Question

Complete B’s reply in response to A’s question:
A. Do you still go to the cinema a lot?
B. No, I _________ to the cinema for ages.
A) Didn’t be
B) Hadn’t been
C) Haven’t been
D) Won’t be

Answer 1

Hint: This tense is used to describe both unfinished and finished acts. We use this tense to speak about unfinished acts, states, or habits that began in the past and are still going on today. We typically use it to say 'how long' and we need 'since' or 'for' to complete the sentence. Stative verbs are commonly used.

Complete answer:
Future Perfect : The future perfect is a verb form or construction that is used to characterise an occurrence that is intended or scheduled to occur before a future time reference, such as will have finished in the English sentence "I will have finished by tomorrow." The future perfect tense is used to express a future occurrence with a clear end date. “Shannon will have gardened by then,” for example. The key to understanding these verb tenses is that you're pointing into the future, but there's a point at which it comes to a halt that would have occurred before this hypothetical future.

Present perfect : The present perfect is a grammatical mixture of present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past occurrence with current ramifications. The word is most often used in English grammar to refer to forms such as "I have ended." The present perfect tense describes an event or state that happened at an indefinite time in the past (e.g., we have talked before) or started in the past and continued to the present time (e.g., he has grown impatient over the last hour). Have/has + the past participle form this tense.

Future continuous : The future continuous denotes an incomplete action or event that will take place at a later date. The potential continuous can be used for a variety of purposes. We can use the future continuously to project ourselves into the future. The Future Continuous tense communicates action in the future at a certain point in time. The action may have begun prior to that time, but it will not have completed at that time. For example, tomorrow I will start work at 2 p.m. and end at 6 p.m.

So, A reference to something that happened in the past has been made in this sentence. Since the entire sentence is written in the first person, we should use "have" rather than "has."
(In first- and second-person framed sentences, "have" is used.)
The past participle is a type of a verb in English that usually ends in -ed and is used to form perfect and passive tenses as well as an adjective. In this case, the past is referred to as "been."

Hence, Option C. Haven’t been is the correct answer.

Note:
i) Tense is a category in grammar that expresses time reference. The use of specific forms of verbs, especially in their conjugation patterns, is generally how tenses are expressed. The past, present, and future are the three primary tenses used in many languages.
ii) The present perfect continuous is made up of have/has been and the verb's -ing form. The present perfect continuous is usually used to emphasize that something is still going on in the present: She has been living her whole life in Liverpool.