Eccentrics in China (a bit of tenses)
Fill in the gaps with the correct verb forms.
Truck Driver Takes a Shower While Driving
A Chinese trucker (A1)_____ for having a shower while driving his lorry on a motorway. Shortly after the Chinese New Year a police patrol car (A2)_____ water leaking from the driver’s cab as it sped along the Jinyi expressway.
‘We worried the driver may not have known about a mechanical problem so we signalled him to pull over at a service station,’ a police spokesman informed Will and Guy.
The police officers (A3)_____ to see the driver was wet through and had been enjoying a shower via a sprinkler kettle system rigged up above his head. His wife, who (A4) ______ in the passenger seat, had been holding up a sheet of plastic to protect the instruments from the water. She (A5)____ police officers there were rushing to deliver goods in another city and she (A6)_____ up the shower to keep her husband cool after the air-conditioning system (A7)_____down. Police (A8)_____ the lorry driver and warned him he would be in serious trouble if he (A9)_____ to have a shower at the wheel again.
A1. 1) has been fined | 2) has fined | 3) fined | 4) had fined |
A2. 1) spot | 2) spotted | 3) has spotted | 4) had spotted |
A3. 1) have been shocked | 2) were shocked | 3) were shocking | 4) shocked |
A4. 1) sat | 2) was sitting | 3) had sat | 4) had been sitting |
A 5. 1) told | 2) has been told | 3) has told | 4) had told |
A6. 1) has rigged | 2) was rigged | 3) was rigging | 4) had rigged |
A7. 1) breaks | 2) broke | 3) will break | 4) had broken |
A8. 1) has fined | 2) had fined | 3) was fining | 4) fined |
A9. 1) try | 2) will try | 3) tried | 4) tries |