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ACTIVITY 4 Common Error 3.2

Fill in the blanks with the correct simple past or present perfect form of the verbs in
parentheses.

1. Throughout history, people (use)
elephants in art and popular culture. For example, an elephant
(appear ) on a U.S. postage stamp in 2014.

2. For more than seven decades, Air France (be)

the largest airline in France. In 1946, this company
(begin) flying from Paris to New York. Since
then, millions of passengers (fly ) on this
airline.

3. Everyone (hear ) about the Olympics,

but what do people really know about this event? The modern Olympics
(begin) a little over a century ago. In
1896, only 241 athletes from 14 nations

(participate) in the Olympic Games, but participation in this world event
(grow ) to more than 10,000 athletes from
more than 200 countries.

4. In 1981, Prince Charles (marry ) Diana
Spencer, who most of us remember as Princess Diana. An international television

audience of 750 million people (watch) this
event, which (be) a record number at the time.

5. Russia was the largest country within the former Soviet Union, which
(become) a country in 1922 and

(exist ) until 1991.

6. World War II (end ) in 1944. However, some
countries still (not, recover ) from its after
effects.

7. Christopher Columbus (navigate)
to the Americas in 1492. He (return ) to

Spain in 1493.

38 Unit 3 Writing with the Present Perfect

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