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Exercise "Such a strange trial ...1/2 Past perfect", created by here4u (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 1 972 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 54.5 / 100 Share


Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): colocolo / FRANCE, on Monday 27 February - 11:38:
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Stats (1972 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 67.2 %
'The Peckham murder’ * room to

Question 2 passed: 76.8 %
the strangest murder trial people * ...

Question 3 passed: 54.7 %
Mrs Parker, an elderly lady, * to death with a hammer,

Question 4 passed: 61.5 %
and Mrs Salmon and 3 other witnesses * the culprit.

Question 5 passed: 71.3 %
At 2 o’clock in the morning, Mrs Salmon *

Question 6 passed: 63.8 %
and through the very thin walls of her villa, she * a noise, like a chair falling and some commotion in Mrs Parkers’s home.

Question 7 passed: 40.5 %
Consequently, out of curiosity, she * to the window

Question 8 passed: 57.9 %
and * Adams, the suspect,

Question 9 passed: 55.5 %
* the house and

Question 10 passed: 34.7 %
* a hammer into the laurel bushes.

Question 11 passed: 40.7 %
The man * around, and looked up at her …

Question 12 passed: 61.1 %
and since then, she * to forget him …

Question 13 passed: 37.5 %
He was tall and strong, but his face was unforgettable ; he had horrible, bulging bloodshot eyes that nobody could forget. In the witness stand, the counsel for the defense * very hard on Mrs Salmon.

Question 14 passed: 38.8 %
He * her so insistently about her certainty : Yes ! she was sure of herself !

Question 15 passed: 64.1 %
The man standing in the box was the man * out of Mrs Parker’s garden …

Question 16 passed: 45.5 %
She * at the culprit, and didn't hesitate.

Question 17 passed: 52.7 %
The man she * was wearing a blue suit and a striped tie

Question 18 passed: 46.8 %
and had these horrible eyes that * Mrs Salmon’s nightmares since then … Of course, she was sure !

Question 19 passed: 58.5 %
Could you have imagined the suspect * ? Of course not !

Question 20 passed: 57.4 %
Suddenly, all went wrong … The counsel asked Mr Adams *, and there, at the other end of the court room, was the exact image of the man in the dock : his twin-brother, dressed in the same blue suit and striped tie !

Question 21 passed: 56.6 %
Mrs Salmon couldn’t believe her eyes … and couldn’t swear which of the twins she had seen … Of course, both had alibis … Therefore, Adams * for lack of evidence …. (to be continued …)


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