File 5: Progress Check

Choose the correct answer.

1. OK, everyone, your time’s ... up left off ! Please bring your quizzes up to me now.
2. It ... takes gives saves time to bake a loaf of bread. You have to wait a couple of hours for the dough to rise.
3. Now that she’s out of work, Melissa ... is short on time has time on her hands is running out of time to exercise and do projects around the house.
4. Todd wasn’t home much when his daughter was little. Now that he has a less stressful job, he’s ... killing time making up for lost time giving her a hard time by buying her gifts and taking her out every weekend.
5. Anna has never heard of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” It was definitely ... by the time before her time on time .
6. I need a vacation! I just can’t ... juggle catch up cope with all the stress at my workplace anymore.
7. Tony was so ... engrossed overcome clogged in his video game, he didn’t even notice that I’d left his house and gone home.
8. The four days before Julia’s wedding were a ... peak gadget frenzy of activity for her and her family.
9. Choose the passive construction to complete this sentence: ... It appears that It was announced that According to the email Ellen is going to be promoted to vice president.
10. Choose the passive construction to complete this sentence: There ... are apparently seem to be are said to be over ten million undocumented immigrants living in the US.
11. The driver of the car ... seems may apparently have been texting when the accident occurred.
12. Mark was really sick for a while, but he ... appears would seem might to be getting better now.
13. Casablanca is ... according considered might to be one of the best Hollywood movies of all time.
14. ... Apparently According It seems to experts, you should wash your pillows every one to three months.
15. The person who attempted to rob the convenience store is ... believed seemed appeared to be armed and dangerous.
16. After 30 years, my parents finally paid off the ... down payment mortgage stock on their house.
17. I paid for my living room set in twelve monthly ... lump sums down payments installments of $89.99.
18. We are already about $700 over the $10,000 ... grant budget overdraft we set for our home renovations.
19. Matt is a student with only a part-time job, yet he buys all kinds of electronics and goes on big trips with his credit cards. He’s really ... tight-fisted living beyond his means making ends meet .
20. Which expression means in debt? ... in the red in the black loaded
21. Buying me these expensive gifts does not ... put a strain on make up for come close to all the terrible things you said to me last week.
22. Carole’s friends are all ... green yellow red with envy over her brand new waterfront condo.
23. I really wish I ... didn't spend hadn't spent wouldn't spend all my money on that trip to Brazil. Now I’m broke!
24. If only I ... had known knew would know that there was a free shuttle bus from the airport, I could have saved all that money I spent on the cab fare!
25. I wish I ... had had had would have $500 to spare. I’d buy that TV without hesitation!
26. If only that dog next door ... had stopped would stop stopped barking! I really need to get some sleep!
27. I’d rather ... I don't go out not go out I didn't go out tonight.
28. Is a credit card OK? Or would you rather ... I paid I pay I'd pay in cash?
29. It’s time you ... start had started started saving for retirement.
30. If only you spoke Spanish, ... you'd have you had you'd had a much easier time traveling around Perú.