Exercise 5.2: Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 1: Students will not be allowed into the exam room if they______their student cards.
A. don’t produce           B. didn’t produce          C. produced                       D. hadn’t produced
Question 2: Without your help, I______the technical problem with my computer the other day.
A. wouldn’t solve                                               B. couldn’t have solved
C. could solve                                                     D. can’t solve
Question 3: If Martin were here now, he______us to solve this difficult problem.
A. would help               B. helps                         C. will help                               D. has helped
Question 4: If he didn’t have to work today, he______his children to the zoo.
A. will take                   B. takes                         C. would take                    D. has taken
Question 5: If you didn’t have to leave today, I______you around the city.
A. have shown              B. showed                     C. will show                             D. would show
Question 6: If our teacher were here now, he______us with this difficult exercise.
A. has helped                B. helps                         C. will help                               D. would help
Question 7: If he were younger, he______a professional running competition now.
A. will j oin                                                        B. had j oined
C. would have joined                                         D. would join
Question 8: If you watch this film, you______about the cultures of Southeast Asian countries.
A. learned                     B. were learning           C. will learn                              D. would learn
Question 9: If he were better qualified, he______get the job.
A. will                           B. can                            C. may                               D. could
Question 10: If life______predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
A. is                              B. would be                   C. were                              D. had been
Question 11: That sounds like a good offer. I______it if I______you.
A. would accept - were B. accepted - would be
C. accept - will be                                              D. will accept - were
Question 12: If he improved his IT skills, he______a job.
A. will easily get                                                B. would easily get
C. will easily have______got                             D. would easily have got
Question 13: If it had not rained last night, the roads in the city______so slippery now.
A. must not be                                                    B. would not be
C. could not have been D. would not have been
Question 14:______ten minutes earlier, you would have got a better seat.
A. Had you arrived       B. If you arrived           C. Were you arrived          D. If you hadn’t arrived
Question 15: If it______their encouragement, he could have given it up.
A. hadn’t been for        B. wouldn’t have been for
C. had been for             D. hadn’t been
Question 16: But for his kind support, I______.
A. would not have succeeded                             B. did not succeed
C. had not succeeded                                          D. would succeed
Question 17: - Jean: “Why didn’t you tell me about the plans for the merge?” - Jack: “I would have told you______.”
A. if you asked me to                                         B. had you asked me to
C. you had asked to me                                      D. you were asking me
Question 18: We______on the beach now if we hadn't missed the plane.
A. will lie                      B. could be lying          C. will be lying                         D. might have lain
Question 19:______anyone call, just say I'll be back in the office at four o'clock.
A. If                              B. Were                         C. Should                          D. Unless
Question 20:______me twice my current salary, I wouldn't work for them.
A. If they paid                                                    B. Weren’t they paid
C. Were they not to pay                                     D. Had they not paid
Question 21: If we______, the work would have been completed, I’m sure.
A. hadn’t been disturbed                                    B. weren’t disturbed
C. didn’t disturb                                                 D. hadn’t disturbed
Question 22: The palace is so heavy and massive that no redecoration can make it look like a little gracious villa. Even if we______it pink, which, of course, is out of the question.
A. would paint              B. had painted               C. were to paint                          D. paint
Question 23: Well, you see, if I______up in a neighborhood where drink problems were endemic, I might find these jokes really funny.
A. wouldn’t be brought B. weren’t brought
C. didn’t bring                                                    D. hadn’t been brought
Question 24: If, as Mark says, the landlord______so surprised seeing the group, he must have forgotten the arrangement.
A. has been                   B. was                           C. would have been           D. had been
Question 25: I’m glad I managed to talk Sandra out of buying a dog. If I______, we would now be looking for a pet-friendly hotel.
A. hadn’t                       B. did                            C. didn’t                            D. wouldn’t
Question 26:______she to call you immediately, what would you do?
A. Does                         B. If                               C. Unless                           D. Were
Question 27: If Karol Wojtyia______elected Pope, there wouldn’t be so many Poles visiting Rome every year now.
A. wasn’t to be             B. weren’t                     C. hadn’t been                   D. wouldn’t have been
Question 28: Who will pay for the coach if almost two fifths of the passengers______a free ride?
A. will receive              B. are to be given          C. were to give                           D. would receive
Question 29: Don’t tell me I acted too quickly. I’m sure nobody in my place______a minute longer.
A. would have to wait  B. would wait
C. would be able to wait                                    D. would have waited
Question 30: The company’s situation is hopeless and I can’t see what the new president might do to improve it; even if he______a genius, which he is not.
A. were                         B. is to be                      C. will be                                  D. would be