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Exercise "Past simple", created by gogopet (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 470 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 59 / 100 Share


Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): ploplo / SWITZERLAND, on Tuesday 08 January - 21:13:
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Stats (467 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 36.4 %
The reunion * (wind) down as guests began to leave.

Question 2 passed: 55.9 %
Chuck * (tear) off his sleeve and wrapped it around the wound on Keit's arm.

Question 3 passed: 48 %
From what she had gathered from the meeting, however, the whole thing * (stink) of a set-up.

Question 4 passed: 83.7 %
They abandoned their first well after residents had begun reporting that their water * (smell) of petroleum, signaling possible contamination in part of the city's drinking water supply.

Question 5 passed: 79.7 %
Law enforcement officers pulled over the vehicle, which was being driven by Meghan who * (smell) of liquor and was unsteady on her feet.

Question 6 passed: 70.9 %
A faint curl of smoke * (rise) from the smoldering bonfire.

Question 7 passed: 55.7 %
There was a scrooge named William in Quebec who * (dig) a ditch to provide a place of shelter from intruders.

Question 8 passed: 55.7 %
My specs fell out of my glasses case and I * (kneel) to pick them up.

Question 9 passed: 71.1 %
The lake often * (freeze) so hard in winter that international horse races were held on the ice.

Question 10 passed: 60 %
Her lover * (creep) out of the house in his underwear.

Question 11 passed: 41.3 %
Passengers gave him an odd look at the sagging clothes that * (cling) desperately to his drenched body.

Question 12 passed: 64.7 %
Some of the children * (bleed) and some areas were swollen where the thorns had pricked them.

Question 13 passed: 43.9 %
Pain was rising intensely from the cutting and the sweat that subsequently * (sting) the wound.

Question 14 passed: 54.8 %
Susan * (bag) a profit from the sale of her shares.

Question 15 passed: 53.7 %
The child read the sky and * (foretell) volcanic eruption around Mount Etna in Sicily.

Question 16 passed: 61.2 %
Mischief among a minority * (breed) massive discontent.

Question 17 passed: 46.3 %
The notes I had were crumpled and * (fling) far across the room.


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