Test Grammar -Reading "Bad Decision"

PastTenses: A Bad Decision

Complete the story using the past perfect,simple,perfect continuous tenses:

My friend, Keith, _____________ (live) in Dubai and ___________ (work) as an English teacher in one of the private schools there for twenty years before he ___________ (decide) he __________ (want) to return to England for good. He ______________ (has) often ________________ (discuss) of retiring in England and ____________ (plan) to buy a small collage for his wife and himself in the country. A few weeks after he _____________ (arrive) back home he ______________ (buy) a beautiful cottage in the outskirts of Birmingham. Almost immediately, he ________________ (begin) to grumble about the weather, for even though it was still summer time, it ________________ (rain) continuously and it ________ (be) often bitterly cold. After so many years of extreme heat and sunshine, Keith was _______________ (disappoint). He acted as if he never ____________ (live) in England before. In the end, it was all too much for him. He ____________ (have) hardly had time to settle down when he ______________ (sell) the cottage and _____________ (leave) the country. The dream he __________ (have) for so many years ___________ (end) there. Keith had ____________ (think) of everything except the weather.

Answer the following in full sentences:

1. Where was Keith living? __________________________________________

2. Where had he returned to? __________________________________________

3. What did he buy? _______________________________________________

4. Where is the accommodation? _____________________________________

5. What did he complain about? ______________________________________

6. Was it summer time? ___________________________________________

7. How was the weather? __________________________________________

8. Could he get used to the weather? _________________________________

9. What did he do? ______________________________________________