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  Quiz #5 - T or F (Comprehensive Present Tenses)
 
 
 
Directions: For questions 1-15, read each of the sentences and choose whether you think it is correct or incorrect. When you are finished, please enter your "nickname" so you can compare your results with others. Click the "Check My Answers" buttom to see your results.
 
1. Can you hear those people? What do they talk about?
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2. I must go now. It gets late.
 

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3. I usually go to work by car.
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4. The water boils. Can you turn it off?
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5. Water boils at 100 degrees celsius.
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6. Hurry up! Everybody waits for you.
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7. " Are you listening to the radio?" "No, you can turn it off."
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8. " Are you listening to the radio every day?" "No, just occassionally."
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9. Look at the river. It flows very fast today-much faster than usual.
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10. "How is your English?" "Not bad. It is improving slowly."
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11. Can we stop walking soon? I start to feel tired.
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12. The train is never late. It always leaves on time.
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13. Usually I enjoy parties but I do not enjoying this party very much.
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14. Is your sister thinks that getting a job is difficult in Japan?
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15. "One of your friends are calling late at night! Could you ask her to stop doing that?"
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11/20/2008 08:47 AM
Japan stabbings seen linked to pension scandal (AP)
AP - Japan placed Health Ministry officials under heavy security after two stabbings targeted former elite bureaucrats and their wives, attacks that many are linking to public outrage over a scandal that has left millions without pensions.
11/20/2008 01:49 AM
Japan-U.S. missile defense test fails off Hawaii (Reuters)

A missile is launched from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship Chokai in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii November 20, 2008. (Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A Japanese warship failed to shoot down a ballistic missile target in a joint test with U.S. forces Wednesday because of a glitch in the final stage of an interceptor made by Raytheon Co, a U.S. military official said.