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Exercise "Such a strange trial ... 2/2 Mix of tenses", created by here4u (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 1 798 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 53 / 100 Share


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Stats (1798 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 59.5 %
(... continued) Mrs Salmon had been flabbergasted * the suspect’s twin-brother.

Question 2 passed: 71.4 %
They were like two peas in a pod and * one from the other …

Question 3 passed: 68 %
Everybody knew that one was guilty whereas * but nobody knew which was who ...

Question 4 passed: 63.2 %
What * in such circumstances ? Not much …

Question 5 passed: 43.1 %
Knowing that it’s less shocking and immoral to release a culprit than to condemn an innocent man, and that everyone is presumed innocent until * guilty

Question 6 passed: 47.5 %
the two brothers * for lack of evidence … One problem was that everyone was sure that a murderer was at large, and rightfully scared …

Question 7 passed: 54.3 %
During the trial, the reporters and a huge crowd * in front of the court house …

Question 8 passed: 49.5 %
The twins * for long minutes inside the court house with their counsel. Then they decided it was time they left the place …

Question 9 passed: 61.8 %
The counsel * them to go out through the back door …

Question 10 passed: 53.5 %
but one of them, no one * which, said : ’I’ve been acquitted, haven’t I ?’

Question 11 passed: 58.3 %
Therefore, they went out through the front door, wedged in the crowd, and then, it happened : one of the twins * right in front of a bus,

Question 12 passed: 47.9 %
he screamed and *, his skull smashed

Question 13 passed: 40.7 %
just as Mrs Parkers 's *.

Question 14 passed: 54.7 %
The surviving twin * over his brother’s body, looked at Mrs Salmon, and cried …

Question 15 passed: 46.9 %
Was it a divine vengeance ? * …

Question 16 passed: 49.5 %
Whether it was the murderer or the innocent man who *,

Question 17 passed: 51.1 %
nobody * …

Question 18 passed: 39.4 %
Yet, * if I tell you that,

Question 19 passed: 48.7 %
since then, Mrs Salmon * at night ?


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