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Exercise "Use of tenses : The worst enemy ? The best friend ? 1/2", created by here4u (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 9 294 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 48.5 / 100 Share
Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): colocolo / FRANCE, on Saturday 28 January - 11:19:
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Stats (9294 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 42.7 %
Once, in a very pleasant and quaint district of New York City, Joanna and Sue, two young artists, * a small and inexpensive studio.
Question 2 passed: 69.7 %
They were kind, helpful, hardworking and everyone * them in the neighbourhood...
Question 3 passed: 46.6 %
Life was hard and people *.
Question 4 passed: 33.7 %
One freezing winter, an unexpected stranger, Mr Pneumonia, invited himself into the district, * one victim here, and many others there...
Question 5 passed: 40.5 %
Joanna * so seriously that Sue was terribly worried...
Question 6 passed: 42.7 %
She * her friend's bedside
Question 7 passed: 53.9 %
* hours on end, giving her herb teas and watching her fever...
Question 8 passed: 65.2 %
She * for her friend's life.
Question 9 passed: 60.4 %
The medicines looked inefficient and the doctor * Sue that
Question 10 passed: 53.5 %
her friend's survival * her willpower to fight for her own life. Yet, Joanna was weaker and weaker and quite resigned to let go...
Question 11 passed: 55.9 %
Through the window, she * the leaves of an ivy vine falling and shrivelling in the winter storm.
Question 12 passed: 51.4 %
The young woman * down the surviving leaves : twenty... fifteen... twelve... eleven...
Question 13 passed: 50.2 %
The fall was accelerating with the storm, and the ivy vine * naked...
Question 14 passed: 38.4 %
Joanna was absolutely persuaded that when the last leaf *,
Question 15 passed: 48.4 %
she * too...
Question 16 passed: 25.9 %
* such a stupid idea in mind ?
Question 17 passed: 55.2 %
Nobody * !
Question 18 passed: 33.2 %
Sue was watching her friend withering away and she despaired... Three leaves * on the vine...
Question 19 passed: 53.2 %
Sue pulled down the blinds so that Joanna * the leaves... (to be continued...)
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