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Name: NY Phanu ID: 0088747 Subject: Technical Writing for Business Professor: Seng Ra

REVIEW TEST A. Complete the profile of Rowan Atkinson with the verbs in the brackets in the correct Past Tenses. (14 marks)

Rowan used to be shy with a rubbery face, just like the one he has now, says his former headmaster. The other boys (1) ........................ (make) him full funny faces. I’m sure they (2) ...................... (be) imitations of me and my colleagues, adds headmaster Grove. Rowan was born in 1955, the youngest of three sons. By the time he was thirteen, he (3) .......................... (win) a scholarship to a private school. After he (4) ..................... (study) there for a while. He got involved in acting. By the time he was seventeen, he (5) ..................... (already act) in a play at the Edinburgh Festival. His teachers (6) ...................... (predict) a future in acting, but despite this, Rowan still (7) .................... (not plan) a career in entertainment. He eventually (8) ................... (go) to Oxford to do a science degree. He (9) .................... (previously study) electronic engineering at Newcastle University and (10) ..................... (believe) that was where his future lay. But while he (11) ..................... (study) at Oxford, he met a group of friends who are his partners to this day A happy accident finally unlocked Rowan’s talents while he (12) ................... (practise) a script in 1976. He (13) .................... (play) around pulling faces for ten minutes in front of a mirror when he realised what he (14) ..................... (do). I discovered my face, he said later. John Lloyd, a BBC producer, says, It was one of those things which happen very rarely in your life, when you realise you are in the presence of genius. I was convinced he would be more famous than Chaplin. Write your answers here. 1. .....made...... 2. .......had been....... 3. ........had won........... 4. .......had been studying............ 5. ......had already acted...... 6. ......predicted..... 7. ......wasn’t planning......... 8. ......went........ 9. ....had previously studied.... 10....believed.... 11. ...was studying...... 12. ...was practicing..... 13. ...was playing.... 14. ......had done........

B. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense: Past Simple, Past Continuous or Past Perfect. (18 marks) The President (1) ______ (go) through a painful experience yesterday. While he (2) ______ (go) to the parliament to deliver a speech about the National Health Plan, he (3) ______ (realize) that the text of his speech (4) ______ (be left) in his office. It was too late to go back and he (5) ____ (be force) to improvise the speech. While he (6) _____ (talk) he (7) _____ (forget) the name of the Minister of Health, who (8) _____ (be appointed) only a few days earlier, and (9) ______ (call) her the wrong name. The MPs (10) _____ (boo). At that moment the President’s secretary, who (11) _____ (go) back to the office to get the speech, (12) _____ (want) to hand it over to him. As he (13) _____ (approach) the President, he (14) _____ (trip) over a wire and (15) _____ (break) his arm. The session (16) ______ (have) to be interrupted so that the poor man could be taken to hospital. The President (17) ______ (apologize) to the Minister of Health and (18) ____ (finish) his speech. Write your answers here. 1. .............went................ 2. ...........was going.............. 3. ...................realised.......................... 4. .................had been.......... 5…............had forced............ 6. ....................was talking............. 7. ....................forgot........... 8. ..............had been appointed.............. 9. ….........called............. 10. ............booed.............. 11. ………..went back………. 12. ……………wanted…………... 13. …………..was approaching……... 14. …….…tripped……. 15. ………had broken……... 16. ……………..had to be……….… 17. ……apologized………. 18. ……had finished……......