phenomena … (take place) on the human scale.