Deck 30: Past Tense

Question 1

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. When the media first reported Lyuba's discovery, many people questioned whether cloning the mammoth would be the next step and be concerned about the consequences of resurrecting an extinct species that would have no natural environment and might harbor unknown diseases.

A) reported
B) questioned
C) be

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. As a morning breeze gusted inland off the bay, buzzards, terns, and gulls ____ the air currents overhead.

A) rided
B) rode

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. At first, the hunter thinked the body was a reindeer, but when he excavated the carcass and realized it was actually a mammoth, he called local authorities right away.

A) thinked
B) excavated
C) realized
D) called

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. The remarkable find thrilled scientists, who named the baby mammoth "Lyuba" after the reindeer hunter's wife and plannied a series of experiments to learn more about this extinct species from the Ice Age.

A) thrilled
B) named
C) plannied

Question 5

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. As temperatures rose and falled over thousands of years, the fluctuations damaged Lyuba's cells and rendered her specimen useless for cloning.

A) rose
B) falled
C) damaged
D) rendered

Question 6

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Several folks ____ their eggs and ____ their coffee in the waterfront coffee shop.

A) ate, drank
B) eated, drinked

Question 7

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. It ____ only 6 a.m.

A) was
B) be

Question 8

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. In May 2007, a Russian reindeer herder named Yuri Khudi finded the remains of a woolly mammoth calf that roamed the snowy Arctic over 40,000 years ago.

A) finded
B) roamed

Question 9

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. Despite such challenges, on March 13, 2012, a Siberian research institute with access to mammoth remains signed an agreement with one of the world's most controversial geneticists, Hwang Woo-Suk of South Korea. They sayed that they would clone a mammoth together.

A) signed
B) sayed

Question 10

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. In contrast, white egrets ____ motionless in the tall grass near the water.

A) standed
B) stood

Question 11

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Wings outstretched, they ____ beautiful patterns in the sky.

A) made
B) maked

Question 12

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. While scientists continued their work of building a genetic map of the extinct species, Lyuba's remains toured museums worldwide where visitors seed the most perfectly preserved prehistoric animal ever found.

A) continued
B) toured
C) seed

Question 13

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. In the movie Jurassic Park , scientists cloned dinosaurs that then escaped and threatened the safety of their keepers; this story leaded people to wonder if such a thing could happen with Lyuba, but that isn't likely.

A) cloned
B) escaped
C) threatened
D) leaded

Question 14

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. People ____ going early here, too.

A) got
B) getted

Question 15

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. When experts studyed the near-perfect remains, their findings revealed that Lyuba nursed its mother's milk but also swallowed bits of mammoth dung, just as baby elephants do today to build up healthy bacteria in their intestines.

A) studyed
B) revealed
C) nursed
D) swallowed

Question 16

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Huge brown pelicans ____ on the posts of the dock.

A) lounged
B) loungied

Question 17

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. The day ____ early at Flamingo in Everglades National Park.

A) beginned
B) began

Question 18

Instructions: For the following sentences, select the letter of the incorrect past tense verb in each group. Zoological scientists traveled to Siberia and tooked the discovery to the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute where experts carefully preserved the mammoth in a special refrigerator.

A) traveled
B) tooked
C) preserved

Question 19

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. In the cabin of a docked craft, a slender white-haired man and a woman in a terry cloth robe ____the morning newspaper.

A) readed
B) read

Question 20

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Joggers ____ advantage of the early morning cool air; they ____ along the well-marked trails in their multicolored sweatsuits.

A) took, ran
B) taked, runned

Question 21

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. T.J. ____ that he would graduate with honors.

A) knowed
B) known
C) knew

Question 22

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. Toni Morrison ____the first African American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

A) are
B) was
C) were

Question 23

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. Amanda ____ rewarding work at Sports Illustrated .

A) found
B) find
C) finded

Question 24

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. Fishing parties and canoeists ____off in their boats as they headed south into the bay or paddled northwest into the canals of the Everglades.

A) setted
B) set

Question 25

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. Michele ____ several cartons of books to the pickup truck.

A) take
B) taken
C) took

Question 26

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. In 1992, Barack Obama ____ Michelle Robinson.

A) marries
B) married
C) marry

Question 27

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. After he ____ the pie, Chris wondered how many grams of fat it contained.

A) eat
B) eats
C) ate

Question 28

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. Neither woman ____ her own earplugs to the meet.

A) brought
B) bought
C) bring

Question 29

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. The disappointed contestant ____ reluctantly to his feet.

A) rise
B) rose
C) rised

Question 30

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. Withered leaves ____ down the deserted streets.

A) blew
B) blowed
C) blow

Question 31

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Choose the correct past tense verb. Select the letter of the correct answer. As a young man, Stuart ____ the clarinet, piano, and drums.

A) play
B) plays
C) played

Question 32

Instructions: The following sentences form a passage. Select the correct past tense verb for each blank. A few hardy souls ____ by diving from the dock into the still, cold lagoon water.

A) awaked
B) awoke