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Tenses - Test - 1

9. The African nation of South Sudan, which ---- its 13. In the prehistoric ages, when the concept of private
independence on July 9, 2011, ---- the world’s newest property was not developed yet, women ---- food for
country to be officially recognised by the international survival, while men ----.
community.
A) had gathered / hunted
A) has declared / will become
B) gathered / had hunted
B) had declared / became
C) were gathering / had been hunting
C) was declaring / had become
D) were gathering / were hunting
D) declared / has become
E) had been gathering / were hunting
E) declares / is becoming

10. It is the first time researchers from the University of 14. In the last decades, there ---- an increase in the use of
Florida in the United States ---- in growing a cress- virtual technologies to document historical sites as
like plant in lunar soil due to the study they ---- on a method of preservation and to prevent misguided
samples brought from the Moon half a century ago. architectural methods that ---- archaeological sites.

A) had succeeded / have carried out A) was / damaged
B) have succeeded / carried out B) is / are damaging
C) succeeded / are carrying out C) has been / damage
D) will succeed / carry out D) will be / damaged

E) succeed / have been carrying out E) had been / have damaged

11. When the Challenger disaster ---- in 1986, thousands 15. The tope shark, which is a shark species that
of school children ---- it on TV unfortunately. ---- alone in the cool waters of oceans, ---- on
invertebrates and small fish in packs.
A) had happened / watched
A) is living / fed
B) happens / watch
B) has been living / is feeding
C) is happening / are watching
C) lived / had fed
D) was happening / have been watching
D) had lived / feeds
E) happened / were watching
E) lives / feeds

12. The documentary Saving Notre Dame ---- the story 16. Wheat, which ---- humanity’s sedentary lifestyle and
of the great fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in an agricultural society, ---- all over the world since
April 2019 and the reconstruction of the cathedral, the Neolithic Age, that is, for about ten thousand
which ---- the heart of French culture for nearly 900 years, starting in Mesopotamia, the cradle of
years. civilisation.

A) told / has been A) symbolised / was grown
B) tells / has been B) symbolises / has been grown
C) told / had been C) is symbolising / had been grown
D) is telling / is D) had symbolised / has been grown

E) has told / was E) has symbolised / is grown

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